This game is really good lol. I have no nostalgia to it, I grew up playing Truth or Square on Wii, yet I do think it's a really good game. It nails the feeling of SpongeBob with dialogue that makes explicit, and sometimes subtle, references to the show; music that sounds exactly like what a SpongeBob game should; and other details that the more hardcore fans of the show will love, like when the player goes out of bounds and the human hand grabs the character. Some of the stages also make references to specific episodes, like Rock Bottom. It's just really neat, and even if you don't know too much about SpongeBob it's still a really charming and fun platformer. Sandy is the best character in the game.

I played the PC version waaaay back as a kid, and it was fine for a kid. I don't remember it too well, probably.

I just beat the game with 78 golden spatulas. It's definitely a step above a lot of licensed games, but it's still a step below some other great 3D platformers. It's super quick to get around Bikini Bottom via taxi, socks have value unlike the Blue Coins they function like, Spongebob controls pretty good. The problem mostly lies in the enemies. They'll get a lot of cheap shots off on you in a lot of ways. You'll get shot at from off screen, they'll run up before you can see them, sometimes they'll send you flying and other times won't, it's not very fun, and you do a lot of fighting. Platforming is mostly fine though. I don't think I'd recommend it to anyone but a Spongebob fan who has already played the better collectathons.

Fun until it isn’t. I gotta say, as far as licensed games go, this is one of the best. The attention to detail in creating the look and feel of the show is incredible, and it manages to be a really fun platformer on top of that.

However, the final mission to this game is just too frustrating and annoying. I have no desire to continue trying to beat it if all it does is anger and annoy me. It sucks because I want to give this game a better score and officially beat it, but that final bit just leaves too bitter a taste for me to consider it.

I’m curious to see if the remake/remaster fixes a lot of the more frustrating bugs in this, but it’ll be a while before I play that. Overall I’m just sad because I feel like this game beat me when I should’ve beaten it.

Decent, but could have been so much more. A really fun experience that lost that fun factor in the latter stages.
Sure, it's better than 99% of all other 3D platformer made just to shill an IP and developed by a non-'prestige' developer, but that isn't enough alone for me to ignore just how sharply the enjoyment I had with this game decreased from Kelp Forest onwards.
The development team clearly could create a fun interactive world where you get to be Spongebob in Bikini Bottom, but when tasked to crank up some real difficulty in the level design it would either be too easy or only difficult because the relevant mechanics are janky and the hit detection is inconsistent.
But hey, if you like Spongebob Squarepants and you don't mind sixth-generation console platformers, this is worth a try

***1/4

genuinely solid cult classic 3D platformer collectathon type deal set in the spongebob world. I didn't play this one growing up, but I did play the spongebob movie game back then which was essentially the sequel to this game so I knew what I was signing up for going in. Honestly I think I like this game a little bit more than the movie game, and wish I had played it growing up since this game explores a lot more of the locales in the spongebob universe than its sequel does. Also there are more playable characters. This game got remade, but I have heard that the remake was rather mid so idk maybe play the original instead?