Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl continues to tease potential players with a growing list of reasons to give the platform fighter a chance, many of which can be found in the latest gameplay breakdown – which shows off the wavedashing technique made famous by Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Besides the obvious appeal of having a bunch of cartoon characters duke it out in free-for-all matches, the game's developers have been open about wanting to keep Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl competitively viable while still making it possible for casual players to pick it up instantly. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that the team over at Ludosity opted to add several of the gameplay mechanics that make up much of the advanced aspects of other similar games like Rivals of Aether.
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During a nearly 6-minute overview of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl’s core gameplay mechanics, character designer and programmer Thaddeus Crews explained some of the key differences that make the game so unique. For example, across all its roster characters will be able to throw out moves mostly divided into sets of three with the variants being up, down, and mid; this means that everyone’s light, strong, special, and aerial attacks will come in those three flavors.
Things get a little bit more complicated from there, as clashing strong attacks will be prioritized according to the game’s own “Rock paper scissors” system, parry-style perfect guards, projectiles that can be easily reflected or grabbed for later use. As if that wasn’t enough, the advanced movement options granted by wavelanding and wavedashing are complemented by the lack of an air dodge, plus a dedicated strafe button.
On top of it all, the aerial grab system and substituting shields for the type of pushback blocking that exists in most fighting games should be the perfect recipe for countless day one combos. With whacky movesets for SpongeBob and Patrick already out there, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl shows tons of promise ahead of its reportedly leaked October 5 release date.
It’s possible that further gameplay showcases could soon follow this one, as the presentation was accompanied by several 1v1 matches, including CatDog vs. Lucy, the often-forgotten April O’Neill vs. Nigel Thornberry, and so much more. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl will be launching on Xbox Series consoles, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and on PC via Steam, though it's still not known if features like rollback netcode will be available on all platforms.
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