For whatever reason, Reverge Labs decided to ship the game completely devoid of any character-specific move lists. While the tutorials do a great job at teaching you when and why you should be using various attacks on your opponent, the game never actually teaches you how to do the attacks themselves. The one mode that does stand out as being unique, is the tutorials mode. Depending on the time of day finding an opponent can be difficult, but once you do get a game started it’ll typically run smoothly. It’s also worth mentioning that the online games run GGPO netcode, which will be familiar to those of you who’ve played Street Fighter III Third Strike: Online Edition. A few extra modes would have been nice, however their omission is understandable considering that the game is downloadable. The online component is a little bare bones, featuring only ranked and unranked matches, as well as a leader-board. Although this is appreciated, these changes are still fairly minor and could easily go unnoticed by your average joe street-fighter. There’s even a hold on the pause button that eliminates any accidental pausing. Other such innovations include simplified specials, and an infinite detection system that prevents looping combos. It’s this sort of attention to minor details that shows the tournament level pedigree of the Skullgirls dev team. While tagging works as expected, the assist attacks are completely customizable, allowing each player to adapt the game to their own unique play style. Players can choose teams up to three characters deep, but the larger the team, the weaker the individual characters. If you’ve played any of Capcom’s versus games, this should feel instantly familiar. Each character has six standard attacks (three punches, three kicks) that are used to perform various combos, air combos, special moves, and blockbuster attacks. While there’s actually a fair amount of innovation going on beneath the hood, it doesn’t necessarily jump out at you. At its core, Skullgirls is a no frills fighting game created almost exclusively for fans of the genre.
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