South Park: The Stick of Truth - PC

There is nothing like a small mountain town. They are peaceful, out of the way locals that are great for raising a family where nothing much really happens. Unless you happen to be in South Park, CO. Here anything goes and may be considered normal. So it may be a little odd to move to this supposedly peaceful town. And if you are a kid, well good luck.Welcome to South ParkGreetings new kid, your family has just moved you to the town of South Park, CO to start over. Why do they need to start over? Hell if you know, they are all secretive about it, and you seem to have forgotten. Either that or the fact that you never talk makes for a good way to hide if you remember or not. But now you are mostly unpacked and your dad has given you one task, make some friends. And thus starts the main quest, to make as many friends as possible. This monumental task is gauged by a system very similar to Facebook. The first friend you make is Butters, probably not your best choice, but he gets you in with the other kids. Butters introduces you to a grand battle between elves and humans (of which he is a human paladin) and takes you to Kupa Keep. Here you meet the Grand Wizard (Cartman) and the Princess (Kenny). Cartman gives you a choice of which class you would like to play the game as. Your options are figher, mage (not as good as a wizard), rogue, and jew. Once you chose your class you pick your name, for all the good it does you. Once the preliminaries are over you are introduced to the combat system (more on that later) and then defeat an army of invading elves who wish to steal the Stick of Truth, and apparently succeed thanks to that useless Clyde.Having proven yourself as a capable warrior the Grand Wizard sends you off to call on fellow humans. Here is where, for the first time since South Park was introduced in 1997, you get to explore a fully mapped out South Park. This is one of the best things about South Park: Stick of Truth, if it was in the show you will eventually find it in the game. Tweeks Coffee, check. Mr Hat, check (and you don’t want to know where he is hanging out). Anal probing aliens, double check. Yes it is all here and there are no punches pulled in the implementation, although a few countries did implement censoring. The point is that finding every little reference is part of joy of playing the game. They have even implemented the companies found in South Park, and some even provide functions in the game. Tom's Rhinoplasty allows you to get a nose job, the bank takes your money, and the abortion clinic, well that would be a spoiler. The point is everything is here, which also means the town is pretty decently sized. Fortunately there is the Timmy Express to get around quickly. Just approach a red flag and you can select another, already discovered, red flag to travel to.Fully exploring the town does require a little time and story progression. Some areas require you to become very small (underpants gnomes). Other areas require you to have an alien probe up your anus. And then others you need to shoot shiny objects to access. The fact that accessing these areas depends on progression in the game keeps the town fresh for each of the three in game days you play it.CombatCombat typically starts (unless scripted) by either you hitting a foe with a melee weapon or them hitting you. This will determine who goes first. Attacking with a ranged weapon and then hit them one of the enemies will be stunned when the round starts. Heck you may even be able to to take out foes with the environment before combat even starts if you are good. Once combat starts you then enter a turned based system, that for some reason everyone follows; they even metagame that during the tutorial. Each round allows you to perform an action and an attack. The actions allow you to use items such as health potions (candy / power bars), mana (things that give you gas) and other such things. Coffee for example increases your speed and allows you to go twice in a row sometimes. Items also don't have to be used by the person whose turn it is. So snacks can be passed to the person that needs it most. Attacks are when you use your classes special abilities or equipped weapons. And while your attacks may have grand names, they are performed by mundane but accessible means. Funnel of Frost is performed with a fire extinguisher and Lighting Volt involves a bucket of water, a car battery, and jumper cables for example. Each type of attack has corresponding button combinations / timings to make the most of it. Normal attacks will give you a shiny flash to tell you to hit the attack button, Special attacks will each have their own thing that they tell you to do. Dragon’s breath (roman candle) has you mash a single button and each mash does damage; so the more the better. Once you get training you can even use mana (gas/farts) to cast spells or modify normal attacks to make them more powerful and gross out enemies.Combat also, usually, a friend of your choice. By the time the game comes to a close you will be able to choose from Butters, Kenny, Jimmy, Kyle, Stan and Cartman. Each friend has a special ability that can be used in place of an item. Butters can heal you, Jimmy restores PP, and Stan has his dog attack the crotch of enemies for examples. As you level up your friends (who all gain XP equal to you regardless of who you actually have with you) eventually gain a super ability to use for an attack. Butters (ok, I used Butters a lot) turns into Professor Chaos, Kenny summons a Unicorn that impales him if you don't get the button combos, and Kyle summons a hail of arrows. Again these attacks can be made more powerful if you time the button presses right, but are always useful regardless. Even when they kill Kenny. This gives the game a bit more strategy and variety to combat.Finally, in order to excel in combat, you have to keep the best cloths (armor), weapons, and strap ons (mods). Each piece has it's own bonuses and charm to your character. For a long time I carried a two handed staff that did a lot of damage that I modded to add fire a frost damage. No one seemed to care that it had a bunch of breasts on it.Onward, To Glory!Now that you have friends and equipment it is time to get on with the story. Your primary objective is to reclaim the Stick of Truth, but what you really want to do is make friends. This means while wandering the town on whatever primary mission you may be on you will talk to several people who need stuff done. Examples of this are the Mayor wanting the town to seem more compassionate by relocating all the homeless out, forcefully. Sometimes helping a person results in a summon and friendship, such as finding Jesus. I could go on and on here, but I won't. Instead I am going to wrap up this review by simply saying two things. One: go buy this game, it is worth your time and money. Two: can we see a second South Park game like this one using the boys superhero personas? Pretty please?5 / 5 Joysticks

The magic mechanics are horrible, especially when explained by the characters. It takes a while to figure out how a silent fart works because Randy explains it poorly. Then once you do figure it out, the guards you have to use it on do not move. Other than that, the beginning of the game moves along smoothly at first, but expect to spend much of your time later in the game just trying to get the moves right.

