@@josephthemann1174 fruit was the trigger that led Adam and Eve out of the garden leading to humanity that resulted in Matt and trey and finally the game as you can see I’ve wasted your time with nonsense good bye
"Feels like I got to your birthday party an hour late, only to find I'm the only guest who turned up." Contains no swear words, names, or insults, and is still one of the harshest things I've ever heard Yahtzee say.
It’s not even that they went 3D. He failed to talk about how empty the world is all together throughout all the missions, there’s no secrets, you don’t talk to people, he also failed to explain that this game is a rough lite and that there are far better versions of it out already. Yaz is dropping the ball
I love how this game looks *EXACTLY* like those terrible N64 South Park that Trey Parker and Matt Stone hated with every fiber of their being and drove them to be directly involved in the RPG duology’s development.
As a queer person, I was extremely nervous that Yathzee was going to be very awkward with jokes about queer people, as I have seen older comedian do. Fortunatly he knows what he's doing, and the jokes are well written. Good for him
@@Sir_Bucketthere's a difference between making fun of queer people, and making jokes centred around queerness and how society views it. Yahtzee always finds the line, and delicately cuts around it.
Nothing makes me feel older than when I listen to someone talking about "classic" The Simpsons or South Park and I realize they're talking about episodes that came out 10 years after I stopped watching the show.
I thought there was a pretty broad consensus that Simpsons was at its best somewhere between seasons 3-8 inclusive (exact point varies), and whatever it had was completely and totally gone by, like, season 12 at the absolute latest.
@@inventiveusername5191 Was pretty obvious when they just had celebrities or bands just unironically starring in the show without any jokes about them showed that it was no longer trying to offend American royalty.
@@inventiveusername5191 Yes. Same with South Park, and Family Guy, and basically every other western-cartoon-not-strictly-for-children that went on for way more seasons than any show reasonably should. At some point, the writers outgrow the show--they're no longer the same people, just as no one is the same person as their self from 10 years ago--but the show itself is still shackled to the same characters, the same setting, the same art style, and the same anything else that's dependent on the previous three characteristics. There is no reconciling this, and so the show turns into a zombified version of its former self. It no longer feels like a passion project of genuine inspiration but just a boring day job the writers feel obligated to continue indefinitely because it's what everyone loves them for.
The last Simpsons "episode" I watched was the movie and the last South Park episode I saw was Royal Pudding. 13 years ago! I did not realise it was that long ago!
The funny thing is that if Stick of Truth was like Paper Mario, this is still following the trend of the third game swapping from turn based combat to action. Can’t wait for Sticker South Park…
Co-op died for me when I hit the age where all my friends were getting married and having kids. Turns out that doesn't leave much room for fishing in Terraria or whatever.
Makes me wish LAN parties were still a thing, staying overnight at a town hall or conference center overnight. Wasn't into shooters except for Quake 3, but I'd join any RTS competition and leech stuff from others.
Yeah between that and most games abandoning local Co op and requiring you to buy multiple copies and play exclusively online, I haven't had a solid co op experience with a game for the better part of two decades. With the lone exception being my bachelor party where we actually dragged 4 computers and several TVs into the same room and played Halo MC collection together (but online). Now when I see a game that is oriented toward co op over single player it just gets a hard pass.
That bit about being the only person who showed up to a birthday party gut punched me as I recalled the year I only had one close friend, invited them to my birthday party at a bowling alley, and then they never showed up. Just me, bowling by myself as my mom watched before we decided to call it quits and just go home. (turns out they had a reason to not come and then they felt too embarrassed to let me know they wouldn't be showing up)
South Park: Snow Day is one of the best purchases I made this year, as it made me want to play Hades again and I ended up putting another 60 hours in that instead
I kept getting the feeling while playing this that is was supposed to be a live service game that they scrapped and decided to just release anyway. Alot of it feels like that "we will add fun later, in season 2" you get from live service games, it only has 5 levels that are "infinitely replayable" with the promise of more to come (you can actually attempt to join people playing level 6 in the matchmaking menu, even though level 6 isn't real) There are cut characters everywhere, the cosmetic purchases feel like it was supposed to be a premium currency, the amount of cosmetics is impressive for a game with 5 levels, they also added a hoard mode dlc for free, which feels really weird. It lacks the big power up cards, but only on your side, all 4 maps have 3 "entrances" that feel like it was supposed to be a pvp area, with random chests dropping in various places on the battlefield. I have alot more little things that leads me to this conclusion as well. But thats just my thoughtz
Yahtzees bit about how his style wouldn’t work for a fighting game reminds me of that old contest of who could make the best ZP flash game and all of them were pretty meh because I’m his own words “what did I expect you to make?”
There's a certain irony in the fact that I'd reckon that Trey and Matt would probably enjoy the no pandering review style of Yahtzee. I wonder if they find being told their game is shit a compliment or not?
@@OccasionalGoof And that 2's pacing and balance were obviously designed around multiplayer, and the main campaign is stretched way too long with too much grind. Yeah the loot system is broken in 2 and players discovered the best way to get Legendary gear was to continually play the slots and the worst way being opening loot chests.
