"South Park" is no stranger to Chinese audiences, I think. Since its broadcast in October 1997, South Park has been airing for 20 consecutive years, with a total of 21 seasons and a total of 287 episodes, making it arguably the longest-running adult animated film in the history of American television.
As a man-oriented animation, the style of "South Park" is extremely simple, collaged with some paper-cut characters, rough and simple, but its core satirizes and challenges the deep-rooted concepts and taboos of the whole society by deliberately distorting contemporary American culture and social current events, thus forming its own unique "South Park spirit".
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In the anime, South Park is also full of "dirty" charm due to the ubiquitous foul language and black humor. As the anime begins with, "All of the characters and events in this cartoon—including those based on real people—are fictional." All the celebrity dubbings are terrible foley. This show is rude in language, the content is jerky, and no one should watch it. ”
Domestic audiences learn about South Park, and I think much of it is due to South Park Season 10, Episode 8, "Make Love, Not Warcraft." In this episode, Stan and his friends are addicted to World of Warcraft, but they are harassed by the players who plug in the game, and finally use a BUG-level weapon to kill the player with the joint efforts of the Blizzard official staff.
In this episode, due to the large number of "World of Warcraft" game shots, the sudden change of style is impressive. At that time, Chinese players were facing the situation that "World of Warcraft: Burning Expedition" was difficult to produce and had nothing to do, and the appearance of this episode undoubtedly brought them a lot of fun.
In recent years, with the release of south park's two game versions of South Park: The Stick of Truth and South Park: The Fractured but Whole, it has become a hit not only in the anime industry, but also in the game industry.
The development of South Park: The Staff of Truth has been through many setbacks. Not only was the release date of the game itself postponed from 2012 to 2014, but it also experienced the bankruptcy of the then sensational developer THQ. In the end, Obsidian, the developer of South Park: The Stick of Truth, saved the game series that nearly "capsized" in the game field and gained a reputation worthy of the animated version of South Park.
South Park: The Stick of Truth itself isn't a great RPG game. At the time, South Park creator Trey Parker, one of the "two elders," wanted the work to be a bigmake like The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim: with a rich ensemble, a rich gaming experience, a story, and an open-ended game. But in reality, South Park: The Staff of Truth is vastly different from the Rolling Old Series: an overly flat combat system, a rudimentary equipment system, and a less-than-good item system and character growth. It can only be said that this game version of South Park is barely a decent RPG game in terms of gameplay.
South Park: The Stick of Truth
However, after all, it is hanging on the name of "South Park", and the players who are really willing to buy and download this game are obviously not all for gameplay. It's not so much a game as it is a super-long animated version of South Park that can be interactively operated. We can still see familiar characters, Stan, Eric, running around in the middle of the town, bursting foul language from time to time, perfectly matching the interactivity of the game with the plot display of the animation itself, and finally achieving a film and television adaptation game that can satisfy fans of the original work.
South Park' second game, South Park: Intact and Broken, is a decent adaptation. Although this work itself is gameplay, compared to some of the adjustments made by the previous game, it is not satisfactory. But it still relies on the exaggerated and imaginative plot of "let the children become superheroes", as well as the ridicule and ridicule of people for the pun of the game title itself: "South Park: Kikube Broken", which is the unique "mouth full of dung" plot style of "South Park", it is still a good film and television adaptation of the game.
South Park: The Whole is Broken
In fact, the reason why "South Park" can become a 20-year-old animation series is inseparable from its contemporary and distinct point of view.
There are many adult animations in the United States, "The Simpsons" and "BoJack Horseman" are quite excellent works. Compared with "South Park", the style of painting is undoubtedly quite simple, and several paper people run around in the "cardboard town", walking is an animation that jumps and jumps without stepping, but it also lays the foundation for the timeliness of South Park.
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All of South Park's scripts were decided a week before each episode aired. That is to say, if it is a hot social event that occurred in the previous week, it is possible that South Park will be put into the actual animation as a plot. For example, when the US election last year, we can see the avatars of Hillary and Trump in "South Park" arguing fiercely in the animation, and even the final election of Trump as using the United States is reflected in the animation.
Another important point is that most of the plots depicted in South Park are "politically incorrect." Many times, South Park will express its opinions for some groups in society who cannot or dare not speak out. The two creators of South Park will use the mouths of these children in the anime to tell the adults of the adult world their views.
Combined, South Park became the most popular adult animation in the United States and has always stood firm.
You may recall that last year Ubisoft released a video showing a device called the "Nosulus Rift", which is designed so that you can smell the fart in the game version of South Park... If Ubisoft can really develop this device to add new senses to VR based on vision, then VR immersion will definitely be greatly improved.
The news has been a year since then, and the legendary black technology product has not been heard from since then, which is obviously a small joke that Ubisoft made with players at the time. But in any case, this seemingly nonsensical news is not the embodiment of the "spirit of South Park"?
Looking back, we can actually see a lot of VR games with similar styles to South Park. These creators express their ridicule and ridicule of social current affairs through VR games or videos. For example, the previously popular "Trump Simulation VR" simulated the whole process of Trump from background preparation to the stage speech, in which various game operations undoubtedly do not reflect the producer's ridicule and ridicule of Trump.
As a media carrier, more and more content creators are willing to create content on this emerging platform, and I think it will naturally play a great role in promoting the development of VR itself.
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