Described as being "high risk, high reward", the player becomes more powerful the closer they are to death.

The Stick of Truth was subject to censorship in some regions because of its content, which includes abortions and Nazi imagery; Parker and Stone replaced the scenes with detailed explanations of what occurs in each scene. Not since Earthbound and Super Mario RPG: The Legend of the Seven Stars has there been a turn-based RPG with such a distinct style and with so many memorable moments. It’s really quite remarkable how South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have slowly ramped up the shock value over the past 17 years to keep the show sharp. To make matters worse, he disbands the Human and Drow Elf kingdoms, and strips their leaders of their power. Your journey to become cool unfolds as you navigate the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground.Douchebag then fights the girl's boyfriend and the girl is revealed to be not the suspect and Douchebag has to go to the abortion clinic and get the records himself. Hankey and his family lived in a large, Christmas-themed village which became a small house in the town's sewers. One definitive aspect is what class the player chooses, which informs the approach the player takes to combat. IGN also said some missions and side quests were tedious, and were elevated by their setting rather than their quality, [5] while the reviewer thought the environmental puzzles were a clever option for avoiding combat and were rare enough to be enjoyable when available.

This partnership developed into a publishing arrangement after South Park owner Viacom, having grown wary of video games, cut its funding. In November and December 2013, the South Park television series featured the "Black Friday" trilogy of episodes—" Black Friday", " A Song of Ass and Fire", and " Titties and Dragons"—which was a narrative prequel to the game and featured the characters wearing outfits and acting out roles similar to those in the game. Some other staff at the studio also didn't feel comfortable working on a South Park-related game due to its controversial subject matter. A stand-alone physical and digital download was released on for February 13, 2018, for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. IGN said that it is the game South Park fans have always wanted, [4] but some reviewers said that without the South Park license, the game's shallowness would be more obvious.The game features turn-based combat similar to the kind seen in the Paper Mario and Final Fantasy games. The game runs on the Dungeon Siege III engine, which had to be heavily retrofitted to display the desired two-dimensional graphics. Parker and Stone, with input from a Ubisoft creative consultant, concluded that their original vision would take too long and would be too costly to produce. After Douchebag fights the fetuses, he then starts to fight Khloe Kardashian's giant aborted fetus and retrieves the document.

He takes a photo of the player holding up the Goth Kid's sign, and sends it to the player's phone as evidence.The game was considered a successful adaptation of licensed material to a video game, with critics describing it as one of the most faithful video game adaptations ever, such that moving the player-character was like walking on the set of the show. You and your single extra party member (you’ll unlock several South Park regulars, though only one can fight with you at a time) take turns battling formations of enemies, be it the Gingers, crazy homeless guys, aliens, and more. While proving himself a nonconformist by holding up an offensive sign at the PTA meeting, the player is stopped by Randy Marsh and coerced into finding out the truth behind the mysterious new Taco Bell. Based on the American animated television series South Park, the game follows the New Kid, who has moved to the eponymous town and becomes involved in an epic role-play fantasy war involving humans, wizards, and elves, who are fighting for control of the all-powerful Stick of Truth. Discussing the situation, Stone said he had been told changes were required for the game to be released and that he and Parker inserted the placeholder images so the censorship would not be hidden.

Typical buffs and debuffs are ably skinned in screwed-up fourth grader verbiage (throwing feces to add “gross out” effects) mixed with mana-powered spells and timed button-press attacks and blocks to keep you on your toes during combat. At the 2015 E3 trade show, a trailer was revealed for a sequel entitled, South Park: The Fractured But Whole [12], which will deal with the boys uniting as their superhero personas.

Game Informer said it is frequently hilarious, ranking it among the best comedic games ever released.