South Park: The Stick of Truth

Trey Parker and Matt Stone lead the way on the South Park video game we've always wanted.

South Park: The Stick of Truth is as simplistic as role-playing games come, but it captures the spirit of the animated show's riotous raunch.

A fun, polished, handcrafted RPG attached to a genuinely funny 15-hour-long South Park episode.

Obsidian finds a happy home in South Park

Stick of Truth is South Park's Arkham Asylum--a triumph of a licensed game that manages to fit in line with the franchise while paving new ground in gaming. In this case, the new ground is dick jokes--still, innovation is innovation.

Impresses as both a game and a comedy piece

It is at once the South Park game we've been waiting for since the series started 17 years ago, and a cluster of stupid mistakes and bad balancing that we'd hoped Obsidian had put behind them.

Though Stick of Truth still suffers from a number of glitches and technical issues that won't be fixed any time soon, it's a great game, and it's worth your time nonetheless.

Benefitting from the performance tweaks made by the transition from old-gen to current-gen hardware - and the same smooth mapping of its controls to the Joy-Con - South Park: The Stick of Truth proves itself just as good a fit on Nintendo Switch as South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Both a pastiche of classic RPG tropes and a wonderfully empowering example of how to make a great modern example of the genre, this is still one of Obsidian's best exports and as authentic as any episode of the cult TV show it's so closely tied to.

Obsidian nail South Park with one of the most faithful license adaptations ever - and make a cracking RPG to boot.