About Story Mode.

[Spark☆]

Is it me, or are there plotholes I couldn't seem to understand? Like in Double's ending? With the whole thing about goddesses controlling Double and making "it" swallow all the other characters...
I don't know if I'm missing something. Any special stories in Hard Mode, or after Marie 300%?

[Seal]

None of the stories are canon. But if you wanna know it's basically the goddesses wanting some fun and they'd figure making people suffer is the best way to do it .

[Ratgirl]

None of the stories are canon, just "what if" scenarios. So it's best not to take them too seriously. I kinda hope they improve or expand some of the stories at some point though, since they seem kinda dull compared to the story modes that the DLC characters get.

Double is just messed up in general, I wouldn't worry about it.

[DuckieMcduck]

To sum it up: All the stories in story mode are almost completely meaningless. This is not an insult, it's actually official.

[Spark☆]

Wow. Well, I had already played all the stories but knowing that there's no real ending is real disappointing. All the stories didn't really seem canon, as they were basically just telling what would be each's paths if they were the main characters. But still, they could've added a final story, perhaps something to just say "Hey, this is the canon. Deal with it." I would've gone with it, but this is just confusing.
Sure, the game's awesome, but dang. By the looks of it, Story mode IS meaningless. If anything, its only use is to know about the characters.


and yeah, Double IS the meaning of "messed up".

[Serenade]

Actually that's only half true: Alex Ahad and the devs stated that every story ending (and a good deal of the events) are "what if" versions of the canon story, while each story still has something canon that is a piece of the true story.
Of course they won't tell us wich ones are until the final reveal, but it gives us clues that something in each story is real, and with more and more characters coming up with their own story modes, it becomes "easier" to see the general scheme before they finally reveal everything

Keep in mind that Alex said they need story modes for at least Umbrella, Marie and Black Daliah in order to give us the real conclusion. Until they all become playable, it's mostly speculation :3

[Fritz X]

Originally posted by UltLolwut:

But still, they could've added a final story, perhaps something to just say "Hey, this is the canon. Deal with it."

The devs actually planned on doing that. But what they said so far is that for creating a canon story in single player mode they'd need three additional playable characters, which are:

1. Umbrella (Parasoul's little sister)
2. Black Dahlia
3. Marie (most likely in a different playable form than her boss appearance)


Right now it's hard to tell if we'll ever see any of these characters being released, though... Guess we'll just have to sit and wait until the first DLC character rollout is done.


Ps.: Darn ninjas!

[Spark☆]

Oh man. Playing as Marie would be awesome, even if it wouldn't be as the Skullgirl form.
But... Why Umbrella? Huh. Well, I sure do hope they extend the Story mode.

[Serenade]

Originally posted by UltLolwut:

But... Why Umbrella?

Well, if you followed Parasoul's story you know Their mother, Nancy, was the previous Skullgirl and Umbrella was born during the time Nancy was under the influence of the Skull Heart, so she is in fact "The Daughter of the Skullgirl" and thus she has, according to what Double said, a much higher affinity to the Skull Heart wich can turn her into something like the Perfect Skullgirl.
That makes Umbrella a pretty important character, despite her not knowing it

I'm actually more concerned about why Daliah is needed... as of now we don't know absolutely anything about her except being a Medici's top assassin

[Spark☆]

...Oh, my, I had forgotten that. I'm just horrible at remembering things, and it's been a rough half -year since I played Parasoul's story. It was the first one I played, in fact xD
By the way, wouldn't it be better if there was some sorta final story with Umbrella in her Perfect Skullgirl form, then? Of course, another "What if" story having her finding that out and stuff would be cool, too.

[Vita, Mortis, Careo]

Keep in mind that story and lore in fighting games are generally flimsy elements utilized to get a series of characters to fight each other. NRS does story pretty well, evidenced by the admittedly spectacular story arc of Injustice. However I find that most fighters, including ones that I really like, are just not worth it when it comes to concerning yourself with story elements and stand well enough on their own being purely about gameplay mechanics.

[Mantis]

Umbrella and Squigly were originally going to be part of the default roster,but they got swapped out for Double and Valentine because "the devs wanted more villains"(In quotes because that's only what I've heard)

[Darkspyre]

To my knowledge, they're hoping to put in something of a 'Super Story Mode', similar to the one in the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Playstation Port. I think something was said about them wanting to get as many characters as they could into the game before they did that though? I might be remembering incorrectly, but I do believe that was mentioned in a few places, I think including the Character Polls.

[dove]

Originally posted by Dead Booty:

Umbrella and Squigly were originally going to be part of the default roster,but they got swapped out for Double and Valentine because "the devs wanted more villains"(In quotes because that's only what I've heard)

I wouldn't really consider Valentine a villain. More like... Half-villain? She did turn Painwheel into a monster, and after playing her story mode, it shows that she wanted to repent for what she did. She wished to become the Skullgirl so that Painwheel will find and kill Valentine.

[dove]

Originally posted by UltLolwut:

By the way, wouldn't it be better if there was some sorta final story with Umbrella in her Perfect Skullgirl form, then? Of course, another "What if" story having her finding that out and stuff would be cool, too.

Hmm, Umbrella's story would be very important. Remember in Parasoul's story mode? At the end, Marie said that Umbrella reminded her of a friend she had. (Most likely Peacock) Playing Umbrella's story would draw out more info about Marie's past. It could also solve some questions about Queen Nancy. I read somewhere that since Umbrella is the daughter of the Skullgirl, she would be the only one who could destroy the Skullheart once and for all. But hey, all of this is just theories. Don't take it too seriously unless you're that bent on this stuff happening.

[Spark☆]

Hm. Just theories... Yeah. But I have to say, yours is the one that makes the most sense. Kudos.

Originally posted by Daichi:

Originally posted by Dead Booty:

Umbrella and Squigly were originally going to be part of the default roster,but they got swapped out for Double and Valentine because "the devs wanted more villains"(In quotes because that's only what I've heard)

I wouldn't really consider Valentine a villain. More like... Half-villain? She did turn Painwheel into a monster, and after playing her story mode, it shows that she wanted to repent for what she did. She wished to become the Skullgirl so that Painwheel will find and kill Valentine.

Well, yeah, judging by how Valentine's story is... She was forced by Marie to become her ally. Afterall, she did kill the whole Last Hope unit, and was about to kill her too. Either she died and we had one character missing, or we had a "semi-villain" like character, which to be honest, is great.