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What does it take to turn someone into a supervillain? According to a few Marvel movies, not much: Tony Stark skipping a meeting or taking over your construction contracts will instantly push you into a career of ruthless supervillainy.<\/p>\n

In pixel art action game Vindefiant<\/a>, it didn’t take much to turn someone evil, either:<\/p>\n

“In Vindefiant, you play as Alyx, a disgruntled ex-employee on a relentless path of vengeance and destruction,” the game’s Steam page says. After getting fired from his corporate job, “Alyx unleashes his powers and sparks a path of rage and destruction to get revenge on his former employer.”<\/p>\n

I know that sounds unsettling and grim, but one look at the trailer below and you’ll see it’s filled with over-the-top pixelated destruction. Alyx’s cartoony superpowers in Vindefiant are a bit reminiscent of metroidvania Carrion<\/a>: you’ve got long snaking tendrils that lash out from your body so you can swing and clamber through world like a giant spider, flinging people through windows and into machinery and bashing them into bloody pulps. It’s pretty grisly, but hey, you’re the villain, right?<\/p>\n

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