Has a lot of heart and love for spongebob, with tons of easter eggs to early spongebob episodes, if you know your spongebob you will literally be going "oh my god they put the thing in the game" every 5 minutes. It is also very cool that a metroidvania set in bikini bottom exists, with iconic locations brought to life to be explored here.
Unfortunately thats where the good things end really, the story is bad, just a series of arbitrary fetch quests, the characters are bland at best and feel completely wrong at worst (if you are the type of insane person that gets pissed about bad characterisation of spongebob characters like me), the extremely simple gameplay is clunkier than you would expect, there are a few bad design decisions, and a ton ton ton of backtracking with not much new to make it less boring.
The positives are very novel and do make it an okay experience, I loved it as a kid and still enjoyed my first few hours with it this time, this would have been a positive review if the game was half its size, but as it stands playing this for 12 hours is gets fucking exhausting.
Unfortunately thats where the good things end really, the story is bad, just a series of arbitrary fetch quests, the characters are bland at best and feel completely wrong at worst (if you are the type of insane person that gets pissed about bad characterisation of spongebob characters like me), the extremely simple gameplay is clunkier than you would expect, there are a few bad design decisions, and a ton ton ton of backtracking with not much new to make it less boring.
The positives are very novel and do make it an okay experience, I loved it as a kid and still enjoyed my first few hours with it this time, this would have been a positive review if the game was half its size, but as it stands playing this for 12 hours is gets fucking exhausting.