South Park: The Fractured But Whole (and Stick of Truth)

Ugh, I watched SoT on Twitch and fell off my chair. Please don't tell me I'm going to see more stuff in the sequel.

Basically a 20 hour crazy as fuck South Park episode with surprisingly enjoyable turn-based combat and RPG mechanics. Basically, if you enjoy the show you'd probably find it a lot of fun.

Also, there's like the hottest sex scene ever ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Man it would be hilarious if in this game Terrance and Phillip lose their jobs because their jokes are too offensive and the government decides to censor them.

The character creator looks terrific.

Why? It doesn't affect combat. Perfectly reasonable satire to me. 

Well I don't like the game being super easy for being white. But aparently, gameplay wise, the only thing difficulty seems to affect is how much money you make on an average.

Paper Mario: A Thousand year Door with Trey and Matt's signature South Park writing is what it is.

Ran a Stick of Truth playthrough as a female protagonist (and ginger, my usual roleplaying preference )

Now that the Fractured But Whole is proposing in its character creation that you could have been female all along, well... that takes a significant amount of head canon to explain away that everyone else thinks you're a boy, but I guess in South Park, it's just about passable. 

Yes, I'm quite aware of that, but I'm impressed at the maker's balls for just going for it... 

So many enjoyable games at the moment.

Good times...

Story is so nutty but then, it's SP.

As much as I hate to be the guy that hates on sequels, I do have to say Stick of Truth was the better game

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That is not to say the sequel was bad, just nowhere near as the first game, I think they nailed it the first time and in trying to catch lightning in a bottle twice lost something along the way. I think the first game had the benefit of being the first real attempt at capturing the spirit of South Park in a video game and had around 16 to 17 seasons worth of content to draw from and they took all the best stuff while this game not wanting to tread the same ground only had the last 3 or 4 seasons to draw from as well as the less memorable elements of the previous seasons to draw on. Also there was some really great video game specific humour in the first game where they made fun of a lot of video game tropes in a way that only South Park could, there was really none of that in this game, at least nothing that stood out to me.

As for the gameplay itself there is not a lot to say, quest structure and exploration remain functionally the same even if they lack some of the charm of the original, they did try to make combat more complex but not entirely sure they succeeded in making it more fun, personally I think I prefer the simplistic nature of the first one as although the combat is more complex in this game it is nowhere near complex enough to make it strategically complex and rewarding like games like Xcom or Divinity: Original Sin yet it is just complex enough to make fights drag out and feel tedious after a few combat encounters. Besides I just feel the combat animations in Stick of Truth had more charm capturing the essence of children playing make believe in the twisted South Park style.

In the end Fractured but Whole isn't a horrible game, but it really isn't that great either, only really for fans of the show and while I suppose the same could be said for Stick of Truth the difference is Stick of Truth will rekindle your love for the show while Fractured but Whole will only scratch an itch for those wanting more South Park.