South Park Snow Day is a DISASTER!

nothing will ever compare to the

unbridled excitement I had waiting for

the release of South Park this stick of

truth I was 12 years old at the time in

my first year of high school and

probably at the height of my South Park

fandom I was collecting the old plushies

I would rewatch The Movie on DVD

constantly and just wanted to consume as

much of the franchise as humanly

possible and with that it led me wanting

something a good South Park game to play

I got the original Play Station shooter

for my birthday one year along with

sonico six happy birthday me but I could

not comprehend that thing I could not

get past level two so as soon as the

Stick of Truth was an on I was

immediately on board I don't care how

many delays I got to wait through well

wait okay I didn't mean it and boy was I

lucky to have it released the same month

as my birthday means I got to wait a

whole four weeks before I could play it

wowe I adored that game I had hundreds

of hours in it which is really

surprising considering how relatively

short it is for an RPG but I would

replay it constantly running through the

over and over again as all the different

classes loved it so much that it was

even one of the first Let's Plays I'd

ever uploaded to this channel this is uh

this is where I'd show it but I think I

got so embarrassed by them that I wiped

them off the face of the Earth so enjoy

this review of its sequel the fractured

butth hole instead me and my friend were

talking during class one day about what

a sequel to the game would be like and

we both agreed that if the game were to

ever get a sequel it should be a about

super right that's enough of that

speaking of the sequel also really

enjoyed that one too wasn't a fan of of

all the changes I think it lost a bit of

its Simplicity and it drags out a ton by

the end but for what it was I saw it as

nothing more but a worthy followup you

could just tell that Matt Stone and trap

Parker put so much work into these

projects making sure they were as

amazing as they came out to ensure the

franchise's gaming history could work

itself out of the shovelware bins and so

with that the question on everyone's

mind was what's next ninjas imagination

land something entirely new I can't we

it it feels like it's been forever since

the last South Park GM then we heard it

was going to be

3D all right seems like they made a big

deal during the Stick of truths

promotional speeches that a game

replicating the show's unique art style

would be the way to go moving forward

but okay we thought that they were

finally capable of doing a game that

looked just like the show that was sort

of the thing that excited us is you

could sit there and play the game and be

walking around the classroom or walking

around Cartman's backyard and if someone

was to walk in the room and watch you

play the game they would think you're

watching episode of South Park whatever

though maybe they just want to tackle a

gameplay style that wouldn't be possible

in merely two Dimensions I'm sure that

isn't an indicator of the quality here

I'm positive they're approaching this

with the same level of love and care

that they Pride themselves on I hope we

don't get a [ __ ] four on Game Spot

that's what I hope that'll piss me

off well you didn't get a four it was

Apparent from the very first trailer

that South Park snow day would be a

budget title it was no surprise to see

them adverti the fact that it was $30 so

heavily because if it were a full 60 I

think there would be riots on the street

because this [ __ ] isn't worth it I was

cautiously optimistic for snow day

admittedly not because I saw any glimmer

of hope in what they showed off but

instead because I didn't care that much

seemed to be an open-ish World hacking

slash the visuals looked uninteresting

and they never really did much to ConEd

potential players why they needed to get

this game what made it stand apart from

others and ultimately why it was a

worthy successor to the Stick of Truth

and fractured butthole why it was worth

changing genres I will say however the

biggest thing that got me worried about

snow day was the lack of enthusiasm on

Matt and tre's part for the other games

despite feeling as if they each took

forever to come out you could always

kind on the creators being there to talk

about it where they made it evident that

they were given these things they all as

much work as they would any other of

their projects but with snow we didn't

really get that there was the occasional

promotional video on the South Park

YouTube Channel where Trey looked as if

he were on a completely different planet

and for the IGN preview he was somewhere

else altogether I'm not trying to get

conspiratorial and say that they just

weren't all that invested in this

project but at the same time it's

undeniable that the hyper on the gem was

next to non-existent now Titan well

people don't like it to put it simple I

honestly wasn't going to get this scheme

I didn't get sent no dang free code and

that didn't really give me any reason to

think it was worth checking out but then

I got bored at 2 a.m. and thought [ __ ]

