South Park: The Fractured But Whole

 Xbox One
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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 154 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 15 out of 154
  3. Negative: 16 out of 154
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  1. Dr_Perpers
    Oct 23, 2017
    5
    It's a fun game but it's very short, I had the game beat in less than a week. Additionally a lot of the customization and skills that were in Stick of Truth are gone all together from Fractured but Whole. There is no skill tree, no looting for weapons and armor. Really the only reason to even loot is for costumes. There are no perks from doing side challenges. The relics that you are ableIt's a fun game but it's very short, I had the game beat in less than a week. Additionally a lot of the customization and skills that were in Stick of Truth are gone all together from Fractured but Whole. There is no skill tree, no looting for weapons and armor. Really the only reason to even loot is for costumes. There are no perks from doing side challenges. The relics that you are able to equip into different slots are all essentially the same so there is very minimal advantages of getting one relic over another. Knowing what I know now I wouldn't purchase the game at full price. I would either get it from Redbox or wait until it's been out a while and get it for half the price.… Expand
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Oct 21, 2017
    7
    South Park The Fractures But Whole
    A Step in the wrong direction
    The Fractures but whole takes place the day after the stick of truth ends, This time you play once again as the new kid as the children of south park split into a civil war over who’s super hero franchise will make the most money.. The game starts with letting you choose 1 of 3 classes, though your class isn’t as    South Park The Fractures But Whole
    A Step in the wrong direction
    The Fractures but whole takes place the day after the stick of truth ends,
    This time you play once again as the new kid as the children of south park split into a civil war over who’s super hero franchise will make the most money..
    The game starts with letting you choose 1 of 3 classes, though your class isn’t as important as it may seem in the beginning as the story progresses you’ll be able to add more classes and pick and choose your 4 moves to bring into battle…
    The game takes place once again ins south park, this time around south park to me felt less alive, and much more of a video game hub world.. As it along with the story missions themselves are less varied…
    since your character stats are attached to artifacts this time that you plug into your DNA strand... exploration felt less necessary if I wasn’t interested in new cosmetics that added nothing to the battle system…
    Artifacts are obtained from fights and leveling up, and can be crafted from recipes you buy or find in chests…
    Crafting is where exploration comes into play the most as you have to craft consumable items to use in battle, but again I didn’t need consumables too often so this didn’t entice me to explore.. I had plenty by just opening the occasional chest id notice while playing through this 17 hr. story…
    improved over the stick of truth in my opinion are the jokes as they’re much more current and less inside jokey like the stick of truth…
    if you have a twitter you’ll be in on all of this games jokes..
    speaking of social media, doing tasks and leveling up will let you take selfies with characters to gain coonstagram followers, this will also help level you up as will fighting and collecting to open more slots for artifacts…
    I also like level progression more this time as you’re not switching through different modes.. You’re just scanning an item and calling in the right character you help you progress…
    Different this time is while the game is still turn based...
    instead of feeling like Pokémon, there is a grind based combat system that I’m not a fan of
    I like that in the grids there are red zones warning you something is about to happen and you have to try your hardest to move your party out of that zone..
    But when it comes to playing with the grid, things just get overly complicated with the different rules of each characters different move and sometimes larger characters are had to tell which grid they’re on
    every character in south park feels unique. All with their own attacks with different status attacks, but the direct and space they can attack just get confusing which had me canceling, moving and checking, until I positioned them in a spot I could attack my enemy…
    Most of the characters are pretty straight forward, but a few are definitely awkward to deal with…
    Farts are also a part of combat this time as you can use them to skip an opponent’s turn or pause time for some free damage…
    There’s also a meter that fills up as you take damage.. Filled fasted if you can recover some health by pressing x when you’re attacked... and this allows you to pull off a super move that can do massive damage to one character or light damage to all characters but with status effects for example…
    but I felt matches were a little too unpredictable in story as new characters would come into the fight frequently.. Never really letting you know how close to the end you are... so id hold onto these moves a lot of the time never getting to use them…
    The best part of this game is easily in its character… the story is ridiculous and the writing is great…
    the grid based combat is good.. but it’s not great like the turned based combat in the stick of truth…
    the game does sequel bait, and if the game stays turn based, I have in the next one they go back to the style in the stick of truth… both in combat and variety in the delivery of the story…
    I give South Park The Fractured But Whole
    a 7.5/10    … Expand
  3. SidAdi1409
    Nov 4, 2017
    6
    This is fractured and not whole. The weird combat mixed with the repition of jokes just disconnected me from the whole experience. This is nowhere near what 'the stick of truth' accomplished
  4. polltery
    Nov 15, 2017
    6
    Status : Completed
    My play time : 21.5 hours
    What kept me invested: Fun gameplay (Battle only), lots of character classes, very few story/side missions are fun, character building, easy 100% achievements earning, South Park animation, Voice acting. What turned me off: Not so great story, Dull plots are dragged too much which made me hate the game (same with the TV show these    Status : Completed
    My play time : 21.5 hours

