South Park: The Fractured But Whole RACE-BASED DIFFICULTY

Shouldn't you really say "as you change your difficulty the colour of your skin gets darker"?  skin colour is based on difficulty and not the other way around, Thats the comment matt stone and trey parker are trying to get across, 

wow thats funny AF

People using games to 'walk in someone else's shoes' is a really fantastic thing, and I personally wish we saw more of it. As a disabled person, I found out quickly that although you can attempt to sympathize with a personal situation, you can never truly empathize without experiencing it; although it's only a game, it's still a start to allowing people to have those experiences.

I've not seen many examples, but the one that stuck with me was a short indie game that put you in the shoes of someone with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and it did so well in helping you feel what it's like, allowing for some semblance of empathy and understanding. (https://robingame.itch.io/robin if anyone's interested)

Seeing this with something as important and crucially topical as understanding race and the treatment of non-white folk will hopefully help people see things from an angle not our own, and perhaps let some realize where we've been going wrong.

This is actually really cool and funny. To have a game where the colour of your skin or your gender identity affects how NPC's interact with you, or situations that you go through is actually a really cool commentary by the creators. I've always loved South Park and the commentary and jokes its made for all walks of life, and this just seems like a very real and comedic way to talk about how different people experience different things. Good on them for making it both hilarious and insightful in its own little unique way.

I am really excited for this game and to find out all the other gems that we have waiting for us

All I have to say is that there is an adorable video of a fruit bat getting scritches on youtube. Aso Dante's Peak is better than Volcano. Fight me. Or don't. Also Strawberry Shakes are better than chocolate shakes.

if anything, this could help alleviate racism and transphobia in the smallest ways. A lot of people aren't aware of what minorities experience. I think this is a great idea, and aside from Dragon Age Origins slightly touching on it with Elf characters (not that fictional racism could ever compare to what people experience in their daily lives), I can't think of this really ever happening in a game before. It might suck for those who play video games to escape discrimination, but I honestly think this might help society as well as adding a new layer to RPG storytelling. 

Not looking at the social commentary part of the choice, it's also a brilliant game design choice, if the interactions differ greatly from your race and gender, it will add a greater replay-ability than just changing your class. 

Stick of truth was fun, but I didn't feel like replaying with another class, because I got the story and interactions anyway.

I'm interested that you concentrated on the skin colour aspect of this story but it also sounded like you didn't have much information at all on the gender side - a shame for me since I'd have been interested in what other impacts that had on gameplay (though I can well imagine what sort of things might be involved...)

I'd say a big example is Elder Scrolls; from Morrowind to Skyrim you're able to choose whichever race you want, but depending which one you pick your experience can be different. Some NPC's will act cold or even straight racist or prejudiced depending on which you pick.

Stay civilized in comments? but commenters are always civilized. *Sarcasm* 

However you take this it will be fun seeing all the let's plays of this. I hope either AH, FH, or both play it.