One thing that annoyed me about NASB discussion, that I don't really think I properly comprehended until the series' death, is that a lot of people who discuss NASB aren't really NASB fans if that makes sense? I know that sounds a bit gatekeepy, but I'll explain: it feels like a lot of people were just in the overlap between Nickelodeon fans and Smash fans, and liked the idea of a combination of the two, but didn't actually appreciate the NASB games for their own distinct identity. The things I think of the NASB duology as being - experimental, fast, competitive, quirky - were all things people either didn't care about or thought were detrimental, and instead a lot of the emphasis was just "Why can't you be more like Smash?" - "if this was Smash, we'd have Arnold" "if this was Smash, we'd have the Timmy negotiations done" "if this was Smash, we wouldn't have Hugh" so on.
