Skullgirls

A renaissance has taken place recently in the fighting game genre. Recently Soul Calibur V and Street Fighter X Tekken came out, and Capcom has been continuously releasing updates for Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend and King of Fighters XIII have kept 2D fighters alive. Soon we’ll see new releases in the Tekken Tag Tournament and Dead or Alive series.

On the downloadable front, we haven’t really seen much in the fighting genre. We’ve seen old games re-released like Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and the Mortal Kombat Kollection. We’ve also seen remakes like Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Autumn Games with Reverge Labs has taken the path less traveled by releasing Skullgirls digitally on PSN and XBLA.

The story to Skullgirls is pretty thin, but you don’t usually expect much from a fighting game. An item called the Skull Heart has the ability to grant a girl one wish, as long as the girl’s heart is pure. Should there be any impurities, the wish will consume her and turn her into a Skullgirl. While it’s an odd way to get the characters together into something of a story, it’s different from the typical, “wealthiest person in the world holds tournament for top fighters.”