RoyaleDuke
Banned
Well, I got my Christmas wish that made my Christmas quite wonderful and bright instead of hohum and dreary. I had been holding out all through the sale and the lackluster deals after the first day in which I bought a couple things with some steam cash that I had in my account in the hopes that South Park would drop low enough for me to buy it.
After sitting and waiting bored, looking at the days upon days of boring deals...
Something wonderful happened.
I only had Steam cash and no money aside from that, lo and behold when I awoke Christmas morning after a night of insomnia and disappointment that I had received my Christmas wish.
My reaction to this miracle of miracles was simply this:
Followed by furious clicking and digital stuffing of money into Gaben's pockets:
So, now that we have silly reaction gifs out of our system let's talk about the game GAF.
Let me preface this by saying I've already lost about 6 hours or more into the game, and if you have been waiting for a true South Park game experience...well, you need to go and buy this right fucking now. This is the South Park game that I've dreamed of my entire life, you have the entire town to explore but wait it gets better.
The Town
You literally have this great big open world of a completely fully realized South Park, in all of its small mountain town glory. NPCs go about their business and you can make friends with a surprising number of characters, from the moment you start the game to the moment you start actually playing it is the complete South Park experience; it immerses you into the world of the show so well, that it literally has the same presentation of the show. It's like playing an interactive version of the show and it blows my fucking mind! There's all kinds of Collectibles, including Chinpokomon and there's tons of gear and weapons too.
Wait... Gear and Weapons? Stats? Turnbased Battle system that works like PAPER MARIO?!
THIS IS AN RPG?! Holy fucking shit man.
The best part? It's made by Obsidian, so it's automatically fantastic.
Did I mention that this game is so perfectly crafted to be like the show that it not only looks the part, but it has all the self aware humor and if you are a fan at all or have watched the show that literally every single part of the way there is some sort of throwback or reference to the show's many episodes throughout the years. For example when you find City Wok
, you can go inside and even
Another amazing touch is going inside of Character's houses, and going into their rooms. Everything is realized, and when you go into Cartman's Room and open his closet to find
So the characterization here is incredible, and it pulls no punches, there is a lot to laugh at but it's the typical trademark satirical, subversive, divisive comedy that South Park is known for. One thing I like about this is that, not only is it aware that its a video game and uses that to great effect is also the whole "LOTR" esque backdrop is really pretty minor, it doesn't detract from what is really just another day in South Park and the events of the game thus far could fit into any episode.
The Game Menus
So there's a menu system as you'd probably expect, but even here the game doesn't let up with satire and selfawareness.
Just look at this fucking help section:
It doesn't stop there, in a beautiful send up of modern culture all the menus are like something out of Social networking, as you make friends they post status updates at random intervals or when you make progress in the game.
The World and Humor
I pretty much ignored the main quest right from the outset, I started exploring this world after I gazed at the map and scrolled it around to realize this was a huge sprawling open world with tons of secrets. The one thing I did before I even tried the combat was kick the game's difficulty up to Hardcore, I've died a few times here and there but nothing that would be considered a huge setback as the game autosaves every time you progress to a new screen or win a fight.
The different parts of the world are broken up between loading screens, so it isn't seamless but it is open, the game tells you to go and do the main quest but also gives you a sidequest
to whet your appetite for adventure and exploration.
I would find them all.
I even found the movie theater where
What was hilarious about this is eventually I found several interesting encounters, fights, and tons of treasure
as well as some interesting foreshadowing from NPCs.
The violence in the game is amazing, these kids are literally just beating the ever loving shit out of each other and I was even amazed to find that when you defeat someone they aren't dead, and you can hit them and they will make noises and complain. It's absolutely hilarious and it pretty much takes the whole Good Times with Weapons episode and runs with it full steam ahead. The game is absolutely brilliant, well designed and incredibly endearing with how truthful it is to the show in every single way from the music to the characters themselves.
GAF, this game is amazing and everyone that even remotely likes the show owes it to themselves to play this gem. I'll keep posting in this thread as I make progress in the game, and thanks to all that took the time to read this.
As a PSA, the game is $13.96 on steam right now...go buy it.
After sitting and waiting bored, looking at the days upon days of boring deals...
Something wonderful happened.
