SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated (Xbox ONE / Xbox Series X|S)

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Are you ready, kids? The cult classic is back, faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor! Play as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and show the evil Plankton that crime pays even less than Mr. Krabs. Want to save Bikini Bottom from lots of rampant robots with your mighty bubbles? Of course you do! Want to underpants bungee jump? Why wouldn't you! Want to join forces in a brand new multiplayer mode? The battle is on! GAME FEATURESPlay as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and use their unique sets ...
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Developer:
Purple Lamp,
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THQ Nordic,
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Genre:
Action, Adventure,
User tags*: Steam Deck playable adventure 3d platformer cult classic remake action family friendly cartoon casual funny classic underwater co-op colorful comedy open world story rich collectathon ...

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Game features

Single-player Single-player Online Co-op Online Co-op Shared/Split Screen Co-op Shared/Split Screen Co-op

Description



Are you ready, kids? The cult classic is back, faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor! Play as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and show the evil Plankton that crime pays even less than Mr. Krabs. Want to save Bikini Bottom from lots of rampant robots with your mighty bubbles? Of course you do! Want to underpants bungee jump? Why wouldn't you! Want to join forces in a brand new multiplayer mode? The battle is on!

GAME FEATURES

  • Play as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and use their unique sets of skills
  • Thwart Plankton's evil plan to rule Bikini Bottom with his army of wacky robots
  • Meet countless characters from the beloved series

REMAKE FEATURES

  • Faithful remake of one of the best SpongeBob games ever created
  • High-end visuals, modern resolutions and carefully polished gameplay
  • Brand new horde mode multiplayer for up to two players, online and offline
  • Restored content that was cut from the original game like the Robo Squidward boss fight and more

Game's latest news

THQ Nordic announces new SpongeBob game for 2025
It's quite common to have many announcements on a day like Halloween. THQ Nordic did not deprive themselves of this, as a new "SpongeBob SquarePants" video game is in the works. We don't have any more information at the moment, except that it will lauch in 2025.
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SpongeBob SquarePants: BfBB R. was released June 23rd of this year, that is 2020, and, for people who didn’t know, is actually a remake of the original 2003 game, hence the “Rehydrated” in the title. This remake was developed by Purple Lamp Studios, and published by THQ Nordic, who you might know from Darksiders, great game.

The game was released for PC, Xbox One and PS4, but I’ve only played it on PC so I can’t tell you what performance is like on other platforms. Also worth noting this isn’t a comparison review, it’s a review of the remake, and yes there will be a few comparisons, maybe.
Let’s move on to Story & Gameplay.

STORY AND GAMEPLAY

So this being a SpongeBob game, you should expect a SpongeBob story, meaning a silly, ridiculous and nonsensical story. And that’s exactly what it is: Plankton wants to take over using robots, but fails terribly when he forgets to set the robots to “Obey” mode, and it’s up to SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy, to save Bikini Bottom.

Like I said, it’s a spongebob game, and story wise, it’s got everything you could possibly expect from a spongebob story. It’s just pure silliness, that’s all. It’s not gonna be for everyone, obviously if you don’t like SpongeBob, well I’d say you’ll quickly get annoyed by the childishness of the game. And I’ll be honest, sometimes SpongeBob’s laugh or the humour of the game got on my nerves a bit, but I felt like it was a bit unfair to complain since that’s literally what SpongeBob is, silly childish humour.

Other than that there really isn’t much else to say about the story. The game is divided into the three sections of Bikini Bottom, and each section contains several areas for you to explore. In each of these areas you can switch between certain characters to solve certain puzzles, and your goal is essentially to find as many Golden Spatulas so you can open other areas. You usually will be getting these by completing little objectives or collecting objects, but you can also trade currency and collectibles for them too. By the way, there’s a total of 10 areas, and most of them have other characters in them which’ll give you mini objectives to complete for a spatula.