Forgot to mention that Stick of Truth was made by Obsidian and pretty much understood storytelling better then any other contemporary studio at the time.
To this day, I sing the “When I’ve got this feeling, I’ve got to Sing” song, and quote “Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo”, from N64 game . . . . Best South Park Game Ever.
@@hensarita Ubisoft should put some kind of user-unique token in the ending of the next Assassin's Creed release. It can act as a shibboleth. If "Yahtzee" references it in his review, we'll know he has been replaced by an AI with game playing capability.
The 2D visual style worked well for the games, because it looks like a real time animation of the show and the turn-based combat system worked for the game styles they were part mocking part giving homage to. Trying to go 3D PVP smells of trying to cash in on the style of the moment. It looks bad, like a completely naked cash grab, something Matt and Trey would be lampooning on their show. It's like they've become what they hate.
Yeah absolutely. The two RPGs were strong enough as games to support the main attraction: playing in a South Park episode, and I loved them both. Snow Day is a bafflingly lacklustre game that has very little of the show's humour to disguise how bad it is.
It's always worrying to me when I talk to someone and they use South Park as their only political reference point. Like, maybe don't get all of your viewpoints from a cartoon? Oh wait, there's a new Fully Ramblomatic!
Stick of Truth was fun, and as a South Park fan (from years ago, haven't seen it in ages), I found it both a fun game and spot-on with the show. Also it didn't require an Ubisoft account. By the time Fractured came out I had stopped buying Ubisoft games altogether, which is good as it both requires an Ubisoft account and that crappy Denuvo DRM for some reason. So I have no idea whether I'd like it or not, and no real desire to find out. And it sounds like I'm not missing anything with Snow Day.
i still miss the post-zp (post-fr?) streams bc whenever Yahtzee says something like 'all default windows fonts over plain rectangles' i itch to go watch the post-zp except... there is none. seeing yahtzee's crude representations of the game and then seeing yahtzee point them out in the real game was a highlight for me - best advertising yahtzee did for his own streams. "yahtzee tries" just doesn't have the same draw
We just cant have nice things in gaming huh We get two surprisingly good licensed Rpgs and then someone comes along and hacks out this.... I blame Canada for this
Yeah, "real-time combat" and "co-op" were red flags for me, too. The moment a previously singleplayer game series goes co-op focused, it immediately catches the stink of contractual obligation.
I look forward to these every week, and I also have to say the new theme song is fantastic! It legit gets stuck in my head and I actually turn it up because it rocks so hard. Whoever does your music is awesome.
I remember being the only one In my friend group that didn’t like the n64 game. Glad that 30 years later an internet video can back me up on that point.
if you're going to do a game in the vein of the Yakuza series, and you're not going to smash it as full of content, sidequests, weirdness, and violence... you're already playing for at best tenth place.
I'm surprised there wasn't an option to not work with Cartman like in the original Stick of Truth, or at least have any of the characters acknowledge that not everyone stayed in the "human" faction. For anyone who doesn't know, In SoT, you're initially recruited by Cartman to fight in the "human" faction. However, halfway through the game, you have the choice to piss off and join the "Elves", which changes two major boss fights and who you can bring along as a companion for a raid-style mission at the school. Admittedly, the branches meet back up right after the raid and the bigger threat is introduced, but it was still interesting that they bothered to give the player a choice at all. !-Minor story spoilers past here-! I do love that the justification at the end for the game continuing despite the main villain being defeated is basically the characters deciding they don't want to go back to school so they let the big bad start up the snowstorm again, despite the fact that most of the adults are freaking out about it because of how dangerous it's made South Park
2:47 Or pointing forward and hitting Yoshi. Wait, that was a 2D game and the all of two frames on the animation made it so it wouldn't have made a difference between action and turn-based.
Trey was the main guy behind the rpgs. Matt wanted a South Park game that fit his tastes, thus we got Snow Day. I think the game needed at least 6 more months to iron out and change things. As it is though, I think I'd rather bust out my PC copy of that one South Park FPS that obviously doesn't exist.
And obviously Matt needs to stay out of the kitchen because no one was cooking with this. When I thought about a potential third game, I was hoping they'd dip into anime and do it kind of in the style of the episode where the gang occasionally switch to a more detailed, anime inspired style lol Like maybe whenever combat started, your character and everyone 'animefied' and maybe a running joke of bosses having 2 or more forms they keep transforming into much to everyone's annoyance.
@RaxusXeronos This. I had the exact same thoughts, with the anime ninja and other fighting styles during combat and their regular selves while traveling. Maybe if we get a fourth game... And hopefully not another free-to-play gotcha, where the ending depends on how much real world money you spent.
@@darrin777 I wonder if they DO do another rpg in the vain of Stick and Fractured if the MC will talk considering with how the second game ended implied medication they quit taking at the end to be the reason they weren't talkative lol (and for their gas)
The best result of this is they heavily discounted Stick of Truth on Switch presumably to drum up interest in the new one and I’m just now playing it, ten years later, for the first time and it’s great fun!
