10 MORE Video Games That Let You Skip The Story Entirely

8. You Really Don't Want To Skip This Part! - South Park: The Fractured But Whole

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South Park: Fractured But Whole is the second game made by the show’s actual creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Just like regular South Park, the game is full of gags and jokes that poke fun at virtually anything and anyone. Including you, the player.

In fact, one of your particularly infuriating gaming habits can even cause the game to finish itself for you.

During the opening sequence, in which Cartman narrates his epic superhero backstory, if you try to skip the cutscene, Cartman will stop you and call you out for interrupting his cool monologue. Of course, you can keep pressing the skip button, but this will only aggravate your narrator more until he finally snaps and decides to give you exactly what you want by skipping the game all the way to the end credits.

The gag is brilliant, as not only does it catch you by surprise, but it’s also absolutely in-character for Cartman to do something so petty.

Just think of how many speedrunner hearts were broken thanks to Cartman introducing this special little "feature..."

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