So there’s actually quite a fair amount to do, really. Naturally, it’s not an open world game filled with side quests and whatnot, but it’s got a good amount of content. There’s also a few bosses you get to fight. In terms of how the game actually plays, well, like I said you get to control three characters, Spongebob, sandy and patrick, and they’ve each got different attack sets, and Spongebob can learn different moves throughout the game. That’s pretty much it.

Gameplay wise the game really isn’t complicated, it’s a mix of simple combat and platforming, and it works very well for this particular game. You’ve gotta remember, it was probably aimed at younger audiences, so it’s just important to take the game for what it is.

The game also ran very smoothly, I never had any crashes or fps drops or anything like that.

I do have one or two complaints though, which I think are reasonable, since these concern the technical aspect of the game. I did encounter some bugs such as getting stuck here and there, and my only other complaint, is that the game tends to reset progress for some objectives sometimes. I’m not talking about enemies here, that respawn when you exit an area, but sometimes the game would reset some progress I’d made because I died, and it could be a bit frustrating at times, admittedly.

Other than that, really nothing bad to say. Typical spongebob story accompanied by simple, fluid gameplay. Pretty chill and easy going on the whole.

VISUALS

When it comes to visuals & graphics, I must say this game looks pretty good. It’s to be expected, of course, we are in 2020 after all, but the game looks very visually pleasing, and the colour palette is one my eyes certainly enjoyed. The colours didn’t feel over saturated, they didn’t pop out too too much, it was just a very nice look for game.

It’s also a pretty good improvement from the original game, which is also to be expected. The character models are a lot more detailed, I’ll try and put up some pictures so you guys can see, but each character’s models is really nicely done, and looks a lot more like the show than they did in the original. Animations are very clean too, and the characters you play also have idle animations which I thought was pretty cool.

So very nice visuals on the whole, didn’t have issues such as texture popping or blurry textures, everything looked really nice, and the colours were really pleasing.

SOUND & MUSIC

Alright, music! Well, like a lot of other aspects of this game, the game’s music is really what you would expect from it. Obligatory, the Spongebob theme song is in the game, but other than that you have your typical Spongebob music, with the hawaiian ish guitar usually leading. This is usually the case for the game’s hub, Bikini Bottom, but each area has got its little soundtrack too.

As for sound, it’s very cartoon ish, as you might expect. For example, a spring noise for jumping, the boing noise, the slap noise for attacking, things like that.

Regarding sound and music, I don’t have much else to say. The game’s sound design is on the whole pretty good, nothing spectacular of course, but definitely nice to listen to.

FINAL THOUGHTS & OPINION

Well, this was a relatively short review I’d say, and I know I’ve said this a few times already, but this game is exactly what you would expect from a Spongebob game. I saw a lot of people hating on the game for being dumb and whatever, but like, that’s exactly what Spongebob is.

So just keep this in mind when buying the game, it is mostly aimed at people who like Spongebob, and well, naturally, it’s gonna have Spongebob things, such as silly humour, dum dum characters and a ridiculously absurd story.

However, I don’t wanna gatekeep this game, and I do think that if you’re into platforming games and just want a relaxing, chill time, then this game might be for you. It can actually get somewhat challenging at times, if you’ve watched my let’s play you’ll know I actually died a few times, and I can’t tell if that’s embarrassing or not.

Again, keep in mind this is a spongebob game, and it’s exactly what you would expect from a spongebob game, pure silliness and simple fun. If you can’t accept that, you’ll get annoyed very easily.
Overall, very fun and chill game, and a great improvement over the original game, mostly on the visual side of things.

That’s gonna be it for my review, I hope it wasn’t too short, but really there’s only so much I can talk about concerning this game, and I feel like I’ve said what I needed to. Again, remember it’s a spongebob game, not some full blown action rpg with amazing mechanics.
  • Greatly Improved Visuals
  • Multiplayer not worth talking about
If you like spongebob, then this game is a must. A faithful remaster from the original game, that keeps its original identity, with modern visuals, updated animations and polished gameplay. It has some minor bugs but they can be fixed.
  • Great gameplay
  • Nice visuals
  • Great story
  • Funny dialogue
  • Some minor bugs
  • Multiplayer is lackluster

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