Thursday, July 1, 2021

Game #1036: Spongebob's Atlantis Squarepantis

 Ah, finally, some Spongebob shovelware!
 Battle for Bikini Bottom was great, Revenge of the Flying Duchman could've been decent if only it wasn't broken, but Spongebob's Atlantis Squarepantis is the first truly bad Spongebob game I've played. It's also the third Spongebob game I've ever played.
 
 This is everything you need to know, the very first level... is a Tank stage. Yup, a tank stage in a friggin' Spongebob game. And then it all goes downhill, because you'll discover the game is a glorified mini-game collection. The game is made up of 14 stages, each one being a different genre. Kinda, most activities are repeated. There are like four or five "press the direction shown on screen' games, two tank stages, 2 puzzle stages in which you get to play as Spongebob and Patrick the first time around and Spongebob, Patrick, Mr. Krabbs, Squidward and Sandy in the second one, about 3 shooting galleries, one of them featuring Sandy and, lastly, a driving stage which was probably the most fun I had with the game.

 The most in-depth activity is the puzzle one, you switch characters with R1 and must use their abilities to get to the end, but it's so slow-paced that it bored me. The one that gets repeated the most are the ones in which you must press the right directional input, and let me tell you, Stage 6 is one of these and it goes on FOREVER.

 Beating stages rewards you with tokens which you can then use to buy crappy 'mini-games' or variations on the 14 stages, but I couldn't be bothered to try them out. There's also a Spongebob dress-up minigame, but... it doesn't changes his look in-game, so why even care?

 This one's better left off forgotten. I mean, the activities aren't completely awful, but, y'know, they aren't much fun and Bob's got much better games out there, like Battle for Bikini Bottom.
 3.5

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