in many ways this is a true representation of modern spongebob: self indulgent and constantly referential towards “the good stuff” taken from over twenty years old media. it clearly cannot stand on its own two legs without the original show and indeed the original game to lean on either shoulder, stealing jokes from one and direct gameplay and assets from the other without putting forth much effort to create anything itself. what new ideas do exist are half baked at best and buggy at worst, like the karate kick that can either speed up platforming or throw you down an invisible pit despite its fully automated nature. much like the show, again, this game does not understand when to stop with the obnoxiously exaggerated animations or incessantly droll if not purely regurgitated dialogue. i’ll relay to you now what this game took several hours to relay to me: just watch the first three seasons and movie of the show, and replay battle for bikini bottom (the original, not the watered down, over saturated garbage this studio tried to peddle.) tom kenny is so fucking old now