So South Park's new game goes into a territory similar how the later Paper Mario games after the first two good ones, while Paper Mario comes back to its proper roots with a full blown remake, how funny that works out.
I saw in a interview this game was something one of the creators wanted to do. They both like video games, but one of them likes RPG's and war games while the other likes action games. It's definitely worse than the previous 2 but I think it can be built.
I saw that and thought Yahtzee probably noticed the mistake and didn't even bother to fix it, since the game clearly didn't put any effort and why should he?
A new Jacques McKeown audiobook you say? How lovely as I just so happen to have a credit available too! Also just gonna put this one out into the universe; "Jam 2".
South park hasn't really ever been about smugly dismissing both sides of an argument, it didn't start out as that and only slightly became that during the whole Mr garrison is trump era which most everyone, including the creators, recognize as the worst seasons of the shows history. South park is moreso about the characters themselves getting into crazy situations with an occasional political commentary that is mostly clear cut and a valid discussion of the issue at hand, but those discussions are mostly left in the background (again with the exception of seasons 20 and 21) and are typically properly nuanced unless it happens to be something the creators are passionate about. The "south park is mean spirited" and "south park is just a both sides are stupid show" is largely a misconception about the show from people who aren't active fans of the show and have only really heard about the show when it becomes a trending topic in the news, it's a complete misreading of what the show is as the overwhelming majority of episodes don't have any political commentary whatsoever and are instead just about the misadventures of normal people in a crazy world. Snow days is terrible though, and extremely disappointing. The genre itself would actually work well for a south park game, the artstyle was pretty good for a 3d south park game and there is so much that could be done with the idea of a live service south park game, even if everyone's sick of live service games. I would have loved to see episode adaptations, original stories, episode sequels, returning characters, etc in a sort of season pass system with continually updated new missions. What we got instead was just empty vapid and boring.
@@nicholaschisholm7018 We'll all live in a giant crystal cube, giant crystal cube, giant crystal cube 🎵🎶 ... Also I think it's supposed to glow or something. It's not worth looking up, really; it's just one more part of that hot banana gibberish anti Nero and Rome tantrum 🤷
The "smugly dismiss both sides of a societal issue" is a very correct criticism of South Park from back when I watched it, but is also a little bit of an issue in Yahtzee's DEDA Files book series, where the two sides of the books main issues feel like "SJWs are annoying" and "genocide is bad".
I think you're missing a piece of the puzzle regarding both. Old South Park would make fun of both sides... while promoting a common sense, centrist option. They weren't nihilists. They were centrist-leaning libertarians, who thought both extreme ends of an issue were ridiculous. I've never read any of Yahtzee's books, but "SJWs are annoying" and "Genocide is bad" don't contradict each other. :-P Teasing aside, he's probably doing the same shtick. "Here's argument A and it's fundamentally flawed. Here's argument B on the other end of the spectrum. Equally flawed. He's argument C, which is probably the best of them all... but still has some flaws and none of the zealots will go for it. We're doomed." In fairness to you, though... around season 8 or so, South Park got very disillusioned and spent years just shrugging in peeved sorrow. "Argument A is stupid, argument B is equally stupid, and there's a clear logical way to stop all this madness while accomplishing the greatest good... but no one is going to care and things will just keep on sucking. There's no hope. Time to go get a drink and sigh. Episode over." 😛
I feel like Yahtzee and I have had similar journeys on this stuff. The awful elements that are now so openly present in our culture were more subtle then. And it's not like there weren't (or aren't) plenty of ridiculously self-righteous people out there that both deserve criticism and are resoundingly mockable. It's just that far, far worse things are now so screamingly obvious that a decent person can't help noticing them. I imagine that, like me, he wishes he'd caught on a little sooner. For me it wasn't until mid-2017 that cracks started, and mid 2020 that the dam truly burst. But there is at least some redemption in the fact that he *did* catch on, which so many people still haven't.
I don't know about Yahtzee's books as I haven't read any of them. South Park however, I feel that everyone always loves South Park until they crap over whatever societal issue they care about. Then they are butthurt and hate South Park forevermore.
Dude, I've watched almost all of Yahtzee's content over the years, and this is one of the tightest scripts he written, and he's written some tight scripts.
Its definately one for the fans. I get wanting to do something different but its not hard enough to be a rogue like or long enough to get to the boss. like being multiplayer is to blame for that since you have to balance the game around that. Should have stuck to single player and it would have been a much better game even staying with it being a rogue like
@@pokemonmanic3595 I figured that might be the case, although it says alot about how fragile Audible is as a platform that they need an exclusivity clause despite being hosted on f**king Amazon. Is Jeff Bezzos THAT afraid of brick and mortar bookstores, lol?
I deduced it sucks balls and it's gay just by looking at the cover. WordArt style logo, and those 3d models instantly remind of crappy licensed PS1 games that tried rendering 2d toons or live-action characters using all of 50 PS1 polygons.
