This is a childhood game for me. I remember doing the opening level a hundred times over, I remember the early cutscenes and levels so well from every "cleanliness is next to manliness" and "save the money first!" to the very specific memory of coming downstairs from a bath to see my Dad was trying to do the time trials of the race levels to unlock the fruit throw ability. I was having a lot of fun revisiting this one mostly because of childhood nostalgia, and to be honest, Planktopolis crushed my enjoyment of this game. It is a painful difficulty spike that made the game go from nostalgic enjoyment to thinking "i'm glad I didn't get to this as a kid, I would have had a much more negative memory of the game". I'm sticking it on the shelf for now, I don't necessarily see myself going back to it again though it was nice for the ride I had with it, and will always bring back lovely memories even if every time I try to speak to people about it I get met with "do you mean battle for bikini bottom?". No mate, I bloody don't.

Reviewed on Aug 01, 2022


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