I only had Steam cash and no money aside from that, lo and behold when I awoke Christmas morning after a night of insomnia and disappointment that I had received my Christmas wish.
My reaction to this miracle of miracles was simply this:
Followed by furious clicking and digital stuffing of money into Gaben's pockets:
So, now that we have silly reaction gifs out of our system let's talk about the game GAF.
Let me preface this by saying I've already lost about 6 hours or more into the game, and if you have been waiting for a true South Park game experience...well, you need to go and buy this right fucking now. This is the South Park game that I've dreamed of my entire life, you have the entire town to explore but wait it gets better.
The Town
You literally have this great big open world of a completely fully realized South Park, in all of its small mountain town glory. NPCs go about their business and you can make friends with a surprising number of characters, from the moment you start the game to the moment you start actually playing it is the complete South Park experience; it immerses you into the world of the show so well, that it literally has the same presentation of the show. It's like playing an interactive version of the show and it blows my fucking mind! There's all kinds of Collectibles, including Chinpokomon and there's tons of gear and weapons too.
Wait... Gear and Weapons? Stats? Turnbased Battle system that works like PAPER MARIO?!
THIS IS AN RPG?! Holy fucking shit man.
The best part? It's made by Obsidian, so it's automatically fantastic.
Did I mention that this game is so perfectly crafted to be like the show that it not only looks the part, but it has all the self aware humor and if you are a fan at all or have watched the show that literally every single part of the way there is some sort of throwback or reference to the show's many episodes throughout the years. For example when you find City Wok
and the busted City Sushi and Tower of Peace
get a quest to fight the Mongolians for the City Wok guy, who then becomes an extremely powerful Summon.
Another amazing touch is going inside of Character's houses, and going into their rooms. Everything is realized, and when you go into Cartman's Room and open his closet to find
mementos from every single shenanigan he's ever pulled from Awesome-O to Fingerbang and everything inbetween.
So the characterization here is incredible, and it pulls no punches, there is a lot to laugh at but it's the typical trademark satirical, subversive, divisive comedy that South Park is known for. One thing I like about this is that, not only is it aware that its a video game and uses that to great effect is also the whole "LOTR" esque backdrop is really pretty minor, it doesn't detract from what is really just another day in South Park and the events of the game thus far could fit into any episode.
The Game Menus
So there's a menu system as you'd probably expect, but even here the game doesn't let up with satire and selfawareness.
Just look at this fucking help section:
It doesn't stop there, in a beautiful send up of modern culture all the menus are like something out of Social networking, as you make friends they post status updates at random intervals or when you make progress in the game.
The World and Humor
I pretty much ignored the main quest right from the outset, I started exploring this world after I gazed at the map and scrolled it around to realize this was a huge sprawling open world with tons of secrets. The one thing I did before I even tried the combat was kick the game's difficulty up to Hardcore, I've died a few times here and there but nothing that would be considered a huge setback as the game autosaves every time you progress to a new screen or win a fight.
The different parts of the world are broken up between loading screens, so it isn't seamless but it is open, the game tells you to go and do the main quest but also gives you a sidequest
Find all the fast travel points, which pretty much involve the whole Timmy Handicab joke but with a fantasy flair
I would find them all.
or die trying.
I even found the movie theater where
you could listen to hilarious trailers, thing of the ones from that one episode where Stan thinks everything looks and sounds like shit.
What was hilarious about this is eventually I found several interesting encounters, fights, and tons of treasure
a pack of hobos, Al Gore, The Goth kids, and I even raided the police evidence locker and freed a certain character from jail
The violence in the game is amazing, these kids are literally just beating the ever loving shit out of each other and I was even amazed to find that when you defeat someone they aren't dead, and you can hit them and they will make noises and complain. It's absolutely hilarious and it pretty much takes the whole Good Times with Weapons episode and runs with it full steam ahead. The game is absolutely brilliant, well designed and incredibly endearing with how truthful it is to the show in every single way from the music to the characters themselves.
GAF, this game is amazing and everyone that even remotely likes the show owes it to themselves to play this gem. I'll keep posting in this thread as I make progress in the game, and thanks to all that took the time to read this.
As a PSA, the game is $13.96 on steam right now...go buy it.
