No series has ever made me pull a sharper 180 than Volition's Saints Row.
No series has ever made me pull a sharper 180 than Volition's Saints Row. I hated, hated, hated the first one over on Xbox, as much for its shameless ripping off of Grand Theft Auto as any of its actual crimes. It took a long time before I risked a few quid on the infamously buggy PC sequel, and at least a few months between firing up the first time and actually sinking in enough time to see the great game within.
Where most series would likely have stepped up the edginess to torture and other horrible content however, Volition chose a new path. In Saints Row 3 you can see the series at a crossroads; the Saints being recast as celebrities rather than really crooks, but the world still flapping around and trying to be edgy with sex content and lots of prostitutes and strip clubs and whatever.
It's actually a pretty fascinating game, especially the bits that are broken, incongruous and held together with sticky-tape. Just for starters, it's a world whose main character considers stripper poles an essential part of any base and can wield a giant dick on a stick, but also one of the few GTA-style games where female characters are casually in positions of power on both sides of the line and able to give as good as they get.
Most importantly of all, while GTA is primarily about taking shots and snarking at the world, Saints Row IV is about celebrating it. It's a game of geeking out, whether of fictional stuff like the gang's growing love of NyteBlayde, or simply rampaging through a virtual world without consequences and knowing that you have the TOUCH, and you have the POOOOOWER. Even when it parodies specific things, like Metal Gear Solid and Mass Effect, it's a fond ribbing at most.
Even the attitude is braver than it might seem. Cynicism is easy, especially these days. Hate is cheap. To actively stand behind something is difficult; to publicly embrace things without a shield of irony. Saints Row IV had the balls to do that throughout, from the cheese of having the whole gang together to sing Opposites Attract to the little text adventures scattered around the game to the superpowers being balanced for fun over all else, to yes, the goofy sex jokes.
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