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You can play as a girl in South Park: The Fractured But Whole

South Park‘s Matt Stone has confirmed that you’ll be able to play as a girl in the coming Fractured But Whole.

“In Stick of Truth we got halfway through the game, and we had narratively come up with the big Girls’ Quest halfway through it,” Stone said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “[The Girls] were a faction in the fantasy world. And then someone’s like, ‘What if you want to be a girl?’ Narratively, it didn’t work. We’d have to sh — can the whole game. So we just left it the way it was. This time, we obviously wanted to add that.

Stone says the choice will definitely impact the game itself.

“But the boys are little boys, because it’s really a story about little boys running around,” Stone continued. “So they don’t care about [your character being a girl]? That seems weird. They always seemed to care about it in the show. Are they dumb about it, and they don’t know? So you’re in hiding? Or do they totally care about that, and totally treat you differently? So we ended up doing those things differently for different characters.”

The South Park co-creator confessed the change has meant a great deal of more work.

“It actually turned out to be quite a bit more work,” he said. “I’m also playing The Division — I’m not just saying that because it’s Ubisoft. I made the character look like my wife, just because I thought that was funny, running around New York shooting people looking like my wife. But the game doesn’t treat you that differently. The guys still shoot you. The game doesn’t really react that much differently. That’s cool for that kind of game. It’s been a funny journey to go through, introducing something that we thought would just be a cool feature. You’re a girl! But now they’re going to treat you different.”

South Park: The Fractured But Whole will be available from 6 December on Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4.


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