Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl was announced just a few days ago, but it’s already getting a lot of gamers excited with its Super Smash Bros. comparisons and homages to Nickelodeon history. There have been numerous Super Smash Bros. copycats in the past, but this one seems to be the most colorful and thoughtfully crafted. Although it only got a short trailer, Nickelodeon games have shown some polish in recent years, so there is some reason to be optimis

Although there is a single player Trials mode, Oh My Godheads is a multiplayer game from top to bottom. This is local multiplayer too. There’s no online or any other robust modes to be found. Oh My Godheads is strictly for brawlstarsinsight.com competitive couch play and that’s it. Oh My Godheads is a throwback to multiplayer gaming of the Nintendo 64 era where most of the fun was had with the people in the room and on this specific front Oh My Godheads and developer Titutitech do succ

The longstanding popularity of the Super Smash Bros. series has produced numerous copycat games which sought to emulate Nintendo’s success. Some have certainly been more successful than others, but there’s now a new contender that has the potential to provide a truly unique fighting game experience. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is taking some classic characters from Nickelodeon’s long history and pitting them against one another in a colorful and crazy fighting game that already looks like a promising Super Smash Bros. cl

Oh My Godheads occasionally taps into the unbridled joy of the N64 multiplayer era but only in brief bursts. There’s not enough depth to justify more than a 15 minute stretch of Oh My Godheads at a time, no matter the chosen mode. The controls are simple to grasp but there’s no real sense of progression or skill to them. These gameplay problems obviously won’t change much if there was online multiplayer involved but its exclusion is noticeable and a problem. If a Nintendo Switch owner doesn’t have three friends around the enjoyment level of the game shrinks up to nonexistence. Oh My Godheads has a solid pick-and-play base but it never goes beyond it. As it is Oh My Godheads feels more like it belongs in a compilation of mini-games than as its own standalone ti

One of the most positive elements to come out of the growth of the independent games development scene is the way in which fresh voices are able to take on old concepts. Plenty of small studios have been able to reinvigorate tired genres with fresh mechanics, resulting in such phenomenal games as modern classic Into the Breach . The next game to attempt this kind of bold genre shift is **Speed Brawl

Although there weren’t nearly as many characters as the mammoth roster list of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl has already shown off a respectable amount of characters from all across Nickelodeon’s history. Here are all of the characters that have been confirmed so

Thankfully, this emphasis on character models helps bring Speed Brawl ‘s world to life. The game shows players an alternative version of Britain, albeit a very different one from the likes of Another Sight or Not Tonight . Speed Brawl ‘s plot revolves around an 1880s Britain following the successful defeat of an insect-like Lunar race called the Selenites, and the growth of a new sport called Speed Brawl. The player is one of the contestants in this vicious game, but everything feels more like American Gladiators than The Hunger Games , with a much more chipper t

Despite four modes (five if the single player’s Trials is counted) there’s not much game in Oh My Godheads . Every mode is very brief, even if Party Edition ‘s new set-up of a tiered Tournament style is chosen. It’s easy to bounce around all the maps and interact with all the Godheads in under an hour and by that point even the most aggressive friend group will likely grow tired of Oh My Godheads ‘ repetitive gameplay. The powers, maps, and different characters don’t add enough replayability. The struggle for one disembodied deity head is the same as the next even if it’s hilarious to play as a skeleton named D

The flagship modes of Oh My Godheads are Capture The Head and King of the Head. In both the goal is possess the head of a god on one of the ten purposely tiny boards. The gods are all based on real-world mythology and each has their own power when they are picked up – powers that often doesn’t work in favor of the god head owner. The head of the Hawaiian god Kanaloa will turn its user invisible but Egyptian god Bastet will reverse the controls of its possessor at random. These powers add some extra level of strategy to either delivering the head to your team’s altar in Capture the Head or holding onto it as long as possible in King of the Head. It’s very basic but there’s still a lot of enjoyment in running around with deity’s skull and knowing at any moment it might expl

There’s no denying Oh My Godheads is strange but there is entertainment to be found in all the bizarreness. If the image of a Penguin wearing a top hat and lugging around the disembodied head of Zeus rendered in a papier-mâché low polygon style isn’t special it’s certainly unique. With a very easy control scheme of attack, run, jump and dodge anyone can pick up and play Oh My Godheads too. It’s approachable and easy as it is zany. The downside is the novelty wears out very quic