South Park: The Stick of Truth
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Constant strong profanity throughout dialogue, plus racial and other slurs consistent with the show's style.
Cartoon full nudity appears in the parents' sex scene and in the alien-probe sequences, including exposed genitals.
Bleak comedic subject matter including abortion, Nazi and Holocaust imagery, and Nazi-zombie outbreaks played for satire.
Crude adult sexual humor including an alien-probing sequence, a scene where the player witnesses parents having sex, and an abortion-clinic subplot.
Turn-based combat rendered in the show's flat cartoon style, with comedic weapon and fart attacks against kids, gnomes, and Nazi zombies; stylized rather than gory.
Alcohol is present in the town's bars and adult characters, with drug references woven into the comedy.
A comedic alien-abduction sequence subjects the player character and others to non-consensual anal probing by machines.
Mild spooky elements such as Nazi zombies and a sewer underworld, framed for comedy rather than fear.
Minor lawbreaking such as theft appears within quests as part of the humor.
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What it is
This humor-oriented role-playing title adapts the animated series it comes from, and its visuals recreate the program's signature 2.5D paper-cutout style. The player controls the wordless New Kid, who is pulled into a neighborhood war of make-believe fantasy waged by children over a mystical stick. At the outset you settle on a role — Fighter, Thief, Mage, or Jew — and battles unfold turn by turn in a lighthearted, joke-driven system. Opponents range from fellow children to gnomes, extraterrestrials, and Nazi zombies, and you face them with an arsenal that includes conventional gear plus flatulence-based 'magic.' Built for one player, the experience commits fully to the franchise's provocative comedy: relentless coarse language and slurs, vulgar and disgusting bits, cartoonish gore, allusions to alcohol and narcotics, a playable abortion sequence, and graphic sexual jokes such as an extraterrestrial rectal-probe plot and a moment showing the protagonist's mother and father in the act. In particular territories, portions were cut and swapped out for on-screen written summaries of the events.
How it's framed
Everything here is presented as mockery and exaggerated caricature matching the source program, wielding taboo topics, disgusting bits, and shock value to draw laughs instead of playing them straight. No element is held up as something to emulate, and the register stays humorous throughout rather than turning serious.
Details
- Developer
- Obsidian Entertainment
- Publisher
- Ubisoft
- Released
- Mar 3, 2014
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