it and so now here I am is that really

what the start screen looks like anyways

I suppose with that it's time to delve

into South Park snow day to see if it's

a passionate per uh H is it a

disastrous is it good or bad also I got

a little announcement to make for years

now I've been fighting back against

uploading compilation videos on my main

Channel just because I don't like

muddying things with what's new and

what's old but I've really been

interested recently in doing bigger

compilations that compile all these

different videos about the same topic

because a lot of folks out there tell me

that they like to listen to my videos

when they asleep or when they're working

or studying and so I finally settled on

what I wanted to do and that's create

midnight Mark these are going to be

re-edited and touched up versions of

some of my older videos compiling them

together so you can listen to them in

the background doing whatever you do I

don't know I've edited out a majority of

the LI noises and find ways to connect

them all together so they're basically

just Mega videos for example on there

right now I have a 5 hour Five Nights at

Freddy's video which compiles my

original retrospective of all the games

along with the books and the movie to

try and make it one big seamless video

so if that sounds like something that

might interest you I plan on uploading

every week but let me know if there's

any specific compilations you'd want to

see on there and be sure to subscribe I

got a bunch of really highquality stuff

made for it like a whole new softer look

along with a new intro that I think

looks fantastic so subscribe to midnight

Mark and thanks for the

support one thing I appreciate about the

opening here is that they bothered

getting South Park Studios to actually

animated in high really for the duration

of this quite lengthy opening you could

completely treat it like another episode

of the show where we see a massive

blizzard head towards t with Cartman

praying to God to please let the T get

covered in the most snow it's ever had

just so he doesn't have to go to school

it's an incredibly endearing idea for a

South Park game on the surface Matt and

Trey always wanted to invoke a similar

feeling to Earth bind with these where

you would play as a blank kid traversing

this time by yourself things seeming so

much grander than they actually are in

reality and this concept lends itself

perfectly towards that with all apparent

snowed in and unable to go anywhere it

makes the entire you're twing the kids

play grind able to do whatever they want

with little to no interference I'm not

really into them going right back to the

wizard stuff with no explanation

fractured but Hol had a nice precedent

where you would assume each new game

would tackle a different genre from the

last but I have to assume they just went

with this for marketing reasons which is

a little sad everyone's designs are

simply one toone copied from The Stick

of Truth kind of Eed in the feeling that

this game didn't know what it wanted to

do to stand apart I'm also not too clear

on why they thought doing a Co parody

would be the way to go for their brand

new gum from the way everyone in

Universe talks about the snowstorm it's

pretty evident this is meant to be a

take on Co you know which they already

did but not everyone is stuck in their

houses and toilet paper has become the

new form of currency biting but really

all of that is kind of relevant again

it's just an excuse to have all the kids

and time playing with each other again

after the new kid ruined the previous

two by getting way too op yeah despite

the change in genre and well di menion

snow day is still following the events

of the RPGs you're once again put right

back at square one with everybody being

incredibly pissed off at you and so now

it's time to join the grand wizard

Cartman's

faction again as Clyde has informed Eric

that the Elven Army led by Kyle is

planning an attack on their Kingdom

they're not really after anything this

time but uh and with that we're dropped

into a short tutorial and by short of

course I mean 15 minutes long I guess

it's to teach us how to deal with this

new fangled dimension I like the idea

for it though you go on a short journey

to school where you have to walk through

the destroyed building Mr Macky locked

inside in the game slowly telling you

more and more about what you can do in

this new adventure I'm a little sad that

you don't get to explore it all here but

whatever I get it's something new more

linear overall the tutorial is a decent

time but I think it really has the

potential to make people have a super

negative first

impression hey what the [ __ ] return fire

return fire what who is that that can't

be matter Trey it sounds like someone

doing a bad Eric Cartman impression I

