Ubisoft today announced that South Park: The Stick of Truth have been delayed. Again.

At this point the delay announcement should come as little surprise for fans who’ve been waiting greater than a year for the title’s release. The sport was originally scheduled to launch in March of this year, but was delayed last November by publisher THQ. It was then caught up inside the bankruptcy and piecemeal selloff of THQ, ending up within the seemingly capable hands of Ubisoft. The sport were listed as a tentative late 2013 release for months before Ubisoft gave it a December 10, 2013 release date just last month.

Ubisoft stated that the sport has taken way more work for developer Obsidian to get it finished than originally anticipated. Apparently, the studio has needed to change the sport drastically from the shape it was in in during its THQ days.

“Within three weeks after acquiring the sport, we sadly realized we needed to turn this thing the other way up if we hoped to deliver the experience everybody wanted,” said Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America. “It’s been this kind of major overhaul to get to the purpose where we’re that we couldn’t let it go, no matter if that meant missing December.”

The disappointing announcement was accompanied by a press quote from South Park’s creators, making light of the difficult time this game has had in development:

“We always wanted the sport to feel like you’re actually in an episode of South Park,” said Matt Stone and Trey Parker. “Getting the sport as much as the crappy standards of the show was an actual challenge and we’re excited to mention it’s taken way longer than we thought it’s going to.”

Along with the delay announcement, Ubisoft has released a brand new video preview of the sport. This one shows actual gameplay from the title, demonstrating for fans that the title does, as a matter of fact, exist: