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Intentionally designing games to express specific emotions can be difficult Isbister (2016). Hence, this paper aims to provide an additional perspective of the expression of emotions, by analyzing how Gris, a 2D platformer game expresses anger within the five stages of grief model Kübler-Ross (2005). Furthermore, the paper intends to explore the idea of anger being a desirable emotion that can be constructively designed instead of associated as a negative emotion within the gaming community. The analysis uses the framework by Fernández-Vara (2019) and describes different situations within the anger level of Gris to subsequently discuss stylistic devices such as color, mechanics, and audio in relation to previous research on emotional design conventions, health articles on anger, and psychological research on color. The findings highlight that Gris expresses anger by using various stylistic devices as metaphors and design choices. The paper goes into depth on how these stylistic devices are used in Gris, how they symbolize anger, and the insight this can present to designers.