South Park Snow Day is a DISASTER!

nothing will ever compare to the unbridled excitement I had waiting for the release of South Park this stick of truth I was 12 years old at the time in my first year of high school and probably at the height of my South Park fandom I was collecting the old plushies I would rewatch The Movie on DVD constantly and just wanted to consume as much of the franchise as humanly possible and with that it led me wanting something a good South Park game to play I got the original Play Station shooter for my birthday one year along with sonico six happy birthday me but I could not comprehend that thing I could not get past level two so as soon as the Stick of Truth was an on I was immediately on board I don't care how many delays I got to wait through well wait okay I didn't mean it and boy was I lucky to have it released the same month as my birthday means I got to wait a whole four weeks before I could play it wowe I adored that game I had hundreds of hours in it which is really surprising considering how relatively short it is for an RPG but I would replay it constantly running through the over and over again as all the different classes loved it so much that it was even one of the first Let's Plays I'd ever uploaded to this channel this is uh this is where I'd show it but I think I got so embarrassed by them that I wiped them off the face of the Earth so enjoy this review of its sequel the fractured butth hole instead me and my friend were talking during class one day about what a sequel to the game would be like and we both agreed that if the game were to ever get a sequel it should be a about super right that's enough of that speaking of the sequel also really enjoyed that one too wasn't a fan of of all the changes I think it lost a bit of its Simplicity and it drags out a ton by the end but for what it was I saw it as nothing more but a worthy followup you could just tell that Matt Stone and trap Parker put so much work into these projects making sure they were as amazing as they came out to ensure the franchise's gaming history could work itself out of the shovelware bins and so with that the question on everyone's mind was what's next ninjas imagination land something entirely new I can't we it it feels like it's been forever since the last South Park GM then we heard it was going to be 3D all right seems like they made a big deal during the Stick of truths promotional speeches that a game replicating the show's unique art style would be the way to go moving forward but okay we thought that they were finally capable of doing a game that looked just like the show that was sort of the thing that excited us is you could sit there and play the game and be walking around the classroom or walking around Cartman's backyard and if someone was to walk in the room and watch you play the game they would think you're watching episode of South Park whatever though maybe they just want to tackle a gameplay style that wouldn't be possible in merely two Dimensions I'm sure that isn't an indicator of the quality here I'm positive they're approaching this with the same level of love and care that they Pride themselves on I hope we don't get a [ __ ] four on Game Spot that's what I hope that'll piss me off well you didn't get a four it was Apparent from the very first trailer that South Park snow day would be a budget title it was no surprise to see them adverti the fact that it was $30 so heavily because if it were a full 60 I think there would be riots on the street because this [ __ ] isn't worth it I was cautiously optimistic for snow day admittedly not because I saw any glimmer of hope in what they showed off but instead because I didn't care that much seemed to be an open-ish World hacking slash the visuals looked uninteresting and they never really did much to ConEd potential players why they needed to get this game what made it stand apart from others and ultimately why it was a worthy successor to the Stick of Truth and fractured butthole why it was worth changing genres I will say however the biggest thing that got me worried about snow day was the lack of enthusiasm on Matt and tre's part for the other games despite feeling as if they each took forever to come out you could always kind on the creators being there to talk about it where they made it evident that they were given these things they all as much work as they would any other of their projects but with snow we didn't really get that there was the occasional promotional video on the South Park YouTube Channel where Trey looked as if he were on a completely different planet and for the IGN preview he was somewhere else altogether I'm not trying to get conspiratorial and say that they just weren't all that invested in this project but at the same time it's undeniable that the hyper on the gem was next to non-existent now Titan well people don't like it to put it simple I honestly wasn't going to get this scheme I didn't get sent no dang free code and that didn't really give me any reason to think it was worth checking out but then I got bored at 2 a.m. and thought [ __ ] it and so now here I am is that really what the start screen looks like anyways I suppose with that it's time to delve into South Park snow day to see if it's a passionate per uh H is it a disastrous is it good or bad also I got a little announcement to make for years now I've been fighting back against uploading compilation videos on my main Channel just because I don't like muddying things with what's new and what's old but I've really been interested