Skullgirls 2nd Encore

Skullgirls 2nd Encore

584 ratings
[MOD] Pre-Censorship Original Story Art
By Hellrot
This mod partially reverses what MightyZug (the game's director) calls "adjustment" of story mode art assets.
50
13
6
23
8
7
3
3
10
6
3
3
3
5
5
2
2
   
Award
Favorite
Favorited
Unfavorite
Intro
This is a straight-forward file swap that does what the guide's description states. Due to the nature of how they've committed the changes, it doesn't fully bring the story mode slides back to what they were originally, but most changes are reverted.

Furthermore, it is impossible to undo changes to character sprites. It seems the Story Mode is as far as we can go without downgrading the game or resorting to higher seas.

I wouldn't put it past them to remove this guide/mod or introduce an MD5 Checksum for the files we are replacing in a future patch, like how they did with character sprites, so download while you can.




Since Mike Z saw my other guide and mentioned it before he was sacked, perhaps the new management will see this one, so why not ask them a few questions!

Why are you search-suppressing the Remove SonicFox mod? Why did you take down the link, does it bother you that somebody rejects your new artistic vision for the game?

Would you not say it's a bit hypocritical given the way you vandalised assets of a game one of the major selling points of which has always been its unique vintage and provocative art style?

Do you believe it is consumer-friendly to remove content from a game that's been there for a decade? I was born and lived most of my life in Russia, can you explain to me what part of the "Soviet" voice announcer pack was supposed to be offensive towards me or anyone else? Did you get any complaints about this specific content you felt you had the moral and legal right to retroactively take away from everybody else?

Why are you working on a game with art and plot themes that upsets you personally? What is it with your odd contempt for your own work?

Why did you censor the art used in a cancer charity fundraiser?..

I don't know what your political, social or religious motives may be for committing this "adjustment" as you call it (more like vandalism). Maybe you guys are the American Christian puritans from the 1980s I kept hearing about, maybe you have some new staff with most of their experience at 4Kids Entertainment and itchy hands, heck, maybe time passed and now you have children, which shifted your world view and focus. That doesn't bother me and shouldn't worry anyone else.

It is, however, bothering how rather than take self-responsibility and address the issues that you have with the game in a sequel, another game, or quit to work on a different franchise entirely, you choose to meddle with something that's already been established and bought by the game's fans several times on different platforms for over ten whooping years, and - in case of some team members - wasn't built by you in the first place.

And for what reason? Who are those people that wanted these changes?

Look at your community feedback - I don't see anyone for the "adjustments". The active part of the player base does what some call "review bombing" (a disingenuous term that means negative feedback that the creator doesn't like). Others are either trolling, or don't really care. Where are the players who actively support your decision and can bring consistent and persuasive arguments for why your decision is actually a good thing?

Annoying. Almost as annoying as the gullible players who actively want less choice, less content, and more power for vendors over what they supposedly own.
Download link
If it gets taken down, please do let me know:

DOWNLOAD[drive.google.com]
Installation
Copy the "data01" folder to the game's parent folder where SkullGirls.exe is located and agree to file overwrite.

Please let me know in the comments if you run into any issues. Reminder - this mod only fixes Story Mode slides, and doesn't do it fully.





I'm sure the guys who worked on this could also write long and fancy rationales about even most bizzare "revisions", "adjustments" and "updates" of theirs.
78 Comments
shade00 5 Oct, 2024 @ 6:52pm 
keyword, doesn't work anymore would be proper
or are you referring to link
you give zero context

they may have updated the game so it doesn't work anymore, a downgrade may be required
ALIEN 5 Oct, 2024 @ 3:04pm 
Dude that shit doesn't work
shade00 10 Sep, 2024 @ 6:39am 
downgrade edition to pre censored version if this doesn't work
as this was just a copy paste old files most likely
so dunno if they can actually update this
Frize the Lord of Terror 10 Sep, 2024 @ 5:21am 
this needs to be updated, cuz after last patches it doesn't work
taurgis 2 Apr, 2024 @ 8:00am 
what was actually changed? after coming back after a few years, basically nothing is different.
like characters still play the same, plenty of tits, ass and panty shots if thats your thing.
Bread Buddy 3 Jan, 2024 @ 1:51am 
I feel bad for you guys having the game changed so much after it’s been up for so long. I don’t want to support the new devs but I really want the game.
BMORES ASSASSIN 20 Dec, 2023 @ 9:48am 
Of course they won't answer your questions. The people who decided to make these changes are the ones who think they know "whats best" for everyone who never asked. The same ones who think what they deem "Modern" sensibilities and standards are only those of their opinions. The same ones who claim something is "small" only for it be big enough to have to be changed anyway. I'd say just downgrade the game using steam's feature and don't buy from the company anymore.
Hellrot  [author] 26 Aug, 2023 @ 4:36pm 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hellrot  [author] 25 Aug, 2023 @ 7:22pm 
All I hear is reddit speak
gr33dl0ck 23 Aug, 2023 @ 3:35pm 
Greendusk, it will never happen because the changes were done for ideological reasons.