{"id":19686,"date":"2019-12-20T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19686"},"modified":"2019-12-02T00:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T00:15:31","slug":"the-fighters-of-skullgirls-2nd-encore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/the-fighters-of-skullgirls-2nd-encore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fighters of SkullGirls: 2nd Encore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Recently I reviewed SkullGirls: 2nd<\/sup> Encore<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 2-D one-on-one fighter with cartoony graphics and I\u2019ve been wanting to review it since 2012 when it came out, but for whatever reasons I wasn\u2019t able to.\u00a0 But I got my chance when it came out on the Switch!\u00a0 For what\u2019s considered an indie game, this one is very good.\u00a0 Almost on par with fighters like BlazBlue and Guilty Gear!\u00a0 I was very impressed with the creativity of the characters and even the storylines in the Story Mode were pretty interesting.\u00a0 And usually they aren\u2019t in fighting games.\u00a0 So when that happens, I usually like to write a blog about the characters, and so we\u2019ll do that here.\u00a0 Some slight story spoilers here and there, just to warn you, but the game HAS been out since 2012.<\/p>\n

Squigly<\/strong><\/p>\n

So the main reason why all these fighters are beating each other up is to take control of the Skull Heart.\u00a0 If a girl or woman touches it, they\u2019ll get their wish granted, but it comes with some consequences, too.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why most of the characters you can play as are female.\u00a0 Also, the game has a dark art deco 1920\u2019s theme, and kind of reminds me of Batman: The Animated Series.\u00a0 SkullGirls would make a great cartoon, albeit a very mature one.\u00a0 Anyway, I first thought Squigly was a puppet, as she has a string thing around her and her mouth is sewn shut and she just communicates via thoughts.\u00a0 But it turns out she\u2019s really a zombie and her string thing is actually a talking parasite demon guy.\u00a0 So I could beat the story mode with some characters but not others because the last boss is so hard and\/or cheap.\u00a0 And Squigly is one of the ones I couldn\u2019t beat the last boss with so that\u2019s all I can say about her!<\/p>\n

Big Band<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s one of my favorite characters!\u00a0 He\u2019s like a film noir detective, but he was badly hurt in an accident so he was rebuilt with parts.\u00a0 But instead of mechanical parts, he was rebuilt with musical instruments!\u00a0 So he fights with saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and others.\u00a0 And he is one of the few characters I can beat the game with!\u00a0 So yeah, he\u2019s awesome!<\/p>\n

Eliza<\/strong><\/p>\n

At first I thought I\u2019d like her because she looks like a pretty Egyptian lady.\u00a0 But it turns out she\u2019s a scary mean demon that can turn into a skeleton as her true form!\u00a0 Lesson here is to not judge a book by its cover!\u00a0 And she\u2019s really mean and killed off my favorite character in the story mode!\u00a0 I do like her two goons, though.\u00a0 They\u2019re muscled up versions of ancient Egyptian gods Anubis and a bird hieroglyph.<\/p>\n

Filia<\/strong><\/p>\n

At first I thought she was a police officer but she\u2019s actually a school girl in a uniform.\u00a0 Maybe she\u2019s going to police school?\u00a0 Anyway, like Squigly, she has a talking parasite thing attached to her hair.\u00a0 If you look closely, you can see her headband is actually teeth and eyes!\u00a0 Her parasite\u2019s name is Samson.\u00a0 He helps her fight, too.\u00a0 Because of this, I was able to beat the last boss with this character.<\/p>\n

Fukua<\/strong><\/p>\n

One bad thing about SkullGirls is that it\u2019s guilty of having different characters just are just palette swaps of other characters, but luckily it doesn\u2019t happen often.\u00a0 Fukua is just a green Filia.\u00a0 Same moves for the most part and everything.\u00a0 Her storyline is really weird though.\u00a0 Usually you fight a few guys and then the boss, but for Fukua, you fight half the roster, then the boss, then the other half and then the last boss is a super hard version of Filia that I couldn\u2019t beat.\u00a0 But the way Fukua\u2019s story starts out is pretty funny.\u00a0 It\u2019s all Filia\u2019s dream, and it shows her sleeping in bed that\u2019s a direct reference to the ending of Super Mario Bros. 2!\u00a0 The graphics are all shades of blue and she even wears a nightcap with an F on it and everything!<\/p>\n

Miss Fortune<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s a catgirl and also a thief.\u00a0 She stole a gem called the Life Gem, and when mobsters from the Medici gang cut her into pieces, she still lives but can throw her head around as a weapon when she fights.\u00a0 Since she\u2019s also a cat, she can also wrap fighters in a ball of yarn and bat it around like cats do.\u00a0 She\u2019s all right, but she ain\u2019t no Felicia.<\/p>\n

