It dawned on me that Sandy from Spongebob maps weirdly properly to Karlach from Baldur’s Gate 3 and I’m shook at how properly this maps to this sport.
Nostalgia reigns supreme in Nicktoons and the Cube of Future, the brand new child’s first dungeon crawler from Truthful Play Labs (who did the stable Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl video games) and Petit Fabrik. It’s a part of the writer Sport Mill’s ongoing marketing campaign to seize the magic of 30 some-odd years of Nickelodeon cartoons and make them into video video games. Cube of Future is a cute tabletop RPG-inspired journey the place you are taking management of quite a lot of Nicktoons by way of fantasy-tinged variations of their settings.
The unfold of characters hits a good quantity of floor, because the 9 playable characters are from eight completely different cartoons and a wide range of eras. Timmy Turner from the Pretty Oddparents is the driving power of the narrative as his tabletop RPG experiences along with his titular oddparents is the trigger for the bizarre fantasy world everyone seems to be wrapped up in. Timmy is aptly a Wizard class and initially is one in every of 5 characters out there on the outset, with Spongebob, Sandy Cheeks, Leonardo (TMNT), and Katara (Avatar). They’re all mapped to completely different courses with distinctive powers and skills. I performed lots of Leonardo of the sword-slashing Samurai class and in multiplayer with my youngsters, we dipped into a mixture of Katara’s therapeutic skills and Sandy’s barbarian tendencies. 4 extra characters are unlocked as you progress. I’ve come to study they’re simply introduced and out within the wild, however I performed by way of this sport not understanding who precisely the opposite characters had been and I believed it was cooler that means so other than saying the characters are cool and the courses add a good quantity of selection, I’ll chorus from saying anymore. Besides one in every of them has an enormous Reptar tied to their particular skills.
Romping by way of this as an grownup in single-player is essentially simplistic but nonetheless gratifying. Whereas it’s simple to up the issue just a little bit, the sport isn’t all that advanced or difficult. It’s lots of button-mashing and dodging whereas deploying particular assaults from time to time. The loot isn’t huge or all that deep, nevertheless it’s clear Diablo served as a point of inspiration on this sport. It’s amusing throughout the completely different warped Nickelodeon worlds.
The magic of this sport was enjoying it in multiplayer with my youngsters. Supporting as much as 4 gamers domestically, it’s simple to drop out and in and because of the gentler issue, it wasn’t irritating to play with a 7-year-old and a 4-year-old. The courses complement one another properly, particularly whenever you mix magic customers and melee-focused characters. And even when my youngsters actually solely know Spongebob and TMNT from the playable characters, the persona of each character shines by way of even for those who’re unfamiliar, because of the big quantity of voiceover work. You may inform loads was realized from Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl as a result of this sport tries very arduous to make characters enjoyable and memorable even for those who don’t know the ins and outs of their supply materials. My youngsters walked away desirous to study extra about characters.
I’d think about lots of people going to this with ‘90s or ‘00s Nick nostalgia of their eyes might go away just a little disenchanted because of the total simplicity, however that is an motion RPG for the youthful sect. Extra particularly, it’s an motion RPG for adults with mentioned nostalgia (and possibly some love for Diablo-esque video games) to play with their youngsters. It’s a serviceable dungeon crawler with lots of love for the Nicktoons concerned that’s tremendous cute and playful.
