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The new Saints Row reboot is bland, boring, and broken

And, look: I didn’t just fall off the back of the games discourse turnip truck here; I can rattle off my thoughts on ludonarrative dissonance—i.e., the gap between what a gameit’s about versus what you actually spend your time doing while playing it—with the best of them. But it’s rare for a game to putthis much energy into trying to get you to like and root for characters who are extremely glib about all the murders they intend on doing.

here and there—generally attached to the “Empire” system that makes up much of the game’s side content, tasking you with building various criminal fronts that provide passive upgrades and income in exchange for completing certain tasks. B varied from silly to immersion-ruining to mission-aborting. There’s nothing quite like loading up a mission in a game like this—which sometimes run to 20 minutes in length, at least

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