South Park: The Stick Of Truth - 12 Reasons It's Awesome

7. It Playfully Riffs Video Game Tropes

South Park as an entity is at its highest form of entertainment when Trey Parker and Matt Stone are taking things that they either find outlandishly stupid or sometimes even enjoy, and completely riffing on them with a no-holds-barred attitude. With that said it only makes sense that Stick of Truth is self-aware of its video game status and proceeds to mock as many tropes as possible. This welcome style of humour permeates the game with playful jabs at colour-coded keys to progress in dungeon areas, the sensation that every game in the past five years has felt the need to include an abundance of audio logs when the majority of them are useless filler, and quick time events (QTE's). More specifically, there is a QTE that is so over-the-top and ridiculously graphic, it is actually befuddling that the sequence even made its way into the American version of the game uncut. Here's a hint: it involves a boss battle where you are in shrunken gnome form while on the bed your parents are currently having sex on - in intentionally graphic positions.