6/23/2023 0 Comments Human kite south park casaThat's the rules.Īs you progress through The Fractured but Whole, you're allowed to call on more of your fellow heroes to help you in battle. You also learn more and more about your own tragic backstory. As you delve deeper into the game as the New Kid (AKA ButtLord, aka ThunderButt), you learn how to harness your unworldly farts to attack foes and unzip the fabric of time itself. Unsurprisingly, things quickly get out of hand. Something foul is afoot in the quiet mountain town, but Cartman (the leader of the Coon and Friends team) is only interested in playing super hero long enough to find a particularly miserable-looking cat named Scrambles, collect the $100 reward, and use the money to kick-start Coon and Friends as a franchise. South Park's under siege by a crime spree involving an increase in drunken brawls, petty vandalism, and a slew of missing kitties. Similarly, The Fractured but Whole is all about fun, games, and make-believe, but with an obvious DC vs Marvel Comics flavor-and with an air of seriousness that cuts through the calls of "pew-pew!" and "laser-eye attack!" like the sharp smell of cat urine. As far as I'm concerned, "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" (where Butters is corrupted by a porn video a la Gollum and the One Ring) and Good Times with Weapons (a blatant parody of anime and video game tropes that aired ages before making fun of that sort of thing was common in mainstream entertainment) is still some of the best TV ever written. I guess they just needed a good burst of gas to flare alight again.įortunately, The Fractured but Whole (and, I've been told, The Stick of Truth) is tailored for people like myself: People who aren't much interested in listening to South Park's kids echo the libertarian beliefs of the show's creators, but have a soft spot for the kids' make-believe games. That's when I figured, "Yeah, I guess I should check this out."ĭeep in my heart, the ashes of my tasteless 17-year-old self still smoulder. Then the pun behind the game's name hit me while I was standing in line at a bulk store, and I nearly had a breakdown in front of the cashier. I was similarly "meh" over the announcement for The Fractured but Whole, and mulled over if I ought to bother. It doesn't get classier than a fight in the VIP section of a strip club. I just never mustered the time or energy to play. I even took a pass on 2014's Stick of Truth, the predecessor to The Fractured but Whole, though I suspected I might enjoy it. I just got a bit tired of the schtick and drifted away. In fact, Bigger, Longer, and Uncut still ranks as one of my favorite films (let's stop the lies: The Canadian government has never apologized for Bryan Adams, and no number of mea culpas will ever be enough). That's not to say I grew to thoroughly dislike South Park the way I did with, say, Family Guy. And while I'm still in love with the latter, I fell out of love with the former about a decade later. In 1997, I was as much about Trey Parker and Matt Stone's foul-mouthed troupe of fourth-graders as I was about brilliant 32-bit 2D platformers. Let me talk about the second half of that historic purchase: Two South Park T-shirts. I've told and re-told the old chestnut about how part of my first purchase with my first paycheque was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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