This game to me also feels like it was made out of contractual obligation rather than out of passion.
That’s cause it was. There was some kind of contract with paramount that included making the specials and this game
Passion? What does fruit have to do with anything?
@@josephthemann1174 fruit was the trigger that led Adam and Eve out of the garden leading to humanity that resulted in Matt and trey and finally the game as you can see I’ve wasted your time with nonsense good bye
Look up Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album for this in extremis
Yeah. Part 1 was more successful than expected so they ordered two more games.
I've logged in specifically to point out today's animation shows Snow Day pissing over crisps, not sausage rolls, in a glaring continuity error.
I demand heads to sausage roll!
Boy I really hope someone got fired for that blunder
@@TheMightyKawama 🧢: I understood that reference.
And it has no party rings or Ribena. Looks like a well shit birthday party
Well the sausage rolls were kept under a protective top layer of chips.
it must be a real stinker if the first time I hear of this games existence is Yahtzee saying "Its a bit shitty innit?"
How did you avoid it for so long? I can't remember how many times I had to tell UA-cam "Block Ad" because they had so many variations of it.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio
Well, that's you're first problem.
You aren't using an adblock
Probably a better way to hear of it than Josh of LGIO talking about poo all the way through it. Which is admittedly on brand.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio I'm guessing the reason why I haven't seen it is because I'm not American
It has a max score of 59 on Metacritic. It is, indeed, quite a stinker of a game.
"Feels like I got to your birthday party an hour late, only to find I'm the only guest who turned up."
Contains no swear words, names, or insults, and is still one of the harshest things I've ever heard Yahtzee say.
You must've stopped the video right there and not listened to what he follows that with.
@@gameman250 must they have? maybe they think the follow up isnt actually harsher, and id agree
@@gameman250 the follow up actually wasn't needed. The one OP quotes hits absolutely harder.
From the title alone I knew it won't even try to reach for the comedic delight of previous title
Snow Job was right there and snowjob isn't even a sexual thing, it's another word for deception, which this game also does by promising to be good.
Maybe they didn’t want to be too on the nose with the puns this time…although now I know what to refer to it to in conversation now
@@kitestar Being on the nose is a defining feature of South Park.
@@HA-ot6uf yeah and I get that, and I have a feeling they probably had a new set of hands here than they did stick/but whole
It’s not even that they went 3D. He failed to talk about how empty the world is all together throughout all the missions, there’s no secrets, you don’t talk to people, he also failed to explain that this game is a rough lite and that there are far better versions of it out already. Yaz is dropping the ball
I love how this game looks *EXACTLY* like those terrible N64 South Park that Trey Parker and Matt Stone hated with every fiber of their being and drove them to be directly involved in the RPG duology’s development.
South Park 64 was to Matt/Trey like the Mario Bros movie was to Nintendo... so bad it drove them away from an entire medium for decades.
"Oh, no it sucks balls. And it's gay."
His delivery there was hilarious.
As a queer person, I was extremely nervous that Yathzee was going to be very awkward with jokes about queer people, as I have seen older comedian do.
Fortunatly he knows what he's doing, and the jokes are well written. Good for him
@@Sir_Bucketthere's a difference between making fun of queer people, and making jokes centred around queerness and how society views it. Yahtzee always finds the line, and delicately cuts around it.
@@Sir_Bucket you sound pretentious
@@aussieseal9979 yeah, he's good at it
@@PosterityIslesNews how does me worrying about somebody's bigotry makes me pretentious?
Nothing makes me feel older than when I listen to someone talking about "classic" The Simpsons or South Park and I realize they're talking about episodes that came out 10 years after I stopped watching the show.
I thought there was a pretty broad consensus that Simpsons was at its best somewhere between seasons 3-8 inclusive (exact point varies), and whatever it had was completely and totally gone by, like, season 12 at the absolute latest.
@@inventiveusername5191 Was pretty obvious when they just had celebrities or bands just unironically starring in the show without any jokes about them showed that it was no longer trying to offend American royalty.
@@inventiveusername5191 Yes. Same with South Park, and Family Guy, and basically every other western-cartoon-not-strictly-for-children that went on for way more seasons than any show reasonably should.
At some point, the writers outgrow the show--they're no longer the same people, just as no one is the same person as their self from 10 years ago--but the show itself is still shackled to the same characters, the same setting, the same art style, and the same anything else that's dependent on the previous three characteristics. There is no reconciling this, and so the show turns into a zombified version of its former self. It no longer feels like a passion project of genuine inspiration but just a boring day job the writers feel obligated to continue indefinitely because it's what everyone loves them for.
The last Simpsons "episode" I watched was the movie and the last South Park episode I saw was Royal Pudding. 13 years ago! I did not realise it was that long ago!
The funny thing is that if Stick of Truth was like Paper Mario, this is still following the trend of the third game swapping from turn based combat to action. Can’t wait for Sticker South Park…
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Oh sick, does that mean Stick of Truth remaster in 5 years or so?
However, unlike "Snow Day!", SPM was actually the best Paper Mario game.
