Skullgirls 2: A Deadly Adoption
I’m not into fighting games, so I have no experience withSkullgirls.The animation is gorgeous, but that’s about where you lose me. However, I did sit in on a packedLab Zero Games panelat Anime Expo, and let me tell you from experience — peopleloveSkullgirls. An “enterprising” iOS developer, Nguyen Hiep, has capitalized on this adoration withSkullgirls 2: Deadly Airport— a very bad game designed to trick people into downloading it so they will look at some ads, lining Hiep’s pockets as a result.
Don’t worry about downloading it for a laugh, because I’ve done that for you. The game is ostensibly a mobile fighter, but it’s really so much more than that. It is aNightmare on Elm Street-esque purgatory. Not just because it’s a horrible game, but because I found myself invested in the outcome for a split second. Itgotme, and now I count myself among the damned. It features Poison fromFinal Fight, some other fighting game characters I don’t recognize, the DualShock 4 d-pad & buttons, and the iconicMortal Kombat‘finish him’ graphic. I did not make it far enough into the game to see if theMKgraphic actually makes an appearance.
A cursory glance atHiep’s other appsreveal a trend, featuring such gems as aMinecraft platformerthat I swear is usingSuper Mariocoins, apractically identicalfighting game, aMeat Boyripoff, and apractically identicalfighting game but withDragon Ball Zsprites.
