Yeooo gamers! It turns out at the beginning of the Jellyfishing Competition, the game does indeed tell you to catch “game total” 100 Jellyfish Sorry about that!
It's also in the To-Do List you can check afterwards at any time. And the game has a perfectly good reason for making the hud display that worlds total, it's useful for the Dubloon and Jellyfish objectives that most worlds have, which DO require them to be caught in that world specifically. Literally nobody brought this up as an issue(The PS2 save bug was way more discussed) until Lambhoot and then suddenly it's a big deal despite him being incorrect about the game telling you
@@OmegaChase1002 15-20 seconds. Also, don't you see that E for everyone rating on the game's box art? This is a kid's game and younger kids don't always have the fastest of reading skills.
The design of most areas is based on what they had in S1. Jellyfish Fields was depicted with parks and rivers and playgrounds in Karate Choppers, and hills and cliffs in Jellyfishing. They went with that. Goo Lagoon is described as a 'stinky mudpuddle for you and me' so they made the whole place kinda gross and foreboding. Downtown is based on the creepy nightscenes in Hall Monitor and one or two shots from Pizza Delivery, hence the dark streets and Neon. Larry is a jerk because his first two appearences(MuscleBob and Ripped Pants) potrayed him as one. Bus Stops are the main form of transport because of their role in Rock Bottom. The Flying Dutchman is far more evil and foreboding in his first couple of roles (Scaredy Pants, Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost, Shanghaied) so they went with that. Mr. Krabs was still somewhat tame so shutting down the resturant kinda fits. That's also why they used OCs. They didn't really have a 'old sea captain' character with Krabs out of the picture, nor did they have a Jellyfishing expert since Kevin didn't exist yet, so (since Jellyfishing is a form of fishing) they invented Rusty Scupper, the old grizzled jelly fisherman to fill the role.
It's odd how brandslam didn't point this out, or even acknowledge that fact. Most of the complaints about the game stem from the characterizations and worldbuilding made after the games' release.
@@TanakaMoon I guess not that many people guesses that. Makes sense, this game came out 3 years after Spongebob started so it’s likely that people think that season 2 was the inspiration for a lot of this game.
Downtown in this game has always reminded me of Hall Monitor. And it’s weird to complain about the Liberty the game developers took with Jellyfish fields when Battle for Bikini Bottom did the exact same thing. Every game featuring that location has platforming because lol SpongeBob games are platformers. That’s just how it works. As for the Reef Blower, I always just assumed that SpongeBob is saying he’s never used the model of reef blower. It is a very different look than the one in the episode.
@@wrmsnicket There are actually already two distinct models in the show. The one in Ripped Pants and one of the newer episodes is the gigantic one, while the one in Squidville and a couple of S6 and S7 episodes is like a small backpack. The one in the game is almost like a hybrid of the two. There's also the Coral Blower from SuperSponge
funny thing, when you brought the fact the developers didn't use invisible walls but made the walls of the game world feel like they were part of the world, it reminded me of how when they first started making the show they wanted to add a lot of detail and things to the background.
As a kid, I also thought this game was better than battle for bikini bottom. I finally got around to playing it again for the first time in years and I was sad to see there was 0 bonus for 100% completion. No ending bonus, dialogue, or even a message on screen at all. It was so weird to me since the pause menu has the check list and each collectable had their own % completion for each world.
You know, I played this game the first time in 2007. When I was a kid. And then played it again in 2011. And I’m gonna be honest with you, this game is really good. Despite its terrible reputation, I think this game is part of my childhood nostalgia. I even played this along with battle for bikini bottom. I gonna say this is one of the best underrated games in SpongeBob history.
I had the opposite feeling with this one. Loved it as a kid, and have very very vivid memories of playing it. Only to boot it up, and sort of struggle with the whole thing. I will say though: the pizza delivery bit I remember being crazy hard, but doing it as an adult was the most *trivial* thing LOL. I must have been so bad as a kid!
