South Park: The Stick of Truth Previews

A couple of new (albeit brief) previews and a list of “not-at-all-confirmed” bosses for Obsidian Entertainment’s South Park: The Stick of Truth are inhabiting the web this evening.

We’ll start with preview #1 at GameSplurge:

South Park had really became an intellectual property that I had given up all but forgotten about in the gaming world. Although the show had spawned a few unimpressive titles in the past, I had personally overlooked them and thought little about an exceptional game being developed using the South Park license. However, when the first trailer debuted at E3 the game immediately caught my interest. First off, The Stick of Truth is being developed by a highly respected RPG developer in the industry, Obsidian Entertainment, who are best known for titles such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout: New Vegas. Also, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are writing the script for the game, overseeing the project, and providing the voices of the characters.

In the trailers that we’ve seen for The Stick of Truth the presentation looks fantastic and holds true to the series which was an important topic of discussion in the first meeting between the creators and Obsidian where it was decided that the game would only be made if it could faithfully represent the show’s unique 2D look.

Then move to preview #2 at Plus XP:

In this role playing adventure you play as the new kid at South park elementary who is trying to make their way up the social ladder. As you start in your simple quest however, the school breaks out into a city-wide live action role playing game. This role playing game soon turns nasty, leading to an epic battle between good and evil that could poetically consume the whole planet.

The Stick of Truth is a turn based RPG where you control a party of South park characters. In an interview with Game Informer Obsidian’s lead designer Matt MacLean said that the Stick of Truth takes a lot of its inspiration from the ever so popular RPG Final Fantasy VII, which makes the game sound even more appealing.

And finish things off with Gaming Illustrated’s antagonist prediction:

Dark Horse Candidate: Evil Jesus.

.from the Good-Cartman-dimension featured in the episode (Spookyfish). Parker and Stone are notorious and, in a way, respected for their willingness to drag anything and everything through the mud for a good hard laugh, and what’s more knee-slappingly blasphemous than an evil King of Kings? (Evil Jeeze) could even bring Stan’s homicidal goldfish along for the ride. Terrorizing our heroes with confusing doppelgangers and a murderous fish? Win!

Eric Cartman

He is, after all, South Park’s ultimate villain the worst of the worst, a sick, mentally-deranged cancer of a human being who never seems to grow from his failures. A monster that made a juvenile-minded enemy consume the flesh of his own dead parents. In the end, Cartman signifies all that is wrong with the town, and why we love it: he’s so much fun to hate. And admit it we’re all more than ready to pound the crap out of the little beefcake!