Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Review: Nostalgia With A Purpose

Danny Phantom’s recovery is also a fantastic tool in his kit. As Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl's version of Super Smash Bros. 's Zelda's recovery , Danny’s up special "Spectral Leap" allows him to teleport between spaces unscathed. This is incredibly beneficial for a character with Danny’s size, as it makes a character that would otherwise be easy to keep off the stage unguardable. Considering his entire moveset, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Danny makes for an excellent character for newer players who want to learn how to play the g


Good characters for newer players tend to have at least one of three traits: little weaknesses, simplistic fighting styles, and broken gimmicks. When it comes to Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl , finding any of these traits amongst its roster is a challenge due to it being a well-designed and balanced game. Characters like Sandy Cheeks from SpongeBob SquarePants , Nigel Thornberry from The Wild Thornberrys , or the obscure Powdered Toast Man are thus very technical and come with growth curves that may be inviting only to veterans. However, certain characters in the game are still straightforward enough - or just downright broken - for newer players to pick up the fighting g


However, SpongeBob’s moveset has nothing that makes it extremely strong in any obvious way, meaning that newer players using the iconic character can not rely on broken mechanics to win games. While this may seem like a disadvantage to playing SpongeBob in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl , the lack of broken mechanics in his kit serves as a positive quality for newbies. Using SpongeBob will force newer players to learn how to fight rather than rely on gimmicks to win. And with a kit that comes with very little weaknesses, newbies who start off with SpongeBob will find he has a high skill ceiling they can take very far as they impr


While more complicated than SpongeBob, Aang and his moveset represent what makes a character good in the game. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl differs from Super Smash Bros. in that it is all about speed, aerials, move-spamming, and the advantage state. While there are many characters who enable players to accomplish all of these things successfully, the simplest and most effective of them all is Avatar: The Last Airbender ’s A


A big part of what makes All-Star Brawl so fun, even in the face of defeat, is how approachable it can be. Sure, the controls suck at first - I will die on the hill that up should be ‘jump’ - but once you have it figured out, you can start pulling off tech with the best of them. I have probably performed around three wavedashes in my many hours of Melee, but in All-Star Brawl I’ve got April O’Neil gliding across the map like it’s nothing, feeling like I’ve won Evo when I race over to Powdered Toastman and smack him with a microphone stand. I might even go on to lose the match, but that quick taste of glory keeps me coming b


This next fix, if it happens at all, is still a long way off. Once again, the game just came out, and the devs are probably having a hard time just trying to make sure every platform is running well in-between future DLC characters getting datamined. But, when they get the choice, budget, or the time, cleaning up the animations for some characters and lessening the recycling of certain moves or animations would do a lot to make this game feel more "polish


Moving onto the one big aspect that All-Star Brawl Stars Events inarguably has on Smash Ultimate by leaps and bounds, the online playability. The online services in Nintendo Games usually leave a lot to be desired, especially for fighting ga


To better explain this, a good number of the characters in NASB have moves that are the exact same in both the air and on the ground, with very slight changes to the animation (Ren & Stimpy’s "Wild Swing" and "Aerial Wild Swing" , for examp


Let’s be fair, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl AKA NASB is a very fast-paced game. People accusing this of being a Smash Bros Ultimate clone will find that it has a lot more in common with Melee than any game after that. And, with fast games, heavy characters tend to quickly find their way to the bottom of the ranki


Outside of a character's recovery, some of the most integral moves for players to keep track of are their fighter's "kill moves." These can be used to reliably knock out opponents once they have amassed a high enough damage percentage . While these most often come in the form of strong attacks, the most effective "kill moves" vary greatly from character to character, with some fighters even having solid options through given special mo


Danny’s long limbs give his fast moves tons of range, enabling him to make long strings of combos. These combos are very simple, too, as most of them begin with a string of light upward aerial attacks. At higher percentages, Danny can end these combos with any of his strongs or his light downward aerial attack that spikes, which can let new players find easy ways to take sto