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South Park: The Stick of Truth heading to the Switch

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South Park: The Stick of Truth is coming to the Switch later this year. Ubisoft released  South Park: The Fractured But Whole earlier this year on Switch and now it’s following up – with the previous game.

A little odd to release them the wrong way around, but we’ll take it. Ubisoft said in a financial report (PDF link) today that the game should be out by September.

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3 Comments
  • Medrad
    July 18, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    I wonder if it’ll have the same “censoring” that the PC version had for AU customers…

    For those that don’t know, it involved a still picture of a crying Koala with a didgeridoo playing in the background with a little apology censorship text lightly explaining what was happening in those scenes…

    Can’t think it’ll be any different on the Switch.

    • Alex
      July 19, 2018 at 2:45 pm

      Nothing to stop us importing

    • Silly G
      July 19, 2018 at 9:18 pm

      Legally, it will have to be censored. After it got banned the first time, a censored version was also banned. A version with additional cuts was finally given an R18+ classification. The Fractured But Whole got past the censors without any issues. The problem is that the classification guidelines have become overly strict post 2013 when they finally introduced the R18+ classification. A lot of games that would previously have been rated MA15+, M, or in a few troubling cases, even PG, are now being slapped with R18+ ratings (if not being banned outright) due to the classification board’s extremely vague interpretation of “sexual violence”, hence the abundance of games that are rated R18+ for “References to sexual violence” (I can guarantee that not a single one of these games would have received a classification higher than MA15+ prior to the introduction of the R18+ classification in 2013). Movies and TV shows that contain similar (often worse) content remain unaffected. I feel this trivialises what the classifications *should* represent as well as trivialising what constitutes “sexual violence”.

      Likewise, I find it ridiculous that a number of games with “sexualised” content are being rated R18+ despite the complete lack of nudity in such games. In fact, the R18+ rating *permits* nudity with virtually no restrictions.

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