{"id":21670,"date":"2021-11-12T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21670"},"modified":"2021-10-14T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:48:23","slug":"nickelodeon-all-star-brawl-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/12\/nickelodeon-all-star-brawl-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For several generations, youngsters have enjoyed watching shows on the Nickelodeon cable channel for kids.\u00a0 Heck, even when I was little back in the 80\u2019s, I enjoyed watching Nick shows such as You Can\u2019t Do that on Television, Danger Mouse, and Double Dare.\u00a0 Even more recently I\u2019ve been known to watch shows on that channel like Invader ZIM and The Penguins of Madagascar.\u00a0 My younger brothers would watch shows on Nickelodeon, too, such as Rugrats and SpongeBob Squarepants.\u00a0 And now there is a fighting game featuring Nick\u2019s vast history of cartoon stars.\u00a0 So yeah, it\u2019s basically Smash Bros. with Nickelodeon characters.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on nearly all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve played Smash Bros., you\u2019ll know what to expect here.\u00a0 You hit opponents to make their damage meter go up, which knocks them back further the higher it is.\u00a0 If you can knock another player off the stage borders, you\u2019ll score a victory or point, depending on the rules.\u00a0 You have a button for quick and strong attacks, plus one for \u2018smash\u2019 attacks and jumping.\u00a0 You can also block and taunt with the shoulder buttons.\u00a0 One problem some Smash fans may have is there really isn\u2019t a dodge button, but you can sidestep to dodge in an indirect matter.\u00a0 And there are no items either.\u00a0 Play control also doesn\u2019t feel as tight as Smash, but it gets the job done.<\/p>\n

There are several modes of play.\u00a0 Up to four locally can go at it in Battle mode.\u00a0 Here you can compete with Stock (lives), Timer, or Sports.\u00a0 Sports has you hit a soccer ball (or other balls from Nick shows) to score points in your goal.\u00a0 You can also view text instructions on How to Play and practice moves in Training.\u00a0 Arcade is the single player mode where you fight against a series of CPU opponents of varying difficulty that you can select.\u00a0 You can also play others Online or view Extras.\u00a0 These include artwork in the Gallery, specific moves for each character, Replays, and music.<\/p>\n

So the most important thing in these types of games are the fighter characters!\u00a0 So here they all are:\u00a0 You\u2019ve got SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy from SpongeBob Squarepants.\u00a0 Ang, Toph, and Korra from the Avatar series.\u00a0 Lincoln and Lucy Loud from The Loud House.\u00a0 Leonardo, Michelangelo, and April O\u2019Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.\u00a0 Ren & Stimpy and Powdered Toast Man from Ren & Stimpy.\u00a0 Also Invader ZIM, CatDog, and Reptar from Rugrats.\u00a0 Plus Nigel Thornberry, Helga from Hey, Arnold, Danny Phantom, and Oblina from AAAAH, Real Monsters!\u00a0 Stages are also from the shows, and include Jellyfish Fields, the Flying Dutchman\u2019s Ship, Glove World, CatDog\u2019s house, and the western themed playground from that one episode of Rugrats.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll add more characters later, but that\u2019s the initial cast as of this writing.<\/p>\n

Aside from the slighter looser controls, really the only other problem I had with the game is the same one I had with the Nickelodeon Kart Racers I reviewed before<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 And that\u2019s the lack of voices.\u00a0 Granted, I imagine it would be very expensive to get ALL the voice actors and actresses on board, plus I believe some have retired and I know at least one of the voice actresses has passed away.\u00a0 But man it would\u2019ve gone a long way to adding some personality to this game.\u00a0 The developers tried to make up for it with the animations and moves for the characters, which make a lot of references for fans.\u00a0 For instance, one of Ren & Stimpy\u2019s attacks is throwing Log (it\u2019s big, it\u2019s heavy, it\u2019s wood), and their victory pose is the entire Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy dance.\u00a0 And Reptar pulls out a bowl of cereal as his taunt move!<\/p>\n

So is it as good as Smash Bros.?\u00a0 No, of course not.\u00a0 But you really shouldn\u2019t go into this game expecting that.\u00a0 If you have kids (or are a kid at heart yourself) who loves Nickelodeon shows and Smash Bros., then you may want to check out this game.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Cartoon Violence and Comic Mischief.\u00a0 You do hit other cartoon characters, but if you\u2019re OK with your kids watching Nick shows, they\u2019ll be OK with this game.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the menu and tutorial text, but not necessary just to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For several generations, youngsters have enjoyed watching shows on the Nickelodeon cable channel for kids.\u00a0 Heck, even when I was little back in the 80\u2019s, I enjoyed watching Nick shows such as You Can\u2019t Do that on Television, Danger Mouse, and Double Dare.\u00a0 Even more recently I\u2019ve been known to watch shows on that channel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21671,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21670\/revisions\/21671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}