think I think this literally might just

be one of the developers inserting their

own

impression okay there's something I'm

going to talk about way more later but

this is definitely one of those games

where you start incredibly underpowered

painfully so and so having to control

the new kid with only two measy weak

weapons with little to no difference in

how you approach each fight kind of

shows how quickly it takes for this game

to become repetitive it's not a good

sign when I start getting bored of the

mean cycle during the tutorial but on

the more positive side your character

controls all right seeing high they

running 3D will never not be jarring but

turning jumping all feels fine except

for running running [ __ ] sucks I

think I was Elite to realizing this game

was most likely intended to be played

with a keyboard and mice honestly what

it reminded me of while playing was

fornite of all

things damn damn I'm kind of nasty but

it does this annoying ass thing where

your character's walking speed is

incredibly slow with you having a run

button and stamina meter really like

that you have infinite stamina when not

in battle too that's a great feature

however you can only run while pressing

directly in front of you meaning if you

want to run to the left or right to

dodge [ __ ] you're [ __ ] you're going to

go right back to walking again this

wouldn't be a big deal playing with a

keyboard and mice since you can more

easily move the camera while

multitasking but on a controller where

the run is attached to the circle button

it makes it really obnoxious to have to

use one finger to hold that darn while

using your thumb to move the camera all

always disrupted me [ __ ] pissed me

off but whatever controls still are fine

for the most part combat feels all right

even if the bow takes forever to use and

does a little to no damage but things

seem to be at the very least decent so

far and with that we're dropped into the

Hub world you can customize your new kid

here although there's not much variety

when you start I went with fantesia at

Mickey mice you can also choose your

weapons with tolken again one option but

what you're supposed to do here is talk

to Eric who will give you a list of uh

five missions to to conquer and upon

choosing you walk to this little snowb

which will loow you in this is not what

I did though I ran around this Hub world

for each just seeing what I could find

anwers nothing for some reason they let

you walk around this giant ass Hub World

outside of carman's backyard and want

nowhere near on the level of what the

others had to offer I still appreciate

having the ability to walk around Derek

Street if there were something to

actually find I understand that of

course we're not going to have the

amount of Freedom that's expected from

an RPG but at the same time it's South

Park in 3D of course I'd want to run

around this place they've had a long

almost 30-year history to pull from it

was cool getting to explore the kids

bedrooms and see all the props they've

accumulated over the past 25 Seasons

listening to the different tracks Tre

has produced on the radio again it's

something very pedantic to get over but

sadly this only comes from the two of

them having set the bar so high so when

it's not here it ends up feeling as if

something is missing from everything

I've seen thus far it appears that the

best phrase I can use to describe their

riding and setup a snow day is s Park on

autopilot there's no real effort here to

break new Grind to do something that

will blow people's minds not that it

needs to but if their goal here is to do

something at a much smaller scope then

the last thing I would want to do is

make any references to their previous

material that actually tried to do

something grind breaking and succeeded

mind you I know I'm complaining a lot

which doesn't seem fair considering I

haven't even you know started level one

and stuff but I really think I was

mostly disappointed to see that snow

dead just kind of starts s throws you in

with little to no Fanfare spectacle

apart from that janky but admittedly

neat transition from 2D to 3D I don't

know stick of truth and fractured but

hole just had incredibly strong openings

in my opinion so this one starting out

with a drawn art BB tutorial and not

even being all that funny to make up for

it seems like a sign of things to come

all right level one

end okay I've avoided the white elephant

in the room for long enough don't know

what I'm talking about well I I want to

show you something here is what the

tutorial of snow day looks like here's

the Hub world we just saw no here's

level one notice anything I get it's

called snow day and all but this really

seems like an idea that was better in

concept than execution because all these

