Kaos Joker’s Adventure on: Skullgirls

Skullgirls is a side on uniquely styled fighter. It uses a mixed anime cartoon style with a jazz twist to create a 1920’s mash of cutie creatures and murderous gang mobsters. The game is best matched with a controller or a fight stick but this doesn't hold back the game. The stories are in depth and creatively develop the world. The more you play, the more you learn.

The controls for the game follow the standard side on fighter with combos to beat the living day lights out of the opponent. With a controller, the game is a lot smoother but can also lead to button mashing a lot of the time. But this isn’t a bad thing when the story has you so gripped you just want to kill this sexy nurse as soon as possible to see what happens next.

The characters have detailed back stories and are beautifully illustrated. As new characters are released, they are given away for free for a short time. Once the next is out they become pay for DLC for anyone who didn’t get a chance to pick them up during the free period. Sometimes they patch in a new character as a secret special character. 

As dark as some of the stories may be, the cut scenes are very well presented as a slide show of images and text. This gives the game a comic feel as you look through each slide. Once the campaign for each character is complete you unlock a large selecting of concept art and the panels from the cut scenes to browse through.

In these screen shots i am playing through the story of a girl call Squigly, one of the DLC characters and my personal favorite. This next image is taken from one of her cut scenes. But you will have to play to find out what it means :P

The whole style of th intro to each fight, the main menu and other small features make you feel like you are watching a movie. There are movie reels every were and the sounds the game makes on selection screens is like a project, clicking as it moves to the next slide.

The games over all visual style is very unique and it puts that extra little touch of WOW! to the game. 

Considering every thing, the game is really well made. Some characters are much harder to use then others and the controls are a little hard to grasp at the start but the tutorial helps (for those who still play them) and you will be mashing out your favorite combos in no time. As hard as i try i can not seem to muster a true negative for this game an the steam price of 11.99 i think is well worth every penny.

Thank you for reading and join me next time for another great adventure :)