recently in doing bigger compilations that compile all these different videos about the same topic because a lot of folks out there tell me that they like to listen to my videos when they asleep or when they're working or studying and so I finally settled on what I wanted to do and that's create midnight Mark these are going to be re-edited and touched up versions of some of my older videos compiling them together so you can listen to them in the background doing whatever you do I don't know I've edited out a majority of the LI noises and find ways to connect them all together so they're basically just Mega videos for example on there right now I have a 5 hour Five Nights at Freddy's video which compiles my original retrospective of all the games along with the books and the movie to try and make it one big seamless video so if that sounds like something that might interest you I plan on uploading every week but let me know if there's any specific compilations you'd want to see on there and be sure to subscribe I got a bunch of really highquality stuff made for it like a whole new softer look along with a new intro that I think looks fantastic so subscribe to midnight Mark and thanks for the support one thing I appreciate about the opening here is that they bothered getting South Park Studios to actually animated in high really for the duration of this quite lengthy opening you could completely treat it like another episode of the show where we see a massive blizzard head towards t with Cartman praying to God to please let the T get covered in the most snow it's ever had just so he doesn't have to go to school it's an incredibly endearing idea for a South Park game on the surface Matt and Trey always wanted to invoke a similar feeling to Earth bind with these where you would play as a blank kid traversing this time by yourself things seeming so much grander than they actually are in reality and this concept lends itself perfectly towards that with all apparent snowed in and unable to go anywhere it makes the entire you're twing the kids play grind able to do whatever they want with little to no interference I'm not really into them going right back to the wizard stuff with no explanation fractured but Hol had a nice precedent where you would assume each new game would tackle a different genre from the last but I have to assume they just went with this for marketing reasons which is a little sad everyone's designs are simply one toone copied from The Stick of Truth kind of Eed in the feeling that this game didn't know what it wanted to do to stand apart I'm also not too clear on why they thought doing a Co parody would be the way to go for their brand new gum from the way everyone in Universe talks about the snowstorm it's pretty evident this is meant to be a take on Co you know which they already did but not everyone is stuck in their houses and toilet paper has become the new form of currency biting but really all of that is kind of relevant again it's just an excuse to have all the kids and time playing with each other again after the new kid ruined the previous two by getting way too op yeah despite the change in genre and well di menion snow day is still following the events of the RPGs you're once again put right back at square one with everybody being incredibly pissed off at you and so now it's time to join the grand wizard Cartman's faction again as Clyde has informed Eric that the Elven Army led by Kyle is planning an attack on their Kingdom they're not really after anything this time but uh and with that we're dropped into a short tutorial and by short of course I mean 15 minutes long I guess it's to teach us how to deal with this new fangled dimension I like the idea for it though you go on a short journey to school where you have to walk through the destroyed building Mr Macky locked inside in the game slowly telling you more and more about what you can do in this new adventure I'm a little sad that you don't get to explore it all here but whatever I get it's something new more linear overall the tutorial is a decent time but I think it really has the potential to make people have a super negative first impression hey what the [ __ ] return fire return fire what who is that that can't be matter Trey it sounds like someone doing a bad Eric Cartman impression I think I think this literally might just be one of the developers inserting their own impression okay there's something I'm going to talk about way more later but this is definitely one of those games where you start incredibly underpowered painfully so and so having to control the new kid with only two measy weak weapons with little to no difference in how you approach each fight kind of shows how quickly it takes for this game to become repetitive it's not a good sign when I start getting bored of the mean cycle during the tutorial but on the more positive side your character controls all right seeing high they running 3D will never not be jarring but turning jumping all feels fine except for running running [ __ ] sucks I think I was Elite to realizing this game was most likely intended to be played with a keyboard and mice honestly what it reminded me of while playing was fornite of all things damn damn I'm kind of nasty but it does this annoying ass thing where your character's walking speed is incredibly slow with you having a run button and stamina meter really like that you have infinite stamina when not in battle too that's a great feature however you can only run while pressing directly in front of you meaning if you want to