Now this opportunity is being channeled into the game’s social commentary. Using identity this way interrupts one of the main ways gaming uses identity, which is the chance to explore or experience media centered on someone who looks like them. The race thing however, opens up a larger conversation – which is using the functionality of a game to comment on a social aspect of it. South Park manages to stick the landing on this one, mostly mocking how the Stick of Truth (the first game in this South Park RPG series) forced the player to play as a boy. While choosing the gender for the character, you’re able to choose Male, Female, or Other, and whether you’re cisgender or transgender.
According to Aoife Wilson and Chris Bratt at, the developers said that the difficulty only concerns the amount of money you receive and the way other characters speak to you in the game. Just every other aspect of your whole life,” quips Cartman. “Don’t worry, this doesn’t affect combat.
During character creation in Ubisoft’s new comedy RPG, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, the difficulty slider changes based off your skin color.
