South Park: Snow Day! | Fully Ramblomatic

This week on Fully Ramblomatic, Yahtzee reviews South Park: Snow Day.
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[@nicolasjamo]

This game to me also feels like it was made out of contractual obligation rather than out of passion.

[@yourself1210]

That’s cause it was. There was some kind of contract with paramount that included making the specials and this game

[@josephthemann1174]

Passion? What does fruit have to do with anything?

[@smashbrandiscootch719]

Like the show.

[@abrahamnarvaez1730]

@@josephthemann1174 fruit was the trigger that led Adam and Eve out of the garden leading to humanity that resulted in Matt and trey and finally the game as you can see I’ve wasted your time with nonsense good bye

[@geneangrypenguin5876]

Look up Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album for this in extremis

[@nemarsde]

I've logged in specifically to point out today's animation shows Snow Day pissing over crisps, not sausage rolls, in a glaring continuity error.

[@HUNbullseye]

I demand heads to sausage roll!

[@TheMightyKawama]

Boy I really hope someone got fired for that blunder

[@StevenUlyssesPerhero]

@@TheMightyKawama 🧢: I understood that reference.

[@zadokk]

And it has no party rings or Ribena. Looks like a well shit birthday party

[@vigorouslethargy]

Well the sausage rolls were kept under a protective top layer of chips.

[@Kaarl_Mills]

it must be a real stinker if the first time I hear of this games existence is Yahtzee saying "Its a bit shitty innit?"

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

How did you avoid it for so long? I can't remember how many times I had to tell KZbin "Block Ad" because they had so many variations of it.

[@maxwyght1840]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio Well, that's you're first problem. You aren't using an adblock

[@DestructivelyPhased]

Probably a better way to hear of it than Josh of LGIO talking about poo all the way through it. Which is admittedly on brand.

[@johan3612n]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio I'm guessing the reason why I haven't seen it is because I'm not American

[@thirdcoinedge]

It has a max score of 59 on Metacritic. It is, indeed, quite a stinker of a game.

[@alexthomas2558]

"Feels like I got to your birthday party an hour late, only to find I'm the only guest who turned up." Contains no swear words, names, or insults, and is still one of the harshest things I've ever heard Yahtzee say.

[@gameman250]

You must've stopped the video right there and not listened to what he follows that with.

[@Sopsy_Hallow]

@@gameman250 must they have? maybe they think the follow up isnt actually harsher, and id agree

[@StrikeWarlock]

@@gameman250 the follow up actually wasn't needed. The one OP quotes hits absolutely harder.

[@RacingSnails64]

"Oh, no it sucks balls. And it's gay." His delivery there was hilarious.

[@Sir_Bucket]

As a queer person, I was extremely nervous that Yathzee was going to be very awkward with jokes about queer people, as I have seen older comedian do. Fortunatly he knows what he's doing, and the jokes are well written. Good for him

[@srleplay]

From the title alone I knew it won't even try to reach for the comedic delight of previous title

[@Igorcastrochucre]

Snow Job was right there and snowjob isn't even a sexual thing, it's another word for deception, which this game also does by promising to be good.

[@kitestar]

Maybe they didn’t want to be too on the nose with the puns this time…although now I know what to refer to it to in conversation now

[@HA-ot6uf]

​@@kitestar Being on the nose is a defining feature of South Park.

[@kitestar]

@@HA-ot6uf yeah and I get that, and I have a feeling they probably had a new set of hands here than they did stick/but whole

[@smashbrandiscootch719]

"comedic delight" is a bit of a stretch.

[@thecardusguy5610]

I love how this game looks *EXACTLY* like those terrible N64 South Park that Trey Parker and Matt Stone hated with every fiber of their being and drove them to be directly involved in the RPG duology’s development.

[@Hugsloth]

South Park 64 was to Matt/Trey like the Mario Bros movie was to Nintendo... so bad it drove them away from an entire medium for decades.

[@strain42]

The funny thing is that if Stick of Truth was like Paper Mario, this is still following the trend of the third game swapping from turn based combat to action. Can’t wait for Sticker South Park…

[@zdpastaman15]

angry upvote

[@jamesn3122]

Oh sick, does that mean Stick of Truth remaster in 5 years or so?

