Out of nowhere Ludosity and Honest Play Labs have introduced an upcoming sequel for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, a reasonably respectable Smash-like that was solely launched in 2021. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 will launch later this yr and, going by the trailer, appears like extra of a do-over than the rest: the important thing phrase is ‘extra’.
There are new characters, extra levels, revamps of current levels, a brand new marketing campaign mode, extra modes on the whole, crossplay on all platforms, a visible spit-shine to each current character and new mini-games. In addition to this there are new Supers, which sound precisely like the final word assaults in Smash Bros.: mainly insta-KO-ing something you hit.
The trailer reveals a number of the characters being launched in NASB2, which embrace the oft-requested Squidward and Jimmy Neutron. The TMNT solid can also be full, with Donatello and Raphael becoming a member of in. The singleplayer marketing campaign will apparently give attention to stopping Vlad Plasmius, the baddy from Danny Phantom, from taking up the Nickelodeon universe.
It is exhausting to not see this information within the context of NASB’s closest competitor, Warner Bros.’ Multiversus. For my cash Multiversus was fairly nice however, following a profitable launch, participant numbers tailed off so exhausting that the sport’s been withdrawn from the market till a 2024 relaunch.
We’ll see what occurs there however from the surface you marvel if one thing related is occurring right here. To be clear an iterative sequel is just not an issue, particularly in combating video games, and NASB was a reasonably good basis. Making this a numbered sequel reasonably than simply an enormous DLC pack clearly is sensible from a gross sales perspective, although the very fact it is arriving two years after the unique is a reasonably fast turnaround on this style to say the least.
But when gamers had an issue with NASB, it is that there simply wasn’t an unlimited quantity of stuff in it: the combating core was fairly good, and because of the license it has a tremendous solid of characters to toy round with, however there wasn’t a lot of a construction past combating time and again. NASB2 does appear to be a little bit of a second crack on the whip, then, however on this case which may be simply what the sport must shine.
