Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
General information
Developer:	Ludosity Fair Play Labs
Publisher:	GameMill Entertainment
Series:	Nickelodeon
Engine:	Unity
Released:	October 5, 2021 (digitally) October 8, 2021 (physically) November 9, 2021 November 23, 2021
Genre:	Fighting
Modes:	Single-player Multiplayer
Ratings:
Platforms:	Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X and S PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Microsoft Windows

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is a Nickelodeon fighting game. It is a follow-up to the Nickelodeon Super Brawl series, and it is the first-ever console game in the franchise (the earlier titles were either online games or mobile games). It was released on October 5, 2021 digitally and on October 8, 2021 physically for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.

Fighters

"At launch, there will be 20 characters, with 2 more following soon after. Additional DLC characters will be revealed after that."

• SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• Sandy Cheeks (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• Korra (The Legend of Korra)
• Lincoln Loud (The Loud House)
• Lucy Loud (The Loud House)
• Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Michaelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Ren & Stimpy (The Ren & Stimpy Show)
• Powdered Toast Man (The Ren & Stimpy Show)
• Zim (Invader Zim)
• CatDog (CatDog)
• Reptar (Rugrats)
• Nigel Thornberry (The Wild Thornberrys)
• Helga Pataki (Hey Arnold!)
• Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom)
• Oblina (Aaahh!!! Real Monsters)
• Garfield (Garfield)

Stages

• Jellyfish Fields (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• The Flying Dutchman's ship (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• Glove World (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• Western Air Temple (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• Omashu (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• Harmonic Convergence (The Legend of Korra)
• The Loud House (The Loud House)
• Royal Woods Cemetery (The Loud House)
• Rooftop Rumble (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Sewer Slam (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Technodrome Takedown (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Space Madness (The Ren & Stimpy Show)
• Powdered Toast Trouble (The Ren & Stimpy Show)
• Irken Armada Invasion (Invader Zim)
• CatDog's House (CatDog)
• Showdown at Teeter Totter Gulch (Rugrats)
• Wild Waterfall (The Wild Thornberrys)
• Traffic Jam (Hey Arnold!)
• Ghost Zone (Danny Phantom)
• The Dump (Aaahh!!! Real Monsters)
• Sweet Dreams (Garfield)

Unused Content

Early logo.

When the game was first released, files for three unused fighters were found. Those fighters are: Garfield (announced as a free DLC on December 7, 2021), Shredder, and Rocksteady. Two unused levels were also found: Garfield's stage called Sweet Dreams and a stage based on the television game show Double Dare. It's unknown why the Double Dare stage was designed when characters that originate from Double Dare are nowhere to be found in the game currently. Items, while not currently present in the game, were also found in the code. Many announcer calls for unreleased characters also exist.

Walkthrough

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Gameplay Walkthrough Part 1 - Spongebob, Patrick & Sandy Arcade Mode

Trivia

General

• This game's existence was first confirmed by Gamefly.com, with a release date listed for October 5, 2021.
• A free DLC update featuring alternate character costumes was announced on November 20, 2021 and was released on December 2, 2021 for the Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. The free alternate character costumes DLC will be available for the Nintendo Switch sometime later on.
• Garfield was announced to be a playable character in a free DLC on December 7, 2021 and was released on December 9, 2021 for the Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. The Garfield character free DLC will be available for the Nintendo Switch sometime later on.
  • Garfield's existence was first leaked through two lineup sheets on a Latin America website on August 27, 2021.
• On December 15, 2021, the game's art director Diego Hernandez had announced that official character voice acting, more characters, more stages, and crossplay will be added in a DLC update sometime in 2022.
• This is the first SpongeBob/Nickelodeon video game to be released for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S.
• The game is developed by Ludosity, which had experience with working on the platform fighter genre with Slap City.
• A developer from Ludosity, sinxtanx, confirmed via the official Ludosity Discord server that the game will support features and techniques popular or highly demanded by fighting game fans (especially fans of Super Smash Bros).
  • Features include rollback netcode, private and competitive lobbies, and ranking.
  • Techniques include wavedash (a popular technique in Super Smash Bros. Melee) and shield platform drop.
• Sports Ball is taken from Ludocity's Slap City.
• The game uses the 1987 versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (a series that was not produced by Nickelodeon), rather than the 2012 Nickelodeon designs.
• There are currently 3 fighters from SpongeBob SquarePants.
• The game is being published by GameMill Entertainment, who previously published both Nickelodeon Kart Racers and Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix in the United States of America.
• The game has been featured in a few competitive tournaments such as the Nicktoons Throwdown Invitational hosted by Nickelodeon. And the All-Star Nickvitational hosted by Panda, featuring popular YouTubers and Twitch streamers such as Ludwig, MoistCr1TiKaL, JaidenAnimations, ConnorEatsPants and many more.
• Target leaked the box-art for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl the day it was announced, but was eventually changed to only have its logo. The leaked box-art featured unrevealed fighters such as Aang, Korra, Ren, Stimpy, CatDog, and April.
• In the character data for SpongeBob, theres mention in the code of an ability called "yummerSummon" which is a reference to the infamous placeholder character, "Yummer" found in SpongeBob Saves the Day!. There are no associated assets to this code and it was simply put there by one of the developers as a joke.
• The poses for SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy's portraits are very similar to promotional art of the characters.