It is finally here! And let me tell you, this game is truly what I expected, and what I expected was an extremely fun, humorous, raunchy, Paper Mario battle esque, 20+ hour long, South Park Episode! I chose 5 stars because I expected it to be a 5 star game and, in my eyes, it is. My $60 well spent. I will point out some key things that I think people should be aware of, then I will go into the review.Bugs: I have not encountered any bugs at all while playing over 5 hours of the PC version. I installed in on Steam so I can play it from any of my PC's, and it's been running smoothly ever since.Rated Mature: This game has nudity, cussing, and lots and lots of digestive activity. It's awesome, but I wouldn't recommend little kids playing it unless they've seen a bunch of South Park episodes and they are numb to it. It's really harmless unless you get offended easily.South Park Viewers & Nonviewers: I would recommend this game to people who have watched South Park and are even just a little familiar with itif they like RPG games. Even my girlfriend who prefers Family Guy thought it looked fun.On to the review-Gameplay 5/5The open world is great. I smiled when I first saw the town mapped out. I never knew Cartman lived right next to Butters. The way that you move around is standard for a game like this, and the combat system is pretty cool. The options you get as far as items, abilities, money, and junk seems endless so far. I found some pretty cool stuff in a lot of rooms, especially upstairs in Cartman's house. The biggest reason this is a 5/5 is because I feel like I am in an actual South Park episode doing whatever I please.Sound 5/5It doesn't play loudly in the beginning while you're running around; but, the background music is awesome/hilarious. The sound fx are way cool and the voice acting (done by the creators of South Park) is truly exactly like the game. I haven't heard a lot of the Boss music or anything like that yet because I've been exploring, but so far, it's great.Visuals 5/5As stated above, I feel like I'm in a South Park episode the entire game. The graphics are truly the best job I've seen at taking a TV show and turning into a game. Each character is spot on and the buildings are too. I am running an i7 and a GeForce graphics card which is overkill for this, but it looks tremendous. I've seen some reviews online saying that some bugs include choppiness and screen tearing, but I have not witnessed anything of that sort.Fun Factor 5/5The fun has not ended for me and I don't see it ending for a while. Everything I've done in the game has made me laugh or smile. I'll update this as time goes on.Replay Value ??Will update this after I finish the game and will tell you if it's any different. I am a Jew (character class) but I will probably be a Thief next time around. I'm sure it's the same story line but hopefully they add some DLC.Overall 5/5This is truly a must-have item if you are a South Park fan like me. This is something that I would even recommend to people who enjoy watching South Park whenever it's on, or even to people who like RPG's and are a little familiar with South Park. If you are easily offended by toilet humor, then this isn't your game. I'll update this review in the future and of course let you all know if I encounter any bugs or things that I don't like about it, because so far, I haven't found anything of the sort.In the words of Cartman, this game is "sweeeeeet". Am I sure? "I'm not just sure, I'm HIV positive."

This game has some serious issues with windows 7. It simply will not run on my Lenovo. I ran several troubleshoots and tried getting help from steam (who's help site is ALWAYS down). I recently had a friend allow me to borrow their copy on ps3, which is the only way I was able to play it. But I still have a copy for my computer which I have never been able to play, not once. So I've had a copy of a game that I can't play for 5 months now. The game itself is awesome, I loved the humor ( I literally pissed myself when I got to Canada) and storyline, and was very impressed with the graphics. My only real complaints are that the story felt short, and I have level caps with a burning passion you wouldn't believe. So when you cap at level twenty hours before the game is over, you will be pissed you spent anytime grinding. I also felt like the combat was a little lackluster, I'd have liked to have seen more interactions between characters in combat, a la Chrono Trigger. All things considered it was a solid title. I hope to see more from Matt and Trey in the future.

最高だったちょっとボリュームが足りないかとも思ったが細かいネタややり込み要素が沢山あるしキャラクターもみんな可愛いので何周も楽しめる

If you like South Park this game is fantastic; if you are not a fan of South Park, please avoid it. Very few games actually make me want to play all the way through, and very rarely will I play a game more than once; as soon as I finished this game, I started up another go.This game wasn't too long (no more that 14-15 hours); however, due to the length at no point does the game feel like it is dragging. To have 15 hours of pure enjoyment vs 20 hours with 5 hours of boring grinding is a trade I will make everything.I really hope they do release another game, or DLC, as I would certainly like to go back to South Park.

Might be a great game-I just good not get into it. But then I'm not a South Park fan.

my grandson can not even get this game to launch and it seems a lot of people are having the same problem this is a total waste of money

The DVD that came with the game doesn't work but luckily you can use the code and download it through steam. Good thing it's only a 5 gig download.