Guns, Love, and Tentacles, yesterday’s major update to Borderlands 3, revolves around a gay wedding on an alien planet. While that’s fantastic in its own right, the rest of the expansion is pretty great too, combining fresh aesthetics with a bevy of cool new guns and what is arguably the series’ only good boss fight in 10 years.
Guns, Love, and Tentacles tasks the player’s Vault Hunter with traveling to Xylourgos for the destination wedding of sport hunter Alistair Hammerlock and salty aristocrat Wainwright Jakobs. These nuptials were teased during the end credits for Borderlands 3, and now the big day has finally arrived for these two fan favorite characters. Accompanying the player is Gaige, a previously playable character from Borderlands 2 who is now older and somewhat wiser in her new role as a wedding planner.
Borderlands has always had some of the best LGBTQ+ representation in AAA gaming, and that continues with Guns, Love, and Tentacles. It handles Alistair and Wainwright like real people struggling to come to terms with their differences despite the noticeable tropes that make up most of their individual personalities. The jokes are focused on the absurdity that often comes with planning an intricate wedding regardless of the gender of the participants. By the end, neither groom