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Though rough around the edges, Spongebob is good.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: March 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For those of you who are die-hard spongebob fans, i recommend this game just for the fact of seeing the familiar characters. The graphics are really top notch and the little animations are quite amusing. Though, it isn't as involving or as good as Metal Gear Solid, it still is a fun game to play. It's not all trying to eliminate enemies, it's a sidescrolling, action/RPG type of Genre, which i particularly like. If you're a fan of the spongebob series, or just looking to pick up a title you can play with ease, id suggest Spongebob: Tale of The Lost Spatula.

good spatula good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: June 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

me and my dad are spongebob fans so my dad got me this game and it's great you deliver a pizza, you find patricks shorts and suidward's jelly and find sandy's hat and the items in the show are weapons in the game and the cities are the levels spongbob squarepants fans buy this game

Odd controls!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 16 / 22
Date: April 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Who ever designed this game seriously needed some help and playing some action/rpg's wouldn't hurt either. The controls are very odd, and switching weapons(bubble wand, net, etc.) isn't very easy. You have to pause the game and go through three screens. Another part that is really, really, really annoying is you can't just 'save' your progress..they give you a code to re-enter. To all game makers!! Put a battery in the cartridge!! Codes are a thing of the past..we're in 2001 not 1981!! I'm a TRUE fan of Spongebob and this was a real heartbreak. 2 stars just for the name, not the game.

Spongebob is cool, but the game is not

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: April 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for Christmas just last year, and i stopped playing a month later. I am also a big fan of spongebob, but I think the people who made it could've done a better job. It's funny that when an enemy touches him he loses his pants, if he touches him agian he loses his undies hehehehehe. But anyway they have the main places on the show like the carnival, rock bottom, jellyfish fields, and so on. I have to admit, the graphics are kinda[unrealistic], sometimes you can't even see where you're going and stuff, and his movements are kinda hard to control, like his jumping. So in my point of veiw, you should just rent it first and see if you like it. DONT BUY IT RIGHT AWAY. This goes for those other cartoon games, like dexter, tom and jerry, stuff like that. I hope this helped. GO LOOK AT MY OTHER REVIEWS!...

Very Amusing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: September 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was reading the other reviews and most said it was to repetitive. When I boughtthought I was going to be bored lickity-split. Although I've had for 2 weeks, I still play when I have time, I love this game. Most characters from the show are there and its just cute and clever! If you love the show and games buy this!

teeeeeeeerrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: December 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

dont get me wrong, im one hard-core spongebob fan, but nickelodeon could do soooooo way much better than this. the graphics r the worst ive seen yet on a handheld game, the controls are horrendous, and the story is just stupid. its such an easy game, and its not fun in the least. do nooooot buy this game. i repeat do NOOOOOOOOOOT buy this game.

Spongey Goodness

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you want a really good side-scrolling action game with lots of Humor, this title is for you. SpongeBob is hilarious in this game as are the other denizens of the deep: Mr. Krabs, Sandy, Patrick, Squidward, etc. I thought using all the different items were fun. You get to use a net launcher or shoot Krabby Patty's into the Flying Dutchman's mouth. If you love SpongeBob, you will love this game!

a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

my 11 year old got this game last year and loves do not listen to the other people who less than 4 stars it is a great game

Great fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In 30 words or less...great fun for my son and I to play while on vacation. He liked the graphics, I liked the ease of play.

short and not all that sweet

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, let me start out the review by revealing that I'm one of the many twenty-something year old SpongeBob fans out there. So when I saw there was a SpongeBob game for Gameboy Color, I just had to check it out. What followed was almost a throwback to the old NES days of mediocre 1-hour games that dragged things out through mundane repetition and frustrating difficulty.

On the good side, the graphics are colorful and do a decent job of representing the look of the show. You also get to talk to various characters from the show (although the extent of the conversation is usually just a one-sentence comment). Unfortunately, the decent job of creating a SpongeBob look/feel is about the only good thing THQ managed to pull off here.

The gameplay is..well..rather poor. It boils down to standard platform gaming with fairly stiff controls. Usually, the levels scroll upwards or to the right, leaving you to jump from platform to platform while dodging and/or attacking enemies until you simply reach the end of the level. Platform jumping can be a nightmare as the screen will often scroll past moving platforms in mid-jump, leaving you trying to blindly guess where the platform is so you can attempt to land on it. Fighting enemies isn't much better. Despite several different weapons, some enemies are hard to kill (often due to sluggish controls), and getting hit is often unavoidable (usually knocking you off a platform and sending you hurling back to the bottom of the level so you get to experience the dull repetition of ascending the whole area over again). You can also only get hit twice, meaning you'll find yourself dying often despite the plentiful supply of healing items (extra pants) found in each level. In short, the areas themselves are boring and repetitive, the gameplay is frustrating, and you're usually forced to play the levels again and again until you manage to survive. Of course, there are a few bosses thrown into the mix, but they aren't exactly noteworthy and do little to add value to the gameplay.

So why did they make game so tough and frustrating? Well, it appears to be an attempt to drag out what is actually a rather short game. I'd say there are only about half a dozen short levels (hard to count since everything is sort of connected as one area), which probably took me somewhere between 1 and 2 hours to complete even with all of the repetition.

Well, the bottom line is that SpongeBob fans might want to cautiously check it out, but they shouldn't expect too much. Younger gamers will probably find the game too repetitive, difficult, and frustrating to hold their attention. Older gamers will probably find it dull, repetitive, frustrating, and short. Overall, the game does an extremely poor job of capturing the fun that most fans would expect from the SpongeBob license.

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