Remember how that game had like, 4 stages? Maybe 5?? And the music was unremarkable at best? Like the most memorable piece of music in it to me was like a small slice of the Steven Universe theme, but orchestrated. And maybe a hint of a Batman theme orchestrated. I think there's that one Rick and Morty song in there somewhere, in some way.
Anyways, Nick All Star Brawl 2 comes out today. I can only hope that MultiVersus tries at least half as hard to feel like a complete-ish package when it comes back. I mean, I get that it's supposed to be free to play and all, but damn. I only regret spending money on that thing, not the Nick one.
Also, again, I don't have worry about a wizard author being potentially and tangentially involved in one of those.
MultiVersus had fun things about it though. It had it charms and strengths. And I'm more mad (if you can call it that) at the various branches of Warner Bros than anything. I think.
And also, it simply inenviably went fully public too soon. It had a lot of ridiculous expectations and to meet, and probably needed/needs just as much ridiculous manpower and support to reach what it was expected to be. Making a decent Smash clone isn't easy. And I imagine also making it Fortnite at the same time is even harder.
Like yeah, it's obviously gonna be way easier to build up a satisfying roster of Nickelodeon characters when the game is strictly about said brand (and also that pool barely ever grew much past the 2000's)
Meanwhile MultiVersus is pulling from more than just Cartoon Network. And there's deals to fulfill, movie releases to coincidence with, all sorts of things. And of course there's probably half a dozen reasons to try giving the Gremlins a shot before one of 100 iconic Cartoon Network blorbos from just a single decade... Kind of.
Look, they got Batman. Mission accomplished. Now go buy those Velma skins.
