Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Announced, Squidward & Jimmy Neutron Join The Roster

I am not hopeful, after the first game. The combat felt like attacks had no real impact to them. Everything just felt overly light.

I’ll probably pick this up eventually, but only after the inevitable “Gold edition” that includes the inevitable DLC launches lol

Only excited to see Jimmy Neutron joining.

Still haven’t played the first game. Probably best just to jump on the sequel.

It’s about time! The first game shows a lot of promise, so I’m hoping this one improves on the original in all the right ways.

Didn't the first game finish adding DLC late last year? This seems really soon

About time Jimmy was added

@PipeGuy64Bit Now we wait for Timmy

Yes! I love the first game. It feels really good to play IMO

Never played the first one but I'm mildly interested in this.

A bit too soon for a sequel maybe?

So, how much time passed between the launch of the first game and the announcement of the second one?

@HammerGalladeBro It launched in October of 2021 so its been about 2 years.

Hopefully they use everything they learned from the first, i.e. what works, what doesn't and give us a MUCH better game. Voice Acting from the start is a (small) example of that.

It looks like nick actually gave them a budget and time with this one, if all ends well, this can turn out to be a vary good platform fighter, as the first one had potential! And they spent all the time playing catch up because of the lack of budget.

It looks pretty fun, and if Timmy gets added, then oh boy!

I wonder if the developers have been watching Sakurai's videos and been taking notes on how to improve their own take on Smash.

Probably not, but I hope so lol.

Im more interested to pick this one up especially if the characters actually have voices, probably on a big sale though however. Squidward alone might have this game selling millions!

The first one had next to no casual options, and competitively it was a spam-your-best-move-simulator. Not to mention that, while not totally atrocious at launch, it was mind-boggling some of the things not implemented at that point (read: voice acting).

They really need to give it all that they’ve got this time (which does actually look promising) and get some good reviews from casual players and competitive Smashers, or it’ll be dead on arrival. Apparently there was DLC for the first one after most of us stopped paying attention.

If this doesn’t do well, I feel like we might as well call the platform-fighter genre “Smashlikes” at this point, since literally only Smash and Rivals have been able to create games in the genre with enduring appeal.

Please tell me that Jimmy has a ‘pizza is aggressive’ move. A true classic of a specific era of YouTube.

Oooo exciting. Hopefully Nick actually gives the devs money this time round to actually include a lot more.
Hopefully we get all the fighters back and add on top of the new ones, more costumes, etc.

Just want Korra and Asami on the roster.

Let's goooo! I hope we can get some Fairly OddParents representation this time around, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

This is really the year for licensed games. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, Disney Speedstorm, DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racers, Avatar: The Quest for Balance... 3 of those are published by Game Mill. They're pretty much the go-to licensed games company now.

Edit: Holy cow, I just watched the trailer and this is a niceee visual upgrade from the first game! Glad Nickelodeon is giving them more of a production budget with this one.

Heh, the rumors are true. A sequel.

The graphics have gone over a MARKED upgrade, two fan favorite characters are here, a campaign mode, movesets and stages have been retooled, and much more.

Correcting the problems of the first game and putting in something that is a full game that is worth the would be $50 asking price.

Let's go baby.

@Yosher Honestly if I was making a game like this there’s no way I’m not checking it out from the man himself. But like you said most likely not but I would be crazy if I didn’t lol.

Im going to be honest, unless they changed the button mechanics to be less simple and more like smash, then hard No.
After attempting to play the first one, it felt less fun and like a couple moves were missing becuz the button mechanics were too simple. Killed the game imo. Awesome idea to have a nick brawler, poor execution.

@DogDetective couldn't agree more.

It's very worrysome to see so many people demanding these games to have casual content, Smash really hurt the genre.

Smash with items isn't even fun, four players fighting each other at the same time is enough chaos.

It already looks like most of the characters from the first are returning so I wonder if they all are.

Saw some Twitter post claiming that only 4-5 characters were not shown/their stage was not shown.

As long as Garfield is there I'm good. Would also like to see Goku.

Nothing can substitute Smash Bros. for me. Heck, I have far outgrown Nickelodeon at this point (aside from streaming their older material on Paramount+ for nostalgia), so it doesn't matter either way.

@Not_Soos Yeah! Skull Island: Rise of Kong is definitely on my wishlist yesterday and is beating LOTR: Gollum as Game of the Year! Haha!

But in all seriousness. If competent developers get to strut their stuff like Microids with The Smurfs and that long tailed tiger game that plays like DK Country. Developers can overcome publishers with the right cheeze.

Wait. Disney Speedstorm is Ok'ed by Gamemill?

The first game was a glorified beta lol

@fenlix Who are you to determine what is and isn’t “fun” for other people? I for one seen tons of people enjoy the chaos of items. Sorry people can enjoy their casual party brawler without going “Fox only Final Destination” mode.

we have 4 confirmed newcommers
-Squidward
-Jimmy Neutron
-Raphael
-Donatello
and 1 maybe confirmed playable
-Vlad Plasmius

and i think i spotted multiple costumes for the characters
i hope that means that the 4 turtles get costumes to referense the other series (2003, 2012 & Rise), like what the Shredder's Revenge DLC is doing

@fenlix The success of Street Fighter 6 and the pre launch and launch of Street Fighter 5 has shown that if you only aim for FGC players, your game won't last.

@Captain_Toad No, I said 3 of those were published by Game Mill, but I didn't really elaborate which ones. NASB2, the DreamWorks racing game, and the Avatar: The Last Airbender game. All of which were announced in the span of about a month, which is crazy. I don't know who publishes Disney Speedstorm.

Going to be honest, the moment they showed the 'Squidward looking out the window' scene I get the feeling the game may be relying on memes. The original focused way too much on memes (Hugh Neutron, Nigel Thornberry, sPonGebOB to name a few). I'll likely skip this as i didnt think too much of the original.

That said, Nickelodeon and GameMill seem to be really running this multi-character crossover genre into the ground. That's 3 kart racers and 2 Smash-likes in how many years? Don't get me wrong, they can be fun but if you go to that well too regularly the novelty will wear off real fast.

I really enjoyed the first game. it's main issue was really the lack of content and polish. and it seems they got a bigger budget this time around, so hopefully they'll be able to rectify the short-comings on the first one.

I actually really enjoyed the first one. I’d like to see them add a bit more in modes and stage design for this one those were the biggest weaknesses for me. All in all I had a good time with it so far it looks like they are going to add a good deal more to this one.

The first game left me very sour, it was like they created the game then decided to stop halfway and release it anyway. And to release a sequel not too long after is like an insult. No thanks.

I really wanted to love the first game, so am optimistic about this as the improvements sound good. I found the first a little too fast or something, really hard to keep up with (had no problem with Smash) and a bit boring for the solo player.

Hopefully Garfield is still in there!