Technically this should be a point in favor of Pre-Sequel, but this time the end-game slog really stands out because the rest of the game is much more tightly paced. The original was kind of a slog all the way through, and Pre-Sequel doesn’t become a slog until the end. I realize it’s slightly unfair to ding Pre-Sequel for this. It feels roughly equal in length to the final stage of the original Borderlands.
But then here at the end we get dumped into an epic slog. I’d be okay with that, particularly if it meant we got a more focused game with less filler. The Pre-Sequel is the shortest of the main Borderlands titles. It might feel like we're in the home stretch, but we're hours from the end. Earlier in the story Lilith and Roland specifically said they were out of the vault-hunting game. The player is trying to reach the vault for Jack, and Lilith and Roland are trying to beat him to it. This feels like “Boilerplate AAA videogame” with a quirky art style.Īfter the betrayal, the plot settles down into a race for the vault. This doesn’t feel like the playful, winking, lampshading, genre-savvy Borderlands 2. And there aren’t even any jokes to make this fun. The writer has twisted the characters in knots to get us here, and after all that messing around they still can’t make anyone’s motivations or actions make sense. But if you justify his later evil deeds, then aren’t you actually making them less evil? This is exactly the opposite of the thing the writer should be doing! It also seems to be trying to retroactively justify Jack’s later behavior by showing he had a reason for his vendetta against Lilith and company.
We’re supposed to be witnessing Jack’s turn to evil, and instead the story is retconning Moxxi as self-righteous and craven. Jack, you're a power-hungry psychopath, so I've decided to use the doom laser to murder you and everyone on the station.
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