Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated is an adventure game on Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. In Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, you can play the campaign or you can play multiplayer against other players. I will review both game modes along with the gameplay.
The core gameplay is to kill robots that have taken over Bikini Bottom. You must do that along with going to new areas and avoiding hazardous objects and places. Certain areas require a different area to complete because each character has their own unique abilities. The different characters that you can choose between are Spongebob, Patrick, and Sandy. Throughout the game, you collect shiny objects, golden spatulas, and socks. Shiny objects can be obtained by killing enemies and can be spent to unlock new levels or pathways. You can also give them to Mr. Krabs for golden spatulas. Socks are located in hard-to-reach places and can be traded to Patrick for a golden spatula. Golden Spatulas are used to unlock new areas and can be used to defeat the final boss.
Props are also included in the game. Trampolines help the player bounce to further ledges or platforms, buttons activate certain things throughout the game, and pressure pads are like buttons; however, the effects of it are only active while the player stands on the pressure pad, or there is another object placed on top. Once whatever is holding down the pressure pad is removed, the effects of it are undone. There are also character-specific abilities, such as Sandy being able to swing from Texas hooks, SpongeBob being able to dive downward on a bungee hook, and Patrick’s ability to pick up and throw melons called “Throw Fruits” and ice cubes called “Freeze Fruits”.
Though some areas can be navigated by any character, several sections can only be completed with a specific character, due to each one having unique abilities. SpongeBob can create a bubble helmet for head-butting enemies. Patrick can throw objects at buttons, robots, and pressure pads, and can throw “Freeze Fruits” into bodies of Goo to freeze them. Finally, Sandy can glide over large gaps and destroy enemies and objects with her lasso.
In Bikini Bottom, Plankton, the evil genius owner of the Chum Bucket, has built a new machine called the Duplicatotron 3000 to produce an army of robots, which he plans to control to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula. After creating them, he realizes that the switch on the Duplicatotron has accidentally been set to “Don’t Obey”. This leads the robots to seize control of the Chum Bucket out of Plankton and wreak havoc all over Bikini Bottom.
Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Patrick are playing with toy robots and horses. SpongeBob and Patrick are bored with the toys and wish they could play with real robots. Patrick uses his “magic wishing shell”, believing it will make their wish come true the following morning. SpongeBob wakes to find that his house has been trashed by real robots. He receives a fax from Mr. Krabs, stating that he would give SpongeBob a Golden Spatula for every certain amount of Shiny Objects he collects for him. Shiny Objects must be collected to open or activate various tolls throughout the game. Outside, SpongeBob finds a disappointed Plankton, who lies and claims that the robots appeared suddenly and kicked him out. Plankton convinces SpongeBob to help him back into the Chum Bucket by embarking on a perilous quest to find golden spatulas and get rid of the robots, secretly intending to regain control of them once back inside.
I give this game an 8/10. It has a really good plot and brings lots of nostalgia from the original version but some bugs make the game less fun.
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