Robo Fortune<\/strong><\/p>\n

At first I was like, \u201cOh no!\u00a0 Not another palette swap!\u201d\u00a0 But she\u2019s actually not just a gray Miss Fortune!\u00a0 She is her own sprite with different animations and attacks!\u00a0 The bad guys created her, but she also has a lot of funny lines that she delivers in a monotone robotic voice, like \u201cIn case you haven\u2019t noticed, I am a robot,\u201d and \u201cThis was a triumph.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peacock<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like this fighter because she\u2019s like an old black and white cartoon character, and I like those kinds of cartoons.\u00a0 She has rubber hose animations and has goofy sound effects when she fights, her legs swirl when she runs, and her attacks are silly.\u00a0 She also says stuff like \u201csufferin\u2019 succotash\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t I a stinker?\u201d\u00a0 In the story mode, she\u2019s a living weapon and hangs out with other cartoons like a little bird, talking one ton weight, and an anvil with eyes and boxing gloves.\u00a0 I wish I could\u2019ve beaten the game with this character, but she was too hard to use.<\/p>\n

Painwheel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Painwheel, Painwheel, spinning around\u2026sorry, I\u2019m a child of the 80s so I had to do that.\u00a0 Talk about angsty!\u00a0 Painwheel is a girl who has been turned into a weapon controlled by the bad guys, but she\u2019s starting to regain control herself.\u00a0 She wears a mask and crawls around and has a giant metal pinwheel attached to her back.\u00a0 She can use it to spin around like a helicopter or swing it at enemies like an anchor.\u00a0 She also makes a lot of gross, guttural noises when she fights.\u00a0 Scary!<\/p>\n

Cerebella<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s my favorite character in the game!\u00a0 She\u2019s a friendly circus performer who has a special hat that when she puts it on her head, it sprouts big muscle arms and helps her fight.\u00a0 She\u2019s also one of the few characters I could beat the game with, so that\u2019s also why I like her. \u00a0But every character in this game has a dark side, and the only thing I don\u2019t like about Cerebella is that she works for the bad guys: the mobster Medici gang.\u00a0 But you can tell she feels guilty about it.<\/p>\n

Parasol<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s a leggy military agent with a bunch of soldiers at her command, but she\u2019s also a princess.\u00a0 She fights with an umbrella and wears an outfit that kind of reminds me of that one Marvel character.\u00a0 I think her name was Black Spider or something.<\/p>\n

Beowulf<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh man, this guy is so cool!\u00a0 His story is one part wrestling drama, and one part epic poem that you may have had to study in high school.\u00a0 He\u2019s a washed up wrestler who wears a wolf skin and fights with a folding chair on his back.\u00a0 In the past he fought a giant named Grendel, and then had to fight Grendel\u2019s mom.\u00a0 You know, like in the poem.\u00a0 But then his career falls flat and he resorts to playing a bad guy in a kids super hero show.\u00a0 But when the SkullGirl appears, his agent has him fight all these people for a comeback, but it turns out the agent was a fake and was working for the SkullGirl and making him take out people in the SkullGirl\u2019s way.\u00a0 But with the help of the super hero girl from the TV show, he makes everything right in the end!\u00a0 He\u2019s just a goofy fighter and I\u2019m glad I could beat the game with him.<\/p>\n

Valentine<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last two characters were locked and I don\u2019t know how to unlock them.\u00a0 But Valentine is one of the bad guys and she\u2019s a busty nurse with evil intentions and that\u2019s all you need to know.\u00a0 I do like how the cartoon character Peacock says \u201cHelloooo, Nurse!\u201d when you fight her!<\/p>\n

Double<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you need to fight the same character you are, that\u2019s who Double is.\u00a0 She can take on two forms.\u00a0 Sometimes she\u2019s the same character as you, and other times she\u2019s a nun who can open her mouth wide and turn herself inside out and become a mass of organs!\u00a0 Eww!\u00a0 In that form, she can use attacks from all different characters. \u00a0But like Valentine, she was locked so I can\u2019t tell you any more than that!\u00a0 And the last boss is a maid with dinosaur bones around her (the SkullGirl), but I don\u2019t think you can play as her.<\/p>\n

And those are the fighters in SkullGirls!\u00a0 Again, it\u2019s a pretty good game and I was surprised how well it turned out.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit more mature than what I usually play, but then, I am an adult and sometimes like to dabble in more grown up games every now and then.\u00a0 My favorite characters are Cerebella, Big Band, Beowulf, and Peacock.\u00a0 Have you ever played SkullGirls?\u00a0 Who are your favorite fighters in it?\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I reviewed SkullGirls: 2nd Encore.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 2-D one-on-one fighter with cartoony graphics and I\u2019ve been wanting to review it since 2012 when it came out, but for whatever reasons I wasn\u2019t able to.\u00a0 But I got my chance when it came out on the Switch!\u00a0 For what\u2019s considered an indie game, this one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19688,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19686\/revisions\/19688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}