SPOILERS Jon's Brief and Spoilerific Review

[GoSP] Jon

[GoSP] Jon

Screw you all
It doesn't quite live up to Saints Row 2, but it's a more reliably fun experience than it's predecessor.
Overall: 8.5/10

Pros:
-Superpowers are fun
-Some great moments in the story
-Cool ambient music
-Driving is better
-More interesting, but flawed story
-Actually funny
-Some cool hidden stuff
-AI is improved a little
-Less tonally schizofrenic than SR:TT
-Sound design is crazy good

Cons:
-Zinyak is never given motive or reason and is excessively dark just for the heck of it seems
-The ending to Act 1 is a pretty gigantic misstep and damages the game's narrative as a whole (and they don't even undo it when they're handed a time machine. Really? It was the whole freakin' motivator in the plot!)
-The game tries way too hard to be wacky at times
-The game becomes way too much about the grind of collecting things, and then makes collecting these things stupid easy; so far it's made SR4 the shortest (game lifetime wise) yet
-Some mechanics are overused, like the mech sequences. "Saints of Rage" only shows up once, but it's tedious before you're done with the mission.
-Gat should have been shown in a wittier way with more depth. This character is a very pale one-dimensional portrayal of his former self. He rarely has opportunities to talk, and when he does, it's not particularly interesting or funny. They also ruin the surprise of it by announcing it the end of Act I.
-Underwhelming ending. As I said earlier, there's no reason you couldn't have stopped Zinyak from destroying Earth with the time machine you're given, but instead the Saints just screw up history instead. It doesn't really make the characters likable when they choose a few thrills over the rest of humanity. Aren't we supposed to be celebrating these characters?
-The use of mission music is not as good this time around. I dunno, maybe I'm the only person on Earth that doesn't like Stan Bush's "The Touch" that much.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and they still don't sort out that Dex thing.
 
All I saw was "Sound design is crazy good."

Kidding. Valid points for sure. And thank you so much for noticing the world music... so much work went into it and everyone just listens to the radio.

9/10 would read again
 
I agree with everything except Zin'yak being a completely shallow character. If you read through the text adventures he does sorta have a motive behind his desire to conquer Earth other than his natural bloodthirst. But otherwise he's basically the alien version of The Boss.
 
mogwaimon said:
I agree with everything except Zin'yak being a completely shallow character. If you read through the text adventures he does sorta have a motive behind his desire to conquer Earth other than his natural bloodthirst. But otherwise he's basically the alien version of The Boss.
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I haven't finished those. I'll make sure to take a look at them. In any event, that kind of stuff should be a little more readily apparent in the story rather than hidden away.
It sort of relates to the ending of Act I where the Earth is destroyed... Maybe if I understood why he wanted to destroy Earth it would make more sense? It just seemed like he blew up the Earth just to be a dick considering he didn't really consider the Earth a threat and the only person who was a threat to him was already in his custody. What I guess I don't understand is if he had nothing to fear from Earth and was actually quite fascinated with its culture, what really would have been the point of destroying it? It almost seems contradictory to the other elements of Zinyak's character.
 
Blowing up the Earth was like you said just a standard dick move. He already had what he really wanted from Earth so he was able to leverage it as a scare tactic to try and keep the Boss in line. If I said anything else it'd probably spoil it for you so get to them text adventures yo =P
 
Saints of Rage might be the most overrated thing ever.

A fun enough mission but people are asking for dedicated DLC for it - that genre of game wasn't even that good in its heyday.
 
SharkyMcShark said:
Saints of Rage might be the most overrated thing ever.

A fun enough mission but people are asking for dedicated DLC for it - that genre of game wasn't even that good in its heyday.
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Take that back!

I love Streets of Rage ;)
 
Indeed... Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3 was really great, and i very liked how SR played about SoR starting screen and overall theme... and i REALLY wished more levels in such style
 
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