[ __ ] places look the same want to

know why I know this every stage I just

showed you completely random this is

level one this is the tutorial and this

is the Hub World fantastic and as we'll

get into later this game's being sold

with a season pass with the promise of

future DLC stuff D the line so it sucks

to know that they're all going to have

to adhere to this snow dead gimmick when

it would be way cooler to actually visit

more places from the show or at least a

couple areas that aren't just completely

white you were almost never inside

buildings in snowa it is primarily an

outdoor adventure and so after a while

your mind grows bored of looking at the

same theme over and over again with hold

to nothing breaking up the monotony of a

screen that's 95% just [ __ ] white

South park has snow I get that but it's

never been on this level everywhere

Blends together and I'm so baffled as to

hi nobody in the team noticed this

before making it the primary focus of

the game the N64 scth Park game has

better art Direction than this I'd argue

anyway so to get back on our mission we

got to find Kyle to put a stop to

whatever plan he's in acting on Eric and

so oh there he is right there cool

here's where I got to give snow death

some props I actually really do like the

main idea behind each St and it's that

at the start of every R the leaders of

both forces meet to explain what perks

their armies will have during the level

you get two each time but the enemy can

get an upwards of five at a time perfect

this can go from them equipping all the

foes with deadly bows and arrows laser

swords Reviving some Fallen enemies

turning them into vampires and sadly

what you get isn't anywhere near is cool

oh boy I can be like 5% bigger making it

harder to evate attacks or shoot lasers

out of my eyes they're next to pointless

when fighting on Terin that isn't

completely flat but I appreciate the

idea I guess with the game as visually

and as we're going to soon see

mechanically repetitive of snow day this

card system does a pretty good job at

making each run feel a little varied you

can even see in the hub world with

Butters that there's a bunch of rule

cards in here I feel like I only saw the

same five or six through right my time

with it but I'm sure they're neat what

further builds upon this is the Jimmy

and Henrietta pit stops you can get to

throughout each stage they're everywhere

only able to be interacted with after

wiping out each hord of enemies which

makes it really infuriating when the

area is massive and some random kid is

hiding around some somewhere AI most

likely busted and unaware of where to go

and so now you need to run all around

the place looking for him or just pray

they eventually despawn I have no idea

why that would keep happening anyways

with Jimmy you can equip one of three

cards each of them giving you a

different permanent perk such as adding

a grind P to your fart move which I find

useful even better when you stack them

and get a card that allows your farts to

suck enemies right below you setting

them up perfectly to be crushed there's

a different set of perks depending on

which weapons and powerups you choose to

go into battle with there's unfort Ely

only a grand total of three melee and

three long range weapons but they all

feel pretty different even if I wish

there were more guess I got to wait for

the season pass upep toate boy video

games sure are fun but the sheer amount

of upgrades you can obtain for each

weapon again helps with giving it some

variety and you can even use your toilet

paper to make the card a higher Rarity

increasing whatever the effect is for a

bit for example I can get a card that

adds a Tesla coil effect onto my fire

wand me can get incredibly overpowered

or increase the range of my health totem

you can equip a lot more powers of token

after unlocking them but unfortunately I

thought that the two default options

health and the farke were more than

useful enough for me to justify not

trying any of the others all right maybe

if I didn't unlock them so far in that I

was already used to what I had and

didn't want to risk switching them out

for reasons I will get into later on the

opposite end henr at his parrot cards

are usually used for getting you ready

for the next fees of the battle like

replenishing your [ __ ] card uses are

getting more toilet paper for your next

Jimmy encounter this is the best aspect

of the game in my opinion I and

something that I wish I could see all of

but again only five stages so [ __ ] me I

guess something I'm really beginning to

notice as I play through the first stage

however is that the enemy variety

[ __ ] sucks just to see kids copy and

piece it all over the place which would

be a little more excusable if they

recorded more than five lines of

dialogue for

[Music]