run to the left or right to dodge [ __ ] you're [ __ ] you're going to go right back to walking again this wouldn't be a big deal playing with a keyboard and mice since you can more easily move the camera while multitasking but on a controller where the run is attached to the circle button it makes it really obnoxious to have to use one finger to hold that darn while using your thumb to move the camera all always disrupted me [ __ ] pissed me off but whatever controls still are fine for the most part combat feels all right even if the bow takes forever to use and does a little to no damage but things seem to be at the very least decent so far and with that we're dropped into the Hub world you can customize your new kid here although there's not much variety when you start I went with fantesia at Mickey mice you can also choose your weapons with tolken again one option but what you're supposed to do here is talk to Eric who will give you a list of uh five missions to to conquer and upon choosing you walk to this little snowb which will loow you in this is not what I did though I ran around this Hub world for each just seeing what I could find anwers nothing for some reason they let you walk around this giant ass Hub World outside of carman's backyard and want nowhere near on the level of what the others had to offer I still appreciate having the ability to walk around Derek Street if there were something to actually find I understand that of course we're not going to have the amount of Freedom that's expected from an RPG but at the same time it's South Park in 3D of course I'd want to run around this place they've had a long almost 30-year history to pull from it was cool getting to explore the kids bedrooms and see all the props they've accumulated over the past 25 Seasons listening to the different tracks Tre has produced on the radio again it's something very pedantic to get over but sadly this only comes from the two of them having set the bar so high so when it's not here it ends up feeling as if something is missing from everything I've seen thus far it appears that the best phrase I can use to describe their riding and setup a snow day is s Park on autopilot there's no real effort here to break new Grind to do something that will blow people's minds not that it needs to but if their goal here is to do something at a much smaller scope then the last thing I would want to do is make any references to their previous material that actually tried to do something grind breaking and succeeded mind you I know I'm complaining a lot which doesn't seem fair considering I haven't even you know started level one and stuff but I really think I was mostly disappointed to see that snow dead just kind of starts s throws you in with little to no Fanfare spectacle apart from that janky but admittedly neat transition from 2D to 3D I don't know stick of truth and fractured but hole just had incredibly strong openings in my opinion so this one starting out with a drawn art BB tutorial and not even being all that funny to make up for it seems like a sign of things to come all right level one end okay I've avoided the white elephant in the room for long enough don't know what I'm talking about well I I want to show you something here is what the tutorial of snow day looks like here's the Hub world we just saw no here's level one notice anything I get it's called snow day and all but this really seems like an idea that was better in concept than execution because all these [ __ ] places look the same want to know why I know this every stage I just showed you completely random this is level one this is the tutorial and this is the Hub World fantastic and as we'll get into later this game's being sold with a season pass with the promise of future DLC stuff D the line so it sucks to know that they're all going to have to adhere to this snow dead gimmick when it would be way cooler to actually visit more places from the show or at least a couple areas that aren't just completely white you were almost never inside buildings in snowa it is primarily an outdoor adventure and so after a while your mind grows bored of looking at the same theme over and over again with hold to nothing breaking up the monotony of a screen that's 95% just [ __ ] white South park has snow I get that but it's never been on this level everywhere Blends together and I'm so baffled as to hi nobody in the team noticed this before making it the primary focus of the game the N64 scth Park game has better art Direction than this I'd argue anyway so to get back on our mission we got to find Kyle to put a stop to whatever plan he's in acting on Eric and so oh there he is right there cool here's where I got to give snow death some props I actually really do like the main idea behind each St and it's that at the start of every R the leaders of both forces meet to explain what perks their armies will have during the level you get two each time but the enemy can get an upwards of five at a time perfect this can go from them equipping all the foes with deadly bows and arrows laser swords Reviving some Fallen enemies turning them into vampires and sadly what you get isn't anywhere near is cool oh boy I can be like 5% bigger making it harder to evate attacks or shoot lasers out of my eyes they're next to pointless when fighting on Terin that isn't completely flat but I appreciate the idea I guess with the game as visually and as we're going to soon see mechanically repetitive of snow day this card system does a pretty good job at making each run feel a little varied