South Park: The Fractured but Whole is a worthy follow-up to The Stick of Truth.
Here is our review!
Its one of those rare franchise tie-ins thats actually, you know, really, really good.
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The original games core formula isnt tampered with all that much here, which is a good thing.
The games difficulty slider, for example, changes your characters skin tone.
Choose whiter skin for easy and darker skin for very difficult.
Its a biting stroke of social commentary genius and a clever reframing of a classic video game convention.
The game isnt all sizzle and no steak, however.
(I played on all difficulty levels and never found myself dying all that often.)
), the game hits you with an endless barrage of priceless one-liners.
What is uniquely extraordinary about the games presentation is how inextricably linked the cutscenes are with the actual gameplay.
Then, a load screen.
And then, the gameplay starts abruptly and its a completely different form of engagement.
The Fractured but Wholedoes a beautiful job of blurring the line between narrative and gameplay.
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Rating:
4.5 out of 5
