South Park: The Stick of Truth: The Kotaku Review

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South Park: The Stick of Truth: The Kotaku Review

Added: 04.03.2014 15:22 | 7 views | 0 comments

I wish I could spend this entire review talking about how South Park: The Stick of Truth is one of the funniest games I've ever played. I wish I could stick to telling you how the story feels like one 10-hour episode of South Park; how the world is a blast to explore; how the combat blends the best parts of Paper Mario with the crude-yet-smart humor that has made South Park so appealing over the years. But Stick of Truth, out Tuesday for 360, PS3, and PC, is a game marred by bugs and technical issues, and it is impossible to separate the art from the faulty product surrounding it. During the ten hours I spent playing Stick of Truth, I ran into dozens of glitches ranging from minor to major. Sometimes my main character would pop in and out of cut-scenes. Sometimes the music would randomly stop playing during boss fights. Once I loaded up an old save file and learned that my newer filesaved manually, not via an auto-save that might have been overwrittenhad suddenly disappea...