The difficulty slider in Ubisoft’s new comedy RPG South Park: The Fractured but Whole affects the color of your skin: the easier the difficulty, the lighter your character’s skin. Conversely, the harder the difficulty, the darker your character’s skin. This means that if you want to play The Fractured but Whole on a harder than normal difficulty, you have to play as a person of color.



During the process, South Park stalwart Eric Cartman will comment: “Don’t worry, this doesn’t affect combat. Just every other aspect of your whole life.” Our Aoife Wilson and Chris Bratt, who captured the gameplay in the video, asked Ubisoft developers about this feature during a recent hands-on event. They were told the difficulty of the game affects the amount of money you receive and the way other characters speak to you throughout the course of the game. It is, quite clearly, a social commentary on racism in modern society, and as far as video games go, a pretty effective one.

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