you can even see in the hub world with Butters that there's a bunch of rule cards in here I feel like I only saw the same five or six through right my time with it but I'm sure they're neat what further builds upon this is the Jimmy and Henrietta pit stops you can get to throughout each stage they're everywhere only able to be interacted with after wiping out each hord of enemies which makes it really infuriating when the area is massive and some random kid is hiding around some somewhere AI most likely busted and unaware of where to go and so now you need to run all around the place looking for him or just pray they eventually despawn I have no idea why that would keep happening anyways with Jimmy you can equip one of three cards each of them giving you a different permanent perk such as adding a grind P to your fart move which I find useful even better when you stack them and get a card that allows your farts to suck enemies right below you setting them up perfectly to be crushed there's a different set of perks depending on which weapons and powerups you choose to go into battle with there's unfort Ely only a grand total of three melee and three long range weapons but they all feel pretty different even if I wish there were more guess I got to wait for the season pass upep toate boy video games sure are fun but the sheer amount of upgrades you can obtain for each weapon again helps with giving it some variety and you can even use your toilet paper to make the card a higher Rarity increasing whatever the effect is for a bit for example I can get a card that adds a Tesla coil effect onto my fire wand me can get incredibly overpowered or increase the range of my health totem you can equip a lot more powers of token after unlocking them but unfortunately I thought that the two default options health and the farke were more than useful enough for me to justify not trying any of the others all right maybe if I didn't unlock them so far in that I was already used to what I had and didn't want to risk switching them out for reasons I will get into later on the opposite end henr at his parrot cards are usually used for getting you ready for the next fees of the battle like replenishing your [ __ ] card uses are getting more toilet paper for your next Jimmy encounter this is the best aspect of the game in my opinion I and something that I wish I could see all of but again only five stages so [ __ ] me I guess something I'm really beginning to notice as I play through the first stage however is that the enemy variety [ __ ] sucks just to see kids copy and piece it all over the place which would be a little more excusable if they recorded more than five lines of dialogue for [Music] him ow can I have a do over don't get me wrong it was a sweet idea for Matt and Trey to let their kids voice the enemies in snow de Trey uses his daughter so often in the me and show that I could recognize her voice anywhere but by God it gets old if it were just for a couple enemies or hell even just stuck to one enemy type then I'd be fine with it who cares but they are everywhere often times repeating the same lines over each other constantly it doesn't help in each battle feeling incredibly repetitive which is definitely not further helped by the combat you you can do all of three things in snow de a basic combo your long ranged weapon of choice and a jumping attack that's all you're going to be doing here throughout each and every level with stage one it seems like they're trying to make the variety come from your objective like this part where you find Randy trapped underneath Stark's Pond needing to find gas in the keys for a truck to help him Escape but it's just a glorified fetch Quest the game may as well be standing you on a linear path because getting these items equit to nothing more than just wiping out every enemy in an area and taking it off whoever's back it was attached to and it's not you have the freedom to just rush in steal the item and run out of there you know it being your choice whether or not you want to kill all the enemies and be rewarded with a card from Jimmy at the end no because despite Cartman constantly telling you to stop what you're doing and grab the item pick up that loot and let's get back to fighting the elves I'm working on it but once you have the thing a new Mission pops up at the top of the screen informing you that you still have to defeat everyone meaning I know I have to make my way all the way back to the start of the area and fight through everyone again which I didn't do in the way because I wanted Cartman to stop [ __ ] yelling at me not having a good time going to be real this is getting boring got that right this wouldn't be a huge deal or anything but these levels drag out for eaches just the same waves of enemies over and over again for what feels like an eternity it never feels as if there's any progression for so long because you're just fighting endless waves with the same bad guys in the same [ __ ] locations I'm only on the first level yet it feels like it's been going on for an hour with no end inside I make long levels if you want whatever as long as it's fun but if you know your stage is this [ __ ] long then the one thing that you definitely wouldn't want to do to evoke fatigue in your players is to advant to them how long they've been doing this for by having the music end you sit in silence for a bit and then the song starts from the beginning again that is inexcusable this is some crash the Wrath of Cortex [ __ ] right there and God the sign design is a [ __ ] whole