The first three SpongeBob games I ever played were SuperSponge for the Game Boy Advance, followed by Battle for Bikini Bottom and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie for GameCube, the latter for the Game Boy Advance as well.
I had a paltry amount of Nickelodeon games, and one of them included Rugrats Royal Ransom, but what does that have to do with anything? Well, it was through that game that I was introduced to Revenge of the Flying Dutchman via a trailer Royal Ransom included. I had worn out my options on SpongeBob games to that point, so I figured, why not give Revenge a shot?
By the way, I am aware of the PS2 version being glitched, though I hear it depends on the model you use. I had the GameCube version.
I played the game and needless to say... kid me did not pick up on the bad elements, like, at all. I was a SpongeBob fan, and I just took the game at face value. I liked Battle for Bikini Bottom more, but I didn't hate Revenge, and I needed to stress Battle was my first SpongeBob game because a lot of people played Revenge first.
I was unable to progress once I got to Larry the Lobster, and that was because I was uncertain about the jellyfish counters and which one Larry would be referring to. Overtime I got other games and this was among many games I owned that would disappear, and I moved on.
People give this game shit, but I honestly find it hard to hate, once again I played Battle and even the movie game before this one. When you realize the developers basically went through hell when making this game it's hard to be mad at it, save that energy for more conscious efforts.
I noticed people also got salty over elements that were not consistent with the show's, and to that I have to say... touch grass. Maybe they ran out of time, but you wanna know what this game included that Battle didn't? Minor details like the bird cage in SpongeBob's room, the salad bar from the Culture Shock episode, hell, Jellyfish Fields is essentially taking elements from the park in Karate Choppers. And you call yourselves fans if you can't even put two and two together on that?
Or TL;DR, apparently the devs based their iteration on the show's first season, which when you take into account environments and set pieces being those found in season 1 episodes it paints a picture.
I will agree the music choices wear thin considerably, the narrator, just the narrator, and that this is far from an exceptional game, but there're far worse out there, and I don't think a foghorn has anything to do with it. It's hard for me to hate this game because:
A: The GameCube version exists so you don't have to take a risk with the broken PS2 version, especially if you happen to not own the console model that works better with it.
B: The aforementioned set-pieces fitting with what was present in season 1 thus even if it's empty you can kinda imagine them being in the show.
C: The fact that the developers went through hell and thus were not able to give it as much polish as they could've.
D: It's better than Plankton's Robotic Revenge and the Sponge Out of Water game.
I had a paltry amount of Nickelodeon games, and one of them included Rugrats Royal Ransom, but what does that have to do with anything? Well, it was through that game that I was introduced to Revenge of the Flying Dutchman via a trailer Royal Ransom included. I had worn out my options on SpongeBob games to that point, so I figured, why not give Revenge a shot?
By the way, I am aware of the PS2 version being glitched, though I hear it depends on the model you use. I had the GameCube version.
I played the game and needless to say... kid me did not pick up on the bad elements, like, at all. I was a SpongeBob fan, and I just took the game at face value. I liked Battle for Bikini Bottom more, but I didn't hate Revenge, and I needed to stress Battle was my first SpongeBob game because a lot of people played Revenge first.
I was unable to progress once I got to Larry the Lobster, and that was because I was uncertain about the jellyfish counters and which one Larry would be referring to. Overtime I got other games and this was among many games I owned that would disappear, and I moved on.
People give this game shit, but I honestly find it hard to hate, once again I played Battle and even the movie game before this one. When you realize the developers basically went through hell when making this game it's hard to be mad at it, save that energy for more conscious efforts.
I noticed people also got salty over elements that were not consistent with the show's, and to that I have to say... touch grass. Maybe they ran out of time, but you wanna know what this game included that Battle didn't? Minor details like the bird cage in SpongeBob's room, the salad bar from the Culture Shock episode, hell, Jellyfish Fields is essentially taking elements from the park in Karate Choppers. And you call yourselves fans if you can't even put two and two together on that?
Or TL;DR, apparently the devs based their iteration on the show's first season, which when you take into account environments and set pieces being those found in season 1 episodes it paints a picture.
I will agree the music choices wear thin considerably, the narrator, just the narrator, and that this is far from an exceptional game, but there're far worse out there, and I don't think a foghorn has anything to do with it. It's hard for me to hate this game because:
A: The GameCube version exists so you don't have to take a risk with the broken PS2 version, especially if you happen to not own the console model that works better with it.
B: The aforementioned set-pieces fitting with what was present in season 1 thus even if it's empty you can kinda imagine them being in the show.
C: The fact that the developers went through hell and thus were not able to give it as much polish as they could've.
D: It's better than Plankton's Robotic Revenge and the Sponge Out of Water game.