[@bluehammer1245]

However, unlike "Snow Day!", SPM was actually the best Paper Mario game.

[@jorgereyes1991]

@@jamesn3122 No. They remastered the second game twenty years later. So expect a remaster of Fractured But Whole in 2037

[@PsychicWars]

I hate how well this analogy works.

[@jamesrule1338]

Nothing makes me feel older than when I listen to someone talking about "classic" The Simpsons or South Park and I realize they're talking about episodes that came out 10 years after I stopped watching the show.

[@BuNnyDuDeDaRoO]

​@@SimuLordroundabout way to say u stopped watching in the late 90s.. not dumb just different

[@inventiveusername5191]

I thought there was a pretty broad consensus that Simpsons was at its best somewhere between seasons 3-8 inclusive (exact point varies), and whatever it had was completely and totally gone by, like, season 12 at the absolute latest.

[@cattysplat]

@@inventiveusername5191 Was pretty obvious when they just had celebrities or bands just unironically starring in the show without any jokes about them showed that it was no longer trying to offend American royalty.

[@1337m4n]

@@inventiveusername5191 Yes. Same with South Park, and Family Guy, and basically every other western-cartoon-not-strictly-for-children that went on for way more seasons than any show reasonably should. At some point, the writers outgrow the show--they're no longer the same people, just as no one is the same person as their self from 10 years ago--but the show itself is still shackled to the same characters, the same setting, the same art style, and the same anything else that's dependent on the previous three characteristics. There is no reconciling this, and so the show turns into a zombified version of its former self. It no longer feels like a passion project of genuine inspiration but just a boring day job the writers feel obligated to continue indefinitely because it's what everyone loves them for.

[@ahogg5960]

The last Simpsons "episode" I watched was the movie and the last South Park episode I saw was Royal Pudding. 13 years ago! I did not realise it was that long ago!

[@vcom741]

0:50 I don't know why this sentence "ooooh, no it sucks balls" is so funny to me. He sounds SO apologetic to viewers that the game is bad lol.

[@robertgarcia1182]

He sounds slightly concerned and like he feels bad that he has to be the one to tell you because you shouldn't need him to say it.

[@MazeFrame]

It was either that line or the universal gamer expectation matrix.

[@fredocarroll]

I replayed it a few times, too, grinning like the Cheshire cat. The accent, inflection, & tone made me think of Ringo Starr.

[@ItsapaulGaming]

Co-op died for me when I hit the age where all my friends were getting married and having kids. Turns out that doesn't leave much room for fishing in Terraria or whatever.

[@MCC17011]

On the plus side, if/when you join them in having kids co-op loops around to being highly relevant again.

[@websterbillingham8873]

Feels like a really odd move for a franchise that was most prominent over 20 years ago and presumably most of its fans are in their late 30’s or older

[@vengerofthelight]

Try marrying a gamer. Worked for me.

[@djdomain]

Makes me wish LAN parties were still a thing, staying overnight at a town hall or conference center overnight. Wasn't into shooters except for Quake 3, but I'd join any RTS competition and leech stuff from others.

[@elliottengstrand5988]

Yeah between that and most games abandoning local Co op and requiring you to buy multiple copies and play exclusively online, I haven't had a solid co op experience with a game for the better part of two decades. With the lone exception being my bachelor party where we actually dragged 4 computers and several TVs into the same room and played Halo MC collection together (but online). Now when I see a game that is oriented toward co op over single player it just gets a hard pass.

[@PotatoHermit]

Idk why but the way "It sucks balls" was said got a good laugh out of me. Thanks. I needed this today.

[@cloudkitt]

it was a very stereotypical Beatle-y inflection, haha

[@zenith251]

Liverpudlian* twang sold it.

[@Vondora]

Hmmm, a South park FPS Snow-themed game, yep seems like a perfect idea that would never flop twice.

[@silverlight6074]

It seems like this game is a tragic consequence of a deal forcing something into existence that didn't want to exist

[@jamesrule1338]

Like chihuahuas.

