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    South Park: The Stick of Truth

    Game » consists of 13 releases. Released Mar 04, 2014

    An Obsidian-developed role-playing game based on the South Park animated TV series, in which players control a new kid in the eponymous town of South Park and takes part in an epic pretend-fantasy story that threatens the entire town.

    Deeper RPGs with similar combat systems?

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    The title is the TLDR, but in long, I'm playing through Stick of Truth and am greatly enjoying the timing/turn based combat system. The wiki notes that Costume Quest (which I own, and intend to check out once I'm done with South Park) and Paper Mario both have similar systems, but I'm looking for something a touch deeper mechanically and more serious in tone, if such a game exists. I would greatly appreciate some recommendations!

    If it helps, the platforms I have access to are PC, 360, DS and PSP, though getting access to older consoles via borrowed hardware or emulation isn't a particularly difficult task.

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    #2  Edited By ThunderSlash

    Shadow Hearts... kinda. It has this wheel thing in which you gotta time button presses to have moves come out effectively. Super Mario RPG's system is closer to South Park IIRC.

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    #3  Edited By Wemibelle

    I can't think of many that aren't Mario RPG games. I was going to mention Shadow Hearts, but @thunderslash got there first. Lightning Returns has some timing-based elements, but the combat is more active than turn-based.

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    #4  Edited By Corevi

    Sonic: The Dark Brotherhood had timing minigames for all the special attacks. There's also Final Fantasy Theatrhythm which is basically Elite Beat Agents if it was a RPG that was also a rhythm game.

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    I can only think of the Mario & Luigi RPG's

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