Friday, June 12, 2015

South Park: The Stick of Truth




Sytem:   PS3


Bought:   March 18th


Started:   March 18th
Beat:       April 5th


Trophies:     51 out of 51



Idea:   You play as the new kid in town and as soon as you go out to play, you're dragged into a crazy world of role playing. Wars, Battles, Magical Sticks, Elves, Zombies, Aliens, Underwear Gnomes, Zombie Fetuses.  The entire works.
     Farts are your Magic, You can blow things up with them, make people sick, knock people out or just make them laugh. It's more over the top then the South Park TV show and not edited at all.

Jesus Saves?


Thoughts:   I wasn't going to buy this game when it first came out, but oh..my..gods... I'm glad I did. It's an extremely screwed up story, filled with cursing and inappropriateness everywhere.  I may really be going to hell for finishing and enjoying this game as much as I did.  Twice.
      The character you play is a new kid that has just moved to town, what a town it is. On your first day, your parents force you outside to make some friends. You come across Butters being beat up on by some strange kid with pointy ears... kind of saving him you make your first friend!  You also enter into a Role Playing game of sorts...
       Butters takes you to Kupa Keep {Cartmans House} to meet with the Wizard King Cartman, there you learn about the Stick of Truth and the Elves and you're assigned the nickname "Douchebag" and you get to pick your class {Fighter,Mage,Thief or Jew}. While you're there the Elves attack and Clyde is sent to guard The Stick, of course he fails and they steal The Stick and Cartman banishes Clyde from the group.
      The rest is actually pretty straight forward RPG stuff, you gain quests from people around town and Cartman and you do what they need while fighting monsters.  Along the way you will fight aliens to escape a space ship, kill zombies that the wrecked ship caused, fight underwear gnomes that are living in your houses walls, kill hobos for the mayor and go to Canada to get something in french translated.
      Eventually you choose between the Elves or the KKK {Kingdom of Kupa Keep}, which makes little difference in the grand scheme of things since the two factions have to team up to take down Clyde and his army after he gains the Stick of Truth.
     There's also some battles in an Abortion Clinic, you help Al Gore fight man bear pig and go up a gay mans ass to save the town from a bomb which the Govenment has stuck up there to detonate and destroy the Zombie Outbreak before it goes further than South Park.
     Yea, there's a lot to do.... and it's fun...all of it.. The battle system is a bit "meh", but it's easy to get use to and really the only difficult battle I came across was Al Gore and the Secret Service.

The Look on the Fathers Face. heh




The End:  So, The Govenment has been searching for Douchebag because he makes friends faster than anyone on the planet.  Sounds Reasonable.
          After fighting Zombie Chef, Clyde is through....then the Government show up and reveal your true identity.  The Dragonborn Dovahkiine!  {Skyrim anyone?} If that wasn't insane enough the main Agent suddenly thinks the Stick of Truth really does give him power over the galaxy and strips naked and asked Douchebag to join him. He doesn't.
        Princess Kenny does however,  This is where Morgan Freeman shows up and tells the story of Princess Kennys past, she's the offspring of an Elf and an Ogre....she watched her friends and family be slaughtered and is the true heir to the Stick of Truth.
      Final Battle, Princess Kenny!  This is a fairly long battle and you cycle out all your "Buddies" as Kenny attacks with his powers. Each buddies main attack counters one of Kenny's and slowly kills her.
      Once she is defeated the Zombies are all destroyed, the Government goes away and life is back to "Normal".  It's not until now, the very end.... you get to hear Douchebag's voice.  Cartman asks what he wants to play next and he says...   "Screw you guys, I'm going home."

Morgan Freeman!