
This lets you unleash or dodge moves that affect a wider area of attack, or play for control of the area with moves that push enemies back. Battles are still turn-based, but now take place on a checkerboard grid layout. The other is in combat, which gets something of an overhaul from the first game. Sound familiar? With the game's main story focusing on a civil war between rival factions as the South Park kids play super hero, the game never wastes an opportunity to rip Marvel or DC a new one. Early on, in Cartman's 'superhero lair', you can find a chalkboard with his plans for a multiphase shared universe crossing big and small screens, including Netflix exclusive spinoffs. The biggest shift comes in switching focus from parodying fantasy and role-playing games to lampooning superhero franchise cinema. The problem is that beyond that, it too often feels like more of the last game.

Far from it: this is peak South Park, a thoroughly authentic visit into Parker and Stone's warped world that tackles themes of police brutality, racism, and other important social issues through its usual lens of cheap profanity and shock comedy. It's not that The Fractured But Whole (say it slowly.) is a bad game. This is a South Park fan's dream-come-true.
