The South Park game on N64 came out when I was a kid and I remember not liking it very much at all, so ever since then, I haven’t had much interest in playing another South Park game, but I decided to pick up the SOT/FBW bundle since it was on sale and I’m very that glad I did.
On the advice of this sub, I am starting with Stick of Truth and I am loving it. I really like how it puts you right in South Park, with all the familiar locations, houses, and characters, not to mention the humor from the show. I also like how this was made before PC Principal and Tegridy Farms, the good old days when Randy was actually funny and didn’t talk about weed all the time.
From what I’ve read, Fractured But Whole is even better than Stick of Truth. I’m not sure how it can be better since Stick of Truth is excellent, but I’m looking forward to finding out.
Stick of truth made laugh out loud just like watching the show - I was super impressed at how not just the dialog was funny but the puzzles and game mechanics/controls themselves were funny - quite a nice feat of writing and game design.
Plus I loved that they kept it in the 2D style of the show, it absolutely felt like being authentically immersed in the show.
Fractured but whole was a little disappointing to me, maybe because I was so impressed with SOT; the mechanics felt a little standard for the game genre and overall just felt like the humor wasn’t as richly woven throughout the experience.
I also felt like the gameplay for FBW was a bit flat/one note throughout, so much so that I didn’t realize when I’d reached the end of the game and thought I must have missed a bunch of side missions. I even played the whole thing over again to see if I had missed something (I didn’t!) But it also has an amazing DLC level that set in Casa Bonita - to me the game is worth it for that level alone. They nailed the IRL Casa Bonita experience - even more so than the episode!