@@jamesn3122 No. They remastered the second game twenty years later. So expect a remaster of Fractured But Whole in 2037
I hate how well this analogy works.
Co-op died for me when I hit the age where all my friends were getting married and having kids. Turns out that doesn't leave much room for fishing in Terraria or whatever.
On the plus side, if/when you join them in having kids co-op loops around to being highly relevant again.
Feels like a really odd move for a franchise that was most prominent over 20 years ago and presumably most of its fans are in their late 30’s or older
Try marrying a gamer. Worked for me.
Makes me wish LAN parties were still a thing, staying overnight at a town hall or conference center overnight. Wasn't into shooters except for Quake 3, but I'd join any RTS competition and leech stuff from others.
Yeah between that and most games abandoning local Co op and requiring you to buy multiple copies and play exclusively online, I haven't had a solid co op experience with a game for the better part of two decades. With the lone exception being my bachelor party where we actually dragged 4 computers and several TVs into the same room and played Halo MC collection together (but online). Now when I see a game that is oriented toward co op over single player it just gets a hard pass.
That bit about being the only person who showed up to a birthday party gut punched me as I recalled the year I only had one close friend, invited them to my birthday party at a bowling alley, and then they never showed up. Just me, bowling by myself as my mom watched before we decided to call it quits and just go home. (turns out they had a reason to not come and then they felt too embarrassed to let me know they wouldn't be showing up)
Ouch. Sorry, man.
0:50 I don't know why this sentence "ooooh, no it sucks balls" is so funny to me. He sounds SO apologetic to viewers that the game is bad lol.
He sounds slightly concerned and like he feels bad that he has to be the one to tell you because you shouldn't need him to say it.
It was either that line or the universal gamer expectation matrix.
I replayed it a few times, too, grinning like the Cheshire cat. The accent, inflection, & tone made me think of Ringo Starr.
It seems like this game is a tragic consequence of a deal forcing something into existence that didn't want to exist
Like chihuahuas.
an apt conclusion
Idk why but the way "It sucks balls" was said got a good laugh out of me. Thanks. I needed this today.
it was a very stereotypical Beatle-y inflection, haha
South Park: Snow Day is one of the best purchases I made this year, as it made me want to play Hades again and I ended up putting another 60 hours in that instead
Hmmm, a South park FPS Snow-themed game, yep seems like a perfect idea that would never flop twice.
I kept getting the feeling while playing this that is was supposed to be a live service game that they scrapped and decided to just release anyway.
Alot of it feels like that "we will add fun later, in season 2" you get from live service games, it only has 5 levels that are "infinitely replayable" with the promise of more to come (you can actually attempt to join people playing level 6 in the matchmaking menu, even though level 6 isn't real)
There are cut characters everywhere, the cosmetic purchases feel like it was supposed to be a premium currency, the amount of cosmetics is impressive for a game with 5 levels, they also added a hoard mode dlc for free, which feels really weird. It lacks the big power up cards, but only on your side, all 4 maps have 3 "entrances" that feel like it was supposed to be a pvp area, with random chests dropping in various places on the battlefield. I have alot more little things that leads me to this conclusion as well.
But thats just my thoughtz
Yahtzees bit about how his style wouldn’t work for a fighting game reminds me of that old contest of who could make the best ZP flash game and all of them were pretty meh because I’m his own words “what did I expect you to make?”
I feel like I lived under a rock, I didn't know this was coming...
Same
Literally didnt know this existed until 5 minutes ago
Seems like that rock you were under is way more interesting than this game
I was lucky enough to see it on one of the store pages, and pondered why there wasn't a bigger hubbub around it. Guess we now know why.
It was barely advertised
There's a certain irony in the fact that I'd reckon that Trey and Matt would probably enjoy the no pandering review style of Yahtzee. I wonder if they find being told their game is shit a compliment or not?
"I know because my mum told me"
While on the phone
"Have you decided to get a real job yet dear?"
Brilliant. 3:38
"But South Park had a game on the N64!"
*GET OUT!*
there were two.....
If we don't talk about the one, we DEFINITELY don't talk about the other one.@@outoftouchnetwork
4:04 Word for word the issues with Borderlands 3's story, holy hell.
Having played all five BL games, I think it's fair to say that 2 was an aberration of genius unlikely to ever be repeated.
@@VonBlade Agreed, and even then I resented that the main cast of 2 were silent while the former heroes got to say lots of cool shit.
@@Thanatos2k 1,2, The Pre-Sequel, 3 and Tiny Tina's standalone
BL3 is somehow a worse, less interesting game than the first one
@@OccasionalGoof And that 2's pacing and balance were obviously designed around multiplayer, and the main campaign is stretched way too long with too much grind. Yeah the loot system is broken in 2 and players discovered the best way to get Legendary gear was to continually play the slots and the worst way being opening loot chests.
I am flabbergasted that South Park, as a franchise, is still going.
Forgot to mention that Stick of Truth was made by Obsidian and pretty much understood storytelling better then any other contemporary studio at the time.
