But as a piece of interactive comedy? As a love letter to 23 seasons of animation? It’s perfect. You don’t play The Fractured But Whole to get lost in a world. You play it to feel at home in one.

But that’s the point.

Here’s a blog-style post exploring the map of South Park: The Fractured But Whole . When you think of an open-world RPG, you probably imagine rolling hills, sprawling cities, or post-apocalyptic wastelands. You probably don’t think of a sleepy mountain town in Colorado famous for a fourth-grade bully named Eric Cartman.