Second chances are rare in gaming, but "Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2" may feature a giant plankton mecha taken straight from "Evangelion," so I'm willing to give it one.

I occasionally dip my toe into Platform Fighter, but since I don't have a switch, my choices on the PC are tenuous: I played "Rivals of Aether," "Brawlhalla," and a bit of "Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl. While I enjoyed my time with these games, they featured very few features and did not set any records. My optimism for a sequel to this game was decidedly cautious.

Until now. One leaked information circulated on Twitter and dealt a blow to my caution. The developer has yet to comment, and screenshots from unconfirmed sources, no matter how glossy they may be, are no substitute for the real thing.

Newcomers to All-Star Brawl 2 include Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ember from Danny Phantom, and Grandma Gertie from Hey Arnold. Also confirmed returnees include Jenny Wakeman from My Life as a Teenage Robot, Jim from Invader Jim, and Garfield from My Least Favorite Day of the Week.

But I'm not interested in them (well, I am a little interested in Garfield). The image of Sponge Bob's Plankton running his mecha in a Ratatouille-like maneuver is burned into my gray matter.

Plankton's mech appears from the 2015 film Sponge Bob/Sponge Out of Water, rising eerily from a pile of mayonnaise like the truth crawling up from a well to humiliate mankind. But from what I've been able to glean, it runs out of gas before it can grab anything on command.

Be that as it may, I might buy the game just to get stomped by this horrific monster. Not a bad time to do it, especially now that "Mulitversus" is on an unexpected hiatus until 2024.