From all the ads I saw of this game, I thought it was some low-budget mobile game spinoff.
Trying to go 3d with a Southpark game needs to go along side the one-save thing in Dragon's Dogma on the "what were they thinking?!? games list 2024".
2:20 HYAAA! I THINK THAT ENEMY GOT...THE POINT!
One can never get enough of Yahtzee's straight up honesty and saying things out loud! Been a fan since ZP started, and will never stop :)
always extra fun to see yahtzee take on an objectively bad game and this one looked ROTTEN from the jump
Thanks!
I saw some cutscenes of this around and immediately went 'oh. Cool I guess?' and then left.
To this day, I sing the “When I’ve got this feeling, I’ve got to Sing” song, and quote “Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo”, from N64 game . . . . Best South Park Game Ever.
okay but joy mech fight is LITERALLY a fighting game with your visual style.
Whoa! This guy is great! He sounds just like the dude from Zero Punctuation!
Has AI gone too far??
@@waarschijn not far enough I say
@@hensarita Ubisoft should put some kind of user-unique token in the ending of the next Assassin's Creed release. It can act as a shibboleth. If "Yahtzee" references it in his review, we'll know he has been replaced by an AI with game playing capability.
The 2D visual style worked well for the games, because it looks like a real time animation of the show and the turn-based combat system worked for the game styles they were part mocking part giving homage to. Trying to go 3D PVP smells of trying to cash in on the style of the moment. It looks bad, like a completely naked cash grab, something Matt and Trey would be lampooning on their show. It's like they've become what they hate.
yeah, this is the first of the three that I had no interest in from the very beginning. Too bad to, I really liked SoT and FbW
@@HOTD108_ That'll teach them, ey?
Yeah absolutely. The two RPGs were strong enough as games to support the main attraction: playing in a South Park episode, and I loved them both. Snow Day is a bafflingly lacklustre game that has very little of the show's humour to disguise how bad it is.
It's always worrying to me when I talk to someone and they use South Park as their only political reference point. Like, maybe don't get all of your viewpoints from a cartoon? Oh wait, there's a new Fully Ramblomatic!
I told 'em Yahtzee sent me.
They didn't care.
Stick of Truth was fun, and as a South Park fan (from years ago, haven't seen it in ages), I found it both a fun game and spot-on with the show. Also it didn't require an Ubisoft account.
By the time Fractured came out I had stopped buying Ubisoft games altogether, which is good as it both requires an Ubisoft account and that crappy Denuvo DRM for some reason. So I have no idea whether I'd like it or not, and no real desire to find out. And it sounds like I'm not missing anything with Snow Day.
The delivery in "oh, no, it sucks balls" made me cackle like an old witch with a serious case of tickles
i still miss the post-zp (post-fr?) streams bc whenever Yahtzee says something like 'all default windows fonts over plain rectangles' i itch to go watch the post-zp except... there is none. seeing yahtzee's crude representations of the game and then seeing yahtzee point them out in the real game was a highlight for me - best advertising yahtzee did for his own streams. "yahtzee tries" just doesn't have the same draw
Now I want a Zero Punctuation real time combat game…
I'm one of the idiot dumbasses that bought the South Park game for N64.
Yeah, it's better to forget it ever existed.
We just cant have nice things in gaming huh
We get two surprisingly good licensed Rpgs and then someone comes along and hacks out this....
I blame Canada for this
They're not even a real country anyway
Yeah, "real-time combat" and "co-op" were red flags for me, too. The moment a previously singleplayer game series goes co-op focused, it immediately catches the stink of contractual obligation.
I can't believe they effectively remade the 90s south park game (that doesn't exist) and pretended that would be a good idea
More like Snow Gay.
So basically, Ubisoft turned a series of fun and unique RPGs into... Ubisoft games.
I thought this was a DLC to fractured but hole
Downloadable Content For Your But Hole sounds like either a porn title or a metal track.
6:12 that outro quote, crazy how Yahtzee has been making his reviews for the last 17 years!
I look forward to these every week, and I also have to say the new theme song is fantastic! It legit gets stuck in my head and I actually turn it up because it rocks so hard. Whoever does your music is awesome.
I liked TSOT and FBW because it actually felt like I was playing an episode/season of the show.
You know everybody gives it a hard time but I really like that turkey shooting game that South Park made I played it all the time.
Gotta say the puppy is like my favorite part
5:20 Oh god it looks like Cartman throwing his hands up and spraying golden showers everywhere.
Why does Yahtzee start doing a Beatles accent at the @0:49 mark for a few seconds?
I remember being the only one In my friend group that didn’t like the n64 game. Glad that 30 years later an internet video can back me up on that point.
Did anyone else think a game using Yahtzee's style for real-time combat would look like those old Madness flash cartoons?
if you're going to do a game in the vein of the Yakuza series, and you're not going to smash it as full of content, sidequests, weirdness, and violence... you're already playing for at best tenth place.
I'm surprised there wasn't an option to not work with Cartman like in the original Stick of Truth, or at least have any of the characters acknowledge that not everyone stayed in the "human" faction.
