Stepping outside afterwards, you're met by several drunken men in a pick-up truck who holler at you for your chosen gender - I was playing a cisgender male, so they declared a hatred for cisgender males - and then start a fight. The choice is yours, but after this he asks you whether your character is cisgender or transgender, before calling your parents to confirm what you're saying with them. Take, for example, an early conversation with guidance counsellor Mr Mackey, where he sits your character down and asks them which gender they're playing. This isn't the first time someone has laid this claim at South Park's door, and I have no issues with the jokes existing in the game, but several times they were jarring, an unnecessary distraction that detracted from the game rather than adding to it. I'm fairly thick-skinned with my humour, but there are a few jabs in the game that feel offensive for the sake of being offensive. The narrative hook is charming, in a way, and the writing and several of the jokes are decent. The narrative of TFBW follows on from 2014 prequel The Stick of Truth, in that you're kids at playtime, however while The Stick of Truth was a grand fantasy, TFBW features the kids of South Park playing at being superheroes after Cartman jumps into the middle of a fantasy battle as his superheroic alter-ego The Coon and demands everyone starts playing superheroes instead.įrom there, as in the last game, you trawl through town meeting some of South Park's more colourful residents, getting in fights and accumulating stuff as you seek to solve quests. The all-pervasive silliness of South Park is the theme wrapped around this RPG's solid core, and if toilet humour and the occasional jab at some much darker subjects isn't your cup of tea, South Park: The Fractured but Whole (TFBW hereafter) could end up grating on you pretty quickly. That's the name of the new game, and if that makes you giggle, you might find something to enjoy here.
Your enthusiasm for the TV show is in a large part going to determine whether this latest South Park RPG is for you, so if you're not familiar with Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and that weird season where they killed Kenny off and replaced him with Butters, it's hard to say ahead of time whether the game's unique sense of humour will work for you. If you're not yet aware of South Park, the animation juggernaut that's been making fart jokes and satire since 1997, where have you been? Developer: Ubisoft, Ubisoft San Francisco, South Park Digital Studios LLC
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