Saints row 2 shaudi12/28/2022 As far as the men are concerned, before the games embraced the silliness of shark guns and death by dubstep, the series sought to critique toxic masculinity and male aggression. It’s also worth noting that Kia, Laura, and Viola & Kiki DeWynter feature prominently in various Saints stories. ![]() The Boss could be male or female - and as the series went on, could change gender at will - while Shaundi was a key member of the gang alongside Kinzie. Kinzie is just one of the many, many strong female leads the series has. Kinzie Kensington, the game’s best character - this is not a debate - is incredibly sex positive without ever being objectified, mocked, or humilated by the game. The language was occasionally derogatory, but never deliberately offensive and it gave sex workers far more agency than GTA ever did. Sure, it laughed at the big purple dildos and giggled when it took you into stripclubs or BDSM dungeons, but Saints Row believes that sex work is real work. Saints Row was also incredibly sex positive. The cast of every game in the series has been incredibly diverse, and while - like everything else in the game - romance isn’t taken particularly seriously, Saints Row 4 lets you hook up with everyone on the ship, be they male, female, or killer laser robot. But to be annoyed that Saints Row is getting woke is to be annoyed about what Saints Row is. As a huge Mayhem apologist, I’m thrilled to see Volition take some cues from it, but I could understand fans of both the original games and the more recent chaos-fests being disgruntled that they’re not getting their dream sequel. Pink neon gun to my head, I’d say it’s more Agents of Mayhem than anything we’ve seen in the core Saints games. The Saints Row reboot feels like a cross between both premises. However you feel doesn’t really matter, though. I was hoping the game would stick, but I know I’m not in the majority there. Related: Saints Row Preview - A New Gang, A New Game Engine, And A New City To Take Over It has decided to do neither, instead getting up and moving tables to play a different game entirely. Sticking would mean plowing ahead with the Zinyak adventures of Saints Row 4, exploring ideas like time travel and expeditions to Hell, while twisting would mean reverting back to the relative grit of Saints Row and Saints Row 2. That left Saints Row with a choice - stick or twist. ![]() In the eight years since Saints Row 4 released, GTA has moved to fill the vacuum of silliness itself, becoming a parody of what it once was thanks to GTA Online. Saints Row 3 shifted the series towards a slightly sillier direction, before Saints Row made you the President, gave you superpowers, and charged you with stopping an alien invasion. It started out as a riff on GTA, one that took itself a little less seriously but still remained fairly down to Earth. What’s more surprising though is that the trailer is being called out for being woke, which, um… have you ever played Saints Row before? Gamers don’t like games sometimes - that’s not a major surprise. At the time of writing, it’s at 11k up and 14k down, which is enough to see that the latter has a significant lead, but not so much that you might call it universal disapproval. For those not up to speed on how kids these days talk when they’re not Tiking and Toking, it basically means the trailer has more people clicking thumbs down than thumbs up. ![]() Saints Row’s reboot trailer is currently in the midst of being ratio’d on YouTube.
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