other issue not only does it have that glorious repeating music but we've also got some truly terrible sign effects in here like the [ __ ] Minecraft walking son while traveling on ice but on top of all that for almost every single cut scene here the audio is completely out of sync they're my secret army we're attacking you before you attack us what are you talking about my spies saw your army me gearing up for battle your spies what the [ __ ] are you talking about yeah you're yeah your spies KY they your spies are getting ready for battle this is a constant throughout most of the game not to mention the terrible mixing I don't know if it's because they recorded last minute lines at home or something but sometimes the characters sound like they're talking through a [ __ ] tin can even worse is they attempt to have the characters speak and come off as if they're in the room with you especially while wearing headphones and so certain characters can only be heard from one side but they didn't bother mapping it to whatever side the character is physically standing on again you're only going to notice this if you're wearing headphones where's the raccon sponsor when I need it but at the start of the level we have Kyle on the left side and Cartman on the right would only make sense for Cartman's voice to come from the right side and Kyle's to come from the left right left but no check this out blers explosive barels was this a rush job why did it come out like this you'd at least think with the little amount of content present here it it would the very least be polished and I can't believe I feel to mention this at all so far but you're not alone in this Adventure no instead there is mandatory co-op with the requirement of you having three players with you during your run I never bothered trying out the matchmaking since I don't want that to affect my Impressions or anything and God knows I don't have three friends willing to drop $30 on this [ __ ] or three friends but thankfully if you don't have real people to play with you the game will automatically assign you three AI characters and boy they sure don't help at all they more often than not just stand R do a couple of Texs maybe then they die now I have to stop what I'm doing because Cartman won't stop chastising Me by not Reviving my teammate and find a way over to them for an epic fortnite revive all while avoiding the enemies because God know if I perish these [ __ ] aren't going to be jumping in front of no bullets for me too busy staring at the [ __ ] Sun doing a whole lad of nothing whatever at least appears that I'm approaching the end of the stage [ __ ] finally it's only taken an hour where you get ambushed under Stark's Pond by The Elves and God does it suddenly Mak sense why that CHS to rarely lock you inside en closed areas because well look at this it's a visual mess not helped by every single character bleeding together at least in an RPG most of the kids being used from the cmbs didn't affect anything since it was clear where everything was you're here enemy here go but here it's just a bunch of bobbleheads whacking together I can't tell what's going on if I'm winning or not especially because my stats just [ __ ] disappeared thank you oh God [ __ ] no not n like my controller just [ __ ] disconnected because my [ __ ] dog stood on my remote while it was plugged in and busted the cords and not just switches off randomly thanks dog I died oh my God [ __ ] please please my AI companion if there were any time for you to function it would be nigh please I begging you what the [ __ ] okay no big deal I guess I'll just respawn at the last checkpoint and don't let your ass get kicked by the [ __ ] El again man I have I have a reputation protect I have to do the whole thing over again there are no checkpoints in these hourlong stages of course why would there be I think I'm going to bed and that was my first experience with South Park Nota didn't leave a stellar first impression originally I was planning on powering through all this in one sitting but I think they've made it clear that that is not the way to go unless I wanted to end up putting my [ __ ] head through a wall this is why I never wanted to experiment with weapons or powerups because I know that if I pick a bad combo without knowing I would potentially have to Replay hours worth of gameplay and as I lay awake there trying to comprehend what the [ __ ] I Just plad one thought couldn't leave my head what happened here I talked about it earlier but Matt and TR seem to have such confidence behind their previous gaming projects even during their Comic-Con panel where they could not see more D trotten Tre claiming to perpetually be in the staties and right before a new episode releases where he worries it's the worst thing he's ever made but it's clear that came from a place of care he wanted it to be good and for his efforts to pay off so badly that the thought of folks not liking it made him miserable but here I don't know I just don't see it I remember first hearing about this scheme when Matt and Tres signed on for that $900 million deal with paramite to start making the specials for them for the next 7 years I think this video game was a part of that contract and honestly it makes total sense why there seems to be such a lack of passion behind this project if that's the KE Stick of Truth came from their desire to redeem their reputation in the video game market and make something they would have wanted to play fractured but hole came from their attempt to take criticism from The