[@HenryGreenEngine3]

an apt conclusion

[@Rayjaya]

I kept getting the feeling while playing this that is was supposed to be a live service game that they scrapped and decided to just release anyway. Alot of it feels like that "we will add fun later, in season 2" you get from live service games, it only has 5 levels that are "infinitely replayable" with the promise of more to come (you can actually attempt to join people playing level 6 in the matchmaking menu, even though level 6 isn't real) There are cut characters everywhere, the cosmetic purchases feel like it was supposed to be a premium currency, the amount of cosmetics is impressive for a game with 5 levels, they also added a hoard mode dlc for free, which feels really weird. It lacks the big power up cards, but only on your side, all 4 maps have 3 "entrances" that feel like it was supposed to be a pvp area, with random chests dropping in various places on the battlefield. I have alot more little things that leads me to this conclusion as well. But thats just my thoughtz

[@tailgrowth]

South Park: Snow Day is one of the best purchases I made this year, as it made me want to play Hades again and I ended up putting another 60 hours in that instead

[@galaxa13]

That bit about being the only person who showed up to a birthday party gut punched me as I recalled the year I only had one close friend, invited them to my birthday party at a bowling alley, and then they never showed up. Just me, bowling by myself as my mom watched before we decided to call it quits and just go home. (turns out they had a reason to not come and then they felt too embarrassed to let me know they wouldn't be showing up)

[@Brasswatchman]

Ouch. Sorry, man.

[@DetectiveLance]

I feel like I lived under a rock, I didn't know this was coming...

[@mohamedbelkacem9889]

Same

[@gearguts7259]

Literally didnt know this existed until 5 minutes ago

[@danielasilva69457]

Seems like that rock you were under is way more interesting than this game

[@VincentTheBadGuy]

I was lucky enough to see it on one of the store pages, and pondered why there wasn't a bigger hubbub around it. Guess we now know why.

[@Ashurman666]

It was barely advertised

[@Canadamus_Prime]

I am flabbergasted that South Park, as a franchise, is still going.

[@seanmcloughlin5983]

Yahtzees bit about how his style wouldn’t work for a fighting game reminds me of that old contest of who could make the best ZP flash game and all of them were pretty meh because I’m his own words “what did I expect you to make?”

[@apexnext]

I dunno, I'm remembering some pretty fun Stick Death flash games 😂

[@vcom741]

4:04 Word for word the issues with Borderlands 3's story, holy hell.

[@VonBlade]

Having played all five BL games, I think it's fair to say that 2 was an aberration of genius unlikely to ever be repeated.

[@cloudkitt]

@@VonBlade Agreed, and even then I resented that the main cast of 2 were silent while the former heroes got to say lots of cool shit.

[@OccasionalGoof]

@@VonBlade Genius except for how it handled the original main characters and the balance of endgame as a whole. And the loot system...

[@Thanatos2k]

@@VonBlade There are five!?

[@VonBlade]

@@Thanatos2k 1,2, The Pre-Sequel, 3 and Tiny Tina's standalone

[@lando-z4534]

This year’s Best, Worst & Blandest is gonna have stiff competition for those last two if these recent reviews are anything to go by. Great vid as always, Yahtzee!

[@hensarita]

Whoa! This guy is great! He sounds just like the dude from Zero Punctuation!

[@waarschijn]

Has AI gone too far??

[@hensarita]

@@waarschijn not far enough I say

[@waarschijn]

@@hensarita Ubisoft should put some kind of user-unique token in the ending of the next Assassin's Creed release. It can act as a shibboleth. If "Yahtzee" references it in his review, we'll know he has been replaced by an AI with game playing capability.

[@Elesario]

There's a certain irony in the fact that I'd reckon that Trey and Matt would probably enjoy the no pandering review style of Yahtzee. I wonder if they find being told their game is shit a compliment or not?

[@harrygoad329]

From all the ads I saw of this game, I thought it was some low-budget mobile game spinoff.

[@l0stndamned]

Trying to go 3d with a Southpark game needs to go along side the one-save thing in Dragon's Dogma on the "what were they thinking?!? games list 2024".

[@charlessaint7926]

"But South Park had a game on the N64!" *GET OUT!*

[@Dzztzt]

there were two.....

