This review contains spoilers
This is a very good SpongeBob game, but it's not the best.
The Story is that Gary finds a treasure chest with The Flying Dutchman inside, who decides to kidnap Gary, and the rest of SpongeBob's friends for his own pirate crew, and It's up to SpongeBob to find the Dutchman's treasure to free them from their spell, and also find and rescue them too. This is an interesting idea for a SpongeBob game, and it helps with giving this game feel like what you would do in a game, while still sticking true to what SpongeBob Squarepants is.
The Characters are the same as in the cartoon, they also have good moments and lines that really make them feel like they are the same ones.
The Graphics are not bad, but not great either. They are very colorful, and everything looks how it should be for a tie-in game. But the Animations look non-existant outside of cutscenes, and it will be very distracting.
The Gameplay has you going around different areas of the cartoon to find all the letters to SpongeBob's name each part, so that they will reveal where one of the seven treasures of The Flying Dutchman are, and make them appear. This is a great mixture of gaming, and feeling like the show, and the missions have you go around, doing stuff you could see SpongeBob do in the show, instead of random stuff that doesn't feel like stuff the character would ever need to come across. Collecting money also help out for some later missions to happen, exploring the cartoon world "although limited" is still enjoyable for fans to playthrough, and the controls feel free, but not to the point where they become slippery, they have a decent balance. Also getting SpongeBob to move faster by rolling is more fun than simply walking around. But for the praise I have been giving this game, there are a number of problems I have noticed. Like how can you catch bees and wasps with a net? How can you use your to glide across areas? How do you take out big enemies with you net? Why do random lifeguards and clowns attack you? Why are some of the delivery homes in places no normal delivery guy could get to? How are the cracks covered in Sandy's dome when the acorns are not identical to the holes? Why did I launch myself into a anchor, but SpongeBob still went through to the other side of it? Also you can play certain missions in random order, yet the dialogue doesn't always compensate for that, causing SpongeBob to be ready to give his gift to Sandy, but only after talking to her later, does he finally question what to get her in the first place. Also fighting challenges in this game "minus the final boss" resort to who is the fastest at hitting enough junk first. You can only change in certain areas, meaning you would have to backtrack if you don't have the right costume for the next scenario. The throwing ball past the anchor carnival game is broken because you can simply place the balls in there instead of aiming. Finally, why is there a beach under the ocean with it's own ocean of water that is under the water? All these problems prevent this game from being any higher than where I am placing it.
The Music is great, the tunes give of an atmosphere of the cartoon. But the one dumb thing about it is that, the music depends on what clothes you are wearing instead of the environment. So you will have to put up with the music not fitting in to the current background, depending on where you are, and what you are doing.
Revenge of the Flying Dutchman will have SpongeBob happy that they can enjoy playing a game as their favourite Sponge.
The Story is that Gary finds a treasure chest with The Flying Dutchman inside, who decides to kidnap Gary, and the rest of SpongeBob's friends for his own pirate crew, and It's up to SpongeBob to find the Dutchman's treasure to free them from their spell, and also find and rescue them too. This is an interesting idea for a SpongeBob game, and it helps with giving this game feel like what you would do in a game, while still sticking true to what SpongeBob Squarepants is.
The Characters are the same as in the cartoon, they also have good moments and lines that really make them feel like they are the same ones.
The Graphics are not bad, but not great either. They are very colorful, and everything looks how it should be for a tie-in game. But the Animations look non-existant outside of cutscenes, and it will be very distracting.
The Gameplay has you going around different areas of the cartoon to find all the letters to SpongeBob's name each part, so that they will reveal where one of the seven treasures of The Flying Dutchman are, and make them appear. This is a great mixture of gaming, and feeling like the show, and the missions have you go around, doing stuff you could see SpongeBob do in the show, instead of random stuff that doesn't feel like stuff the character would ever need to come across. Collecting money also help out for some later missions to happen, exploring the cartoon world "although limited" is still enjoyable for fans to playthrough, and the controls feel free, but not to the point where they become slippery, they have a decent balance. Also getting SpongeBob to move faster by rolling is more fun than simply walking around. But for the praise I have been giving this game, there are a number of problems I have noticed. Like how can you catch bees and wasps with a net? How can you use your to glide across areas? How do you take out big enemies with you net? Why do random lifeguards and clowns attack you? Why are some of the delivery homes in places no normal delivery guy could get to? How are the cracks covered in Sandy's dome when the acorns are not identical to the holes? Why did I launch myself into a anchor, but SpongeBob still went through to the other side of it? Also you can play certain missions in random order, yet the dialogue doesn't always compensate for that, causing SpongeBob to be ready to give his gift to Sandy, but only after talking to her later, does he finally question what to get her in the first place. Also fighting challenges in this game "minus the final boss" resort to who is the fastest at hitting enough junk first. You can only change in certain areas, meaning you would have to backtrack if you don't have the right costume for the next scenario. The throwing ball past the anchor carnival game is broken because you can simply place the balls in there instead of aiming. Finally, why is there a beach under the ocean with it's own ocean of water that is under the water? All these problems prevent this game from being any higher than where I am placing it.
The Music is great, the tunes give of an atmosphere of the cartoon. But the one dumb thing about it is that, the music depends on what clothes you are wearing instead of the environment. So you will have to put up with the music not fitting in to the current background, depending on where you are, and what you are doing.
Revenge of the Flying Dutchman will have SpongeBob happy that they can enjoy playing a game as their favourite Sponge.