Stick of Truth into a kind wanting to top themselves where snow death seems to have come from signing a contract saying they would the brunt of the work here seems to be on THQ Nordic end with mant and Tre checking in every now and then to give input not being able to dedicate all their time to it because not only are they busy having to make a season of scth park each year but also two hourlong specials and they just got done opening their new restaurant which seems to have taken up most of their focus over the past couple years and our THQ Nordic are a talented Studio sure I'm incredibly excited for their upcoming Epic Mickey remake but at the same time I think the overall plan for snow Das seems way more ambitious than anything they've attempted before see South Park snow day is not just your regular GM it's this terrible little thing known as a live service game this is the last thing I would have expected from them considering TR seemed very adamant during the Stick of truths release to that DLC was lame and that they didn't want to do it and everyone kept saying that word to us not word that phrase to us not phase those letters to us DLC and they're like oh just make a DLC I agree [ __ ] that there's a few ideas along the way that we've kind of peeled off and said okay we're going to make that like DLC freshed but ho had a couple pieces but at the very least it was an entirely new story it felt like a worthy add-on but here not so much live service is basically just DLC but it sprinkled out to you over the course of however many months with the payment being made up front of course buy the content first then decide if it was worth your money and the best part is because it's part of an existing game no refunds better play it anywhere to get your money's worth this has since become the trend for games where you release a product with an intentionally small amount of content to bring players in and then have them purchase a season pass to obtain new content whenever they're done with it the only problem is when you make your game like this you need to make sure it's good enough for people to be willing to Shell out more money for more content whether it be weapons cosmetic items are what Snow dead desperately needs more of levels with how many games are do doing this now I just can't see South Park sow Dead doing enough new to Warrant a majority of Gamers adding yet another subscription to their ever growing list and with no players buying the season pass there's less money to put into the game and less money means less content and less content leaves you with a husk of something that could have been a lot cooler if they just put more time into it enough time to wen't buying it for a full 60 because while $30 is a good price for a regular game these days it feels to consider most of these live service games are free with all the money coming in from the season season passes but with South Park after buying the season pass you've now almost spent as much as you would have on an actual AAA release all for the promise of getting more content leader on the line and with the way things are looking n all we have by the end of 2024 is more costumes two new weapons and a new game mode which presumably won't have a story like the main Campion so what motivation is for me to keep playing to rise the leaderboards or do battle with my friends well news flash the game has been out for a week now and the player Beast hasn't managed to crack an alltime peak of not even 4,000 players that sounds like a lot in theory but remember I have to imagine maybe like 5% of these people are going to be invested enough to buy the season pass what's going to happen a month after the Keem is released or 6 months or a year with a seemingly minimal amount of content being added over the course of the year I can't imagine it's going to bring in many new players and it's only a matter of time before the current player b gets bored of replaying the same five levels or basic fights against a couple waves of enemies that they're already fighting in the story mode okay well whatever the pass is in the past it's a new day and I'm going to try to go into this again with an open mind you know what's funny is I didn't even notice there was a whole other side to the hub World here when I first played it with Craig and tweaks bezar for alternate outfits and oh [ __ ] Mr Hanky feel like it's been forever since we've seen him he lets you use these dark matter jars you find throughout the levels to upgrade your skill tree increasing your damage Health stanina you it's a little interesting I guess these slightly higher stats seem to be just what I needed to get through the first level honestly it was no [ __ ] sweat this time especially after after swapping out that dinky ass bow for a fire attack I also learned that if you use your fire to escape and then shoot the cloud with your fire it ignites and damages all the enemies and its radius you that's neat I wish there were more Elemental stuff like this where I can actually think about what would be best for me in the moment not to mention it's a fun and uh cool I did manage to get to the boss fight with Kyle this time which ended up being the most fun I've ever had so far in this whole thing I don't like that he has the power to teleport all over the bloody place at will but the mechanics in snow death seem much more intuitive and enjoyable when I'm aimed at a single f with a set amount of patterns I can learn and figure out what would be best for me in the moment also the first time in the game