South Park Snow Day Review (PlayStation 5)

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South Park Snow Day Review, Join Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, in three-dimensional glory, to celebrate the most magical day in any young child’s life – a snow day! A massive blizzard has thrown the town into chaos and, more importantly, canceled school. Play with up to three friends, use matchmaking, or solo the game with ally bots and battle through the snow-piled town of South Park. Engage in frenetic, action-packed combat against warring factions in an all-new story where you make the rules. Equip unique weapons and deploy devastating, upgradable special abilities on a new adventure to save the world and enjoy a day without school.

South Park Snow Day Review Pros:

  • Nice graphics.
  • 27.29GB download size.
  • Platinum trophy.
  • Has its own in-game achievements and rewards system.
  • Graphics settings – motion blur, brightness slider, and field of view slider.
  • Accessibility options – subtitles, combat subtitles, subtitles size, subtitles bar opacity, colorblind mode, colorblind blindness strength, floating health bars, floating health bar size, and auto escape grapples.
  • Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, motion sensor function aiming on/off, and sensitivity.
  • You can remap controls.
  • Cutscenes are just like watching an episode.
  • Character creator – hat, glasses, clothes, emotes, and cape.
  • Action RPG gameplay.
  • Original character voices.
  • A full 3D world with 360-degree camera control.
  • Toilet paper is the currency.
  • Power cards grant new abilities.
  • Opening and ongoing tutorial pop-ups and sequences.
  • Full of the trademark South Park humor and writing.
  • Pissed off is what you use to build up and activate power cards, you get pissed off by dealing or receiving damage.
  • Butters is a travelling Bard of Destiny and he can upgrade and sell the power cards.
  • Real-time combat.
  • All cards have a rarity level.
  • When at the bard you have three cards to choose from but you can pay with toilet roll to reshuffle them.
  • Bullshit is where an enemy leader can play a bullshit card to game an unfair advantage.
  • When entering any combat you always need four players, if you are solo or just a few the game will add AI players to make the numbers up.
  • They reference the Stick of Truth.
  • You play as a new kid in town.
  • The war table is where you can choose a mission or join someone else’s game.
  • Three mission difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard.
  • Tolkien owns the armory where you can buy and equip new weapons and powers.
  • Before a mission, you have to take part in the bullshit trial where both sides pick upgrades and a bullshit card that can be used within the game.
  • Breakable objects that can drop materials and health.
  • Dark Ritual cards are a choose one of three random cards to get an instant reward in a run.
  • A mission is broken up into smaller areas.
  • Loot chests can be found and have a lot more in them.
  • Foil cards are hidden around to give better card variants.
  • Helpful mission markers.
  • End of mission breakdown with rewards for performance.
  • Dark matter can be found and collected from the environment and enemies can drop it.
  • Mr Hanky is in the toilet and here you can spend dark matter on the massive skill tree to upgrade stats.
  • You can refund dark matter skill tree entries at any point to respect your character.
  • PP is premium pieces found and earned which can be exchanged for unique items at the bazaar.
  • Butters book of Laws is where all collected and encountered cards go, they are split into player upgrades, enemy upgrades, player bullshit, and enemy bullshit.
  • Your loadout allows you to carry one melee, one ranged, and two power cards.
  • Cards available to choose from at the start of a mission are randomized.
  • Revive downed teammates by standing by them and filling up the circle, the more stood there the faster it goes up.
  • Game over gets you booted back to the hub.
  • In solo when you are downed your Ai teammates will try and heal you.

South Park Snow Day Review Cons:

  • No way to turn off the swearing.
  • You have to do the opening tutorial before you can play with other people.
  • The combat is very mashy and indecisive.
  • Movement in general is slow.
  • Fights involving a lot of people are just not fun or even that engaging, and mixed with any AI partners means the whole ordeal is just that, an ordeal.
  • A chapter is very long.
  • No quit to the menu or save button.
  • Ai partners have got stuck in a loop and it usually involves getting stuck on the scenery.
  • Doesn’t have a sufficient lock on for combat.
  • The pickup radius of items is not great and usually has you forgetting about the toilet roll despite it being in front of you.
  • Overall the gameplay loop is just flat, it feels generic and not that adventurous.

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South Park Snow Day:

Official website.

Developer: Question Games

Publisher: THQ Nordic GmbH

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Summary

The game boasts impressive graphics and a substantial download size of 27.29GB. It features its own in-game achievements and rewards system, with the ultimate achievement being the Platinum trophy. The game settings offer a range of customization options, from graphics settings like motion blur, brightness slider, and field of view slider, to accessibility options such as subtitles, combat subtitles, and a colorblind mode. Controller settings are also customizable, including invert axis and sensitivity sliders, and the ability to remap controls.

The game is an action RPG with original character voices and a full 3D world with 360-degree camera control. The currency in the game is toilet paper and power cards grant new abilities. The game is full of the trademark South Park humor and writing. The combat is real-time, and all cards have a rarity level. The game requires four players for any combat, and AI players are added if you are playing solo or with fewer than four players.

You play as a new kid in town. The war table is where you can choose a mission or join someone else’s game. There are three mission difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard. Tolkien owns the armory where you can buy and equip new weapons and powers. Before a mission, you have to take part in the bullshit trial where both sides pick upgrades and a bullshit card that can be used within the game.

Dark matter can be found and collected from the environment and enemies can drop it. Mr Hanky is in the toilet and here you can spend dark matter on the massive skill tree to upgrade stats. You can refund dark matter skill tree entries at any point to respect your character. PP is premium pieces found and earned which can be exchanged for unique items at the bazaar.

Despite its many features, the game has some drawbacks. The combat is very mashy and indecisive, and movement in general is slow. Fights involving a lot of people are not fun or engaging, especially when mixed with AI partners who refuse to help. Chapters are very long, and there is no quit to the menu or save button. AI partners have been known to get stuck in a loop, usually involving getting stuck on the scenery. The game doesn’t have a sufficient lock-on for combat, and the pickup radius of items is not great. Overall, the gameplay loop is flat, feeling generic and not that adventurous in terms of moving the genre forward or offering a truly great experience. I tried to like the game as it does have something in there but the amount of cheap fart gags and weird design choices make such a slog that I cannot even.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!