Same here as a kid I always thought it was such a hard game but back during the pandemic I got a ps2 emulator on my pc and I remember I couldn’t beat SpongeBob the movie , the revenge of the Flying Dutchman, and battle of bikini bottom. After decades of thinking it was impossible to beat I finally went back to Flying Dutchman and battle of bikini bottom and finally beaten them as an adult and wow it was a lot easier then I thought lol😂😂😂😂
@@ErzaScarlet4300 see, it doesn't really matter for how terrible the game is, all that matters is that this game is really great. even for spongebob video game standards. heck, even watchmojo ranked the revenge of the flying dutchman as the best spongebob game ever.
Bruuuuh I always vaguely remembered playing a 3D Spongebob game on the 6th generation where I was dowsing for treasure in front of Spongebob's pineapple, and I thought it was some weird altered memory of me playing BFBB. I definitely never owned this game as a kid, so I must have rented it from Blockbuster and never heard of the title at all until watching this video on a whim. Thank you for explaining this weird memory I've always had.
31:39 could easily be explained by saying that he'd never used _that specific model_ before. It looks more advanced than the one he already has, so it probably has a different layout and different controls. It's an upgrade from the previous model.
This game holds a special place in my heart. It will forever be an all-time favorite for me. This was the first SpongeBob game I played on the playstation 2. I've beat the game numerous times, and would beat it again.
I also have fond memories of this game, and preferred it to Battle for Bikini Bottom. Sure, it's janky and the jelly fishing competition is annoying af, but every time I hear that music, I immediately get nostalgic.
I remember when I was very young I had this game on the ps2. I didn't have a memory card so I could never beat it as a child, the furthest I ever got was chum world. A few years ago I bought a gamecube just to play this game again and relive the nostalgia and honestly it still gives me the same feeling as when i was young. the game definetly has it's glaring problems but it's just fun, its one of the few games that i can pick up and just not want to put it down. Plus the square pants theme from this game is an absolute banger of a song. One part I always got stuck on was trying to find sandy in downtown bikini bottom, ive probably spent hours in that location just from looking for her not realising she didn't show up until later in the game. Anyway nice video man it's always great seeing a good video about a niche topic that not many people are also interested in.
My sister and I played this game a ton back in the mid to late 2000s. This thing, along with GTA: Vice City, Simpson's Hit & Run, Tiger Woods PGA 2007, THUG 2, and the Sims defined our childhoods.
I remember liking this game as a kid, but my PS2 copy stopped working after I beat it, so it's left in my nostalgic memories. As I got older, I was realy surprised to find out how many people hate it. Your fair analysis is much appreciated!
My brother and I got stuck in the treasure hunter costume in Jellyfish fields while looking for Jellyfish. Kind of a pain that I learn over a decade later that we didn't need to be catching jellyfish THERE to progress. Makes me kinda wanna go back and finish the game, but I think it's better to just leave well enough alone.
I'm still in the middle of watching this video and I think your timestamp covers this later but I'll say it anyways. This was my favorite Spongebob game back in the day, it's janky but it represents very old Spongebob like it was made when only season 1 and maybe 2 aired. But this game's development has such an extremely sad history, another person made a documentary with interviews. The development studio, BigSky, weren't getting paid by the publisher on time and were being forced with unrealistic timelines, to the point where they put in a game-breaking bug by mistake, many kids had it including myself, fan reviews at the time mentioned it often. The gamebreaking bug is that if you played it with an old PS2 ("fat") model it couldn't load different zones properly, I think you needed a slim model or a different console to play it no problem. So basically trying to go to anywhere other than Bikini Bottom caused the game to freeze, completely unacceptable for a PS2 product it wasn't the NES days where you could just make un-finishable games. This caused such a headache for retailers, to the point where so many angry mothers complaining that they would just give you a new game for free if you traded it in lol. But to finish the sad development story BigSky got a lot of flack for that bug, to the point where they were blacklisted from getting any other IPs to make games from and going bankrupt soon after. Seriously check out that documentary if you haven't it's so sad to see the other side of the game. 58:30 Ah good you watched that documentary. I think you grew up with this game on the Gamecube so you had no problems, it was horrible growing up with this and only having a PS2, I had to revisit it years later. Great retrospective!
