GAME*Spark Review: Saintslow -The expectation is easy to change to disappointment

After a 40-hour play of the new Saints Row, I was strictly struck by a strange feeling. While I felt overwhelming in the last mission to the ending, I was distracted by some disappointment for gameplay. In this article, I would like to tell you the actual situation of this work by talking about the details.

• Series including the introduction of the series than the old work
• Battle is redundant
• Equipment customization and boss skills create strategic properties
• Mission evaluation
• Problems at current
• The depiction of the boss is more violent
• Sound and other elements are good
• General commentary

Rainbow (2022) was developed by Volition and sold by Deep Silver on August 23, 2022. This work is the latest work of the series, which had been cut off for a long time with SAINTS ROW: AT OUT OF HELL (January 23, 2015), and is a reboot after seven years. 。 Is that restart successful? I would like to send a review while focusing on such places. I have already played Sandro except for the first generation.

Series including the introduction of the series than the old work

The story of this work starts with a sequence where the main character boss is buried in the grave by some1. Cut back to the event a few months ago, and the main story starts. In the main story, the battle of the boss, a member of the special unit, is drawn, and it seems that it has been well-raised, but it is not accepted, and it becomes fired, and at the same time, it becomes a fucking that makes a hostile organization.

If you are fired, let's do work from scratch! Then the criminal organization Saints is formed. The approval of the decayed church is forced from the mayor to be the home base.

Although the battle that is somewhat required for the introduction is redundant, it is a good impression that it carefully draws the formation of Saints. The story is carefully talked about while reflecting the scenery of the city Santa Less that exists in the southwestern United States.

The Saints Row series, which was a popular and gag-open climb, has a reality line in this work, and the scenario progresses in a realistic form. As a series of series fans, I felt a nostalgic finish that reminds me of Rainbow 2. However, the number of buildings to be entered from the map is not as much as 2, but is compact as Saints's Third. This was a pity.

Friends of criminal organizations are Kevin, which had a cat ear helmet with a trailer video, an expert driver Nina, and a businessman Erie with a trademark bow tie. And... Snickers Guru was a discarded cat. With this friendly member, Saints will expand its power. My friends are also familiar with My Men, and they are equally treated with the boss.

The introduction part was dark and hard to understand due to the time zone, but after the introduction, the morning sun rising to the vast world was very beautiful and impressive.

Battle is redundant

For the Saints Row series, it's always the case, but there are many battles. In this work, I can fold more than ever before, so I feel tired. It wasn't the case that it was a battle event to take advantage of the story, but it felt a little redundant, and there were situations where I thought, I don't want to fight anymore.

Resource management such as ammunition in battle is severe. You can evaluate the high strategy, such as being able to replenish by defeating enemies, and there is also an element of takedown that can aim for immediate killing and physical strength recovery.

Equipment customization and boss skills create strategic properties

Car and weapon that cannot be released from the open world x climb action. Each is customized, but each has a task required to execute remodeling, depending on the type of weapon/car.

For example, if you want to increase the customization item of Hand Cannon, Destroy the tires of Lanterns vehicles, the enemy, and Kurcovua Salt Rifle, Defeat the enemy with the last one of the magazine, and the vehicle Hammer heads include Near mistakes with cars. Both need to be done multiple times, and it is a highly flexible open-world game, but you can drive and fight with goals with a strategic in the whole play.

In this work, there are skills that can be put in up to four slots, and PERK that can be added to the slots of minor (X2)/major (X2)/elite (X1), respectively. Perk is a so-called passive skill and skill is treated as active skill, and this combination makes you enjoy the pleasure of creating your own build.

Mission evaluation

Multiple missions are presented, and you can freely select yourself from your smartphone screen. There is also a subquest called Side Hustle), which allows you to save money in the game and aim for unique items, but all are very combat driven. There are many battles, and this is also a structure that makes it easy to feel fatigue depending on the player.

The story spoken in the main mission is Making Saints bigger anyway. We aim to destroy hostile organizations, but there are many serious developments, giving the impression that they are approaching the Saints Row 2 t1. This is a series that has been evaluated as a damage aspect, so this texture will be divided. Regarding this work, which follows the old work, but the fresh story line awaits, I felt that this kind of Saints Row is also an ant.

Problems at current

Unfortunately, crashes during the mission occurred frequently in the version of the author (J4380107 from the early version of the Lunch). It would be nice if the mission could be resumed from the crashing point, but it will be started from the very first scene. When these bugs occurred in the mission that challenged for more than 30 minutes, I was exhausted.

In addition, the weapon wheels can no longer be opened, making it impossible to attack and become over the game. This work is too buggy at the end of August 2022 at the time of writing this article. The timing of the subtitles is also strange, and the long subtitles may disappear at the speed that cannot be read. Despite the abundance of customization elements, I encountered a problem, such as initializing the weapon paint.

The Shinobi element that must be done in the story of the story, is a part of the mission, but some missions are repeated multiple times such as bring a specific vehicle. I felt like an overt game play, and I was discouraged because of the long play.

In addition, although this work is basically traveling by car, there are too many missions that require driving operations compared to the old work. In addition, the target point was so far away that I felt tired driving.

In terms of system specifications in the PC version, it is not good that everyone has no idea which folder is registered in which of the taken photos. It is a pity that I am worried that it has not been preserved in the first place, because of the defects mentioned so far.

The depiction of the boss is more violent

The playable character Boss in this work is less warm and lost than the old hero, and will behave crude even in front of friends. It is an image of scary rather than cool. The boss of this work (for the author) is hard to embrace, and it can be said to be a sociopath. It was different from the hot and burning boss of the previous work.

Sound and other elements are good

Fortunately, it has been a form of complaints and complaints as a series fan, but fortunately, the soundtrack containing country music contributes to the atmosphere in expressing the southwestern United States.

In addition, The only thing that is praised for the messy driving (XP enters) is Saints! 。

General commentary

In the mission of this work, Shinobi and cache are required, so you may not be able to proceed with the main story easily, and you may get the impression that you are crazy. However, since the degree of freedom as an open world game is guaranteed, it is a title that can be played leisurely at your own pace. However, it is difficult to play with the current version ignoring bugs, so if you want to play stably, we recommend that you wait for a future update before playing.

As a reboot work, it can be said that it is a satisfactory title ** if you are disappointed if you want more than ever compared to the old work, and if you want average.

General comment: ★★ ☆

good point ・ There is freshness as a reboot ・ Driving operation that gives a sense of accomplishment no matter how much you do

Bad point ・ There are too many battle events ・ Move by car in the mission is long