[@seamusburke639]

If we don't talk about the one, we DEFINITELY don't talk about the other one.@@Dzztzt

[@johnockershausen3951]

A throwback to Yahtzee sneering at a good game, no thanks. Also there were three SP games. The party game, the kart racer, and the FPS.

[@jonathankent1517]

So basically, Ubisoft turned a series of fun and unique RPGs into... Ubisoft games.

[@lyndongreer6426]

"I know because my mum told me" While on the phone "Have you decided to get a real job yet dear?" Brilliant. 3:38

[@MightyManotaur22]

always extra fun to see yahtzee take on an objectively bad game and this one looked ROTTEN from the jump

[@fallout3fan623]

I saw some cutscenes of this around and immediately went 'oh. Cool I guess?' and then left.

[@thatnoobnextdoor]

More like Snow Gay.

[@weekendminis]

To this day, I sing the “When I’ve got this feeling, I’ve got to Sing” song, and quote “Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo”, from N64 game . . . . Best South Park Game Ever.

[@nicklager1666]

When i think of snow day in reference to South Park i remember that old N64 game where you ran around in an open world hocking snowballs on Turkeys. Having no idea where to go or what to do. And yes the notorious N64 fog was in full effect. But it was still South Park and i was at the age where it was fun. Its still fun though. Thanks for making my life richer Parker and Stone.

[@dookieshoes3585]

That’s also the first thing I thought of. I absolutely loved that game as a kid, it hit regular multiplayer rotation among goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing

[@user-nt2xm6cm1e]

My dad bought that game for me and my brother when we were kids. He literally had no idea it was even a tv show to begin with, let alone an M rated one. Suffice to say we had that game for maybe a few weeks before our mum promptly took it away and tbf outside of some lo key fun multiplayer matches it wasn't very good. The kart racer game however kicked ass.

[@Thanatos2k]

I distinctly remember playing the game at someone else's house. They had rented it. Kid me thought it sucked. I already owned Goldeneye so I already knew better.

[@cattysplat]

Because it was 1998 and South Park was red hot new and popular, bonus of being super offensive to our parents at the time, when religion and right wing news media still dominated the mainstream. We wanted anything we could get of it, crappy videogames included, all we wanted was those references to naughty things we could barely understand.

[@Thanatos2k]

@@cattysplat Most people didn't have cable in 1998. The popularity of South Park at that time is vastly overstated.

[@AsselParty]

Now I want a Zero Punctuation real time combat game…

[@Nricksonlp2]

I thought this was a DLC to fractured but hole

[@KeithFraser82]

Downloadable Content For Your But Hole sounds like either a porn title or a metal track.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

I told 'em Yahtzee sent me. They didn't care.

[@ehhorve857]

okay but joy mech fight is LITERALLY a fighting game with your visual style.

[@Craxin01]

The 2D visual style worked well for the games, because it looks like a real time animation of the show and the turn-based combat system worked for the game styles they were part mocking part giving homage to. Trying to go 3D PVP smells of trying to cash in on the style of the moment. It looks bad, like a completely naked cash grab, something Matt and Trey would be lampooning on their show. It's like they've become what they hate.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Stick of Truth was fun, and as a South Park fan (from years ago, haven't seen it in ages), I found it both a fun game and spot-on with the show. Also it didn't require an Ubisoft account. By the time Fractured came out I had stopped buying Ubisoft games altogether, which is good as it both requires an Ubisoft account and that crappy Denuvo DRM for some reason. So I have no idea whether I'd like it or not, and no real desire to find out. And it sounds like I'm not missing anything with Snow Day.

[@ruanvcunha]

The delivery in "oh, no, it sucks balls" made me cackle like an old witch with a serious case of tickles

[@ravingsanity3727]

I look forward to these every week, and I also have to say the new theme song is fantastic! It legit gets stuck in my head and I actually turn it up because it rocks so hard. Whoever does your music is awesome.

[@mikedawolf95]

6:12 that outro quote, crazy how Yahtzee has been making his reviews for the last 17 years!

[@moosemaimer]

Did anyone else think a game using Yahtzee's style for real-time combat would look like those old Madness flash cartoons?