    What kept me invested:
    Fun gameplay (Battle only), lots of character classes, very few story/side missions are fun, character building, easy 100% achievements earning, South Park animation, Voice acting.

    What turned me off:
    Not so great story, Dull plots are dragged too much which made me hate the game (same with the TV show these days), ass jokes, slow unlock of fast travel system. 20 hours of gameplay where 2 hours are wasted in repetitive buddy animations, boring puzzle and buddy system.

    Recommended for:
    Players who like south park and RPG games, and who aren't grossed out of ass jokes. Really, if you don't like south park, DO NOT GET THIS GAME, you will feel as if your time is being wasted by stupid ass plots.    … Expand
  5. CenkAlp
    Dec 30, 2018
    7
    Hikaye = 7
    Oynanış = 7
    Grafikler = 8
    Sesler = 8
    Keyif = 9
    Atmosfer = 7
    Süre = 7
  6. emporio2866
    Feb 28, 2019
    7
    Вторая часть мне понравилась немного меньше в плане сюжета, но не потому что он вышел скучнее, а потому что так было задумано. Создатели хотели показать, что сюжеты фильмов про супергероев мало того что высосаны из пальца, так ещё и пустяшные события возведены в абсолют. Также очень грамотно высмеяли затянутость таких фильмов и создание спин-оффов и перезапусков из воздуха. Если неВторая часть мне понравилась немного меньше в плане сюжета, но не потому что он вышел скучнее, а потому что так было задумано. Создатели хотели показать, что сюжеты фильмов про супергероев мало того что высосаны из пальца, так ещё и пустяшные события возведены в абсолют. Также очень грамотно высмеяли затянутость таких фильмов и создание спин-оффов и перезапусков из воздуха. Если не смотрели фильмы по комиксам от Marvel или DC, то вам просто покажется сюжет затянутым, высосанным из пальца и скучным, но в этом и заключается пародия… короче, играть рекомендую только тем, кто в теме, иначе можете забросить. Мне игра немного меньше зашла из-за того, что я ждал растущего накала страстей, как в Палке истины, но получил совершенно другую историю, скроенную по другим лекалам. Всю крутизну задумки я осознал только спустя несколько дней после прохождения, когда начали всплывать в памяти сцены из разных фильмов и сериалов о супергероях.
    Боевая система создана с нуля и она уникальная. Она пошаговая, как в прошлой части, но нужно таким образом комбинировать способности, чтобы получилось их примерить, ведь теперь враги перемещаются по клеткам и по ним не всегда удаётся попасть. Также есть аж 10 классов персонажей, у каждого по 4 основных атаки и по одной ультимативной. Можно комбинировать атаки сразу 4 классов, которые с каждым ходом будут друг друга усиливать за счёт наложения действий эффектов, если всё грамотно продумать конечно.
    С развитием сюжета открываются эти 10 классов постепенно и появляются новые напарники, которых всего 12, но в бой можно брать трёх. У 11 из них также по 4 основных атаки и одна ульта, а у последнего 12-го две стадии и следовательно 8 атак и 2 ульты!
    Итого в нашем распоряжении 115 различных атак, под которые мы выбираем цепочку ДНК, чтобы усилить статы и ещё вставляем руны, чтобы усилить эффекты и общую силу. Таким образом получаем очень продвинутую и разнообразную боевую систему, которую можно настраивать под новые стили игры в любое время.
    Для каждой из 115 атак нарисована своя анимация, и если стандартные атаки можно найти похожие, то ульта это просто отвал башки! К созданию игры подошли очень основательно и с душой.
    В этот раз не стали делать пропускаемые трофеи, кроме ачивки за сложность, а всё остальное можно добить после прохождения сюжета, то есть сидеть в гайдах или проходить несколько раз не обязательно.
    Оценка: 7 из 10, всё же первая была поэпичнее, а в этой части очень сильно увлеклись пародией. Могу порекомендовать всем любителям чёрного юмора, а также любителям РПГ. Здесь конечно нет уровня проработки диалогов и последствий, как в Fallout или Westland, но с боевой системой всё хорошо, а для пародийной игры, которая всем своим видом тебе об этом кричит, просто отлично!    … Expand
  7. Kosm
    Jun 21, 2020
    7
    Je viens de le finir et mon avis se fera a chaud.
    c'est un bon jeu a licence dans la veine du Baton de la vérité, un humour comme je les aimes, des scènes qui m'ont surpris (la scène dans le strip club, le pouvoir du héros), le gameplay est plutot simple dans son ensemble et hormis les combats de boss (qui traine parfois en longueurs) , j'ai trouvé les autres combats beaucoup plus    Je viens de le finir et mon avis se fera a chaud.
    c'est un bon jeu a licence dans la veine du Baton de la vérité, un humour comme je les aimes, des scènes qui m'ont surpris (la scène dans le strip club, le pouvoir du héros), le gameplay est plutot simple dans son ensemble et hormis les combats de boss (qui traine parfois en longueurs) , j'ai trouvé les autres combats beaucoup plus ennuyeux, l'ambiance vous plaira si vous etes deja sensible a l'univers de south park.

