ATLANTIS SQUAREPANTIS SERIES

It was followed by Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition, this was the last SpongeBob SquarePants game to be released on the Game Boy Advance console. The Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS versions were developed by Altron. The Wii and PlayStation 2 versions were developed by Blitz Games.

ATLANTIS SQUAREPANTIS SERIES

All of them are fun for just about as long as they last, which is how a minigame should be.SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis is a 2007 video game based on the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, specifically the Atlantis SquarePantis TV movie. Others, like the fighting game ripoff, make us wish the developers had made all the fighting in the game like that, instead of the toned down version the real game has. Some of them, like the Jellyfish Shooter, are fun touch screen controlled diversions. Between each level there's usually a minigame to play. It doesn't help that the fighting mechanics are clunky and the fixed camera makes it kind of hard to see. That's fine if the nonfighting party is a nimwit like Patrick, but we expect Sally to kick some butt. He does no fighting whatsoever, so when we're surrounded by Atlantian royal guards, only one guy is fighting. We wish we had a second player during the later levels, because during single player the AI teammate is useless. In the later levels, where a lot of combat occurs, it becomes more fun to have a friend to play with, but most of the game it's almost a hindrance.

This means one player has to sit there and wait for his buddy to go through the level, then he gets to follow after him. However, a lot of the game involves using one character to reach places the other can't, and unlocking a new path for them. It's a good idea considering the game nearly always has two characters on screen. There is a multiplayer mode that allows two players to each control a character and work through the story mode together. This is a game for kids it should have been made simple and just had the necessary characters start. An even bigger problem is that switching characters out resets everything, so we have to fight the same bad guys and remove the same obstacles. So then we have to trek back to the start and switch out. Sometimes halfway through the level it becomes apparent that we needed Patrick all along. But the problem is that levels usually require one or two specific characters. The weird thing is that the levels start off by letting the player pick who they want to control. Each character has his or her own special abilities so players will end up controlling everyone to complete the game. Players control two characters at a time, switching off between them when the need arises. There are four playable characters, everyone except for Squidward. Spongebob and Patrick are partners, and proud of it. The characters animate well and have their own signature styles. The 3D environments are nothing spectacular, but do a nice job of capturing the look and feel of SpongeBob's underwater world. One level has players work their way up a volcano, while another transports them to a Tron-esque computer world inside Atlantis. The developers do manage to switch the worlds up a bit. The levels are pretty basic, with all the cliche floating platforms and bottomless pits that come with the genre. It's a game geared for younger audiences, so none of it is very complex.

The main levels are mostly platforming, with a mix of brawling and some light puzzle solving.

SpongeBob and crew travel through three worlds: Bikini Bottom, the lost continent of Mu, and Atlantis. We wish there was some voicework from the actors in the game, or some animated cut scenes to make the game actually feel more like the cartoon. Some of the dialogue is a little off, like in the case of Patrick actually saying halfway intelligent things. Regardless, Atlantis SquarePantis has that bizarre charm that has made the SpongeBob series so popular. In fact, compared to the Hasselhoff thing, the story sounds a little bland. It's no more bizarre than the time he rode on David Hasselfhoff's butt, then turned into a magic guitar playing peanut wizard. For any other franchise that story would be preposterous, but this is SpongeBob. Krabs, and Sally - board a magical bus that is powered by song, and ride it to the fabled lost city of Atlantis so they can see the World's Oldest Bubble. SpongeBob and the gang - Patrick, Squidward, Mr.

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