Cpt.Carnage
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Ok guys, seriously...
Summary here,
Main bullet points.
AWESOME
Summary here,
Main bullet points.
- Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are writing the whole script, and it shows. Characters in the game talk like they do on the show—Butters is nebbish, Cartman is obstreperous, and even minor characters like Clyde sound authentic. It's a drastic shift from the old South Park games, which featured nothing but endless catchphrases like "You killed Kenny!"
- And don't worry, the South Park humor is all there. You're quickly introduced to Scott Malkinson, a minor character from the show who says he has the power of diabetes. "It's both a gift and a curse," he says. "Mostly a curse."
- You play as the new kid in town. As the game opens up, you and your parents hop off a moving truck and enter your brand new home in South Park. Your parents tell you they're going upstairs to "wrestle" and you are immediately tasked with finding new friends. If you try to go back into the house, your dad pops his naked torso out the window and screams at you to go make some friends.
- Parker and Stone are voicing every character like they do on the show. It's great.
- Your character bounces across the two-dimensional landscape, moving in genuine, shoddily-animated South Park fashion. If you've ever wanted to be inside the show, this is the closest you'll get.
- You run into Butters, a local paladin. He says the wizard wants to see you.
- Butters leads us to the game's first town, introducing us to some of the game's characters and showing us the makeshift, ramshackle "town" that is basically a bunch of tents on a playground. The main idea behind the game is that everybody is playing RPG, and everyone gets really into it.
- The wizard is Cartman. He asks for your name. You type it in.
- "You entered 'Douchebag,'" Cartman says. "Correct?"
- No matter what you say your name is, Cartman will call you Douchebag. This is the perfect way to bypass an annoying game design problem—voice acting player-entered names. Imagine if Final Fantasy X characters all just called Tidus "Douchebag." Instantly better game.
- BTW, The Stick of Truth is developed by Obsidian, the studio behind games like Fallout: New Vegas and Alpha Protocol. They know their RPGs.
AWESOME