  

• Coincidently, the game was announced on the day of Tom Kenny's birthday, and a day before SpongeBob SquarePants' birthday.
• Every fighter has a stage associated with them.
  • SpongeBob's stage is Jellyfish Fields.
  • Sandy's stage is Glove World.
  • Patrick's stage is The Flying Dutchman's ship.
• Every fighter has a codename associated with them, possibly to prevent any potential spoilers.
  • SpongeBob's codename is apple
  • Patrick's codename is star
  • Sandy's codename is diver
• This is the second time a cartoon channel has been the focus of a Super Smash Bros.' game, with the first instance being Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion, which was released on the Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii in 2011.
  • Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion received mixed reviews, often reasoned because of its flawed roster and not having the amount of care like Super Smash Bros. had.
• From what has been revealed, there are 4 fighters from the 1980s, 10 fighters from the 1990s, 4 fighters from the 2000s, and 3 fighters from the 2010s.
  • Garfield (First animated appearance in May 15, 1980)
  • Michelangelo, Leonardo and April O'Neil (First animated series starting on December 28, 1987)
  • Ren & Stimpy (Debut episode on August 11, 1991)
  • Powdered Toast Man (Debut episode on August 25, 1991)
  • Reptar (Debut episode on August 25, 1991)
  • Oblina (Debut episode on October 29, 1994)
  • Helga (Debut episode on October 7, 1996)
  • CatDog (Debut episode on April 4, 1998)
  • Nigel Thornberry (Debut episode on September 1, 1998)
  • SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star (Debut episode on May 1, 1999)
  • Sandy Cheeks (Debut episode on May 1, 1999)
  • Zim (Debut episode on March 30, 2001)
  • Danny Phantom (Debut episode on April 3, 2004)
  • Aang (Debut episode on February 21, 2005)
  • Toph (Debut episode as a vision on April 14, 2006 and physically on May 5, 2006)
  • Korra (Debut episode on March 24, 2012)
  • Lincoln and Lucy Loud (Debut episode debatably either original June 5, 2014 pilot or series' May 2, 2016 premiere)
• This is the first Nickelodeon fighting game on a home console.
• The voice actor of Zim from Invader Zim, Richard Horvitz, has confirmed that he did not voice Zim for this game and he is not sure if the game even contains voice acting. Joel Nyström, CEO of developer Ludosity, has since stated that "as we continue to build the Nick All-Star Brawl franchise, we will be reviewing all options, which may include adding VO down the road."
• GameMill Entertainment released a 2nd teaser trailer for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl on August 23, 2021, announcing 8 more mystery fighters are coming. The video was then made private shortly after.
  • Two more fighters were revealed at Gamescom 2021 on August 26, 2021.
• SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Helga, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Reptar, Lincoln, Zim, GIR, Danny and CatDog are the only playable characters from Super Brawl Universe to return in this game.
• Music from the shows are referenced in the game's sound track.
  • Jellyfish Jam from the episode of the same name is remixed for the Jellyfish Fields stage.