that I actually laughed that's something [ __ ] you Cartman I think maybe the reason why folks are criticizing this game's comedy is sadly once again because of the RPGs obviously those things are going to be jam-packed with cut scenes and dialogue and jokes meaning there's more opportunity to make you laugh you know they could shoot art 20 jokes to you in a minute at least one was F to be funny compared to snowdale which cut scene in mind peels in comparison so of course there's going to be less opportunity to make you laugh and when a joke feels to land you got to sit on it for like an hour till the next cut scene arrives after beating Kyle were informed that he actually didn't plan any attack on Cartman and that Stan is the one behind this endless winter apparently having gone mad and so now with Kyle on our side it's off to see what's up with him from here each level despite not breaking out of the snow theming at least makes an effort to explore a different area in time we visit the rooftops of Mean Street HS Pass Hospital the ruins of soda soopa [ __ ] I wish there were more of that near the beginning level three and five in particular I think are real highlights because there's a way more clear goal in mind both of which have you Skilling to the top of buildings makes it feel like you've actually progressed the further you get up and see how far the drop below is it's not a vast Improvement or anything you're still just whacking the same crids of enemies for the most part but there's a lot of little things that I'm starting to notice like this that I kind of like my throat's [ __ ] Dy like realizing all the characters are going to have their own unique factions with different designs representing the character well except for Kenny as we soon see Stan deploy him uh her to defeat you stand moving on to the next level as Kenny n represents the flag stolen a mission 2 Little Liam but whatever it was still fun again the one-on-one fights are my favorite part of snow day by a long shot something worth commenting on is how I think as the game goes on the graphics and designs of these locations are given much more opportunity to impress I think these levels look best when there's a bunch of colored lights surrounding you in the night it contrasts nicely against the snow and it almost makes certain levels stand apart from others almost really my biggest issue at this point in how snowdale looks would have to be the character models themselves when trans leading the characters to 3D you're going to end up losing a lot of that charm if anything this game just ends up looking like a fully realized version of that Old South Park Xbox game that got cancelled they can't stand at 3/4 angles and so you're always staring at their slapped on sticker face with their eyes wrapping around their heads along with their Silhouettes being seriously hindered like look at Kyle's trapper hat I just learned it had an name it doesn't stick out nearly enough he looks wet too foxy along with Butter's hair having to fall flat in his head instead of sticking eye reminds me of these Liam BB toys I had as a kid it's the best I could do and it's clear that with scth Park Studios is being enlisted to animate every single cut scene so the 3D animators could use it as a reference you know there was a lot of effort in here to make it feithful to the show but it just didn't work out too well in my opinion not bad but not good I wonder if in the future they could try and emulate a Mickey mice ear effect when appropriate giving features like Butters hairdo or st's puffball the ability to follow the camera making sure it's always front facing who knows how that would look in practice though I ain't no [ __ ] 3D modeler or hell just make the game look like the newest intro the show they've been using for like a decade and are it looks fantastic and I'm sure folks would love a playable version of that it would look fantastic but I understand that probably wouldn't heal yet again changing the genre but I wouldn't be shedding a tear over it well anyways after defeating Stan we learned that he's been put under what's essentially mind control filling him with Ridge and just what's been doing all this or who ever since I got that dark matter stuff from Mr Hanky I just felt like different and what did you say I got this dark matter stuff for my Axe and I just felt so powerful that I thought I could from Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo yeah don't you guys remember Mr Hanky was kicked out of town by the entire town everyone turned on him wait what the [ __ ] oh that's right I completely forgot that Mr Hanky got kicked out of the show like 6 years ago finally we're getting a followup to that Random episode for some reason 6 years later honestly this perked me right back up the game story finally showing a spark of life with the boys realizing that Mr Hanky has returned for revenge on the T poisoning everyone with his dark met [ __ ] it's [ __ ] right it's going to be [ __ ] Cartman even briefly betrays the group to join forces with Mr Hanky never wanting to return to school which made for a fun double twist that stage kind of [ __ ] sucks though all the enemies by this point are getting really strong with poisoned adults not joining among the fighting children but I mainly hate it because once again they [ __ ] act as if you can skip past all the enemies when you're still expected to beat them all when we find Eric the mission thing tells you to catch Cartman and this [ __ ] can run and so I'm chasing him all the way to the end