We also have to recruit Token, Craig, and Tweek at the start of the game but it didn’t need to be in the game. It was kind of a weird disservice to his character for him to not realise what he was doing (he raised Chef from the dead for Christ’s sake). Then the whole Lord of Darkness Clyde thing and Craig switching for no real reason (okay maybe I just didn’t want to fight Craig and also didn’t get to fight with him, I love that gay)? I mean, it wouldn’t have been that big of a deal if they didn’t have him use the Nazi Zombie goo. The only side characters who you could fight with was Butters (arguably a main) and Jimmy. This is more about the use of all of the characters and here’s the thing: the side characters were treated like trash in SOT. It was more engaging to me than the one in SOT. But I did enjoy the overall story way more. Yeah, there were small things added in for filler, like fighting Hooters for pedophiles the Raisins Girls and the ninja fight. Then the overall conflict of finding the cat and how that effects the overall story. It was more interesting and more about the characters. The split of two friend groups, Tweek and Craig working out their relationship, Stan dealing with Randy’s alcoholism, the conflict of Kyle with his cousin, Butters own arc, etc. Maybe I’m just a sucker for the characters (spoiler: I am) but I liked the TFBW did have more character focussed elements. aliens causing there to be a goo on Nazi zombies? I don’t know, it was weird and then Clyde randomly left, it didn’t make a lot of sense at times. Government coming because of an alien crash? Okay. Sure all the government stuff in SOT was cool but so much of the story felt disjointed. I would say I definitely preferred the story in TFBW. While I did like the superhero aspect (and I’m a hoe for sci-fi in the vein of Schwab’s Vicious), I did find that SOT was more focussed on parodying the genre rather than the state of it in film. I guess either DC or X-Men? I’m actually not sure but it was definitely a parody of that. Though the focus does seem to be more on the films part of superheroes, like how Coon & Friends and Freedom Pals were meant to be a parody of Marvel vs…. On the flip side, TFBW parodies specifically the hype of superhero films while also parodying the films themselves. I liked how in SOT there were mini sets, the kind kids would make. The Stick of Truth is a parody on fantasy, while The Fractured but Whole parodies superhero movies in a more meta sense. I played them pretty close to one another so I decided to talk about which I think does things for different reasons better, and which I like better overall. I recently got really back into it and I played the video game The Fractured But Whole and I replayed (after like 4 1/2 years) The Stick of Truth.
#SOUTH PARK FRACTURED BUT WHOLE HEADSHOTS TV#
So if you follow me on Twitter you probably know that South Park is one of my favourite, if not my favourite, TV series.