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Move over, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. Step aside, Beavis & Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity (kids, look it up!). South Park: The Stick of Truth

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“ The demo ended with an epic ass-to-ass duel between you and Cartman...

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“ You then scoop your "creation" out of the urinal and save it in your inventory, hurling it at your enemy later for massive damage.

After a behind-closed-doors demo at E3 2012 made me happier than any other game I saw (not a joke), the South Park RPG returned a one year later having survived the THQ bankruptcy fallout, finding itself in the hands of Ubisoft, who has given South Park Studios and developer Obsidian Entertainment many more months of development time in order to make sure everything is as polished -- and equally importantly, funny -- as it can be. In fact, The Stick of Truth still doesn't have a release date, though it is tentatively penciled in for this holiday.It's amazing how this game has somehow gotten even more layered and impressive over the past year. I saw a new demo set in South Park Elementary, where your New Kid character, in this case having sided with Cartman's "humans" in the kids' town-wide LARP game (though you can also join Stan and Kyle's "elves faction), battles his way through the school to Mr. Garrison's classroom in order to recover the Stick of Truth.Yes, this is still a Paper Mario-style role-playing game, but it just feels more fully fleshed out now. The show's characters and lore are so flawlessly married to the gameplay systems -- Stan gets enraged when you take out his dog Sparky in battle that he goes into a frenzy mode and attacks more furiously, for example -- that it's impossible to tell them apart. And the fan service is off-the-charts. The visuals are 100% dead-on with the show, such that if someone doesn't see you manipulating a controller, they will genuinely think you're watching an episode on Comedy Central.It's also, as you'd expect since show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are writing, voicing, and directing the game with Obsidian (a decorated RPG maker in its own right!), it's downright hilarious too. And completely uncensored, a la South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut. You've been warned.At this point, the only possible things I see that could sink this game are crappy controls or lulls in the humor. Neither, however, seems likely based on what I've seen. And because I'm such a South Park superfan and loving what I'm seeing of is RPG so much, I promise you we'll have much more on The Stick of Truth on IGN just as soon as I can convince Ubisoft to let me get my hands on it...

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s Executive Editor of Previews and Xbox Guru-in-Chief. He's seen every single episode of South Park that's ever been made. Follow him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan , on IGN , and catch him on Podcast Unlocked