Bloodied and broken, he uses his last moments to berate the Vault Hunters and the people of Pandora for their resistance, convinced that his vision of Pandora crumbling beneath the power of The Warrior is righteous, outraged that his victims are not grateful for the destruction. In a surprising aversion of the apparent critique in “Shoot This Guy in the Face,” players are given a choice.Ī broken, defeated Handsome Jack experiences no sudden vision or moment of clarity. The true final encounter is what happens immediately afterward when the Vault Hunter encounters a broken Handsome Jack. I’m sure others elsewhere have expounded upon the shortcomings of this encounter far better than I ever could, but I’m not that interested in The Warrior as an encounter. The battle against The Warrior is far too easy, even on True Vault Hunter Mode, made to feel formidable only through its astonishing resilience. Fending off Jack’s vengeful attack takes too long, and his catalyst finishes recharging the Vault Key, giving him control of the Eridian superweapon, The Warrior. But oddly enough, when players finally confront Handsome Jack at the end of Borderlands 2’s core narrative, they are given a choice.Īfter a blistering gauntlet through the most aggravating enemies in the Eridium Blight and Hero’s Pass, the Vault Hunters reach Handsome Jack too late. The quest itself is either a hilarious parody or a reductive deconstruction, demonstrating how every objective in a first-person shooter must, inevitably, be reduced to shooting something.
His sidequest: “Shoot This Guy in the Face.” Its objective: Shoot Face McShooty in the face. When the Vault Hunter player character of Borderlands 2 is sent to Thousand Cuts to recruit The Slab King, they happen across an NPC offering a sidequest.
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