This game takes the gameplay from Battle for Bikini Bottom and The Spongebob movie game and doesn't do much new or interesting with it. It was an okay platformer that at least held my interest until the end but didn't seem to innovate or improve much between console generations. There was also a bit of clunkiness to the gameplay that would sometimes result in unfair deaths but honestly the game was pretty easy so I had a ton of lives to spare. I would only recommend this game to fans of Spongebob games like the ones I mentioned who are purely in it for nostalgia.

If you recall my review on the Wii/Xbox 360 version, you'll probably know I wasn't particularly impressed by it.

Despite being developed by Heavy Iron Studios who gave us both Battle for Bikini Bottom and The Movie Game, it essentially just felt like a soulless and pale game with barely any of the charm that made those two titles good.

Japanese developers Altron were put in charge of this DS version and to my surprise, they've managed to do a far better job than what Heavy Iron did.

It's a charmingly fun platformer with the whole memory storyline working pretty well on the DS making it easy to pick up and play. Like most DS titles I've covered it's got some touchscreen/microphone stuff thrown into the mix, though it's mostly every now and then and you can still do SpongeBob's attacks via the buttons.

There's also a couple of minigames thrown into the mix with some of them being kinda fun and others not so much.

Some of these sounds effects though makes me chuckle a lot.

As an end to Heavy Iron's Spongebob games, this one is kinda disappointing.

The game was originally called Sponegbob Squarepants: Happiness Squared but the TV special Truth or Square was being shown on TV so they changed it.

The music itself isn't anything interesting because it is taken from Battle for Bikini Bottom and the movie game.

It is a shame this is the last decent Spongebob game because after this game it all went downhill. Until the remake of Battle for Bikini Bottom in 2020 and The Cosmic Shake in 2023.

Vaguely based on the 10th anniversary mini-movie, Truth or Square is the third (and final) SpongeBob video game to be developed by Heavy Iron Studios.

Truth or Square is pretty much another game like Battle for Bikini Bottom; a 3D platformer where you fight robots.
Weirdly enough, this game never got a PlayStation console release despite the developer's previous game (WALL-E) getting one on both PS2 and PS3.
Part of me wants this game to get a remaster alongside the Movie game but I feel like, since you can play the 360 version on Xbox One and Series, it's probably more likely that the PSP version will get a release on PS+.
I still firmly believe we're getting a SpongeBob Movie game remaster next year for its 20th.

I can't really talk much about the gameplay since it's pretty much the same as BFBB, but I'm gonna be honest I prefer the story of this game to the story of the episode it's based on.

My theory is that this game was commissioned as a general "10th Anniversary" videogame until the special was brought up, and was rushed in order to complete it by the time it aired.

The plot of the special follows a handful of the cast as they get stuck in the Krusty Krab as it celebrates its anniversary, and end up reminiscing about events that we're introduced to in the special, meaning there's no real clip show elements.
In the game, however, SpongeBob is throwing a party for the anniversary and forgets where he placed the secret formula, so his friends try to jog his memory by referencing actual episodes.

Each level is based on an episode of the show, but it sometimes features multiple references, like a level about the episode Graveyard Shift also features elements from the Movie, and I like that.

The game is fine, and is a fun way to spend a few hours. I might even try getting 100% someday.
There's a few hiccups, though, like I'm not sure where checkpoints are; I assumed they were these boxes that close when you're near them but after a rather difficult section near the end of the game I walked past one as it closed, died, and had to redo that difficult section.

There's also these paths in which SpongeBob uses his tongue to glide on Jellyfish Jam paths. You can't hit any enemies on these paths so you have to dodge them which is nigh impossible when there's a huge wall of them in front of you.
One last issue is the fact that the health pickups usually spawn behind enemies so you have to jump past them in order to get health, but they'll hit you while you're trying to get it so it's basically pointless.
The controls are a bit stiff, too, but I don't know if that's my controller or the game itself.
Props for adding Classic Controller support!

Each level features three "Happy Items" (general items that help "jog his memory", you get one for completing the level), three Kids Meals and a sleeping Patrick, but I'm not sure what they unlock since I used a cheat code to unlock all the bonus stuff.

It's your general flair with these games; concept art and cutscenes.
Much like Disney's Up game (also by Heavy Iron), the concept art is all videos and not a single slideshow.

Each level contains two unlockable video types; concept art, and screenshots from the show with frames lazily slapped on top of them.
You get three different videos per level, so it's either two concept art pieces and one screenshot video, or the other way around.

Also I thought I'd mention the fact that this game features a mix of music from Battle for Bikini Bottom and some music from the show itself. So, yes, this is another great video game soundtrack (The Jellyfish Fields music from BFBB slaps!).

If you have an Xbox, and you find this game for cheap, I recommend it.
Who knows, if I find it on Xbox for cheap I might replay it to completion.

as a dude who unlock every single health, furniture upgrades, get all happiness objects in the game and even do damageless bosses/mini-bosses challenge without any save state on psp version, i can proudly say - this version sucks

first of all as i do actually damageless challenge i just need to say it - you can't move your camera during the boss fights and it's really annoying
second of all - this game it's just boring. as usual spongebob games don't make your challenges any hard (except for movie racing levels challenges) but you got the original level with the vibes with it. in this game you need to collect 3 objects (collectibles), which 2 of them you got by doing really easy challenges and last one you get for ending the level. as you can see i started in September 10th and finish it today but i can do that clearly sooner that you can see. it just too boring to keep it up with it and you easily drop the game after like first 4 levels.

i didn't play the xbox360/ps3 versions and i can't say barely if they are the same but for me PSP version is just 3/5.

Esse jogo não faz sentido, mas é legalzinho

Bob Esponja esqueceu onde guardou a receita secreta do hambúrguer de siri sendo que na cena anterior ele guarda ela no bolso e o Patrick diz para ele procurar no bolso e o Bob diz que não está ali. Bob fica triste e com medo de onde a receita foi parar e todas as 10 missões (entre elas lutas contra bosses) são para recuperar alguns itens de uma festa que está rolando na casa do Bob e que, recuperando isso, vai deixa-lo feliz, pois estar feliz é a única forma de faze-lo lembrar sobre o local que ele guardou a receita.

Esse é plot do game, maaas obviamente o plankton está envolvido nisso tudo e é aí que tem um pouco a mais da história envolvida e de como ela se desenrola.

Tipo, no geral a história é bem sem graça, os elementos cômicos tão presentes nos desenhos não possuem o mesmo peso aqui, aliás eu não achei graça em nenhuma tentativa que o jogo fez para ser engraçado.

O jogo é um coletaton beeem modesto, com fases até que interessantes, inimigos bem simplórios, gameplay diversa em power ups e em geral game um pouco divertido para falar a verdade. É gostosinho de jogar, principalmente pela duração que dá pra fazer em uma tarde.

Uma experiência bem regular, com conquistas bem fáceis de conseguir também, tendo uma pessoa para jogar junto, dá pra fazer 1000G sem nenhum problema.