Some of the dialogue is cringeworthy, as if it was written by people who wanted to keep up with the latest internet trends, and it shows. Keep in mind that the original games didn't take moments like this seriously for the most part. For example, Kevin will talk about giving Mechaburger toys to an orphanage after killing the Idols to get said toy, and said moment is played completely straight, without any ounce of humor behind it. The writing in this game is disjointed, and filled with ludonarrative dissonance and inconsistent tone. Also, the past games' previous members of the Saints such as Julius Little, Johnny Gat, Shaundi, Benjamin King, Dexter Jackson, Troy Bradshaw, Kinzie Kensington and Pierce Washington are nowhere to be seen and replaced by Neenah, Kevin and Eli. 
To say that fans of the series were disappointed would be an understatement. Tone wise, it looked like a mix between Saints Row 2 and Saints Row: The Third, but the way the Saints were presented was a far cry from the series original roots. However, fans' hopes were quickly dashed once the announcement trailer came out, showing the Boss and new Saints members, Neenah, Kevin, and Eli, facing off against Los Panteros, one of the three new gangs in the game (the other two being the Marshall Defense Industries and the Idols), and dialogue suggesting the Saints are paying off their student loans. The brick wall with the graffiti on the Saints Row website generated lots of hype from fans of the series, who wanted the game to go back to its gritty gangster roots set by the first game in 2006 and Saints Row 2, especially in light of many modern open-world games going for more fantastical, over-the-top features. Prior to the announcement of the reboot, fans of the Saints Row series have been waiting for a new game since 2013's Saints Row IV and its 2015 standalone expansion, Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell.
The main problem with this game is that it takes nearly every element that was added and improved in past Saints Row games (especially the first two games)' and throws them out of a airplane window. Set in the fictional city of Santo Ileso, the story follows a group of four friends led by the "Boss" who start their own outlaw gang called The Saints, which they subsequently expand by seizing power from other criminal organizations, them being the Idols, the Los Panteros, and Marshall Defense Industries (MDI), in the city.
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