I remember having that big and being so frustrated with it 😂 eventually after trying again and again, it didn’t freeze and I was able to go to the next area tho
Man what a nice and cozy video. I remember playing this game when i was a kid but could never beat it because there was also the language barrier as a spanish speaker and never knew what to do, but this review of the entire game made me happy, specially when covering the plot, it was pretty nice. Despite the bugs and some other flaws the game does feel like it stands by the spirit of first years of spongebob.
29:48 It says it's the game total in the to do list. Also, Doubloons and Jellyfish are counted seperatedly in each world for the Doubloon and Jellyfishing tiles in each of them, while Sand Dollars can only be found in Goo Lagoon(plus earned in one mission in Downtown) and you really just need the fixed amount to trigger two in-game events.
I got your channel recommended to me and you got a new subscriber instantly. You are such a chill charismatic funny person. Plus i loved this game growing up. I'm a proud 25-year-old who still plays this game for nostalgia sometimes haha. Thanks for the awesome content dude. Cannot wait to see more from you.
I LOVED this game as a kid. So much charm, I actually love all the loose ends to it, adds to the charm. I also don't think it was that unpopular among fans at all. It won Kids Choice Awards in 2003 I also actually still do think its kind of a creepy game. There's definately an eeriness to it, particuarly the treasure hunting treasures. I also think it lends to the uncanny valley at times unintentionally which also makes it more creepy
The treasure hunting sections were such a shift in vibe from how the levels felt when first playing through them that they started to feel ominous and empty the second they began. Especially since the npcs seemed to vanish once the treasure hunting began.
My MAN, thank you for talking about this game! I grew up with this one (missing out on the other "good" ones) and hearing you talk about it fills me with so much nostalgia... And fear of the game haha 🤣
This was one of 3 games I had growing up and I loved it so much. Despite the bugs and my amazing ability to get lost no matter where I am, I really loved it and felt accomplished when I finally beat it. This game deserves a remake/remaster
This was a joy to watch! I’m so glad to see other people making videos on this game, purely just because it was a part of their childhood. It also awesome to see that this video was inspired by the same video that inspired my own video on this game 😂. Props to you, my dude. This was awesome!
this is my FAVORITE childhood game! the creepy ass french narrators voice is so nostalgic to me. it reminds me of rainy days watching my older brother try to play this game so i can watch :-)
With you all the way on the Jellyfish total design problem. That's just extremely confusing that there's only one element that doesn't carry over from level to level, especially when collecting for 100% doesn't net you anything.
The animation looks awkward and in "pieces" is because models back then were designed to be either open meshes (where you control each body part of the model individually and the rig, or skeleton of the limbs are typically not actually 'attached'), or closed meshes (where the models limbs are attached and moving parts of the mesh will effect other nearby parts). Hope this helps anyone who is curious!
thank you for covering this game! played a ton as a kid, and I also loved the faithfulness to the earliest episodes of the show. about the jellyfish: if I remember correctly (it's been many years), the colour determines their behaviour. pink has a fixed pattern of swimming, blue runs away, red chases, green floats up, and yellow has a more-random pattern.
Honesty this is a Classic despite its reception, only 3 issues i found w this game: 1. No Autosave Feature 2. Really Annoying Music 3. 4 some reason the PS2 version constantly freezes on Loading Screens However heres my advice: 1. Always remember 2 save b4 shutting off (I have a Note 📝 Written in my Game Case) 2. Mute the Music in the Pause Menu 3. Avoid the PS2 version completely Done! ✅
i played this game with my mom as a kid and it scared the absolute shit out of me. watching this video, seeing the the game and hearing all the music again brought me right back to that feeling of dread and uneasiness that i felt around 20 years ago. the vibes of this game are atrocious and off-putting even now
This game is so strange and bizarre. I love it. I'm that weird guy that prefers it to BFBB. There's just something about it that keeps me coming back to replay it at least once a year.
