The dialogue is hilarious and people react with some great comebacks, insults, threats, and general apathy towards me.
In hindsight, I wish I had waited until I unlocked all of the abilities but at the same time, I had a lot of fun interacting with the citizens. Being a completionist, every time I unlocked a skill I had to revisit every house just in case there was a puzzle I could finally solve. The Fractured But Whole also features a huge number of puzzles to solve that require various skills you unlock as the game progresses. It’s not a big town, but there is far too much to miss by fast traveling. While the game does have an unlockable fast travel network, be prepared for a lot of walking. Transitioning from gameplay to cinematic and back is so smooth I’m never quite sure when I have control again.
That being said, this is a very crisp and smooth South Park. Graphically speaking, this is South Park you should already know what you are getting into. Even in combat, South Park can’t help but be self-referential in the form of one of Call Girl’s attacks, in which she blasts the enemy with a call from her phone in which a faint voice yells out ‘Phone Destroyer.’ I can go on about the references and various jokes but there is only so much room in this review.
