It’s not enough to say that the quality of South Park games has been all over the place. Snow Day!, on the other hand, shows that being happy doesn’t help when things don’t go as planned. It’s better than South Park Rally, thank goodness. It’s not as fun as the other things we did, though. This trip is lost in the flood because it doesn’t look good, doesn’t work well with other devices, and doesn’t fight well.
The story of this shared 3D hack-and-slash game picks up right where the stories of two great turn-based RPGs and a good mobile spin-off left off. It tries a lot of new things, which is great, but it ends up being dull and poorly put together. Every level takes about four hours to finish, but it seems like it goes on for too long because it’s hard to control and the powers and tools aren’t very interesting or useful.
Even worse, there are none of the funny or scary parts that South Park and its new games are known for. This dull, repeated crap doesn’t have much going for it. It hurts a lot to fall after the great Obsidian RPG, which showed how South Park feels. I don’t know what we did to earn this.
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What is South Park: Snow Day?
South Park: Snow Day! is a third-person computer game. is not interesting. You can play with up to three of your worst friends and blast your way through waves of boring first graders. There are a few funny one-liners in this silly adventure, like when Jimbo makes fun of NFTs, and the card-based leveling system is a little interesting. But other than those, this adventure is pretty dull.
The first five levels, on the other hand, are full of dull hack-and-slash action that feels like it’s from 2008 and never gets more interesting. When you play South Park: Snow Day next to the more difficult RPGs in the series, it looks like a strange side project.
When trucks crash through the ice in the first cartoon, it really shows that the town is having a major snow day. People in South Park are frozen to death. Cartman asks for the day off from school. Because you are the new kid, you get caught up in Cartman and Kyle’s long dream fight between wizards and elves. This is the same new kid from Stick of Truth and Front and Center.
Who Will Be in Charge of the Neighborhood?
There is a big snowstorm taking over the world when the game’s story picks up where Fractured left off. Of course, there will be no school either. Cartman takes back the world, and he asks your character, the “New Kid,” to do work with you. That sounds great. Also, it would have been crazy if there was a South Park sequel called Helldivers II where Cartman swears while huge snow bombs are dropped. But now we have a mess.
A lot of close-range fights are the same, and long-range moves are nearly impossible to use because they miss so often. Mostly because you have to press the same button to aim and shoot, I don’t like the arrow way either. Tolkien, that’s not how things work. You get hit from all sides when you fight more than one enemy, and you don’t have any lock-on benefits. That would have been very good because you get sick so quickly.
Also, the jobs are done over and over. There have been a lot of different jobs since the last few RPGs. But this one only has “beat up the kids and take this” tasks. Getting new cards and levels can be fun. It’s not worth it if the game isn’t moving forward, though.
Also, there are problems with the way the game works. Often, the Switch version gets stuck and needs to be cleaned up from the start. We were still having trouble after getting the most recent game. A lot of people are going to be mad about this.
It’s really annoying to play alone because the AI bots are so dumb and keep moving around like they don’t know what to do. It’s fine to play by yourself, but it takes a long time to join a game, and sometimes it’s so hard to play that you have to “hard reset” it. Too many bugs, mostly technical ones, make this game hard to play, and there aren’t enough jobs to choose from. You can’t fart your way out of this snowy mess.
Card sharks
One of Snow Day’s main moves is a close-range combo attack, and the other is a charge attack. He also has four projectile weapons that he can use. Each one shoots fireballs differently. As if having a big axe spin attack wasn’t enough, Snow Day gives you two more skills that you can use at the start of a match if you have been using a charge attack and a healing charm.
But it’s more fun to fight when you have a deck of cool power-up cards. There are different kinds of power-up cards. Before the fight, each group for a level chooses a hand at a powwow. You can find different kinds in the levels or buy them from Butters and other people in the game.
The easy power-up cards make your tool stronger. The sword and shield, for example, can be made stronger so they can block attacks from all sides. You can change the knives to look more like vampires, and you can make the axe spin look like a silly death spiral.
The “Bullshit” cards could make the game different. As the game goes on, each team gets one Bullshit card, which they can use anywhere from two to five times. Like the name says, these cards don’t offer very good short-term benefits.
What do you like about them? It’s played by slowing down the game and yelling “BULLLSHIIIIT” to help someone. One Bullshit card can instantly bring back to life all of your enemies that you killed. Many times, this is a bad thing because you’ll be stuck with angry elves and not be able to get away.
But you already know the answer: a “Bullshit” card that lets you call up your own army of monsters. Those who attack and those who defend get different sets of Bad cards. Get one, and you’ll become a giant. Get two, and the enemy will also become a giant. One of them lets you shoot rays that kill.
Slow Day
But it’s not always easy to get there. Skill cards and levels in Snow Day are added to a base that is pretty easy to understand. You can get to the goals with the help of small hints. There may be some secrets, but I don’t think you should try to find them since they don’t always pay off. Also, Snow Day can be very mean when it doesn’t make sense.
Bullshit cards are fun, but they can also end a run very quickly. In one of my games, this card was used when the team was spread out all over the map. Everyone was killed and died in their own place. There was no way to live again. That’s kind of cool, and I didn’t expect that. The fifth of five steps led us back to the beginning of the level. Way too much BS.
Conclusion
There isn’t much to the story. On a snow day, you and the South Park gang decide to go on another adventure in your dreams, and you fight them and their troops of goons one by one. For about five hours, not very exciting things happen. Some gross scenes don’t really shock you. Also, after all these years, the people you love and know act in ways that are very different from how you’d expect them to.