For anyone who doesn't know, In SoT, you're initially recruited by Cartman to fight in the "human" faction. However, halfway through the game, you have the choice to piss off and join the "Elves", which changes two major boss fights and who you can bring along as a companion for a raid-style mission at the school.
Admittedly, the branches meet back up right after the raid and the bigger threat is introduced, but it was still interesting that they bothered to give the player a choice at all.
!-Minor story spoilers past here-!
I do love that the justification at the end for the game continuing despite the main villain being defeated is basically the characters deciding they don't want to go back to school so they let the big bad start up the snowstorm again, despite the fact that most of the adults are freaking out about it because of how dangerous it's made South Park
There are so many zinger jokes in here ❤ I'm going to rewatch it just to fully appreciate them all.
I 'member the South Park racing game on the PS1! 🍇
2:47 Or pointing forward and hitting Yoshi.
Wait, that was a 2D game and the all of two frames on the animation made it so it wouldn't have made a difference between action and turn-based.
When I heard that question was done with blackout club to go make *this*, I knew it was going to be the beginning of the end.
New book new book new book. Been waiting a hot minute for this one
0:51 holy shit he went for the jugular
Trey was the main guy behind the rpgs. Matt wanted a South Park game that fit his tastes, thus we got Snow Day.
I think the game needed at least 6 more months to iron out and change things.
As it is though, I think I'd rather bust out my PC copy of that one South Park FPS that obviously doesn't exist.
And obviously Matt needs to stay out of the kitchen because no one was cooking with this. When I thought about a potential third game, I was hoping they'd dip into anime and do it kind of in the style of the episode where the gang occasionally switch to a more detailed, anime inspired style lol Like maybe whenever combat started, your character and everyone 'animefied' and maybe a running joke of bosses having 2 or more forms they keep transforming into much to everyone's annoyance.
@RaxusXeronos This. I had the exact same thoughts, with the anime ninja and other fighting styles during combat and their regular selves while traveling.
Maybe if we get a fourth game...
And hopefully not another free-to-play gotcha, where the ending depends on how much real world money you spent.
@@darrin777 I wonder if they DO do another rpg in the vain of Stick and Fractured if the MC will talk considering with how the second game ended implied medication they quit taking at the end to be the reason they weren't talkative lol (and for their gas)
The best result of this is they heavily discounted Stick of Truth on Switch presumably to drum up interest in the new one and I’m just now playing it, ten years later, for the first time and it’s great fun!
Great video Yahtzee.
So South Park's new game goes into a territory similar how the later Paper Mario games after the first two good ones, while Paper Mario comes back to its proper roots with a full blown remake, how funny that works out.
I saw in a interview this game was something one of the creators wanted to do. They both like video games, but one of them likes RPG's and war games while the other likes action games.
It's definitely worse than the previous 2 but I think it can be built.
If this video hadn't popped up, it probably be a very long time before i'd remember that this came out
4:43 love me some weapos
I saw that and thought Yahtzee probably noticed the mistake and didn't even bother to fix it, since the game clearly didn't put any effort and why should he?
There was an Xbox marketplace South Park Tower Defense game that was pretty solid.
Been a while since I've heard yahtzee, but goddamn that intro brought me back in jesus
I'm imagining 433k subscribers telling the sponsor "Yahtzee sent us."
I'm a huge fan of the show, and I love hearing Yahtzee shit on it!
I feel like this could have been a good opportunity to also bundle a review of South Park: Phone Destoyer.
Apparently they are hinging on live-service updates on this one, padding on additional missions/content later
I was so hyped when I heard there was a new SP game, a little less so with the gameplay trailer, abysmally less so after seeing the actual game.
A new Jacques McKeown audiobook you say? How lovely as I just so happen to have a credit available too! Also just gonna put this one out into the universe; "Jam 2".
Oh wow, I didnt know you were still writing the Will X for Y series. Time to get back into it!
"Don't call both sides gay"
Why? One side takes it as an insult, and that's gay, the other one doesn't see it as insulting so it's fine. And also gay.
It's always nice to see a review of a Worst list candidate
South park hasn't really ever been about smugly dismissing both sides of an argument, it didn't start out as that and only slightly became that during the whole Mr garrison is trump era which most everyone, including the creators, recognize as the worst seasons of the shows history. South park is moreso about the characters themselves getting into crazy situations with an occasional political commentary that is mostly clear cut and a valid discussion of the issue at hand, but those discussions are mostly left in the background (again with the exception of seasons 20 and 21) and are typically properly nuanced unless it happens to be something the creators are passionate about.
The "south park is mean spirited" and "south park is just a both sides are stupid show" is largely a misconception about the show from people who aren't active fans of the show and have only really heard about the show when it becomes a trending topic in the news, it's a complete misreading of what the show is as the overwhelming majority of episodes don't have any political commentary whatsoever and are instead just about the misadventures of normal people in a crazy world.
