South Park: The Fractured But Whole (2017)
South Park: The Fractured But Whole is a 2017 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Ubisoft San Francisco and Ubisoft Entertainment.
The kids of South Park have traded wizards for capes. Eric Cartman, now the half-raccoon vigilante called The Coon, wants his superhero franchise to eclipse every rival, and you arrive as the New Kid caught between feuding factions of fourth-graders. Built as a turn-based tactical RPG, it plays grid combat straight while the writing stays gleefully crude, sending Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman through a plot about crime, cults and cash-ins. Ubisoft San Francisco worked with series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, so the humor and the fart-powered fighting match the show almost exactly.
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What is South Park: The Fractured But Whole about?
The kids of South Park have traded wizards for capes. Eric Cartman, now the half-raccoon vigilante called The Coon, wants his superhero franchise to eclipse every rival, and you arrive as the New Kid caught between feuding factions of fourth-graders. Built as a turn-based tactical RPG, it plays grid combat straight while the writing stays gleefully crude, sending Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman through a plot about crime, cults and cash-ins. Ubisoft San Francisco worked with series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, so the humor and the fart-powered fighting match the show almost exactly.
When was South Park: The Fractured But Whole released?
South Park: The Fractured But Whole was released on 17 October 2017.
Who made South Park: The Fractured But Whole?
South Park: The Fractured But Whole was made by Ubisoft San Francisco and Ubisoft Entertainment.
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A few thoughts on South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Fans should chase the same superhero satire elsewhere. The Boys pushes the corrupt-hero premise into brutal live action, while The Simpsons shares the small-town animated ensemble and decades of pop-culture skewering. For the game's roots, the South Park series itself remains the sharpest version of these characters behaving badly.
Adult comedies that skewer pop culture without holding back
The Fractured But Whole turns Cartman's superhero cosplay into a franchise war, keeping South Park's crude, target-everything satire intact while it spoofs the cape genre. That same gleeful mockery drives The Boys to shred superhero mythology, The Simpsons to skewer decades of American life, Scary Movie to parody an entire horror aisle, and Alapalooza to turn hit songs into pure parody.
Manga comedies where absolutely nothing is off-limits
South Park's turn into a foul-mouthed superhero send-up fits a long tradition of manga comedy that refuses to behave. Crayon Shin-chan's gleeful bad manners, Dr. Slump's cheerfully unhinged sci-fi gags, Gintama's fourth-wall-breaking parody of everything around it, and Ranma 1/2's chaos-first slapstick all share that same refusal to play anything straight.