Feb 2, 2023 - Day 33 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 40

Game: Agents of Mayhem
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Aug 16, 2017
Library Date: May 26, 2020
Unplayed: 982 days (2y8m7d)
Playtime: 41m

From the developers who brought you Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Saints Row The Third, the over-the-top Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, and Saints Row (a reboot of Saints Row that shares a name and little else) comes a repetitive "open-world" action-adventure game vaguely connected to Saints Row (but not the reboot) that is to action-adventure games what Hush Puppies are to high fashion.

You play as a squad of three characters, that you can switch between mid-fight. Like Trine, but somehow less fun.

The game is set in a largely deserted, but very pretty, representation of a futuristic version of Seoul. The gameplay is smooth, the mechanics proficient, the characterisation and voiceovers are well done.

I played through two missions; all the pieces of something entertaining are there, yet somehow fail to mesh into something I want to keep playing.

I can't put my finger on what's missing, just that it is. A little less polish, and this would be "meh", but for me Agents of Mayhem just scrapes across the line to:

3: OK

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