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** In the NES game, sometimes it's more satisfying to spend all three rounds walloping on Glass Joe, countering his every attack and letting him hang on by a thread rather than just catch him in his titular glass jaw and knock him out in one shot.
** In ''Super Punch-Out!!'', Narcis Prince doesn't let anyone punch his face. Which makes getting in a face shot, then laying on the rapid fire jabs to the face so much more relaxing.
* Store up enough finishers in the latest [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestling game and unload them one after another...especially if it's a wrestler whom you can't stand. Use the create-a-wrestler feature to make pretty much anyone you can't stand, give them a pathetically wimpy moveset, and go to town on them by unloading finisher after finisher, letting go of pinfalls just before the 3 count, repeatedly breaking weapons over their heads and releasing submission locks just before the tapout until you feel all better. Wrestling games can be ''teriffic'' stress relievers.
** Not to mention with the addition of "Create A Storyline" features, you can not only make the person who you hate, you can write a storyline featuring them and watch your favorite wrestlers insult them to their face, disparage them, and make them cry, ''then'' beat the crap out of them, maybe even alongside your own avatar. Juvenile, maybe, but giggle-inducing after even the worst day? Oh hell yeah.
*** You could also use traditionally silent or uncharismatic wrestlers to completely take the piss out of a wrestler you hate that has a fanbase.
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* [[Star Wars]]: [[The Phantom Menace|Episode 1]] for the PSX gives you the ability to slice Jar Jar to ribbons with your lightsaber in the second level. You get a "game over" if you do though.
* ''[[Iji]]''. It's a pretty bleak storyline, but if you complete a [[Pacifist Run]] and {{spoiler|save Dan}}, you get a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] ending and [[Earn Your Happy Ending|you've earned it]]. Opening up single-sector play and running amok with a Velocithor is pretty fun too.
* In [[Jak II Renegade]], you can take a break from the [[Nintendo Hard]] missions and just drive around the city in your hovercar... at ground level, reveling in the screams of the annoying civilians and evil guards as you send them flying. If you like, you can also easily knock hoverbikes out of the sky with a well-timed love tap and watch them explode. If the fancy takes you, you can also turn your machine gun or [[
== Simulation Games ==
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* ''[[Red Faction]]'', but especially Guerilla. The feeling of [[Everything Breaks|breaking everything]] with your giant [[Drop the Hammer|sledgehammer]] makes you feel incredibly relaxed.
* If you get frustrated while playing ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause 2]]'', no worries! Travel to the right military base and steal an armored car or a heavily-armed helicopter! Hook mooks to cars and drag them along! Flip cars over during high-speed chases! Hook mooks to a jumbo jet or a military fighter! And so on.
** Not to mention you get to kill [[North Korea| Kim Jong Hun]] at the end. Okay, okay, technically the villain is a dictator named [[No Celebrities Were Harmed| Pandak "Baby" Panay]], but it's pretty obvious whom he's a [[Captain Ersatz]] of.
* ''[[Mount & Blade]]'', from firing a hail of arrows with your troops while defending a castle to riding down infantry while heavily armored shrugging off blows, provides a lot of this.
** There is a particular amount of entertainment to be had in the sequel, Warband, which allows you to still do things like chase after looters. The introduction of a weapon which can only be described as an extra-long baseball bat with nails in it lends newfound hilarity to the idea of chasing down peasants and clubbing them senseless with said weapon. Or [[Cherry Tapping|you can get a literal plain old stick and whack them about the head with that too.]]
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