#120: Nicktoons: Unite!

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Rating: E

Players: 1-4

Price Range: ~$17 USD

This is a crossover beat-em-up game based on the Nicktoons cartoons, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, and the Fairly Odd Parents.

In this game, when the villains of each of those universes come together, the heroes must do the same.

In the game, throughout the levels, the characters gain new and very situational abilities to progress while dealing with fodder.

A fine enough co-op game, I suppose.

What is kind of bad about this game, well, minus the fact that in the end this is just acceptable as a multiplayer game, is the checkpoint system.

I think if a single character dies, the level is restarts, which is especially obnoxious in the ludicrously long later levels, especially in Goddard's mechanical brain (please don't ask, batteries not included), and the side abilities of the heroes are so situational, they might as not exist given that they only serve to be a reference to their respective shows.

Which all are dead by the way except for SpongeBob.

Overall...fine?

Through one ear and out the other as they say.

Only play if you have others (preferably kids) around and if you truly have nothing else to do.

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