Skullgirls: 2nd Encore
Skullgirls 2nd Encore is a beautifully hand-animated, fast-paced 2D fighting game that puts players in control of fierce warriors in an extraordinary Dark Deco world. Each of the 14 wildly original characters…
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is an arcade developed by Hidden Variable Studios, released 7 July 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.
What Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is an arcade game developed by Hidden Variable Studios and released in 2015. It was published by Arc System Works. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Arcade, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Skullgirls is a 2012 fighting video game developed by Reverge Labs and published by Autumn Games, originally released digitally for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and ported to various other home and portable systems afterwards. A 2D fighter, Skullgirls consist of team-based fights and revolves around the "Skull Heart", an artifact which grants wishes for women. If a wisher with an impure soul uses the Skull Heart, she is transformed into a monster known as the "Skullgirl".
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 45 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Skullgirls series
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is the second of 3 entries we hold in the Skullgirls series. It arrived a year after Skullgirls Encore. The next entry was Skullgirls Mobile in 2017.
How it was received
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual-core CPU, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD3000. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 14GB.
What it launched against
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore launched on 7 July 2015, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocket League, God of War III Remastered and Her Story. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocket League, God of War III Remastered, Her Story.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Skullgirls: 2nd Encore yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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