She’s our replacement crazy person for absent Gat, except she’s irritating, inept, and humorless. So her new character focus is violence and aggression, but she’s apparently weaker then old “stoner” Shaundi. In fact, this new “badass” Shaundi manages to get captured by the bad guys. Ha ha! Look at how stupid and powerless she is in the face of an unarmed actor.ĭespite all her bark, she does very little biting and doesn’t seem to get much in the way of revenge. Instead, Shaundi whines and makes empty threats. You’d come home to find Johnny hanging the guy out the window by his ankles, or that he and Pierce were taking turns tasering him for sport. Note that if someone was stupid enough to deliberately agitate Johnny Gat, he would have found an amusing way to shut them up.
All of the comedy here comes from Shaundi getting pissed off and growling without ever doing anything. Josh is an annoying actor who has a crush on her and won’t stop hitting on her.
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In the middle of the game there’s a series of quests where Shaundi has to keep Josh prisoner. She doesn’t make jokes, she’s the butt of them. At best she’s used as a target for cheap laughs as the other characters agitate her into another fit of impotent fury. New Shaundi comes off as crazy and angry all the time, but unlike with Jonny Gat she doesn’t get to be witty or clever. I don’t know why they didn’t just put her on a bus and bring in a new character that suited their purposes better.Īt least once a week, someone says this while we’re recording Spoiler Warning. It’s not that events changed her, it’s that Volition replaced her with a completely different and much less interesting character. You might argue that this personality shift was the result of what happened to Johnny Gat in the tutorial, but note that she was angry and complaining throughout the mission, long before anything happened to Johnny. (Not that the competition was particularly fierce.)Ī Maxim-looking babe who has no discernible personality beyond “angry”. Usually the voice of reason, Shaundi had a low, relaxed delivery.ĭespite being burned out by drugs, she still managed to come off as the smartest member of the team. While everyone in the Third Street Saints is a homicidal maniac, she was always the mellow one in relative terms. The kind of bohemian woman who would decorate her apartment with lava lamps, beanbags and beaded curtains, and would always have some nameless friend-of-a-friend sleeping on her couch. She was a hippie, a burnout, and a slacker. It’s particularly strange that they didn’t really replace him with another lunatic muderjoke character. I can’t imagine why they would get rid of such a useful character. It must have been very handy to be able to say, “And then Jonny Gat lampshades the whole stupid plan with a joke and the mission proceeds.” I think he was worth far more to the writers than he was to the player.
Gat’s character archetype could easily be replaced with another new character if that’s what they wanted to do. I don’t miss him the way I might miss Garrus Vakarian or Jolee Bindo. Maybe combine it with a parody of the “Tupac Lives” meme. I still have this nagging suspicion that they might be planning some kind of “ Search for Spock” gag in the next game. Besides, you kind of avenge his death at the end of the first act, which makes his death a very expensive means of driving a small part of the story that didn’t need any help in the first place. The cast certainly didn’t need much of an incentive in Saints Row 2. Why did they kill him off? It’s not like they needed to manufacture a motive for the main characters to take over a city and kill their enemies. When the game began wrapping up and he was still dead, I was genuinely surprised. I couldn’t imagine that Volition would kill him off, and so I wasn’t buying his off-screen death without a funeral, a body, or a proper goodbye. Jonny Gat was the personification of Saints Row itself and served as the visual representative of the game because the main character has no set race or gender. He’s easily the most recognizable and iconic character in the series, and his personality was a perfect snapshot of the game’s gleefully manic and single-minded approach to fun and murder. Throughout the game, I never believed he was dead. In fact, we’re going to start with the biggest spoiler of all, which happens in the first 15 minutes of the game… Don’t get me wrong, Stuff Happens in this game, and People Die, but it’s all played for lulz and I don’t think the plot is the driving force here.
I mean, this game is really, really obvious and I sort of balk at the notion that any of this could spoil the game for you. I’ll repeat my earlier warning: Spoilers ahead.
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