Cultural References

• This game is inspired by Super Smash Bros., a crossover fighter featuring Nintendo characters and other video game characters.
  • Like Super Smash Bros., Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl takes references from certain episodes of the fighters' shows and make them apart of their movesets.

Episode References

• SpongeBob's Up Special uses the hydro-dynamic spatula from "Help Wanted."
• SpongeBob's Strong Attack and Strong Aerial Attack swings a net horizontally, referencing one of SpongeBob's talents being jellyfishing.
• SpongeBob's Strong Down Attack and Down Aerial Strong Attack forms a rainbow, identical to the imagination gag in "Idiot Box."
• SpongeBob's Down Special has him chomping, referencing when he bit Patrick's finger in "I'm with Stupid."
• SpongeBob's Light Down Attack has him sweeping the floor, referencing when he sweeps a tomato in "Culture Shock."
• SpongeBob's Strong Dash Attack is referencing him tripping on the icy floor of the Krusty Krab from the episode, "Krabs à la Mode."
• SpongeBob's Taunt references the Mocking SpongeBob meme from "Little Yellow Book."
• SpongeBob's knock out animation is based on him crying on the floor from "Pizza Delivery."
• SpongeBob's floor getup animation references the bubble-blowing technique from "Bubblestand."
• SpongeBob's idle animation is based on his idle animation from the console version of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.
• SpongeBob's Victory animation is based on his eager face dance from "Band Geeks."
• SpongeBob's Victory animation as a teammate is based on his dance from "I ♥ Dancing."
• Patrick's Light Attack is his Belly attack from the console version of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.
  • His Strong Down Attack is the Body slam move, also from the same game.
• Patrick's Light Dash Attack is his Cartwheel move from the console version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: The Video Game.
• Patrick's Strong Down Aerial Attack has him dive down head first with an ice cream cone covering his legs. This is a reference to Patrick competing in the chocolate high dive in "The Fry Cook Games."
  • Patrick becomes buff and does a spinning lariat for his Strong Dash Attack, this form is also from the same episode.
• Patrick's puts a trophy on his head for his Strong Up Attack and Strong Up Aerial Attack, referencing "Big Pink Loser."
  • Patrick's slams a phone on the ground for his Strong Attack, also from the same episode.
• Patrick's Light Down Attack uses his laser pants from "Spy Buddies."
• Patrick's Up Special resembles when he dived into SpongeBob's armchair in "Sandy's Nutty Nieces."
• Patrick's Neutral Special has him slam his opponent back and forth.
  • This can either be a reference to when he beat himself up for SpongeBob to impress Reg in "No Weenies Allowed," or when Man Ray attacked Patrick in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III."
• Patrick's Taunt plays a mean belly from "Krabby Road."
• Patrick’s idle animation of him sleeping is from "Naughty Nautical Neighbors."
• Patrick's lose animation is a reference to the episode "My Pretty Seahorse."
• Sandy's Neutral Special uses her lasso from "Texas."
  • Her lose animation has her wear a ten-gallon hat and play guitar, also from the same episode.
• Sandy is seen using her jetpack from "Sandy's Rocket" for her introduction in the announcement trailer, also using it for her Up Special.
• Sandy's Down Special uses her Extend-O-Boots from "Stuck on the Roof," but with less reach.
• King Jellyfish and Queen Jellyfish from "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic" is in the Jellyfish Fields stage.

Prototype covers

Nintendo Switch prototype cover 1

Nintendo Switch prototype cover 2

Nintendo Switch prototype cover 3

PlayStation 4 prototype cover 1

PlayStation 4 prototype cover 2

PlayStation 4 prototype cover 3

PlayStation 5 prototype cover 1

PlayStation 5 prototype cover 2

PlayStation 5 prototype cover 3

Xbox Series X and Series S prototype cover 1

Xbox Series X and Series S prototype cover 2

Xbox Series X and Series S prototype cover 3

Steam prototype cover

Videos

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Announcement Trailer

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Character Reveal Teaser

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Launch Trailer

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Original Soundtrack

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Alternate Costumes Trailer

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Garfield Reveal

External links

• Official website
• Official Twitter account

References