I couldn't pass downtown as a kid because I didn't know what an albatross was. Had to cave in and look it up. Using the word "albatross" and making it mandatory to progression in a game for young kids was an... interesting design decision.
One of my favorite games as a Kid was SpongeBob SquarePants The Movie Game, the one made for the original. It was my favorite one, I even preferred it over BFBB. I remember it so vividly, it was one of the first games I ever 100%
Narrator: The treasures only make you mostly immune to the Dutchman's magic. SpongeBob: Once again, something that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY!
The Jellyfish do act differently based on color. Pink flies in a set path, Green sits there and will float up when approached while not sneaking, Yellow and Red both sit still until you get close enough then they go straight for you. Yellow is slower than Red I think, or Red deals more damage. Blue flies away when approached
I remembered owning this game when it come out and playing it thinking, “meh, it’s okay. Not great but it’s ok I guess.” But then couple years later Battle for Bikini Bottom came out and I was like “DAMN! This is what a SpongeBob game is supposed to be! This game is freaking awesome!”
I played the entire game in 5 hours without saving yesterday, and honestly... it's not as bad as people say it is. Now, of course, I grew up with it, so I'm a lot more softer to it than most would be. It's definitely an uncanny valley kinda game from the models to the atmosphere. It's not a horror game, yet I always got weird vibes when playing it even when I was younger. Whether it be all of SpongeBob's friends disappearing or Downtown Bikini Bottom and Chum World giving off lonely vibes. The lack of level music definitely adds to that feeling. This is a game asking for an iceberg lol. It's like "Wet Dry World negative emotional aura" if it were an entire game. Despite all this lambasting, I still enjoy it, though it's definitely a lesser game compared to the other SpongeBob games released that generation. Collecting Jellyfish was definitely a wakeup-call realizing you have to accumulate the Jellyfish you catch period if you want the Reef Blower and Larry's Goo Lagoon ticket.
26:02 If you look in the background of the cutscene where Squidward gets taken, you can see the jellyfish with the ticket. So there is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it showing of what you need to do.
thank you for the amazing video man! love your content and can’t wait to see more. for me, I played the hell out of BFBB, and also had this game as well, but it crashed EVERYTIME I played it, so it was nice to see the game played to completion 🤣
So many reasons why rotfd is a great game: -cinematic -narrative -immersive level transitions -charming narrator -not overstimulating -smooth music -funny dialogue and characters -the characters are consistent to the early show -atmospheric -all very creative -great soundbits and SFX SPOILER ALERT: The booty trope Canon transport Many shipwrecks No running on the beach The lighthouse The jellies Patrick eating a letter tile The list goes on and on...
@@theproboscisarchive6812. Yes they do. THQ is remastering all of the old nickelodeon games. This game Revenge OF The Flying Dutchman is going to be remastered soon as well too
@@Golagawolgrag haven’t heard anything about them remastering this one, but doing so would make no sense, since this game was never mastered to begin with. I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would want this terrible game to be remastered.
I second this. Remakes of good games are usually gonna be fine, especially when their for much older games that could use some polishing up. But remaking bad games is even better, since it gives the game a chance to shine. Fixing what was wrong or bad with the game to make it into something good.
I had to learn how to speed run this game cause it was one of the Gamecube games I had before I got a memory card which is probably why I remembered as much as I I did from watching this video, a lot of this game is still embedded in my brain than I thought.
I played the Gameboy Advance version as a kid; a very simple and enjoyable 2D platformer. The game encouraged multiple playthroughs by having multiple endings. Loved that game to pieces.
People's favroite 3d platform games are mario 64, mario galaxy, battle for bikini bottom, and the movie mine is sunshine and revenge of the flying dutchman. Both being called unpolish and unfinish but they both are special for being different from the others.
