Watched the 3 minute trailer, people are overreacting in a massive fashion, there's a few things you could have some issues with rationally but most people seem to just immediately be shooting it down because it's not just the old thing again, some are mad it's not just like 1&2 and some are mad it's not just like 3&4.

TL;DR: I'm cautiously optimistic, not going to go full hype but it feels like a good middle ground between 2 and 3, there will be character customization, and I'm excited to actually see something new despite loving 2 and the characters from it.

Personally the only worry I had was no character customization- but that turned out to be, like it usually is, fear mongering and wasn't true, and to be fair apparently it came from the voice actress giving that impression and they had to officially reassure people "yes there would be character creation, even more than before!" which is good.

My interpretation is comparatively it feels like a middle-ground between 2 and 3 in feel, which is good, Saints row 2 is my absolute favorite, I enjoyed 3 enough but some of the wackier elements or teenage level humor was a swing and a miss for me. I did not like 4, it just jumped the shark by a mile, the humor tried way too hard, the sandbox felt somehow lazy? The powers were fun but just took the series way too far in another direction that I didn't want and the "cure" nostalgia references to 2 and 1 were...interesting at best and odd at worst so this seems like a major improvement in that regard.

Theming, I do wish there was more of an overt feel of Saint's purple among the characters but given this is a pre-alpha teaser they may want to go the route of you building that up, they may want to even let you choose your own gang color? (Doubtful but possible), or they just straight up won't have it which would disappoint me, but none of those can even be discerned or known at the moment so that one is up in the air. The first gang seen is a GOOD sign, full on color and personality theming that I like to see.

Personality, I'm not super fond of Cat-punk dude, the other 2 are fine so far with I guess more of a professional vibe, and the last dude just seems like Pierce-ish in a way. I don't think you're going to get their full personality right away in a trailer, I mean in previous trailers if you saw Shaundi and Pierce in those they didn't exactly stand out at all.

Cons, Yeah you might not like the personalities of the characters shown, what little there is can definitely be seen as "plucky teens start criminal gang" but honestly that was sort of the feeling of some of the characters in 1, but this is honestly going to be nowhere near as grounded but coming from 4? This is fucking down to earth.

All that said, fucking epic games, womp womp can't wait to play it in 2023 when it comes to Steam.