of the area he gets away because it's an automated sequence and it tells you that you can't progress until you defeat all the enemies but you told me to catch Cartman whatever the bull roog fight at the end was really cool even if that's not bull roog but whatever honestly if they wanted to make this game bigger and honestly better why couldn't it just have been a single player adventure with each me and kid and T getting their own level with them as the final boss each kid has separated into their own Army and the only way to bring them to yours as the new kid is to kick their ass not just me and four boys either Craig tweak Jimmy tolken I don't know Timmy even the more you play the more you wind up building your own clan of scyth Park kids with you being able to swap out three at a time kind of like fresher but whole each kid having different skills and attributes basically what I'm saying is South Park Kingdom Hearts admittedly the combat does get better as you go on though once you begin getting more Jimmy card options for your new weapons it's really easy to get overpowered in a level if your luck is right but thankfully it's balanced enough to where you getting a bad selection doesn't automatically mean you won't have a chance and the more I go on and the more I start to get a handle of this cycle they're going for the more I'm finding myself actually starting to enjoy this unfortunately however the Mr Hanky boss fight at the end was a bit of a leton the design is cool and I like that the goal is to get toilet paper off the little ones and shoot it at him from cannons but goes by way to quick and and super antil climatically either way with that the game is over even Ends by giving a conclusion to that Mr Hanky stuff with Jesus kind of just showing up to express disappointment for them for not being more willing to forgive Mr Hanky for those problematic tweets that he made and with that they apologize and everyone is friends again huzzah Mr Hanky are willing to make it a snow de whenever the boys wine which I find to be a fun way of letting the game have a definitive ending while giving an in Universe reason for why it continues to snow I'm losing my voice from all that screaming earlier saying that though there's nothing really to do n you're informed there's this Nicole thing random character where you can find her in levels and get to do something it claims it will make things super hard but I'm not sure if that's the entire level or just certain parts I don't really feel like fine night and I've not seen a single YouTube video showing it off so I guess that's it right for n at least I can't say I'm surprised how short it was again given the price tag but five levels I can't get past that snow death feels as if it's ending right when it's starting to begin it feels as if there's so much untapped potential here especially given how much enjoyment I got out of the last couple levels I really think snow da at its best when it's leaning into what little variety it can offer like stage 3 giving you specific missions like lighting yourself on on fire while lighting these beacons up the tower or again five having you travel up the hospital snowdale works when it's disguising the fact that you're basically just mashing the same two button combos for 5 hours but unfortunately I don't think it reaches that potential very often I wish this game could have been made in a day where live service stuff wasn't the trend hell I think if this was released on the PS2 and the 2000s it would have been one of those games that tries to shove in as many different styles as it can driving combat shooting collectathon all of which would be equal amounts of media Jer but in this day and age in 2024 games just don't seem to be that simple anymore now you have to buy season passes to truly get your money's worth and if not then try to get some enjoyment out of the same five levels over and over have at it I just can't see this game being very successful enough to make more story content I haven't seen a single soul talking about this gamee unless it's to say how bad it is the only audience here is existing South Park fans whereas I'd argue anybody could love the Stick of Truth or fractured but whole simply because they're good GS but at the very least I hope this doesn't deter matre from trying their hand at another video game in the future if anything I hope this gives them the motivation to want to improve upon what didn't work about this one but can you realistically start development on another project while expecting folks to continue spending money on the last one or do you just call it quits and move past it while pissing off the people who did bother spending the season pass money on snow day they've put all their eggs in one basket and with how busy the Duos seem to be along with frankly just being a lot older now you know the sick of truth is 10 years old I'm really uncertain what the future South Park games hold but at the very least I pray that this isn't what they go out on despite having a good bit of fun with the latter half of snow day I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone the only people who would want to play this thing have already bought it realistically there's just not enough here to Warrant the price along with there being just much better things to play right now and so with that uh that's [Music] [Applause] it [Music] a

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Id: AXeOKfQMFt4

Length: 38min 12sec (2292 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 03 2024