I literally adored this game as a little kid next to battle for Bikini Bottom. This happens to be one of my top favorite Nickelodeon games along with Attack of the twonkies, jet fusion, Royal ransom and Beach bandits.
I loved this game as a kid, and I’m glad I still have my GameCube version and can still play it whenever I want on my Wii. This game was such an amazing gaming experience and I do feel like it deserves more love. As well as all of those other licensed games that were made during the time. THQ and HeavyIron Studios made such great games
The console game (along with BFBB) were definitely my childhood, and I spent many hours on them on my PS2 (along with Ratatouille and Wall-E which Heavy Iron also did). On a side note for the GBA version, really cool we live in a world where the developers of Shantae made a Spongebob game, and a couple times more later on lol.
I grew up with the PC version of the Spongebob Movie game and I think it's why I love Point & Click adventure games to this day. I'm kinda upset that it doesn't get as much attention as the other versions, honestly.
27:03 Actually it is possible to pass this section without an upgrade, the real roadblock is the final room of Welcome to Planktopolis, which in my 15+ years of playing this I never managed to finish without upgrades (or at least without exploiting glitches).
While the moment to moment gameplay had been improved in the Movie game, Battle For Bikini Bottom is definitely the better overall package, as far as level design and fanservice are concerned. Both are great though. I actually started playing Truth or Square since it's one of this month's Games With Gold on Xbox. Can't wait to see you tackle that one. It's not bad, but it feels like an obvious step down in level design. Very simplistic and often tedious, but it looks decent and the combat, while monotonous, has a nice crunch to it with the different power ups.
Damn, I didn't even realize the timing on this was gonna be so perfect for me. I JUST finished Battle for Bikini Bottom ReHydrated like...the day before yesterday despite having grown up with The Movie game as a kid and I kept making these comparisons in my mind's eye the whole way through playing it. I do think it's a bit more bloated compared to Battle for Bikini bottom, probably a few too many reused sections, the slide and car are especially overused but I'd still love some kind of remaster just for nostalgic me's sake.
I honestly prefer this one over BFBB. Al though I am trying to 100% complete BFBB Rehydrated. Wish this, the OG BFBB and Lights Camera Pants became backwards compatible on Xbox One and Series X/S especially since they added Truth or Square and Underpants Slam.
I loved both games growing up but yeah BFBB is overall superior. The level design in the movie game felt so stiflingly linear compared to the game before it and like you I was not a fan of the driving missions even back then. Still better than the driving missions in Jak 2 and 3 though lmao
2004 is a fascinating year for Nick: the debut of Drake and Josh, Neds Declassified School Survival Guide, and Danny Phantom; the premiere of the first Jimmy Timmy Power Hour and finally the release of the Spongebob movie. The last one was originally going to be the series finale but prove so successful that Nick choose to keep around. Interesting enough 2004 was also the year that Rugrats, Hey Arnold, The Wild Thornberrys and Rocket Power all ended their runs along with Catdog which aired its final episode a year later. Leaving SpongeBob as the only 90s premiere Nicktoons remaining.
Another great video as always. Soo i actually have experiences with both versions of the movie game, the gba game was one of the first games i've ever played on it and honestly i still think it's a pretty good platformer. The console game i wouldn't play until years later but when i did, i actually liked it more than battle for bikini bottom, although it has been a while since i played it, soo that might change. Also on a side note, i also played the PC Version of the movie game which is another one of those point and click spongebob games and it is quiet interesting too say the least, you can play as plankton and mindy in that version, and they actually censor david hasselhoffs name in that version with a dolphin noise which is pretty funny XD. but yeah great video as always, i'm looking forward too the lemony snicket review and the ultimate enemy game review after that(i played that one alot back then)!! >:3 ❤️
I owned the PS2 classics version on PS3 and I can confirm it was very broken, on the second level after completing the main story goober token I got a weird in-engine crash screen error log.
I ended up playing this game last year, and while I thought it was alright, I do agree with you about the backtracking. Honestly, this game didn't need to even be a collect-a-thon, considering the lack of a hub world. It's just padding at that point. I've yet to play Truth or Square or Creature from the Krusty Krab, though from what I've seen, I think they actually remove the collect-a-thon elements and just make them straight-forward level-by-level platformers
Battle for Bikini Bottom and this were the only 2 SpongeBob games I had, and they definitely left an impression on me for how a licensed game can be good, but yeah the worst part about this one is the excessive token gatekeeping.
