Played the PC version, which I thought would be another cool funny adventure game like Employee of the Month or the Movie game, which it, kind of is? Seems like they had way less money so instead of like a story you go through it's more like an objective, recruiting randos (mostly chars that literally do not have names) to be in an episode of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. You usually have to give them one item to get them to go, which is either found somewhere in the world or gotten from another NPC in a very small and straightforward trading circle minigame. If that wasn't stimulating enough sometimes there are stunningly terrible minigames which make up a significant chunk of the game's 90 minute runtime, making it feel less like an adventure game and more like window dressing for a minigame collection. Pretty lame stuff, but there's some decent gags and the hook of exploring these surprisingly well realized visual locations from the show with comfy music and the original voice actors is nice :). Game also has some really weird cursed semi-2D flash cutscenes that just. Look very strange. Idk, I kind of liked it. It barely has an ending too, once you get enough of a cast you can do different combos of this fake show, it's bizarre. AWE games undefeated

Surprisingly fun, thorough, and entertaining set of minigames set to a story mode with a banger hook, a story strong enough to be its own Spongebob episode or even a two-parter or TV special. There's something really validating about winning a set of minigames and then you get to see your character of choice star in a scene from the fake movie the entire game's plot revolves around. Some of the co-op stuff on here particularly rocks, so this is definitely something you play with a group of friends and not "a friend and two bots". There are a few problems here and there - this game is fairly ugly, as many tie-in products from the licensed game era of sixth-generation gaming were, minigames can go on for too long, and the bots are utterly insipid, braindead little goofy ass cretins that can't do shit on their own, hence why this game kinda needs to be 4 Players only because there's no chance of a bot randomly carrying the team or doing something hilariously epic like there is in Mario Party. Still, for a cashgrab party game, this is some quality shit. Some of the minigames from this hidden party gem live rent-free in my damn brain, like the crazyass paintball-on-unicycles minigame, or the Squilliam rock band minigame, or anything at the Krusty Krab (excellent opener set of minigames) or the weirdly intense and atmospheric Chum Bucket levels. Also the prison break minigame is fucking based. Really good party game, tbh. 3.5 / 5.

Relogged this as I'd planned to replay the story mode to completion but it's not worth it.
A lot of the minigames work best with more human players, because the majority of the 2v2 games you play with a computer are actually super annoying because it involves you waiting for your CPU partner to do something while the team that's entirely CPU absolutely dominates you.

I'd imagine playing this with 4 people in the same room would be fun but playing it by yourself with 3 computer characters is annoying.
Also; one character, CPU or not, has to get 12,000 points in order for the story to continue.
Fuck that, fuck this.
Why? What's wrong with "most points wins"?

A surprisingly solid party game given the track record of licensed party games. You play a bunch of minigames to earn points, and the winners of said minigames get to star in various scenes of essentially a spongebob episode written by someone who never wrote for the shows. The minigames are all varying degrees of fun with some standout good ones and some groaners here and there, but its mostly fun ones. If you get 3 other people (preferably those familiar with spongebob and moderately capable at video games) together with you to make a full party of 4 and play this game start to finish, yall are gonna have a good time.