Skull Girls Story Discussion Thread: ALERT! SPOILERS INBOUND!

Couldn’t you say, put out like, a dumbed down version of Bloody Marie for DLC and include the True Route with her? Just make it cost a bit more than normal.

I would pay for a DLC story without question. I am seriously craving more skullgirls goodness. ;-; It’d be nice if it was free, but if I had to pay I’d totally do it.

I think it’d be a really good idea to bundle it with some extra goodies as was said up above. All the more to get people to want to play the storymode rather than just watching it, really.

As for suggestions I guess my only real input is… I’d really like to see all of the characters interacting with each other, beyond the couple of circles we saw in these short stories. The opening and winquotes have definitely suggested at a lot of interesting chemistry between everybody, but a couple of characters seemed to be left high and dry in the others’ stories. It feels like Parasoul in particular got shafted, was she even mentioned in the other storylines?

Also, NPC/DLC characters too-- a few didn’t appear at all in these stories, so we’re lost as to what they’re like. Even just a stupid random little conversation can be really fun and interesting to witness. It’d be sweet if more characters teamed up, too.

On one last random note, will DLC characters have their own “what can possibly go wrong” short storymodes like the main 8 do now? I think that could definitely be a good way to include them in a more… tangible way to the story. Especially if individual stories include some events that are canon

Yea, I agree.

also, i would totally buy it for $5 provided it’s at least longer than the current story modes, and you play as all the characters at some point. (I loved that about MK9’s story mode)

You know, for the sake of the story I am not against the death of one or more characters.

Also, I will pay for DLC story. And taunts, intros and winning poses.

I don’t want to bullshit my true feelings here. When I saw Doubles ending I thought "Do they really want to do this? The IP is not established yet and if something bad happens we will never get a real story."
Anyway I like the idea of the story DLC to have various fight conditions and every fight having some context applied beforehand. Something I think would be good would be getting various unlocks in the extras menu. Color palettes and win poses would also be fair things to bundle with it.

I would totally but DLC Story mode, but I don’t see myself passing up ANY of this games DLC. Also good job on the dialog Ravi, story mode was excellent.

If Cerebella crushing Ms. Fortune into a new Life Gem happens to be one of these “real timeline” events, don’t expect me to be very happy or pay for DLC in the future. You’re killing off my favorite character by doing that and I’m sick of that happening in these kinds of stories.

EDIT: Sorry about that. It’s just I get a little livid when a character I’ve grown attached to dies. And not in a good way.

Ah, so Filia REALLY was a blond back in the day eh?

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Looks like Filia’s eyes changed to red whenever the heck she had that run in with Marie and her memory was wiped, as well as Samson taking over her hair.

Y know, I would sooooooo love a graphic novel of Skullgirls, whenever Alex decides to do more with the series. Would be cool to see how all this stuff happened to the all the ladies.

Hmmn, I guess for now not is not the time to pack the Story Mode as DLC specially with the clusterfuck that Capcom has done, I guess the wounds are still fresh for some. Unless the Story Mode is going to be REAL long and complete, I think it’s better off bundled with a character, like maybe include it on playable Marie. :stuck_out_tongue:

I quite like this idea.
I assume Marie will be released at some point if the game is successful enough - can’t let all those precious animation frames go to waste afterall! However, Umbrella and Squiggly are likely going to be the first two characters to drop as DLC, even with the little bit of animation done on Marie already we’d be looking at a release 6-9 months away. I can’t imagine it being terribly financially viable to bother with making an additional story mode at that point as sales wind down over time and all that are left are tournament players, many of whom don’t particularly care about the story - if the True Ending is going to be released it’d sort of need to be released soonish. </baseless speculating>

EDIT: Maybe you could just release a non-dumbed down version of Marie and have it as a special Versus mode aside from proper online and local games. One person plays as regular characters, the other plays as Marie. Bundle the True Ending in with that?

Painwheel’s eyes turn red as well. And Marie’s. And umbrella has red eyes. Coincidence?

Peacock and Dr Avian have red eyes too.
I think Alex just likes red eyes.

Sure but in three cases (filia, Marie, peacock) characters have eyes that were brown but turned red.

Where’d you see Peacock’s before? :S And Marie’s were blue

Anyway, my point was I don’t think red eyes have a particularly special significance. It just seems to be an aesthetic thing

I meant painwheel not peacock. And yes Marie’s we’re blue but the point is still the same.

You got to feel bad for Fortune though. She’s got a tragic backstory, and Cere’s end just makes me rageface. We could go on and on and on about Ms.Fortune, but if her getting killed off soo quickly can be considered remotely canon, that’s just bad plot writing there. She’s a character who has a ton of potential, and if Black Dahlia gets added, even more can happen. If she dies… who avenges her gang? The answer is, no one. No one knows except her, and if she dies, their deaths go in vain.

Which is why I am pretty sure that the Cere end isn’t canon. Oh wait we KNOW that it isn’t canon.

I know it isn’t canon, but people seem pretty dead set on that someone just has to die to make the story feel ‘stronger’ or something.

I can think of at least 5 way Ms. Fortune can still be alive even if she is canonically turned into a life gem, from plain old possessing an reshaping a new Life Gem host to become her again to a more parasite route like Samson/Leviathan in which someone like Minette somehow get the Life Gem and use it to have Ms. Fortune as a Stand/Parasite.

Don’t get locked into a fixated death scene, all of this is fantasy, you can make returns and rebirths make sense with a minimum of effort as long as you are creative enough (how else do you think super hero comics still can be able to kill/reborn/rewrite character at least once a year?).