As someone who loves games like Ape Escape, Toy Story 2, Spyro: Year of the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot: Warped, this game was a treat. It's such a tight game with fun gameplay and high replay value, and I rarely got bored. Easy 9/10 for me.
When The rehydrated game first came out I was legitimately exited for it as they had to redo the iconic classic from the ps2. This is why I will forever be grateful as a 2000’s kid, even though I hope they’ll do the same for Search for Reptar.
Great review. I personally disagree with what you said about the bosses, but everything else you said about BFBB is spot on. Can’t wait for your Breaking Da Rules and Attack of the Twonkies reviews. Those are easily one of the best Nickelodeon licensed games aside from this one.
You can imagine how amazing was to go from Revenge of the Flying Dutchman to this game. I still remember the day I saw it for the first time at a gaming kiosk in myer and was blown away by how much of a major improvement it looked on the last,Spongebob game. I think the biggest reason it was so memorable for kids was because the sheer jump in quality was so jarring back then.
That's a good thing. Revenge was a decent game and set a fantastic foundation, so naturally incomes a sequel that takes that foundation and makes it truly shine. In that sense, it's one of the best video game sequels of its time.
Yeah the remaster is faithful for the most part except when you die for some reason the game has to load the entire level again (unlike the original where you're just immediately warped back to the last checkpoint) and the load times put the PS2 version of Revenge of the Flying Dutchman to shame. Also the "restored cut content" and multiplayer were laughable at best.
While I love this game, I am honest more partial to the other SpongeBob titles. I love the more linear design of Truth or Square and the Movie game more. I also kind of have a massive soft spot for Revenge of The Flying Dutchman, that puts it over this one. Weirdly enough, nostalgia plays no factor in any of these as Revenge and Truth I played recently, and the Movie game was a lesser childhood classic to BFBB.
Fast travel wasn't exactly new when this game came out. Banjo Tooie and Donkey Kong 64 had warp pads that allowed you to warp at any point of a stage. I think even Bugs Bunny and Taz: Timebusters and Spyro 3 had something similar; the former had the ability to warp to the position of another playable character, and the latter had shortcuts to cut down on retracing. In terms of fun factor, this game is fortunately less like the two Rareware games which I just don't like. Excellent content yet again. I'm recommending this to a close friend of mine who also loves the game.
I remember renting this game as a kid from Blockbuster all the time that I ended up getting it from my parents. The movie game and lights camera pants are awesome as well. I'm definitely excited for the breaking da rules game since I never got it as a kid and shadow showdown since I beat that as a kid.
You can definitely skip around stuff, if you plan anyway. I remember my older brother actually ended up skipping three whole levels cus he didn't feel like playing them. But it's true that Mario 64 is a lot more flexible in that regard. The 75 spatula requirements is pretty strict all things considered. I never had any issues with the stages myself tho. They have good level design for the most part and are pretty fun to explore. Kelp Forest is definitely still my least favorite though.
I think it's only technically possible to completely skip two levels at most. By my count, there are 97 spatulas found in the levels + Bikini Bottom + Krabs/Patrick, before accessing the Chum Bucket. If you skipped three entire levels that would remove at least 24 spatulas you could grab, bringing the pre Chum Bucket spatula total to 73. You also can't grab socks from those three levels, so it would drop that spatula total even further. The amount of work you have to put in just to skip a couple of levels really doesn't seem worth it lol
@@CartoonReview Yeah you're right actually, two is the most possible to fully skip. I must be misremembering, I think my brother partially played Rock Bottom and ended up skipping Kelp Forest & Flying Dutchman. That said there is still some wiggle room to not do certain challenges or areas you don't like. Since you only need 75 out of the 98 (that are possible to get prior to the final boss which grants you the last 2), it means there's 23 golden spatulas you are allowed to skip out on at least.
@DarkNinja Outside of Super Mario 64, the only other 3D collectathon platformer I can think of that's pretty lenient with how much you need to casually finish it is Spyro: Year of the Dragon. In that game you only need 100 out of 148 available eggs to fight the Sorceress. Granted you're forced to play through all of the main levels in the first 3 out of 4 hub worlds, but this does allow the player to skip a lot of the side content, which is great design. There might be another game that's lenient, but I've yet to play it. Maybe I'm just too obsessed with 100%'ing these games.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 Yeah I usually end up getting the final boss door already opened before even starting any of the levels on the final hub world in Spyro 3. Collectathons are usually made in mind to be 100%ed. It's at least a lot more fun/satisfying in those types of games anyway compared to say an open-world game where 100% is usually a slog. Super Mario Odyssey is also super lenient as well. You only need 124/462 moons to beat the game. And you can max out the counter to 999 of which you only need 500 to access the last piece of post-game content. Odyssey was super fun to 100% and anybody would be doing themselves a big disservice if they decided to only do the bare minimum required.
The first Nick game I ever fully completed xd. Glad yo finally get to this point in the series! Also curious, are you still planning on doing a video regarding your findings of CatDog: Saving Mean Bob?
I'm pretty sure the creators of the original version of Battle for Bikini Bottom spent their own free time to finetune the movement which is what made it feel so good to play In my opinion the original is much better than the remake because of how good that movement feels. The remake is okay at recreating it but the original's movement is unmatched imo
Hey, I just wanted to apologize for being too harsh on your last review. I wanted to be able to give my opinion, but ultimately felt like I was being a bit too hostile. I absolutely love your reviews, even if your opinions aren't always identical to mine, and this one has already become one of my all-time favorites. I have fond childhood memories playing the Xbox version of Battle for Bikini Bottom on my 360...that is, until the system "red ring" died on me. (Oh, and I also played the infamous PC game, which was just as mediocre as others who have played it made it out to be; actually, I played the PC BFBB game a good five years before the console game.) Therefore, when I got a Nintendo Switch, one of the very first games I received for it as a gift was the Rehydrated version. I've been playing that release quite frequently in anticipation of your video, and I'm very happy with how the video turned out. You put so much into it, I'm willing to say that your Battle for Bikini Bottom review was the story of one man's hard work, perseverance, vision, determination, and sweat. But mostly, his sweat.
I have the PS2 version and the PS2 to play this with. Reliving my childhood memories. Edit: I played the GBA Version through the 2 Games In 1 game. (The other game was the GBA version of Fairly OddParents: Breakin" Da Rules)
I know we have a bit of a while before we to attack of the twonkies but as someone who did play that game way back when I can say it's decent game probably the best of the jimmy neutron console games.
I hate the remake so much they took away all the cartoon style and made it look like an unreal engine game and the characyer models ESPECIAL SPONGEBOB got there models changed to look like how they do in the chartoon now. Allso they dodnt rerecord entrhing so its there 2003 voices coming out of the 2020 charcters.
Personally it isn't my favorite SpongeBob game (yeah blasphemy) but it's still a solid title that more than stands on its own merits as good game unlike many other licensed games of its time or even today that are either totally carried by nostalgia or straight up mediocre. Now next time I can't wait to witness some of the worst sound compression on gods' green earth.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 Well that was fast. Yeah it is, mostly because I like the combat more and my personal preference towards linear level based games instead of open world ones, I didn't have many open world or heavily collectathon games so I guess that's why, and Movie leaning more towards that just clicked with me more because of it while still having mostly the same level of quality as Battle (number requirements for Goofy Goober token aside...), though I understand and accept that the majority prefer Battle.
I also prefer linear games (one of my favourite games is Sonic Adventure 2), but I've grown to enjoy more open games nearly on the same level after sinking weeks into Spyro 3 and Toy Story 2 constantly last year.