[@jonathanpuccetti9258]

yeah, this is the first of the three that I had no interest in from the very beginning. Too bad to, I really liked SoT and FbW

[@HOTD108_]

Too bad to where?

[@fish5645]

@@HOTD108_ That'll teach them, ey?

[@Bendoverstoke]

Yeah absolutely. The two RPGs were strong enough as games to support the main attraction: playing in a South Park episode, and I loved them both. Snow Day is a bafflingly lacklustre game that has very little of the show's humour to disguise how bad it is.

[@thelemonwiththumbs4560]

When I heard that question was done with blackout club to go make *this*, I knew it was going to be the beginning of the end.

[@sampancisco4931]

There are so many zinger jokes in here ❤ I'm going to rewatch it just to fully appreciate them all.

[@beo3828]

Nobody says gay as an insult, that's so early 2000s

[@Hawkatana]

South Park still does, because it's stuck in that exact time period.

[@beo3828]

@Hawkatana I thought time passes on South Park? And the kids just don't age because who cares.

[@Hawkatana]

@@beo3828 I mean in a Doylist sense, not a Watsonian one.

[@mohamedbelkacem9889]

That's gay

[@uhobme2028]

If this video hadn't popped up, it probably be a very long time before i'd remember that this came out

[@plumberpool]

You know everybody gives it a hard time but I really like that turkey shooting game that South Park made I played it all the time.

[@janeblight3410]

Gotta say the puppy is like my favorite part

[@shamefuldisplay9692]

Been a while since I've heard yahtzee, but goddamn that intro brought me back in jesus

[@corwinbrindley7635]

There was an Xbox marketplace South Park Tower Defense game that was pretty solid.

[@belladyn]

that ending was awesome

[@dubstepbeecorsi6892]

We just cant have nice things in gaming huh We get two surprisingly good licensed Rpgs and then someone comes along and hacks out this.... I blame Canada for this

[@FryazinoStation]

They're not even a real country anyway

[@nrgspike]

A new Jacques McKeown audiobook you say? How lovely as I just so happen to have a credit available too! Also just gonna put this one out into the universe; "Jam 2".

[@legogoka-boomstudio1838]

Damn he mad

[@jiado6893]

5:20 Oh god it looks like Cartman throwing his hands up and spraying golden showers everywhere.

[@shroudedguy937]

I see now why I hadn't even heard of this one but saw the first two EVEREYWHERE lol.

[@shreemandpe]

Oh wow, I didnt know you were still writing the Will X for Y series. Time to get back into it!

[@foobs6896]

New book new book new book. Been waiting a hot minute for this one

[@Reilaos]

4:43 love me some weapos

[@MoskalMedia]

I saw that and thought Yahtzee probably noticed the mistake and didn't even bother to fix it, since the game clearly didn't put any effort and why should he?

[@Carabas72]

3:36 Ooh, surprise Terry Pratchett cameo.

[@jpeg1991]

Great video Yahtzee.

[@umarthdc]

I was so hyped when I heard there was a new SP game, a little less so with the gameplay trailer, abysmally less so after seeing the actual game.

[@geeshta]

ZP/Fully Ramblomatic is the South Park of game reviews.

[@oilimenoruega7836]

Didn't even realize it cane out already

[@LightsJusticeZ]

I feel like this could have been a good opportunity to also bundle a review of South Park: Phone Destoyer.

[@bluemooninthedaylight8073]

It's always worrying to me when I talk to someone and they use South Park as their only political reference point. Like, maybe don't get all of your viewpoints from a cartoon? Oh wait, there's a new Fully Ramblomatic!

[@Roland3ld]

I read the numbered chapters part as, "I pause, etc., etc., etc.". Seems that summarized the game fairly well judging by the rest of your video.

[@riverbecomesastorm375]

Yeah, "real-time combat" and "co-op" were red flags for me, too. The moment a previously singleplayer game series goes co-op focused, it immediately catches the stink of contractual obligation.

[@Fapaljack]

WOOO New book!

[@CmotDribbler]

I remember being the only one In my friend group that didn’t like the n64 game. Glad that 30 years later an internet video can back me up on that point.

