Nickelodeon used to be a fantastic place to watch cartoons, you had these rough new artstyles, like Doug and Rugrats, that looked like nothing else on TV, or shows that loved to push boundaries, like Ren & Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life. But I fell out of love with cartoons a few seasons deep into Spongebob... which is probably not a good context to approach Nicktoons Unite! with, considering 'Nicktoons' here refers to Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron and Spongebob.
Long story short, the villains from these shows, whose names I have forgotten save for Plankton, unite in order to wreck havoc, thus Jimmy invents a mean to travel between worlds, and thus forms a partnership with Danny Phantom, the other Jimmy and Spongebob in order to stop them. The game consists of 8 boring stages and 4 boring bosses, 2 stages and a boss per series.
Y'know how most Gameboy Advance games tend to look ugly on screenshots but good on its original hardware? It's the other way around with this game. This game looks as ugly as it plays. This is a 2-D sidescroller in which you must explore ugly stages, searching for four chips and 3 enemy portals, which you must destroy. Every character has a projectile attack as well as a double jump, Danny can phase through a few select walls, Spongebob can crawl, Jimmy can float with balloons and Jimmy Neutron can use a jetpack, which behaves like Jimmy's balloons but is harder to get fuel for. Before each stage you can select two characters, but in order to find everything you'll have to make use of everyone's skills, luckily, there're portals through which you can change your characters, but both characters need to make it to the portal.
Level design is boring, and you'll soon grow bored of searching through stages. There are a few puzzles here and there, but they can barely be called puzzles since they are so mindnumbingly easy. This is not a good game, and everything, from look and feel, seem as if it came straight out of an amateur flash game. This is not a good game, and can hardly be recommended even to fans of whichever franchise.
2.0 out of 10
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