I was also kind of weirded out by how my character looked - any time the game zoomed in on her face, not only did her skin look oddly-textured, I felt like I was looking at flesh-coloured blobs stuck on a polygon face model. Firing your weapons isn’t as smooth as I remember it being - but given I spent all my time simply running at enemies and then hitting them with wrestling moves, that didn’t bother me too much. To be fair, after that, the game managed to go another hour or so without breaking down entirely, but “only kind of broken” isn’t exactly a glowing endorsement.Ĭompared to that issue - that is, the fact that the game really struggles to run when you ask it to do something like saving, or loading a new screen - my other issues with this version of SRIV seem like minor quibbles. No matter how much I love making things explode, that’s unacceptable. In other words, it took me well over an hour (and possibly more than two hours) to play something that should’ve taken maybe thirty minutes, at the outside. The third mission? Another eternal loading screen that required I quit out of the game entirely and redo the mission from the beginning. Then it somehow got worse in the second story mission, when it got stuck on a loading screen twice, and crashed entirely another time on top of that. I had to redo the game’s first mission once because it crashed the first time through. The thing is, it doesn’t work a good chunk of the time. The game sets you loose in a alien computer simulation of the Saints’ beloved Steelport, and gives you everything you need to wreak insane havoc. It’s gloriously silly, with dubstep guns and super speed and side missions where you get tanks and blow everything up. This is the same game that graced the current and previous generations of PlayStation and Xbox, so all the things I loved about the game on those platforms, I also love here. Couple that with the fact I enjoyed Saints Row: The Third’s Switch port, and you can see why I was eager to play SRIV on Nintendo’s handheld, too.īut this…this is a tough version of the game to love.ĭon’t get me wrong, when Saints Row IV on the Switch works, it works just fine. I loved it when it first came out on PS3, I loved it when they re-released it on PS4, and I’ve always thought there’s a good argument to be made that it’s one of the best superhero games ever made. Saints Row IV is easily one of my all-time favourite games.
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