Future South Park Games Should Have More Expansive Maps

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Since video games went from a niche hobby to mainstream entertainment, adapting works from other media has been a standard practice. From the days of Atari to the gaming culture of today, most successful works in pop culture have inevitably come with a form of licensed games. Because licensed games are often made to profit off of these works’ popularity, their direction can be shallow. South Park, a late 90s cultural phenomenon and one of the longest-running animated series of all time, was not spared from this. South Park games were notorious for earning the ire of the show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but two decades into the show’s run a pair of RPGs — The Stick of Truth and The Fractured but Whole — were made under their supervision.

Both were well-received, and are now considered some of the best examples of licensed games. Now that South Park will get years' worth of additional content, including over a dozen movies and a new game, Parker and Stone should aim to make the titular town even bigger — especially if this new game is another RPG. Due to how long the series has lasted, South Park has evolved as a setting, to the point where modern episodes make the town look like a developed suburb instead of a “hick” mountain town. The number of distinct locations introduced over the past two decades even rivals the development of Springfield over The Simpsons’ 30 years.

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Part of the appeal of South Park: The Stick of Truth was how it provided the closest thing fans might get to an official map of South Park. Iconic locations in the game include the houses of the four main boys (and Butters); South Park Elementary; several small businesses like City Wok and Tom’s