Hint: don't punch Freeman from behind his taco counter. This leads to different move options to select which, depending on your choices, levy strength in different forms - from strength, to psychic ability - and can be strategically enhanced by friends you meet throughout the game, too.įighting off some other fourth-graders to kick things off is a breeze, but dozens of hours into the game you'll probably be fighting Morgan Freeman using combined characters' abilities and specials - which are activated after powering up a Special bar through countering moves - and wondering how on earth things arrived at such a ridiculous point. You begin with one character class and a limited selection of moves for combat, which upgrades to a trio of classes as you rank up throughout the game. Fortunately, The Fractured But Whole is very well paced in its delivery of each new component part. This all, like in any good RPG, provides a whole lot of stuff to get your teeth around. There are various core pillars to the game: exploration and collecting, which in turn fuels item crafting and the buy-and-sell systems gaining popularity through taking selfies with characters in South Park and posting on Coonstagram (many won't do so until tasks are completed) costume and artifact hunting, which can be used to strengthen your character (many of these can be crafted, with the right materials and achieved rank) and turn-based combat with a choice of character classes, which brings the addition of time-based instances and adjustments (yep, your farts can bend the fabric of space-time, eventually). Who knows, maybe one day you really will get your own Netflix series? Is The Fractured But Whole a South Park fans' and role-playing game (RPG) lovers' dream or - like the non-stop farting core to its story - a bit of a stinker? What's the new South Park game like?Ĭontinuing where The Stick of Truth left off, The Fractured But Whole follows you, The New Kid (slash Douchebag, Butthole and various other slurs throughout the game), as you gain popularity and rise through the superhero ranks of Coon and Friends. Nor did it ever proclaim to be.įor its follow-up, the much delayed The Fractured But Whole, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have hardly gone in soft, but the game's absence of ol' orange face - which is in sync with the 21st season's ditching of that narrative - instead leaves the game to follow the line of Cartman's superhero franchise, Coon and Friends, while stepping up the fart count to frankly ridiculous levels.
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Even then, some of the questionable content that made it through - fighting aborted foetuses, anyone? - wasn't exactly family-friendly material.
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That's no mean feat, considering The Stick of Truth didn't pass the then-in-power BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) without being heavily censored in a number of sections. For starters, there's an elected president who has arguably been more controversial than the potty-mouthed protagonist fourth-graders who lead the infamous television show, which in 2017 embarked on its 21st season. (Pocket-lint) - A lot has happened in the years since the release of the last major South Park videogame, the controversial Stick of Truth.