Friday, 18 February 2022 21:39

Future South Park Games Should Have More Expansive Maps

Written by Jeff Barnes
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South Park RPGs were lauded for being like interactive episodes of the show, and future games should develop the titular town even further.

Since video games went from a niche hobby to mainstream entertainment, adapting works from other media has been a standard practice. From the days of Atari to the gaming culture of today, most successful works in pop culture have inevitably come with a form of licensed games. Because licensed games are often made to profit off of these works’ popularity, their direction can be shallow. South Park, a late 90s cultural phenomenon and one of the longest-running animated series of all time, was not spared from this. South Park games were notorious for earning the ire of the show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but two decades into the show’s run a pair of RPGs - The Stick of Truth and The Fractured but Whole - were made under their supervision.

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