News

South Park The Fractured But Whole Gets Harder if Your Character is Black

South Park The Fractured But Whole Controversy!

South Park has never shied away from causing or creating controversy. The grass is also green. Yes, not exactly a massive revelation, however, one perhaps just worth reminding yourself of before you read any further.

I vaguely recall an episode of South Park where the running theme was ‘I’m not touching that with a pole’. I kind of feel the same way about this.

South Park The Fractured But Whole is one of the most anticipated titles of the year. Following the highly successful (and much better than any one expected) Stick of Truth, the hype has been building around the sequel since.

We did report a little while ago that the developers were expressing a concern that the new game wasn’t offensive enough. Well, if this new rumour is confirmed to be true, they don’t have to worry too much about that.

So, how exactly is picking a black character harder?

Well, apparently, the developers have decided to base the game’s difficulty on the colour of your characters skin. Yes, if you pick a white character the game is set to easy and if you pick a black character it is set to ‘very difficult’.

This is a rather ‘unique’ take on a difficulty scale and one would imagine, a rather satirical one. I am, at this point, being very careful in picking my wording to elaborate any further on the point. I did check to see if the report, via Kotatu, appears to be genuine. Yes, it is genuine or at the very least, bears little to suggest it isn’t.

The bottom line is that it has people talking about the game and from a sales aspect, that’s never a bad thing. Let’s face it too, who is left for South Park to offend?

The irony as I see it from a critical stand point is that it’s a double-edged sword. If you complain about the use of skin colour as a difficulty measure, you could be accused, by proxy, of denying that the colour of your skin changes anything in life. If you find the concept comedic, then the social justice warriors are going to be labelling you a racist of some description.

It’s deliciously contrived and I love it.

For those of you intending to play this on PC, here’s a link to the specifications.

South Park The Fractured But Whole is set for release on October 17th. May God have mercy on your soul!

 

Mike Sanders

Disqus Comments Loading...

Recent Posts

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 Possible Price Revealed

According to a new report, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU will be very expensive. It…

3 hours ago

AMD Krackan Processor with 6 Zen 5 and Zen 5c Cores for Budget AI Laptops Leaked

A new AMD processor in the form of an engineering model has been leaked in…

3 hours ago

SK Hynix Begins Production of First 321-Layer NAND Chips

SK Hynix has claimed to be the first company to mass-produce 321-layer NAND memory chips.…

4 hours ago

Trust Gaming GXT 609 Zoxa 2.0 PC Speakers

SOUNDS GREAT – Full stereo sound (12W peak power) gives your setup a booming audio…

8 hours ago

PowerA Wired Controller for Nintendo Switch

Special Edition Yoshi design Ergonomic controller shape with Nintendo Switch button layout Detachable 10ft (3m)…

8 hours ago

Logitech G Saitek PRO Flight Rudder Pedals

Fluid Motion: These flight rudder pedals are smooth and accurate that enable precise control over…

8 hours ago