Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is picking up steam with some new content, and the latest announcement is bringing much speculation within the platform fighter community. It has been revealed that another character will soon make their way to the game, with the announcement coming in just a few days.
Sparking a surprisingly lively competitive scene, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl released earlier this year as a new entry in the platform fighter genre. Coming from established development studio Ludosity, the game ended up with much more depth than would be expected of the average licensed cartoon tie-in game.
In a Twitter post, Ludosity announced that a new character will be joining the ranks very soon. The post provided no more details other than the reveal date of December 7, but speculation began immediately among fans; a surprisingly high amount in the replies are guessing that the next fighter will be Garfield, the rights to which were acquired by Viacom last year. This comes just shortly after revealing that DLC costumes are coming to All-Star Brawl, so content delivery is certainly ramping up.
While Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl already includes a decent array of characters, it is nowhere near the level of something like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and this could be a good thing; more characters means the game will be more difficult to balance. However, some players feel that All-Star Brawl is missing out on many iconic Nickelodeon characters like Jenny from My Life as a Teenage Robot and Blue from Blue's Clues. As such, updates and DLC are the perfect opportunity to make the game a more worthwhile purchase for fans of such underrepresented classic series.
It is worth noting that Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is not without competition anymore. Even though Super Smash Bros. Ultimate received its last fighter recently, a new challenger is approaching by the name of Warner Bros. MultiVersus. Multiversus and All-Star Brawl are directly competing with each other and each have similarly iconic casts, so Ludosity and Nickelodeon will need to pull smart picks for upcoming fighters to stay ahead.
With development ending on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the time has finally come for other studios to take platform fighters in new and exciting directions. The future is bright for the platform fighter genre, and as more developers jump in with unique takes, platform fighters will continue to grow and evolve. If the current trends keep going, even more iconic characters could appear in existing or new games, with All-Star Brawl and Multiversus potentially being the beginning of a platform fighter Renaissance.
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.