Saints Row (2022) Review Thread

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Saints Row Critic Reviews

Saints Row has been reviewed by 158 critics and currently has a 'Weak' rating. Read and browse them all to learn what the top critics in the video game industry are saying.
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Knew this was going to be garbage. I just watched some gameplay, looks so last gen, almost like a last gen remaster of the gen before. Add to that the woke hipster cringe characters and story and you got one hell of a turd. Even woke reviewers won't be able to save this one.

It's already discounted by 30% before launch where i live, they're expecting to bomb.
 
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This is the game where players runs behind pedestrians with giant purple dildos....for hrs, and for reasons unknown, many seem to enjoy it.

Hate this fking franchise.
 
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Wouldn't be buying it anyway until it hits steam (Deep Silver loving that EGS Money apparently), but this had shitshow kind of written all over it with their creative decisions and the 'Millenial power fantasy' concept, which seems like a massive departure from what any existing SR fans want (a reboot with the same bawdy attitude of the original). I guess maybe the hope is that somehow they're going to corral the Fortnite crowd in some fashion and build a new audience, but seems like a weird gamble.
 
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You can get away with jank and being a throwback if you can get a fun gameplay loop and keep the novel mechanics coming.

Going woke was always going to mean none of that, because it's inherently about lowest common denominator inoffensiveness, and putting a message above entertainment.

I've said it before and I'll say it again,this should have gone in the opposite direction. Anti-authoritarian, crude humour, zany silliness, anti woke piss taking and revelling in controversy. It still would have been a bit crap, but at least it would have been having fun.

Instead this just wasted everyone's time and will likely have killed the franchise.
 
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I had preordered this but cancelled.

Thought maybe the gameplay loop would still have been fun.

Oh well. It'll drop like a rock in price. Bet it'll be on sale on Black Friday for $20. Might pick it up then.
 
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Always knew this was going to be shit.

Interesting how the 00's anarchic fun stupid clown character creator aesthetic derived from GTA style sandbox excess, which came along with genuine humour, sort of morphed into 10's tumblr dangerhair stupid humourless woke deviant wankstain aesthetic.

It's a shame, I remember actually laughing at this bit from the intro to Saint's Row 3.



But then something happened - I recall reading this absolute wankpile from Eurogamer and being surprised this was the take - so cartoon psychopathic nihilistic sex and violence was actually being interpreted as strong-wamen-progressive-message-good? What the fuck?

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Saints Row 4: a fun game that makes serious points

For years I've been saying I've wanted a game where I could play as an overweight, slightly older female protagonist. C…
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Aside from its progressive attitudes towards women and sex, Saints Row 4 also contains one of the most moving moments I've seen in a game in ages. Shortly after you rescue your friend Pierce, the two of you cruise around on an assault mission against the alien menace. Between strike points Pierce turns on the radio and pressures the player character into singing Paula Abdul's Opposites Attract with him. Before you know it you're belting out "It ain't fiction, just a natural fact - we come together 'cuz opposites attract!" The voice actor laughs along to the fact that she's somewhat poorly crooning a pop song, while Pierce is having a ball getting his perceived uptight boss - and president of the United States - to loosen up. This all happens mid-mission, without the need to break to a cutscene or slow down the game's momentum. Saints Row 4 may be a big, stupid action game, but this whimsical sequence was perhaps the single best portrayal of friendship I've seen in a game. You might expect that in Gone Home or The Last of Us, but to find this emergent moment of warmth in the midst of a wacky candy-coloured world-saving fantasy was disarmingly effective and not one I'll soon forget.
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Saints Row 5, confusingly going by the moniker 'Saints Row', greets a new me like an old friend. I no longer 'want' to be a woman. I am a trans woman. My fears over whether or not to create a bulge for my avatar, what it says about my own deviance, my own cowardice, my own shame, my own longing, means nothing. Like the maleness that still bound me nine years ago, those feelings have been shed. They have sloughed off my body to decompose and grow anew. The maleness is gone, but the manhood remains.
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Should have posted in Cringe tbh, but too good to miss.
 
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Saints Row review – a vast, ridiculous B-movie caper

With its wonky sets, dodgy cameras and bizarre plotlines, this reboot of the gangster adventure series is haphazard but joyful
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When the trailer to this reboot of the long-running gangster adventure series arrived last year, gaming's gutter world of gatekeeping nerd misanthropes swung straight into action – and by that I mean a lot of angry boys whined online about Saints Row going "woke". The game's archetypal white male protagonist had been sacked and replaced by a diverse gang of twentysomethings seeking to build an underworld empire while sharing a flat, cruising social media and getting into polyamorous relationships. If you wanted to know what would happen if Grand Theft Auto was handed to the writers of Riverdale, here you are. You're welcome.

And that's the thing. You are welcome. Because Saints Row has dropped the dudebro "anything goes as long as it celebrates the patriarchy" shtick of the previous title, with its giant dildo baseball bats and sex pest humour. Now, everyone is in on the joke – and the joke is about trying to exist as a young person in the post-capitalist hellzone of the 21st century.
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The (low) scores feel right based on how it looked. It looked like high quality crap. But with nothing else new to play right now it might get some decent play time/sales.
 
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