Saints Row (2022) | Who Was This Made For?

A mediocre review of a mediocre reboot! Please play the older Saints Row games instead of this. Edit: I realize there are some mechanical details about the past games I got wrong/misremembered when comparing them to this new one. I am very annoyed at myself for that and apologize for being dumb, but none of that changes the fact that this reboot sucks and everything was done worse than before. Thank you <3 If you'd like to see more of my content, here's the Critical Nobody playlist - bit.ly/2M3r65U

You know who this was made for? The devs. Literally just them.

Game devs/studios (entertainment industry as a whole) must really love losing money because over the years they've been going against the roots of their success while making incomplete products & attacking fans negative criticism.

You know what would have been good character development? These characters becoming increasingly unhinged and sociopathic and less happy-go-lucky as you progress. Nina, for example, could have become the type of person who sets up elaborate and convolouted plans for mass destruction for the hell of it. Kev could be one of the more unconventional types - being a sort of "berserker," and may be the first one to go along with the Boss when they decide to go full-speed on the psychopath train in this alternate timeline. He could also become the resident hedonist of the group. Eli could have become the group's resident chessmaster and manipulator, also being the one who secures a lot of the Saints's funding - via thinly veiled threats and the like. But no, we get this crap.

My disappointment in this game is immeasurable. I miss the days where we could get revenge on a rival gang by making the gang leader accidentally crush his girlfriend with his monster truck after said gang leader had his goons kidnap your second in command and drag him around the city behind a truck. RIP Carlos you were a real one.

The irony how they made SR2022 so inoffensive that they ended up offending everybody.

I love how almost everyone's "serious" boss looks like a middle aged man or a woman, who's trying to fit in with the kids

This game really feels like the Ghostbusters 2016 of the Saint's Row universe.

Some executives took decisions, said you had to make a sequel to SR because "franchise", stated you had to make it "edgy" for "kids nowadays" and chose a "creative" director that agreed with them. Then the dev team, mostly juniors (because all the senior staff have left), just did what they were told, while thinking the whole time this would end up being shit. I didn't work on it, but I worked on games by AAA studios, I'd be shocked if I'm wrong.

I love how they made a game that doesn’t appeal to SR1/2 fans but also SR3/4 fans it’s like they wanted it to fail

"Damn, student loans is hell" Immediately goes on a 5 notoriety rampage killing innocent people, police, and soldiers while blowing everything up with an RPG

Let this serve as a hard lesson to any and all game developers and game publications across the world: If you're not designing your game with it's core fan base in mind.... DON'T RELEASE THE GAME

this is just an insult to the name saints row

This game is the embodiment of the South Park movie line: "Horriffic, deplorable violence is okay so long as nobody says any naughty words." Congrats Vomition, you made Shelia Brofloski proud.

I hate how "release it now, fix it later" mentality has become normalized. The people who apologize for this are even worse, I know people who always say "Oh it'll be patched, don't worry about it, it'll be fine" every. Single. Time. And it never does.

The comedic timing of what I assume was a vulture sound for ambience was perfect at 21:38

One thing that I appreciate about horrible sequels/reboots is that it makes me look upon the previous games much fonder. Like I enjoyed all of the saints row games (even their clear faults), but I never really stopped to appreciate the experience it provided. So thank you, Volition. Probably better NOT to ruin your series, though?

They complain about capitalism, but they want $60 for this abomination.

This game is the equivalent of when teachers try to appeal to the kids by making lessons more 'hip'.

That eagle in the background when you turned around to no cars was cartoon levels of hilarious timing, and a fantastic metaphor for the game. I can't help but wonder if this is supposed to be some really meta joke about GTA 6, since the games were meant to be parodies of GTA, what if this game's just meant to be a joke about what that's likely to become? A soulless, squeaky clean blight on an otherwise good series.