Game 254 - SpongeBob Squarepants: Battle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated by Purple Lamp
What did I think it was at first? So my sister and I actually rented the OG game for Gamecube and didn't make it too far. When I saw someone speedrunning the original game and heard there would be a remaster, I definitely wanted to play it! I remember it being tons of fun but also pretty hard.
How was the character creator? SpongeBob is a classic character in the children's cartoon canon - he's still airing now I think and I watched him a lot growing up. You don't really make tons of decisions for SpongeBob and you can't affect his personality. You can play as SpongeBob, Sandy, and Patrick - and they all have different abilities and gameplay styles. I think they're all also voiced by the original voice actors? All of the voice acting in this game was great.
How was the game? This is a pretty forgiving platforming game with some puzzly elements. The main goal of the game is collecting Golden Spatulas by completing objectives that range from easy to challenging. One thing I really liked about the game was that you don't actually have to finish all of the levels or collect all of the spatulas to win - you can pick and choose 75 out of 100 options.
Even though the characters have different moves, the goals are pretty similar - complex platforming, puzzle solving, collecting items, or racing down slopes. The different level designs and different abilities for SpongeBob kept things from going stale very quickly, and there's a fast travel system so if one objective is frustrating you it's easy to go and work on something else. The game is also very forgiving - there's no lives and many of your achievements persist after death, so it's OK to go back and retry things as much as you like.
The graphics on the remaster are very pretty and I experienced only minor lag on some levels. There's a ton of references to old SpongeBob cartoons and it was always funny to get thrown back to something I watched with a bowl of cereal on Saturday mornings. The fish announcer popping up during boss fights was a favorite.
What did I not love? There were some collision challenges and hitboxes that were a little wonky. The music could also get repetitive after long periods of time - they seem to be loops based on the cartoons but there often wasn't a lot of loop for each stage, so that got annoying occasionally. Speaking of the bosses - I didn't find them especially challenging - the stages were actually much more difficult than those. I would have liked a liiiiittle more difficulty.
At 12 hours and $9.89, was it really worth it? I wouldn't necessarily call this a cozy game, but it felt really nostalgic and wholesome - and the lack of lives meant there wasn't a lot of pressure to get things right on a certain attempt which is one quality I find challenging about platformers. I recommend this one if you enjoy platformers and can stand hearing SpongeBob's laugh over and over for nine hours.
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“Bikini Bottom” track from the SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom video game
The soundtrack was composed by: Jimmy Levine, Bobby Crew, and Alex Wilkinson
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
This game is a standard, mediocre 3D platfomer. If you're really hurting for something to play, there's worse, but there's also a whole lot better. The SpongeBob theming didn't help it because I've never been a fan.
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOeTsMoezKbImE0jMG-ndwgR5_QYfYrx
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need more game ports to use variations on the word "remastered" in their titles that shit ALWAYS tickles my brain
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Usopp: Run, Nami! Luffy is digging for gold!
(They run into the kitchen)
Nami: Gold?! *her eyes turn into berry symbols, as she runs after them; she then reemerges empty-handed with a thousand-yard stare*
Zoro: (not looking up even once) Did you get any of Luffy's "gold"?
Nami: He's not digging for any gold I'm looking for.
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plankton (spongebob squarepants, 1999-) is really the guy of all time; he's not a guy, he's, married to a computer, he's vindictive and evil but also bad at it so it doesn't matter, he's psychosexually obsessed w his ex business partner who's daughter is a whale (could eat him), he's been on a revenge mission for literal years and fails at every step of the way but refuses to give up
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Oh hey look more of these
Also here’s a Patchy reference sheet I made with a bonus Potty!
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“Industrial Park” track from the SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom video game
The soundtrack was composed by: Jimmy Levine, Bobby Crew, and Alex Wilkinson
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