'Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl' smashes kids TV together into a fighting game
Nickelodeon is taking on Nintendo with Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, an upcoming crossover fighting game featuring characters from its wide library of shows.
The game seems liberally inspired by Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. series. Characters from across Nickelodeon’s long history of animated series will battle it out to knock each other off platforms, in levels inspired by the various characters’ native programmes.
Developer Ludosity – whose previous work includes Slap City, another “platform fighter” – and Fair Play Labs say “each fighter delivers a unique move-set and playstyle to master as you try to send your foes flying off the level to win”. They also promise 20 levels to fight in, and both single and multiplayer game modes.
In a possible twist to the Smash Bros. formula, Ludosity and Fair Play also promise the ability to “unlock advanced moves unique to each character’s personality and more in the in-game gallery”. How that works in practice, and any impact it might have on the game, remains to be seen.
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl’s roster features characters dating back to the early Nicktoons era, with the likes of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters’ Oblina and Rugrats’ Reptar, clashing with more recent figures such as The Loud Family’s Lincoln Loud.