    Une bonne durée de vie ( quasi 20 heures pour moi) avec quelques temps morts mais rien de bien grave.
    la ou le bat blesse c'est la traduction VF qui n'est pas version officielle, ceci a été mon plus gros point noir, j'ai donc fais le jeu en VOSTFR( ayant fait le baton de la vérité en vostfr car pas la choix mais ayant énormément apprécié la vo) j'ai pris un grand plaisir sur ce jeu mais je ne peux m'imaginé le plaisir qu'aurait été le mien si la vf officielle avait été présent sur le jeu.    … Expand
  8. WillGoss
    Oct 17, 2021
    7
    The game is fun, but do not expect to be as good as the first one, The stick of truth. The story was good, but not exceptional. They improve the combat system tho. Like the first one, the side quests were very fun to do, and you have a lot to explore in this South Park universe.

    Positive things ; + Fun story / side quest + The combat system are better + Achievements are fun to do    The game is fun, but do not expect to be as good as the first one, The stick of truth. The story was good, but not exceptional. They improve the combat system tho. Like the first one, the side quests were very fun to do, and you have a lot to explore in this South Park universe.

    Positive things ;

    + Fun story / side quest
    + The combat system are better
    + Achievements are fun to do

    Mehh things ;

    ~ Story could of been a bit better if we compare with the first one    … Expand

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#21 Best Xbox One Game of 2017
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#31 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2017
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#40 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2017

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. Gaming Nexus
    Jul 6, 2018
    85
    The Fractured But Whole is a solidly good RPG game that incorporates the South Park attitude with a lot less in-your-face crudeness than The Stick of Truth. It has a better fighting setup, an easier-to- digest storyline, and is still laugh out loud funny at times. What else do you need from a South Park game?
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  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Dec 12, 2017
    80
    A winning tribute to TV's crassest kids, wrapped up in a fresh and fun RPG shell.
  3. NZGamer
    Oct 31, 2017
    81
    In the end South Park: The Fractured But Whole makes me very happy, and I do think farts are funny – at least funny enough for two games.
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