I haven't regularly watched South Park in a decade and its style of humor seems unchanged. You collect a lot of tchotchkes and don't really know why.īut central to the game's quality is whether the jokes land. Instead of old-school turn-based RPG combat suiting the first game's faux-fantasy theme, the sequel swaps magic out for heroic powers and fans the action out on a grid-like XCOM-lite, which fits its superhero setting. Old exploration-impeding obstacles have been swapped out for new ones. You're still romping around the title town, which is laid out roughly the same. TFBW is a direct sequel to 2014's The Stick of Truth ( TSOT) and inherited a lot of its structure and style (along with South Park's signature color-paper look).
But if you aren't already a fan of the show, there's little reason to play the game. Maybe I'm just too old, or has the world moved on while South Park stayed the same? Humor is crucial to the success of the game, which relies on superficial mechanics and an overload of fetch quests and collectibles to pad its length It's TFBW's jokey tone and writing that hold the game together. " South Park used to be a lot funnier," I catch myself thinking as I play through the franchise's latest game, The Fractured But Whole ( TFBW).
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