Its humor can at times be quantity over quality, as the poop jokes and callbacks never really die down.
What starts as a quest for a missing cat takes players on a tour of South Park involving Catholic priests, strippers, ninjas, the elderly, and the constant threat of sixth graders. Thankfully, the game manages to hit its stride a few hours in. Even poop jokes seem more inspired than simply recycling bits of the show for easy fan service. I saw references to Medicinal Fried Chicken and people getting high off of cat urine. I found some Memberberries and listened to them wax nostalgic about Star Wars and You Can't Do That on Television.
I walked through a neighbor’s house and heard the Lemmiwinks theme song playing from the television. Once the game opened up a bit, I started exploring the town and getting more concerned. The look and feel of the show is replicated perfectly. Farts may be objectively hilarious, but I was worried that they would be the core source of attempted humor throughout the story. While cheap toilet humor was certainly omnipresent in the early seasons of the show (and in The Stick of Truth, if we're being honest), my favorite years were the ones that leaned heavier into satire and social commentary. My first load screen featured a “never fart on someone’s balls” tooltip. The first thing the game had me do was complete a quicktime event to poop in a toilet. Unsurprisingly, Cartman plays a central role in the story. As someone who didn’t find that story interesting or funny enough for one episode (let alone a trilogy), I wasn’t exactly looking forward to inhabiting those characters for an entire game. These personas are taken from the 2009 multi-episode arc around Cartman's alter ego, the Coon. The kids have abandoned the fantasy motif of the last game and adopted superhero alter egos as they search for a missing cat. For the first couple of hours of South Park: The Fractured But Whole, I had serious doubts. With a change in developers and the novelty value of playing through the world of the show gone, I was skeptical if a sequel would live up to the experience of the original. To the surprise of many, it turned out to be a great, lighthearted RPG that served as one of the best uses of a license in video games. We had heard about Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s involvement throughout the development process, but we’d been burned too many times to get optimistic.
After over 15 years of bad South Park games, fans of the show were understandably skeptical when The Stick of Truth was released.
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