This was the last SpongeBob game I got on GC (I got it after all the others growing up lol) That’s also a channel sub; great video and I feel like I’ll be able to brag about being 300 at some point 👍
back in my childhood, I loved this game. As a 6years old I used to play this all the time. though, at some point I did not understood what to do and just restarted the game over and over again. After years and now being 22 I played it again and I found it really boring. Even with my nostalgia I could not bring myself to play it past that city area. RIP my childhood memories of this game
12:21 The episode Patty Hype and other episodes from seasons 1-3 establish the Krusty Krab as this super unsuccessful business where there's like 6 people in the restaurant max, compared to now where Bikini Bottom can't like without it.
its so weird to know I took part in this game but not the knowing this version of the game existing. I grew up with the gameboy version and loved it as a kid
There are multiple models of Reef Blower, even in the show. There's the original Jumbo one from the titular episode that's shown up a couple times in modern seasons as a callback, but there's also the 'newer model' that they get for the first time in Squidville and then shows up on and off again until S8. SuperSponge has a 'Coral Blower'. Maybe Spongebob has never made the specific model Rusty had? It's smaller then the OG, but has a huge pump assembly on the back missing from the Squidville model.
So, imma be honest. I had gaslit myseld into thinkint this game WAS battle for bikini bottom, thought the tents and such were a fever dream....but im so glas im not. This game was fun, even if a bit janky, this and nicktoons unite where so underrated tbh
Bro I used to play a SpongeBob game when I was little bit I can’t remember it you had to like collect stuff and go in caves. I don’t think it was 3D. I honestly can’t remember. Got any ideas of what it could be?
i find it hilarious that i bought Lights camera pants, the movie game, bfbb, and rotfd same day, yet Rotfd is the first i played of the bunch, and was honestly not disappointed. I still play it sometimes on my new ps2 slim i got thrit shopping
"oh man time to sleep, better find something interesting to listen to while I doze off" *Puts on a one hour video essay about a SpongeBob SquarePants video game*
In the first seasons of SpongeBob there were times where the Krusty Krab was slow, sometimes almost to the point of closing down. As the show went on it became always popular. So it being slow in this game considering it was so early in the life of the show, I can find completely believable
Everybody has a childhood game that they remember being so good and fun but upon returning discover how horrible it is I’m honored Flying Dutchman is that game💀
Yeooo gamers!
It turns out at the beginning of the Jellyfishing Competition, the game does indeed tell you to catch “game total” 100 Jellyfish
Sorry about that!
It's also in the To-Do List you can check afterwards at any time.
And the game has a perfectly good reason for making the hud display that worlds total, it's useful for the Dubloon and Jellyfish objectives that most worlds have, which DO require them to be caught in that world specifically.
Literally nobody brought this up as an issue(The PS2 save bug was way more discussed) until Lambhoot and then suddenly it's a big deal despite him being incorrect about the game telling you
Skill issue.
Yeah, but that message is only onscreen for a couple seconds.
@@andykishore how long do you need to read 2 words?
@@OmegaChase1002 15-20 seconds. Also, don't you see that E for everyone rating on the game's box art? This is a kid's game and younger kids don't always have the fastest of reading skills.
The design of most areas is based on what they had in S1.
Jellyfish Fields was depicted with parks and rivers and playgrounds in Karate Choppers, and hills and cliffs in Jellyfishing. They went with that.
Goo Lagoon is described as a 'stinky mudpuddle for you and me' so they made the whole place kinda gross and foreboding.
Downtown is based on the creepy nightscenes in Hall Monitor and one or two shots from Pizza Delivery, hence the dark streets and Neon.
Larry is a jerk because his first two appearences(MuscleBob and Ripped Pants) potrayed him as one.
Bus Stops are the main form of transport because of their role in Rock Bottom.
The Flying Dutchman is far more evil and foreboding in his first couple of roles (Scaredy Pants, Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost, Shanghaied) so they went with that.
