This review contains spoilers
Not too bad of a 3D platformer, and wow, I'm playing a game that came out recently for once? That's a bit of a shock.
Flawed story and the gameplay and audio can be a bit buggy on the PC release anyway. Quick playthrough for anyone that has touched videogames before (it's not hard at all, even the final boss was very easy). I like the metroidvania elements, however I have no desire to come back to this one whatsoever, I got my fun out of it, in fact by the Halloween stage I was getting pretty sick of it. Don't even get me started on the caveman stage! Dialogue is not fun if it's just caveman grunts and imaginary words for the entire level. Spongebob and Patrick's banter is funny enough to keep you entertained, and fans of the OG show will find enough enjoyment out of this through callbacks, but there's something for all generations of Spongebob fans here. If you've never seen the show or played any of the games, you might not get as much mileage and just see it as a mediocre 3D platformer.
2 things that irked me:
-Why is Pearl such a major character in this game? She's a BOSS on one level for crying out loud, and shows up in pretty much every level in the game. She has the most screentime by far for such a minor character in the show.
-This game suffers from repetitive dialogue from Spongebob every time he picks up Jelly or kills an enemy, it was getting REALLY on my nerves hearing "A lil' dab'll do ya!" for the 500th time by the time I was almost done.
Anyway, that's my venting. Aside from almost 0 incentive to replay the game and a copout ending, I really have no qualms with this game. It's short, you can beat it in about 2 days if you have enough free time, it's cheap enough. If you like the show, give it a go! Bear in mind I've never played the game this was a 'spiritual successor' to and probably owe it to myself to do that, so my opinions will probably differ from yours. But yeah, not bad. Beaten on 2/1/23 with a total playtime of 6 hours or so, not 100%.
BEATEN
Flawed story and the gameplay and audio can be a bit buggy on the PC release anyway. Quick playthrough for anyone that has touched videogames before (it's not hard at all, even the final boss was very easy). I like the metroidvania elements, however I have no desire to come back to this one whatsoever, I got my fun out of it, in fact by the Halloween stage I was getting pretty sick of it. Don't even get me started on the caveman stage! Dialogue is not fun if it's just caveman grunts and imaginary words for the entire level. Spongebob and Patrick's banter is funny enough to keep you entertained, and fans of the OG show will find enough enjoyment out of this through callbacks, but there's something for all generations of Spongebob fans here. If you've never seen the show or played any of the games, you might not get as much mileage and just see it as a mediocre 3D platformer.
2 things that irked me:
-Why is Pearl such a major character in this game? She's a BOSS on one level for crying out loud, and shows up in pretty much every level in the game. She has the most screentime by far for such a minor character in the show.
-This game suffers from repetitive dialogue from Spongebob every time he picks up Jelly or kills an enemy, it was getting REALLY on my nerves hearing "A lil' dab'll do ya!" for the 500th time by the time I was almost done.
Anyway, that's my venting. Aside from almost 0 incentive to replay the game and a copout ending, I really have no qualms with this game. It's short, you can beat it in about 2 days if you have enough free time, it's cheap enough. If you like the show, give it a go! Bear in mind I've never played the game this was a 'spiritual successor' to and probably owe it to myself to do that, so my opinions will probably differ from yours. But yeah, not bad. Beaten on 2/1/23 with a total playtime of 6 hours or so, not 100%.
BEATEN