[@ONYX-365]

I 'member the South Park racing game on the PS1! 🍇

[@seraphonica]

if you're going to do a game in the vein of the Yakuza series, and you're not going to smash it as full of content, sidequests, weirdness, and violence... you're already playing for at best tenth place.

[@TheJoralg]

Thanks!

[@Pastafari4]

Apparently they are hinging on live-service updates on this one, padding on additional missions/content later

[@totesmcpreesh7617]

I liked TSOT and FBW because it actually felt like I was playing an episode/season of the show.

[@Carsa-is6vb]

I'm imagining 433k subscribers telling the sponsor "Yahtzee sent us."

[@RedSpade37]

The arrival of the Borg is also foretold in the Book of Revelation, if you can believe it.

[@AnotherCraig]

I'm not sure what's worse: that you made the reference, or that I got it 😅

[@nicholaschisholm7018]

Am a bit rusty but what... you have my curiosity

[@AnotherCraig]

​@@nicholaschisholm7018 We'll all live in a giant crystal cube, giant crystal cube, giant crystal cube 🎵🎶 ... Also I think it's supposed to glow or something. It's not worth looking up, really; it's just one more part of that hot banana gibberish anti Nero and Rome tantrum 🤷

[@drugurd]

He's back

[@logiclunacy606]

I think south park could have made a game like marvels midnight suns, maybe that would have been a good combat system for them.

[@lightsidesoul]

I'm surprised there wasn't an option to not work with Cartman like in the original Stick of Truth, or at least have any of the characters acknowledge that not everyone stayed in the "human" faction. For anyone who doesn't know, In SoT, you're initially recruited by Cartman to fight in the "human" faction. However, halfway through the game, you have the choice to piss off and join the "Elves", which changes two major boss fights and who you can bring along as a companion for a raid-style mission at the school. Admittedly, the branches meet back up right after the raid and the bigger threat is introduced, but it was still interesting that they bothered to give the player a choice at all. !-Minor story spoilers past here-! I do love that the justification at the end for the game continuing despite the main villain being defeated is basically the characters deciding they don't want to go back to school so they let the big bad start up the snowstorm again, despite the fact that most of the adults are freaking out about it because of how dangerous it's made South Park

[@harrylane4]

I can't believe they effectively remade the 90s south park game (that doesn't exist) and pretended that would be a good idea

[@BigBoi-qf6vp]

I hope for a return to form, for the next installment.

[@CushionSapp]

It's always nice to see a review of a Worst list candidate

[@MichaelTheDane1]

I'm a huge fan of the show, and I love hearing Yahtzee shit on it!

[@WinchesterxNL]

When I saw the trailer of it. I shrugged, stopped after seeing it was 3D and forgot all about it. And that while I do like South Park quite a bit

[@Donde85]

I enjoyed SoT en TFBW, but was kind of apprehensive about this one. This pretty much confirms that.

[@casualcraftman1599]

5:11-5:16 a Babylon 5 themed birthday party

[@alanwood5064]

I'm just waiting for yahtzees review of helldivers 2

[@jamesbland5207]

I saw in a interview this game was something one of the creators wanted to do. They both like video games, but one of them likes RPG's and war games while the other likes action games. It's definitely worse than the previous 2 but I think it can be built.

[@mattwo7]

2:47 Or pointing forward and hitting Yoshi. Wait, that was a 2D game and the all of two frames on the animation made it so it wouldn't have made a difference between action and turn-based.

[@dragonfrog23]

I wish I could like this twice.

[@jimnicholas7334]

1:52 And it's always the 3rd entry of the series. Don't ya dare add them to your upcoming 3rd book Yahz...

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

I want to see an endorsement code where you pay more and it all goes to the endorser.

[@Lucky7th7450]

First time I heard about it

[@SnowAngel27]

I was very sad to see the state of Snow Day. Especially following SoT and FbW. I really hope they can put out a "return to form" game in the next few years.

[@sambonbon755]

I don't know if Weapos is intentionnal or not XD

[@esteban280889]

Its definately one for the fans. I get wanting to do something different but its not hard enough to be a rogue like or long enough to get to the boss. like being multiplayer is to blame for that since you have to balance the game around that. Should have stuck to single player and it would have been a much better game even staying with it being a rogue like