him

ow can I have a do over don't get me

wrong it was a sweet idea for Matt and

Trey to let their kids voice the enemies

in snow de Trey uses his daughter so

often in the me and show that I could

recognize her voice anywhere but by God

it gets old if it were just for a couple

enemies or hell even just stuck to one

enemy type then I'd be fine with it who

cares but they are everywhere often

times repeating the same lines over each

other constantly it doesn't help in each

battle feeling incredibly repetitive

which is definitely not further helped

by the combat you you can do all of

three things in snow de a basic combo

your long ranged weapon of choice and a

jumping attack that's all you're going

to be doing here throughout each and

every level with stage one it seems like

they're trying to make the variety come

from your objective like this part where

you find Randy trapped underneath

Stark's Pond needing to find gas in the

keys for a truck to help him Escape but

it's just a glorified fetch Quest the

game may as well be standing you on a

linear path because getting these items

equit to nothing more than just wiping

out every enemy in an area and taking it

off whoever's back it was attached to

and it's not you have the freedom to

just rush in steal the item and run out

of there you know it being your choice

whether or not you want to kill all the

enemies and be rewarded with a card from

Jimmy at the end no because despite

Cartman constantly telling you to stop

what you're doing and grab the item pick

up that loot and let's get back to

fighting the elves I'm working on it but

once you have the thing a new Mission

pops up at the top of the screen

informing you that you still have to

defeat everyone meaning I know I have to

make my way all the way back to the

start of the area and fight through

everyone again which I didn't do in the

way because I wanted Cartman to stop

[ __ ] yelling at me not having a good

time going to be real this is getting

boring got that right this wouldn't be a

huge deal or anything but these levels

drag out for eaches just the same waves

of enemies over and over again for what

feels like an eternity it never feels as

if there's any progression for so long

because you're just fighting endless

waves with the same bad guys in the same

[ __ ] locations I'm only on the first

level yet it feels like it's been going

on for an hour with no end inside I make

long levels if you want whatever as long

as it's fun but if you know your stage

is this [ __ ] long then the one thing

that you definitely wouldn't want to do

to evoke fatigue in your players is to

advant to them how long they've been

doing this for by having the music end

you sit in silence for a bit and then

the song starts from the beginning

again that is inexcusable this is some

crash the Wrath of Cortex [ __ ] right

there and God the sign design is a

[ __ ] whole other issue not only does

it have that glorious repeating music

but we've also got some truly terrible

sign effects in here like the [ __ ]

Minecraft walking son while traveling on

ice but on top of all that for almost

every single cut scene here the audio is

completely out of sync they're my secret

army we're attacking you before you

attack us what are you talking about my

spies saw your army me gearing up for

battle your spies what the [ __ ] are you

talking about yeah you're yeah your

spies KY they your spies are getting

ready for battle this is a constant

throughout most of the game not to

mention the terrible mixing I don't know

if it's because they recorded last

minute lines at home or something but

sometimes the characters sound like

they're talking through a [ __ ] tin

can even worse is they attempt to have

the characters speak and come off as if

they're in the room with you especially

while wearing headphones and so certain

characters can only be heard from one

side but they didn't bother mapping it

to whatever side the character is

physically standing on

again you're only going to notice this

if you're wearing headphones where's the

raccon sponsor when I need it but at the

start of the level we have Kyle on the

left side and Cartman on the right would

only make sense for Cartman's voice to

come from the right side and Kyle's to

come from the left right left but no

check this out

blers explosive barels was this a rush

job why did it come out like this you'd

at least think with the little amount of

content present here it it would the

very least be polished and I can't

believe I feel to mention this at all so

far but you're not alone in this

Adventure no instead there is mandatory

co-op with the requirement of you having

three players with you during your run I

never bothered trying out the

matchmaking since I don't want that to

affect my Impressions or anything and

God knows I don't have three friends