![]() I ran most of the game as a fourth grade David Bowie, with glam makeup and red mullet, but you could just as easily play as a Goth kid or a bearded hobo with mud on his face.Ĭombat is active turn-based-similar to the Mario & Luigi games, if you’ve played them. Outside of a criminally limited Options menu on the PC (you can change resolution and gamma and…that’s it) and some obnoxious screen tearing (no way to enable Vsync) the game even managed to avoid that legendary Obsidian bugginess during my playthrough-though it sounds like the console versions may not be so lucky.Ĭharacter customization is endless here. The aforementioned aesthetics are part of it-this is undeniably South Park, construction paper and all. That being said, I really enjoyed playing the game. It’s a parade of old South Park jokes you’ve no doubt seen before or assimilated through the cultural hivemind, and only in rare moments will it really surprise you. I can’t fault them for it, but I also don’t think the game is that funny as a result. ![]() But just showing me something that was funny previously doesn’t make it funny again.Īs I said, Stick of Truth does what’s expected of it, and what’s expected of it is fan service. Just a pleading, “Remember the Penis Mouse? Remember how funny that episode was?” Sure I do, South Park. At one point you’ll battle the Penis Mouse. Set up the ol’ favorites and fart ’em down. Stick of Truth went through one round of delays after another, and while the story is remarkably current for such a troubled game, it mostly relies on your nostalgia for the show. Game development is clearly a different beast. (Watch the fantastic documentary 6 Days to Air if you get a chance.) It bestows upon South Park a wonderful responsiveness no other show matches-a sense of being there, of understanding pop culture and reacting to it on the fly. South Park the TV show has made its mark lampooning pop culture, and Stick of Truth is at its best when it’s cracking meta-jokes about video games-like lampooning me for spending so much time on side quests and urging me to get back to the main story.īut South Park’s best feature is the rapidity with which Parker and Stone put together an episode. ![]()
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