Skullgirls has tutorials and a training mode, neither of which tells you about the characters. This isn’t true of shooters, or even real time strategy games. But a sad fact of fighting games is that there’s no viable way to go online unless you’re really good. Skullgirls, built by and mostly for serious fighting gamers, wants you to go online. I wish there were more ways to play Skullgirls, which suffers from a dearth of single player stuff to do. I know a hardcore feature I’ll never use when I see it! Skullgirls lets you choose premade assists or even store inputs for customized assist attacks. Capcom player knows, the advantage of multiple characters is that the offscreen characters can heal damage and provide assist attacks. You can take one character with all the hit points, or divide the hit points among two or three characters who can swap in and out, tag team style. And it’s got its share of unique gimmicks. It’s perfectly accessible for casual thigh-to-thigh couch play. It’s got the same splashy friendliness, color, and cheer of Marvel vs. This is, as near as a guy like me can tell, a serious fighting game for people who think fighting games are serious business. Not to minimize the seriousness of the fighting. Otherwise, whether you characterize Skullgirls’ aesthetics as cheesecake, objectification, or empowerment, you can’t deny its creativity, cleverness, and charm.
Think Little Orphan Annie meets The Terminator in the style of an early Disney cartoon. Peacock is the only character without conspicuously bare thighs, and that’s because she’s prepubescent. What Skullgirls avoids, or perhaps glosses over with its excellent artwork and considerable personality, is the leering excess of boob physics and panty shots. Me and my buddies are sitting thigh-to-thigh on the couch and we don’t really want to watch you grappling with Voldo in his bondage gear. The basic concept of Skullgirls is a cast of fighters for those of us who think watching cute chicks fight is much better than watching beefy dudes fight. But the former features a handful of cars that are meaningful because there are only a handful of them the latter has so many cars that almost none of them matter. I’m reminded of the difference between Need for Speed: Shift and Forza, both technical racing games. In comparison, Skullgirls is a best case scenario of less being more. Even BlazBlue’s delightfully wacky smallish cast of characters can be overwhelming, with a bit too much inscrutable anime in the mix. Sort of like John Carpenter’s The Thing meets Hello Kitty.įrankly, I’d rather have eight distinct characters than 32 familiar licensed characters, much less 32 licensed characters I don’t know from Adam. And Double is the adorable version of a heap of adaptive protoplasmic goo. Even the creepy Painwheel is adorable in her own misunderstood way. These eight girls are all unique and adorable. The best thing Skullgirls, a moderately demanding fighting game, has going for a fighting game dilettante like me is the character design, which focuses its considerable creativity and love on a few characters.
Or when Peacock does pretty much anything that Peacock does.Īfter the jump, all the ladies in the house say ‘hey!’ Or when Parasoul’s biker gang of commandos charges across the screen.
Or when sexy nurse Valentine defibrillates back to life one of her fallen teammates. Fortune’s severed head latches onto an opponent and you first pull off a move called OMNOMNOM. There comes a time in some games when something so irresistible happens that you can’t very well not like it.
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