So what of the gameplay? Well Ubisoft really have taken everything up a notch. I’m already looking forward to playing it through again as a different character, with a different level of difficulty, and really seeing how that changes up the dialogue, the story and the gameplay. How “dark” was the skin your character? Which class did you choose? Which characters did you have in your team? Every decision you make warrants different dialogue and some ever so slight variation of the storyline. In this way the game is much more diverse and replayable than the first. Had you not gone downstairs first you wouldn’t ever have received the message. Go downstairs when you were supposed to go upstairs and you’d get a text on “Coonstagram” from one of the characters telling you you’re a moron for going downstairs. And there are a lot of decisions to be made.Įach of these decisions heralds a different reaction - be it the gender you choose your character to be or the order you choose to do things. Unlike The Stick of Truth, which pretty much had one path to follow, with a couple minor paths of deviation early on, it feels like every decision you make to your character’s “character sheet” can warrant a completely different game experience. Really where the game takes advantage of the console upgrade is in the multitude of options that lay before you. But there’s not much you’re going to see different with their signature cut-out graphics. Graphically, the game is slightly improved from Stick of Truth. You’ll get more characters on screen, and there is a lot more detail in the background which sometimes even interact with the gameplay. Either way I’ve still got a bit to go, so you may see this article updated slightly as I finish it throughout the week. At the time of writing, I believe I’m about 75% through the game - but as I’ve spent as much time exploring the world and trying to find every secret room and crevasse that exists throughout, the length may be misleading. With some twenty hours of gameplay - twice that of its predecessor - there’s a lot to get through.
Like The Stick of Truth before it, the brilliance of this game lies in the fact that it looks and feels like you’re watching an episode of the show. Because this is South Park, and that’s just what ten-year-olds do. The boys have stopped playing a Lord of the Rings style quest and are now building their own “Marvel Cinematic Universe”, playing Superheroes and Villians as the Coon (Cartman), Professor Chaos (Butters), Mysterion (Kenny) and more enter their world of make believe, only to unravel some sort of criminal underworld as things get really, really out of hand. When you first jump into South Park: The Fractured But Whole, you pick up from where the last game, The Stick of Truth, and the last episode of the TV series (Season 21, Episode 4 “Franchise Prequel”), leave off.
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