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Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope
01-24-2015, 11:18 PM
...all the way to Hell.

I have been playing Saint's Row: Gat outta hell and I have to say that it is an incredibly fun game.

**Spoilers for Saint's Row IV to follow**

Following The POTUS' victory over Zyniak at the end of Saint's Row IV, it is revealed that Kinzie Kensington had never celebrated a birthday so the Saint's decide to throw her a party. During the party one of the group finds a Ouija Board and decide to mess around with it. Bad idea as it belonged to Alestair Crowley and in doing so, Satan grabs the POTUS' and drags him to hell so he could marry his daughter Jezebel and it is up to Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington to head to Hell to save him.

This game is fucking fun and it easily makes up for Saint's Row 4 which I found to be a colossal disappointment and I honestly wish that Saint's Row 4 was the expansion and this game was the full on sequel.

There are a whole slew of new powers including flight, summoning Imps and bathing yourself in an aura that can strip people of their power, drain their life or bow to your command. With new characters as your allies such as Vlad the Impaler, Bill Shakespeare and Blackbeard the Pirate.

However, there is a downside and that is the bugginess of the game. Nothing truly game breaking but there were moments I found myself resetting the game in order to get something to work. Also there were times I found myself battling the camera as well as the minions of hell.

All in all it is a fun game, but the camera issues as well as the random bugs really hurt the experience.

Arcanum
01-25-2015, 03:18 AM
I got the game for $5 thanks to the Gamestop pricing error, and it's definitely worth that. $20? Ehhhh maybe. Flying around Hell is fun, but the game just feels really rushed. More so than SR4. At least SR4 bothered to tell a story, and have unique, entertaining missions. The cutscenes in GooT are fantastic (especially the musical number), but they're few and far inbetween with the rest of the exposition delivered by story book pages narrated by Jezebel.

In SR4 it was disappointing that the side missions were just "go do these activities in this region." But in GooT the entire game (save a very small handful of missions) is "go do activities until we say it's story book time."

The only thing GooT does better than SR4 is the super power elements, since they significantly change how a power works (especially the summon elements).

I really wish they would have been able to put more time and effort into GooT and make it something more than the budgeted condensed version that it is.

Hopefully that time is being put to work on a Saints Row musical game, because I never knew I wanted to play a game that's entirely a musical until now.