South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014)
South Park: The Stick of Truth is a 2014 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Obsidian Entertainment and Ubisoft Entertainment.
The new kid moves to South Park and inherits the one thing that matters in fourth grade: a spot in the boys' backyard fantasy LARP. Cartman crowns himself the Grand Wizard, the yard becomes a battlefield, and a plastic Stick of Truth supposedly controls the universe. Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote it, so the childish quest curdles fast into aliens, Nazi zombies, and government conspiracies, all rendered in the show's construction-paper style. Turn-based combat borrows from classic role-playing games and then aims low. It plays like a lost season you get to walk around inside.
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What is South Park: The Stick of Truth about?
The new kid moves to South Park and inherits the one thing that matters in fourth grade: a spot in the boys' backyard fantasy LARP. Cartman crowns himself the Grand Wizard, the yard becomes a battlefield, and a plastic Stick of Truth supposedly controls the universe. Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote it, so the childish quest curdles fast into aliens, Nazi zombies, and government conspiracies, all rendered in the show's construction-paper style. Turn-based combat borrows from classic role-playing games and then aims low. It plays like a lost season you get to walk around inside.
When was South Park: The Stick of Truth released?
South Park: The Stick of Truth was released on 3 March 2014.
Who made South Park: The Stick of Truth?
South Park: The Stick of Truth was made by Obsidian Entertainment and Ubisoft Entertainment.
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The crude, gleeful comedy shares a stage with Tenacious D, Jack Black and Kyle Gass turning arena rock into a joke that rocks anyway. For humor pitched at the same age, the manga Crayon Shin-chan lets a five-year-old wreck every adult's dignity. The show's own film, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, stays the crudest musical ever nominated for an Oscar.
Comedy that's proudly crude and never apologizes
South Park: The Stick of Truth keeps the show's gross-out, anything-goes sense of humor at the center of a fantasy quest. Crayon Shin-chan mines a similar vein of kid-inappropriate toilet jokes, Beavis and Butt-Head turns teenage stupidity into comedy, Tenacious D plays raunchy rock excess for laughs, the South Park movie doubles down on the show's shock tactics, and The Simpsons proves cartoon satire can stay crude for decades.