Ah, villainy. A sacred and necessary vocation. After all, if there’s no antagonist, what’s the protagonist supposed to do all day, stay at home growing crops, raising animals and making friends with the neighbors? Inconceivable! Even when that situation arises, some ill-intentioned individual pops up and turns some earth goddess to stone.

While players typically rejoice after vanquishing a particularly evil and challenging nemesis, it isn’t uncommon to have a soft spot in your heart for the baddie. After all, he’s just doing his job. Maintaining balance and such. Plus, he represents a way of life people don’t get to experience.

Perhaps this is why gamers enjoy games where the villain is the star. For a brief moment, players get to see how the other side lives by vicariously living through an evil-doer who can be bumbling, sympathetic, humorous or down-right nasty.

So today, Gamertell’s going through, in no particular order, 10 games where players get to ditch their consciences and let loose, if only for a little while…

Here’s something you don’t see everyday, NIS America’s Nao Zook making a PSP game announcement on the PlayStation.Blog. PSP owners are getting Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? in July, 2009. Keep an eye on the US PlayStation store – a demo’ll be showing up eventually.

The twist? Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? is a localization of Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida, an Acquire game published by SCEI in Japan. Normally, Sony handles localization/translation/publishing of SCEI games. This time, NIS America is stepping up to bring it overseas. Interesting.

The Badman in the title is the God of Destruction. See, when you’re a villain, you get no peace. People are always banging on your door, carrying swords and such, wanting to make a name for themselves…