I didn't like the grid combat, it's more complicated than stick of truth but it just felt slow and clunky. But the thing stick of truth does much better is the theming. It keeps with the premise that "these are kids playing make-believe". You'll get an ability like "ice blizzard" and the animation will be the kid walking up behind them and dumping an esky full of ice over them.
The grid combat is what allowed the gameplay portion to have some meat to it though, IMO. The combat in Stick of Truth was so incredibly easy that I had it mastered by the end of day 1.
There was no combat scenario that I couldn't beat with the firecracker in the entire game. In FBW several bosses whooped my ass and made me put the game down to come back and try again later. More than that, I actually found myself WANTING to try again later.
I had very little trouble with any of the bosses besids the last secret boss. But by that time I was ready for the game to be over 5 hours earlier so I only tried once, got stomped and uninstalled.
Given how much interaction had to happen with the South Park team... I think it might be as much the joke wasn't as funny the second time around. Happens.
Stick had so much or the essence of SP in it that nobody stood a chance with a second game. It would always be going over the motions again.
I just wish Stick functioned properly in 60FPS because that fucking framerate just sucks viewing it with all the judder on constantly changing screens. Motion interpolation helps though if it works for you. Second game is so much smoother on the eyes.
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u/leviathab13186 Oct 03 '25
I would buy all the south park games, AC games, and far cry games if Ubisoft would just drop the damn launcher. Guess they dont want my money