So the game plays perfectly fine. But it feels like it tried to take a different approach to Smash and thus ends up lacking some mechanics that I feel it needs. There's no ground dodging, you can only block.
There's no charge up moves, but you get "fast" and "strong" attacks, which I guess is an okay trade.
The special moves feel kind of underwhelming to me, and in many cases were indistinguishable from strong moves. There's also no side special for whatever reason.
Played this after voice acting was added, so one of the main complaints didn't apply to me. I did find some characters to actually be annoying to fight BECAUSE of voice acting though lol, mostly Garfield.
Actual character roster I like. It doesn't focus too much on a specific decade or franchise (though TMNT currently has 4 slots while even Spongebob only has 3). Moveset references are 100% on point.
I think the strongest thing in this game is the stages. I'm so glad they didn't do that thing a lot of non-Smash platform fighters do where they make all stages "competitively viable" and thus boring as shit 1-3 stationary platforms. They DO exist, about 6 of them which are selectable for ranked mode, but otherwise you have a ton of stage layouts and a few gimmicks. Very fun to fight on some of the stages.
Lack of content is another thing most people complain about, and yeah. Single player is just local battles and arcade mode. Arcade mode is just...7 generic fights in a row. Those 7 fights alternate between a forced battle and a "choose between 2" style battle, though I never really cared for which of the 2 punching bags I was gonna fight next. I guess in the highest level difficulty your matchups matter way more, so it could be important then.
Online is just online. It has ranked and unranked, which already makes it better than Smash's online. Oh and just recently, unranked with items. Item variety is okay, but I feel like they have them set to appear way too frequently. I did find there to be a lack of activity online, constantly getting matched with the same opponent multiple times in a row.
In the end if you're desperate for a platform fighter and don't have a Switch, I guess it's fine. But unless you're a die hard Nickelodeon fan, I couldn't recommend it for anything beyond just playing a few matches to see how they implemented the various characters into a fighting game.
There's no charge up moves, but you get "fast" and "strong" attacks, which I guess is an okay trade.
The special moves feel kind of underwhelming to me, and in many cases were indistinguishable from strong moves. There's also no side special for whatever reason.
Played this after voice acting was added, so one of the main complaints didn't apply to me. I did find some characters to actually be annoying to fight BECAUSE of voice acting though lol, mostly Garfield.
Actual character roster I like. It doesn't focus too much on a specific decade or franchise (though TMNT currently has 4 slots while even Spongebob only has 3). Moveset references are 100% on point.
I think the strongest thing in this game is the stages. I'm so glad they didn't do that thing a lot of non-Smash platform fighters do where they make all stages "competitively viable" and thus boring as shit 1-3 stationary platforms. They DO exist, about 6 of them which are selectable for ranked mode, but otherwise you have a ton of stage layouts and a few gimmicks. Very fun to fight on some of the stages.
Lack of content is another thing most people complain about, and yeah. Single player is just local battles and arcade mode. Arcade mode is just...7 generic fights in a row. Those 7 fights alternate between a forced battle and a "choose between 2" style battle, though I never really cared for which of the 2 punching bags I was gonna fight next. I guess in the highest level difficulty your matchups matter way more, so it could be important then.
Online is just online. It has ranked and unranked, which already makes it better than Smash's online. Oh and just recently, unranked with items. Item variety is okay, but I feel like they have them set to appear way too frequently. I did find there to be a lack of activity online, constantly getting matched with the same opponent multiple times in a row.
In the end if you're desperate for a platform fighter and don't have a Switch, I guess it's fine. But unless you're a die hard Nickelodeon fan, I couldn't recommend it for anything beyond just playing a few matches to see how they implemented the various characters into a fighting game.