
These meetings are funny, and the fact your character doesn’t speak provides many comments from the people you’ll meet. Your character creation at the very beginning takes care of what you look like, but throughout you’re given the chance to choose your race, your weakness, and your gender (through meetings with Mr.

Learning about your back-story is great, told in parts by The Coon, and you’re also filtered new info about your history from your alcoholic mother and your stoned father. Outside of the battles, you’ll craft and loot to improve your stats (Brawn, Brains, Spunk, Health, and Move) and your looks, with plenty of costumes to unlock and make, and tons of ways to make you a better superhero, all through different apps in your mobile phone. You’re given new abilities and introduced to new mechanics all the way through, making sure the turn-based gameplay doesn’t become repetitive, even though the actual combat elements do become a little stale. There’s a lot going on here, but it’s constructed very well, and learning what to do is introduced at a steady pace. It’s all ridiculous and over the top, but it wouldn’t be South Park if it was anything else. There’s also a falling out between Cartman and friends that sees a civil war breakout between Coon and Friends and the Freedom Pals.

The Fractured But Whole sees you play as the New Kid as you try to find out who you are, and at the same time try to figure out what is happening to all the cats of South Park. It’s a deep RPG that keeps its turn-based strategy approach fresh throughout, adding new stuff all the time and giving you plenty to do.

The Fractured But Whole is a hoot, and everything you could possibly want from the long awaited follow up to The Stick of Truth, but it’s also a fantastic game. South Park has always been known for pushing boundaries in its comedy, as well as keeping up to date with current affairs, and whether you’re a fan or not, you can’t deny the hard work and talent put into every episode of the long-running TV show.
