Personally I feel that the Skullheart reminds me a bit of Jafar from Aladdin, and the reason I say that I feel that the artifact in itself is very manipulative. I don’t think it has anything to do with needing a pure heart as no matter what you wish for, it will be corrupted in some way. Example being Marie making her wish to make sure what happened to Patricia (Peacock) never happens to anyone else, though in time she gradually turned into a super powered monster. I’m assuming that was her wish based on the dialogue between the two of them. Fillia wishing for Painwheel to be normal again, though at the cost of her being a skull girl, though Samson isn’t entirely innocent himself as he tried to prevent Fillia and Carol from speaking so as not to make her remember anything. Parasoul’s mother wishing for peace for everyone but she ends being turned into a monster, and it took three kingdom’s just to take her down.
Heck even Valentine acknowledged that the wishes themselves would end up being manipulated to serve its purpose, which Fortune and Painwheel were able to figure out in their own unique way. Peacock just straight out blew it to hell as most likely her wish would’ve been to be the strongest, but after beating Marie who is a Skullgirl, the strongest at the time then she didn’t need to make that wish anymore and found the skullheart to be useless. Though I can’t say one hundred percent whether its true or not with Cerebella as the skullheart or perhaps Double did mention that she was pure of heart despite working for the mob, though whether that means she could make any wish and not receive a backlash of sorts is entirely up to debate. Though you can tell that she did feel remorse for killing Fortune in her story to gain the love of a man who is a total asshole who see’s her as nothing more as a tool to use as he pleases, personally I don’t think he’d even feel anything she up and died and that’s sad. He’d just see her as a lost asset and not a human being.
I can’t stress how much I hate that bastard Vitale, and I think it would probably even be more so if I find out that he’s Fillia’s dad or in some relation to her. That would make it even worse, but back to what I’m trying to say.
Though as I said these are all simply my thoughts after having beaten the story mode and at the same time trying to come up with a decent plot to add to Skullgirls when I decide to do a fanfiction of it. Perhaps try my hand at adding even more of a spin to a well crafted story despite one or two glaring plot holes, which will probably be answered in dlc anyway. All in all the story was pretty good and give you a bit of appreciation for the people that had a hand in their creation, and makes you want to know more about the characters. Makes you ask questions like why does Cerebella look up to Vitale the way that she does? What goes though her head? Why did she want to be a circus performer? And so on and so forth. Personally, I love it when a story makes me ask questions while moving the plot along. Not only for just her character, but for everyone else involved in some way.
Not like UMVC3 that makes me don’t even want to do the story as it does not add any replayability in anyway, wow, two pictures with some half assed dialogue and that’s it? Fail!
I found Peacock’s story to be my favorite. I went into this game thinking she was just some nutty, crazy machine of war, but this showed she is none of that. Plus her relationship with Marie was touching.
Valentine’s was also good, showing why she did these things. She’s not evil, just motivated by science, and also the pain and suffering she caused to Painwheel. You can tell she became the skullgirl, and was pushing Painwheel with those insults, so Painwheel can kill her one day. She feels that Painwheel is the one that should bring her to justice for all the pain she has caused.
She seem to be motivate by science and revenge, if we’re to trust her arc. She was gathering research on Skullgirl to destroy it and Painwheel is/was her last bet to destroying the Skullgirl, which combining with Painwheel’s purpose plus the remnants of her soul seeking revenge hoping it makes her strong enough.
I can’t figure out when Painwheel was created, before or after Valentine “teams” with the Skullgirl. I would guess after.
I think it may have happened before she teamed up with her. If it was after, I’m sure brain drain would have been able to tell that Valentine was a spy… being psychic and all. Thing is, Valentine could have joined the skullgirl right after that.
The Japanese are gonna eat this stuff up.(well techniqually they already been doing that, but with this image out and about, it’s gonna be double the amount).
Wouldn’t it have made more sense for the ASG Labs to only use men for their experiments? They didn’t run into this problem with Peacock but if it’s a guy that kills the Skull Girl he can’t do anything with it other than blow it up. A female ASG project could potentially double cross them.
Pretty awesome story, even if most of them feel pretty Bad End. Lots of tearjerkers :sad:
Every path seems to be setting up the Medici as the bad guys. “Humans are the real monsters” ? Or maybe it’ll be Skullgirls 2: Fall of the Medici and Skullgirls 3: The Trinity Strikes Again
Filia’s story made me wonder about Samson. Does he just have that good poker face, or he really isn’t manipulating Filia with sinister intentions? It almost felt that he genuinely cares for her, even though hes a drinking mobster.
Double’s ending is strange. My interpretation is that the real story is all the stories pieced together, kind of. So most of the stories are the truth, but the true story will just say who becomes the skullgirls and clears up some of the other details (I doubt Nadia ends up as compressed life gem juice).
Overall the Skullheart seems to give a Wishmaster vibe, but not quite as bad. It doesn’t completely twist all wishes in the worst possible fashion, often fulfilling them to the letter, depending on the purity of the wish (but no wish is ever completely pure).
