A fighting game featuring an all female cast, does it work? Check out our review below.

Skullgirls is a 2012 fighting game developed and published Reverge Labs and Konami, it is available on PC, PSN, XBL, and soon arcades.

Parasoul & Filia’s alternate costumes.

THE GOOD: The story of Skullsgirls is that a group of women are on the search for an artifact known as the Skull Heart, to either destroy it or use its powers for their own personal reason. No one character feels the same, during tutorial I could tell the differences between them immediately. There’s a number of moves such as High Kick, Low Kick, Medium Punch, etc and it plays similarly to Street Fighter, such as using quarter, circle back to use player even more powerful moves.

There’s multiple gameplay modes such as single, online co-op, tag team matches and others.  Voice acting and animation is superb, including some cool animations for special attacks. after a few moments in the tutorial you start to get the hang of special moves fairly quickly.

Ms.Fortune vs Valentine.

THE BAD: While spending a few minutes in the tutorial will make things way more easier for players to get into the game, Skullgirls won’t be for those looking to just jump in. Besides online play, there isn’t much replay value past story mode.

Three-way dance!

THE UGLY: The only pet peeve I had with the game was that every character dressed pretty slutty.

DLC Character Double in action.

OVERALL THOUGHTS: Skullgirls is fun and difficult on a fair level, but past story and online mode replay value felt a little lax. It’s not really a game players can expect to just jump into to learn the special moves on the fly. The story is cool and original, and there”s plenty of moves and characters to choose from, each of which feel different, but was it necessary to make every character dress in a slutty/fetishy attire?