It has been a long time since Inoue AKA Kazunoko has shown up at Mikado GG tournaments. Which is not surprising, since he’s busy tearing things up in Street Fighter IV! But he made a surprise appearance at Mikado for the February 9th Thursday 3on3 tournament, and it’s clear he hasn’t lost his edge. He even shows off some new Order Sol tech!
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Valentine by BBadruddin
The guys over at Machinima have a great Skullgirls treat for us this weekend, a 3 part video walkthrough of Skullgirls and Valentine! With Ecko and Mike Z on board, they run through the general gameplay elements of Skullgirls and the various training mode features. It’s very nice to see hitstun and blockstun bars implemented in training mode. I’ve only seen two fighting games(Eternal Fighter Zero and Immaterial and Missing Power) have that feature, and it’s something that I wish all games would pick up.
This is the first footage that has the complete version of Valentine, so there are a lot of new things on display. First off, her Level 2 super is a counter handled RIGHT. Meaning there’s no superflash activation, and if it whiffs the meter still gets used. Her level 5 super is a defibrillator strike, which can hit the opponent but is unsafe on block. But the unique thing about it is that it can revive downed teammates! I’ve always been wandering why dead characters in Skullgirls stayed on screen, and now I know why.
Len and White Len by Hitoha
Two sets of tournament footage for the price of one! Kanto Saikyou Ketteisen SP continues with the January 22nd tournament at Freedom Yokohama and the January 29th tournament at Yawata Game ACE. There’s a ton of footage available from the Yokohama tournament, as the A and B Block matches were recorded along with Top 4. The Game ACE tournament is also special because the videos are actually available for direct download from the arcade homepage! That’s something you definitely don’t see much nowadays in the age of streaming and Adobe Flash.
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After a bit of a break, Megalodon has returned with the 38th video in his GG Mikado casual matches series, featuring Inoue AKA Kazunoko playing Order Sol vs Machaboo Ky and FAB Potemkin! Great matches all around. I should also note that the original Inoue vs Machaboo casual matches are no longer on Jonio’s justin.tv account(as he probably forgot to highlight them), so this is the only archive we have of them at the moment.
Inoue(HOS) vs Machaboo(Ky), FAB(Potemkin)
This footage has also been added to the Compilation Videos page.
Parasoul by Yojio
Ravidrath’s newest post on the US Playstation blog has a brief run through of the different play modes and features available in Skullgirls, including custom soundtracks and an in depth tutorial. There’s also a preview of the game’s Story Mode, which looks very visual novel influenced like that of Blazblue’s. Apparently Parasoul doesn’t have a permanent frown on her face because she’s actually shown smiling in one of the preview shots. The custom movie posters that every character has are amazing: I really hope they’re released in high quality someday! There’s a ton of new artwork and new music used in the trailer, so if you’re at all interested in Skullgirls, get to it!