For years, the go-to fighting video game wasSuper Smash Bros., and this shouldn’t come as a surprise because older Nintendo consoles and titles have been shaping entire generations of players up to this day and age. With the release ofSuper Smash Bros. Ultimateand smallergames likeBrawlhalla, it seems like the genre has still plenty of room for new releases. Such is the case for the new title coming from Ludosity and Fair Play Labs,Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, a fighting game that was immediately compared toSuper Smash Bros.for its style and the way it handles characters coming from different shows.
As a matter of fact, Nickelodeon is a TV channel that provides a wide selection of children’s cartoons, each with its own fan-favorite main characters and villains to look forward to in the new title.Nickelodeon All-Star Brawlis likely to feature more characters than those shared with today’s trailer. Some of them include Patrick Star and SpongeBob SquarePants, as well as Leonardo and Michelangelo from theTMNT.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.They make for the perfect fighting game characters to feature inNickelodeon All-Star Brawl.
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How Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Compares to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros.games always included a plethora of characters from other Nintendo titles, and this culminated inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimatecreating debates over which characters should have been included. A perfect example of this is Waluigi, who fans desperately wanted in the game and were very vocal about it on socials, but ultimately he was never included. With Kazuya being the penultimate addition to the game,Super Smash Bros. Ultimatefans fear that rumors about the last DLCwill be proved wrong with time, and characters like Dante, Master Chief, and Crash Bandicoot will never be featured.
This is a problem thatNickelodeon All-Star Brawlmight end up facing as well, with the pool of available characters being limited both by resources and the fact that all ofNickelodeon characterswould be hard to include in the game. Fans should keep their expectations in check because the game has just gotten its trailer, and despite the roster comprising fourteen characters from ten different shows, there is no way to know exactly how many are planned for release and how many will come after that. Regardless,Nickelodeon All-Star Brawlremains a very fun game forSuper Smash Bros.fans to pick up once it releases this fall, and it packs plenty of action already.
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawlwill also feature 20 levels based on Nickelodeon shows, such as the Jellyfish Fields fromSpongeBob SquarePantsand the Technodrome fromTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. This too is not very different from whatSuper Smash Bros.games have done up to now, and then there is also a similarity in terms of whatNickelodeon All-Star Brawlhas to offer with its multiplayer system, supporting both local and online games for up to four players. Speaking of online games, Ludosity already officially confirmed thatNickelodeon All-Star Brawlwill feature rollback netcode, which is a system that allows the game to predict the players' actions, and that’s absent fromSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate.
This is particularly useful because online matches can be frustrating when the game doesn’t register inputs and moves, butrollback netcodefixes that with a preventive system. Overall, the comparisons betweenNickelodeon All-Star BrawlandSuper Smash Bros. Ultimateare more than justified, but this doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing for either game. Instead, each game could positively influence the other, making up for a large, healthy community packed with fighting games.
Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawlreleases this fall for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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