Snow days is terrible though, and extremely disappointing. The genre itself would actually work well for a south park game, the artstyle was pretty good for a 3d south park game and there is so much that could be done with the idea of a live service south park game, even if everyone's sick of live service games. I would have loved to see episode adaptations, original stories, episode sequels, returning characters, etc in a sort of season pass system with continually updated new missions. What we got instead was just empty vapid and boring.
The arrival of the Borg is also foretold in the Book of Revelation, if you can believe it.
I'm not sure what's worse: that you made the reference, or that I got it 😅
Am a bit rusty but what... you have my curiosity
@@nicholaschisholm7018 We'll all live in a giant crystal cube, giant crystal cube, giant crystal cube 🎵🎶
... Also I think it's supposed to glow or something. It's not worth looking up, really; it's just one more part of that hot banana gibberish anti Nero and Rome tantrum 🤷
I read the numbered chapters part as, "I pause, etc., etc., etc.". Seems that summarized the game fairly well judging by the rest of your video.
The "smugly dismiss both sides of a societal issue" is a very correct criticism of South Park from back when I watched it, but is also a little bit of an issue in Yahtzee's DEDA Files book series, where the two sides of the books main issues feel like "SJWs are annoying" and "genocide is bad".
Big agree, the "SJWs bad" part of differently morpheous was very heavy handed and not subtle in the slightest
I think you're missing a piece of the puzzle regarding both.
Old South Park would make fun of both sides... while promoting a common sense, centrist option. They weren't nihilists. They were centrist-leaning libertarians, who thought both extreme ends of an issue were ridiculous.
I've never read any of Yahtzee's books, but "SJWs are annoying" and "Genocide is bad" don't contradict each other. :-P Teasing aside, he's probably doing the same shtick. "Here's argument A and it's fundamentally flawed. Here's argument B on the other end of the spectrum. Equally flawed. He's argument C, which is probably the best of them all... but still has some flaws and none of the zealots will go for it. We're doomed."
In fairness to you, though... around season 8 or so, South Park got very disillusioned and spent years just shrugging in peeved sorrow. "Argument A is stupid, argument B is equally stupid, and there's a clear logical way to stop all this madness while accomplishing the greatest good... but no one is going to care and things will just keep on sucking. There's no hope. Time to go get a drink and sigh. Episode over." 😛
I feel like Yahtzee and I have had similar journeys on this stuff. The awful elements that are now so openly present in our culture were more subtle then. And it's not like there weren't (or aren't) plenty of ridiculously self-righteous people out there that both deserve criticism and are resoundingly mockable. It's just that far, far worse things are now so screamingly obvious that a decent person can't help noticing them.
I imagine that, like me, he wishes he'd caught on a little sooner. For me it wasn't until mid-2017 that cracks started, and mid 2020 that the dam truly burst. But there is at least some redemption in the fact that he *did* catch on, which so many people still haven't.
I don't know about Yahtzee's books as I haven't read any of them. South Park however, I feel that everyone always loves South Park until they crap over whatever societal issue they care about. Then they are butthurt and hate South Park forevermore.
What?
Dude, I've watched almost all of Yahtzee's content over the years, and this is one of the tightest scripts he written, and he's written some tight scripts.
Yes, tighter than your mom, there, there's the joke you were thinking reading my comment.
@@doctorkatmdI was mostly thinking about how you typed scrips instead of scripts actually
and how you did it twice
@@Feasco fair enough, dyslexia be hitting hard sometimes
The moment I saw the announcement that it was going to be a 3D title, I knew the game was going to suck balls.
I see now why I hadn't even heard of this one but saw the first two EVEREYWHERE lol.
Its definately one for the fans. I get wanting to do something different but its not hard enough to be a rogue like or long enough to get to the boss. like being multiplayer is to blame for that since you have to balance the game around that. Should have stuck to single player and it would have been a much better game even staying with it being a rogue like
Hope Yahtzee releases his book on paperback. It fits my lifestyle better to read a physical book.
I always prefer physical copies. Something about the tactile feel of the pages is more engaging than reading text on a screen ever could be.
@@estefencosta1835 I like the permenent ownership. Jeff Bezzos can't repossess my paperback on a whim.
@@pokemonmanic3595 I figured that might be the case, although it says alot about how fragile Audible is as a platform that they need an exclusivity clause despite being hosted on f**king Amazon. Is Jeff Bezzos THAT afraid of brick and mortar bookstores, lol?
I enjoyed SoT en TFBW, but was kind of apprehensive about this one. This pretty much confirms that.
I think south park could have made a game like marvels midnight suns, maybe that would have been a good combat system for them.
Is 'Will Leave the Galaxy For Good' only available as an audiobook? There's no dead tree addition? Wtf.
When I saw the trailer of it. I shrugged, stopped after seeing it was 3D and forgot all about it.
And that while I do like South Park quite a bit
I deduced it sucks balls and it's gay just by looking at the cover. WordArt style logo, and those 3d models instantly remind of crappy licensed PS1 games that tried rendering 2d toons or live-action characters using all of 50 PS1 polygons.
3:36 Ooh, surprise Terry Pratchett cameo.