I liked this game as a kid, but nowadays I think it's a chore to get through with how they reused the annoying slide and driving levels which really drag the game down for me, had they removed those the game would've been way better Edit: You just summed up this game in one perfect word "Tedious" IT IS, it is very tedious, THAT is my biggest problem with this game and why playing it always feels like a chore to me
@@larrymantic2635 The problem I have with the slide levels is how you had to do them over again just like the Patty Wagon levels to get more Goofy Goober tokens, plus the slide levels had the horrible rings challenges on both the Patty Wagon and slide levels that'll haunt my dreams forever
Literally last night I rage quit at one of the guitar missions and the Sunday drive time challenge in this. I say this game is genuinely good until they force you to grind
You should review the SpongeBob AWE games for pc they are really simple fun click Adventure games Awesome videos by the way I’ve been subscribed to your channel for a while I really enjoyed your Steven universe videos
CFTKK Console: I've only played through it once and tbh I really enjoyed it even if some parts of the game went for a little too long. GBA: Very solid platformer, nothing much else to say DS: Very tedious to play through because of the touch controls the game mainly focuses on. Truth or Square Wii, PSP, X360: Meh, it's alright but definitely Heavy Iron's weakest Spongebob game. DS: Surprisingly pretty solid and maybe better than the other versions. Altron did a pretty good job replicating the console versions to the DS.
The goofy Goober tokens never bothered me if you have self awareness of collectathons but we just need engaging sidequests all distinct and less cryptically designed or clichéd to get used to it. It missed potential of using the movesets and it's upgrades that should've been carried to the remake. And oh yeah we should be have more sidequests inspired off a zany cartoon spongebob was influenced than pure outdated realism logic most games that forgot 3d platforming ignored for too long.
This game deserves better recognition than what it gets nowadays. More people could appreciate this game if certain communities (cough cough SHiFT) would stop ragging on it constantly.
I'm surprised that you didn't use the widescreen Xbox version of the console game for this review. You went the extra mile to get widescreen GameCube footage of Jimmy Neutron: Jet Fusion, so it felt a bit odd that you didn't keep things consistent.
I regret to inform you, as I believe that you, SpongeBob SquarePants, consecutive winner of the employee of the month award at the Krusty Krab and renowned fry cook, will be distraught by the information I am about to provide, being that I have become aware of your unacceptable total amount of tokens, in which could be found at Goofy Goober’s Ice Cream Party Boat, specifically named Goofy Goober Tokens.
The Tak trilogy will be finished with The great Juju challenge but not many people know that there was a 4th Tak game that came out on the Wii, PS2 and DS, Tak: guardians of gross (Subtitled Mojo Mistake on DS). It was heavily based off the show rather than the games
@@jabmaster1000 I know believe me I choose to forget anything based on the tv show! The tv show had nothing to do with Tak except it just used the name, different tone voice actors and everything! Remember the original trilogy
@@Gamingwithahandicap except thats not fully true. yeah they changed the voices (some like taks sound better imo) and added new characters/removed some, but the general vibe and world are still there.
'The only reason this game was any good to begin with is because Battle for Bakini Bottom existed before it' UGHHHHHHH. I have many problems with this mentality. Movie game and Battle for Bakini Bottom go for entirely different things. BFBB being more of a collectathon and movie game being the traditional platformer. I don't think it's that simple. And also. A game is not good because another game existed. Judge games by own merits. And while you certainly did that beforehand. It felt very disingenous to just blatantly show BFBB bias. FTR I think BFBB is probably better than Movie Game. But I prefer Movie Game (as BFBB could be a chore to sit through for me at times (Traversal wasn't exactly the best in that game if you ask me and that game has it's own issues while it is easy to see the love for it cause it does many things right)
Yeah, I may be biased too as I played the Movie game when I was a child (and still enjoy it as of today), but when I tried to play BFBB as a teenager it bore me af, even when I tried to like it as a sibling game to the movie game. I don’t know why, it may be just the nostalgia factor.
BFBB is better. But that's only bc time restraints didn't get in the way of voice work and animation (which I'm sure we can all agree is not the 110% the cast of SpongeBob usually give us for games) BFBB sounds and feels like an interactive episode/movie/tv-special. The movie game while as nostalgic, beloved and memorable as BFBB doesn't give me the same feeling.
Believe it or not, I have a much bigger nostalgic attachment to this game than Battle for Bikini Bottom. I started playing it on the GameCube when I was three years old in 2005, and didn't know that Battle for Bikini Bottom even existed until I got the OG Xbox version to play on my 360 in 2011, when I was nine. Granted, I didn't make it past the Goofy Goober level in the Movie Game until I used a cheat code that I found online to skip to the next world in 2013, while I completed 50% of BFBB before my Xbox 360 "red-ring died" on me, but I still technically played the former game first. I personally think that Battle for Bikini Bottom and the Movie Game are SpongeBob's equivalents to Super Mario 64 and Sunshine, or even Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. The former 3D entries from those franchises are a lot easier for newcomers to get into, but the latter ones have far more re-playability for those who are able to get a grip on their unorthodox styles. It's really up to preference to determine which of those two games you think is better.
