I hyper-agree that the competitive appeal will not translate to widespread appeal. I personally didn’t get it because it looks *too* competitive; it looks like a game where if you haven’t played 29372 hours you will get dunked on online, and for all of its rollback netcode if the online isn’t fun to a casual player,…

If Nickelodeon is serious about competing with Smash, they’ll need to put the voice acting and give Ludosity more money to put into alternate game modes and a bit extra there, like cutscenes, some story or something for fans of the toons... well, this for mainstream, perhaps for competitive it’s good enough already.

I honestly think it’s more likely to succeed in the competitive scene than in the casual gaming scene. It seems to be very well designed mechanically, and most of the complaints I’ve heard (i.e. lack of voice acting) are down to the limited budget the game had. Those are things that drive away the average player, but…

This is an opening salvo against a competitor that has had the field to itself for two decades. And it’s doing well on a relatively limited budget.

What I find odd is, this article and others have talked a lot about how serious Nickelodeon is about supporting a competitive fighting game, and then when voice acting is brought up people refer to how to Nick was not willing to pay for it. So how serious are they? It sounds like they’re cautious about whether this is…

It baffles me that they couldn’t even Nick-ify the blatant Smash copied elements. Like, why are defeated fighters causing generic explosions as they leave the blast zone? They should be causing slime explosions. It's such an obvious move!

For now... It seems like they really nailed the competitive aspect, and doing so will buy them time to flesh out the casual appeal of the game. I expect we’ll see some DLC and updates over the next year that will add more features for gamers like me.

What? It’s a developer with a long history of involvement in the competitive Smash world. The fight mechanics exhibit a strong understanding of the appeal of competitive Smash and while many character mechanics are derivative, the actual movesets are love letters to the IPs they reflect (No This Is Patrick as a down…

For real though, adding voice acting would do wonders for this game. It just feels lifeless without it. Yeah it’s pretty sound technically, but it feels like there’s no soul, no reason for it to be Nickelodeon characters other than to get some default attention. 

Keeping the mouse logo on the keychain alone must have been hard and expensive 

I could understand Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Chapter 2.8 (or whatever) being relegated to the cloud for processing power needed.  But all the other ones?  It doesn’t make any sense since 1.5 and 2.5 were both on PS3.  And DDD was on the 3DS.  Like... from a processing power standpoint, the Switch is completely…

So who hosts these cloud version of Switch games anyways? Is it Nintendo or is it whoever publishes the games? I wonder how long they’ll stay up for streaming, cause after Nintendo moves on to Switch 2 or whatever, I imagine someone would be looking at the costs of keeping them available with some side eye.

so damn dumb. 1 and 2's hd remixes were PS3 games, which the switch CAN handle. I’m guessing they wanted consistency with III

As someone who plays the switch like a handheld for on the go play I hate the trend of cloud games. I also just don’t want companies to give up on porting games because cloud is easier.

And a remaster of a remake of a GBA game, and a DS game remade as a movie.

A remaster of a 3DS game is available on cloud only.  Okay Squeenix, you’re drunk, go home.

Fuck you, Square Enix. I can understand KH3 being Cloud-only, but there’s no excuse to have 1.5, 2.5, and 2.8 only via Cloud. If you didn’t want to go physical, at least have them as digital downloads.

Do you want to listen to 90 minutes of Charles Martinet doing the Mario voice?  I sure as fuck don’t.  It’s fine in small doses for the the games but not for a feature film.

Harassing him over who you think he voted for and for the Church he goes to is psychotic. I was raised Hasidic Jew and my wife a Columbian Catholic family both of us experienced homophobia just us much from none religious people as religious. The fact that we keep vilifying select people for their religious beliefs…