User talk:Jjsente

Article Evaluation

I am a big fan of fighting games, especially the indie titles such as Lethal league Blaze, Them's Fightin' Herds, Akatsuki Blitzkampf, and most importantly, SkullGirls: Second Encore. I visited the Skullgirls article on wikipedia and found had three aspects of it worth commenting on: the representation of Annie's DLC release/the DLC pass re-sparking the game's community and lack thereof, A lack of talk on former studio Lab Zero's development and and release of the game Indivisible, and no mention of Mike Zaimont's limelight of controversy after making a George Floyd joke near his post mortem the heat of the BLM Protests of 2020.

To start, there's a lack of representation of Annie's DLC release announcement re-lighting the flame of the more or less dormant community. It had been nearly five years since a character content update to the game until the announcement of the Season 1 pass to skullgirls. The community was very low at that time with many of it's original fans having left the game with no new content to consume. Only when the Annie DLC and It's subsequent announcement of the Skullgirls Season 1 pass did the fandom have a sort of revival. A game's community is a quintessential part of any game or development studio as they are half of what keeps the game alive and so, I find it quite odd that there is no mention of the community resurgence when discussing the season 1 pass or Annie's release into second encore or the mobile game.

Furthermore on the topic of releases, I find it odd that there is no mention of Indivisible, the game by now defunct studio Lab Zero. Indivisible is a turn based RPG game with platformer aspects. The game was announced near after the "Keep skullgirls growing" campaign by Lab Zero in December 2015 and published by 505 Games in October 2019. This game is important to the story of Hidden Variable Games and Skullgirls as it has relations to the decline in skullgirls game development and the downfall of Mike Zaimont.

Speaking of Mike Zaimont, I believe the lack of talk on Mike's controversy in terms of the Combo Breaker 2020 Incident. During a live commentary at the Combo Breaker 2020 Skullgirls Panel, Mike Zaimont made a distasteful and frankly very offensive joke about the death of George Floyd. Being it was a live commentary, there was no way to edit the footage and so the internet immediately got on Mike's case. According to Isaac Todd of TheGamer in his article, "Skullgirls Lead Designer Makes "I Can't Breathe" Joke On Stream To 13 Seconds Of Silence", "During one round, another commentator describes the ongoing gameplay as "suffocating," in reference to how one-sided the match was at that moment. Zaimont then replies with "Would it be fair to say that you can't breathe?" It wouldn't be unreasonable to say that this tasteless joke played a part along with the sexual harassments accusations in his downfall and later leaving of the skullgirls development team along with the shutdown of Lab Zero Games.

To summarize, I believe that there should be a couple additions to the Skullgirls Wikipedia article. Those additions include the communities resurgence post Annie and season 1 pass announcement, the release of Indivisible and it's part in postponing Skullgirls' development, and Mike Zaimont's George Floyd incident at the 2020 Combo Breaker Skullgirls Panel. I believe that these are all important pieces to the Skullgirls community and development timeline. Adding these would give the article more depth into the community aspect of the game and give reasoning to readers as to why Skullgirls had a hiatus in development for some years.