Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Some fighters wear very revealing outfits and brief partial exposure appears in intro and victory animations.
The plot turns on wars, a girl kidnapped and surgically rebuilt into a living weapon, and characters whose families were killed, with these events driving the story.
One fighter's body is fused with embedded blades as ongoing body horror, and another detaches her own head and limbs as an attack mechanic.
Occasional mild profanity such as 'damn' and 'hell' occurs in the voiced story mode.
Hand-drawn 2D fighters trade punches, kicks and cinematic special moves; hits land with stylised impact and some cartoon blood, with no realistic wounds.
Undead fighters, monstrous transformations and skull-and-corpse imagery give parts of the game a dark, unsettling tone.
An organized-crime family drives parts of the story and world, but the player does not commit crimes during play.
The forced experimentation that transformed one fighter into a weapon is described in backstory rather than shown.
Several characters are drawn with suggestive posing and framing, and dialogue carries occasional flirtation and innuendo.
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What it is
Skullgirls 2nd Encore is a 2D tag-team fighting game with a small roster of hand-animated, mostly female fighters, a fully voiced story mode, and online matches against other players. Fights are fast and stylised: characters chain punches, kicks and flashy cinematic super moves, landing with comic-book impact and some cartoon blood but no realistic wounds. The world beneath the action is darker than the bright art suggests, built on wars, a criminal mafia, resurrected dead, and a girl kidnapped and rebuilt into a bladed living weapon. Character designs lean heavily on fanservice, with several revealing outfits and brief partial nudity in intro and victory scenes. Online play matches you against strangers of a wide skill range.
How it's framed
The game wraps heavy subject matter — war, human experimentation and body horror — inside an over-the-top, cartoonish dieselpunk style, so violence reads as exaggerated spectacle rather than realistic injury. Its darkest material lives in character backstories and monstrous designs rather than in graphic on-screen depiction, while the art foregrounds glamour and fanservice.
Details
- Developer
- Hidden Variable Studios
- Publisher
- Autumn Games
- Released
- Aug 22, 2013
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