Mr. Krabs was still somewhat tame so shutting down the resturant kinda fits.
That's also why they used OCs. They didn't really have a 'old sea captain' character with Krabs out of the picture, nor did they have a Jellyfishing expert since Kevin didn't exist yet, so (since Jellyfishing is a form of fishing) they invented Rusty Scupper, the old grizzled jelly fisherman to fill the role.
It's odd how brandslam didn't point this out, or even acknowledge that fact. Most of the complaints about the game stem from the characterizations and worldbuilding made after the games' release.
@@TanakaMoon I guess not that many people guesses that. Makes sense, this game came out 3 years after Spongebob started so it’s likely that people think that season 2 was the inspiration for a lot of this game.
Downtown in this game has always reminded me of Hall Monitor. And it’s weird to complain about the Liberty the game developers took with Jellyfish fields when Battle for Bikini Bottom did the exact same thing. Every game featuring that location has platforming because lol SpongeBob games are platformers. That’s just how it works. As for the Reef Blower, I always just assumed that SpongeBob is saying he’s never used the model of reef blower. It is a very different look than the one in the episode.
there is no downtown map, it's the freaking business district
@@wrmsnicket There are actually already two distinct models in the show. The one in Ripped Pants and one of the newer episodes is the gigantic one, while the one in Squidville and a couple of S6 and S7 episodes is like a small backpack. The one in the game is almost like a hybrid of the two.
There's also the Coral Blower from SuperSponge
funny thing, when you brought the fact the developers didn't use invisible walls but made the walls of the game world feel like they were part of the world, it reminded me of how when they first started making the show they wanted to add a lot of detail and things to the background.
As a kid, I also thought this game was better than battle for bikini bottom. I finally got around to playing it again for the first time in years and I was sad to see there was 0 bonus for 100% completion. No ending bonus, dialogue, or even a message on screen at all. It was so weird to me since the pause menu has the check list and each collectable had their own % completion for each world.
You know, I played this game the first time in 2007. When I was a kid. And then played it again in 2011. And I’m gonna be honest with you, this game is really good. Despite its terrible reputation, I think this game is part of my childhood nostalgia. I even played this along with battle for bikini bottom. I gonna say this is one of the best underrated games in SpongeBob history.
I had the opposite feeling with this one. Loved it as a kid, and have very very vivid memories of playing it. Only to boot it up, and sort of struggle with the whole thing. I will say though: the pizza delivery bit I remember being crazy hard, but doing it as an adult was the most *trivial* thing LOL. I must have been so bad as a kid!
You're actually right about that.
@@qrowing Krabby Patty delivery bit. Not Pizza delivery.
Same here as a kid I always thought it was such a hard game but back during the pandemic I got a ps2 emulator on my pc and I remember I couldn’t beat SpongeBob the movie , the revenge of the Flying Dutchman, and battle of bikini bottom. After decades of thinking it was impossible to beat I finally went back to Flying Dutchman and battle of bikini bottom and finally beaten them as an adult and wow it was a lot easier then I thought lol😂😂😂😂
@@ErzaScarlet4300 see, it doesn't really matter for how terrible the game is, all that matters is that this game is really great. even for spongebob video game standards. heck, even watchmojo ranked the revenge of the flying dutchman as the best spongebob game ever.
Bruuuuh I always vaguely remembered playing a 3D Spongebob game on the 6th generation where I was dowsing for treasure in front of Spongebob's pineapple, and I thought it was some weird altered memory of me playing BFBB. I definitely never owned this game as a kid, so I must have rented it from Blockbuster and never heard of the title at all until watching this video on a whim. Thank you for explaining this weird memory I've always had.
31:39 could easily be explained by saying that he'd never used _that specific model_ before. It looks more advanced than the one he already has, so it probably has a different layout and different controls. It's an upgrade from the previous model.
This game holds a special place in my heart. It will forever be an all-time favorite for me. This was the first SpongeBob game I played on the playstation 2. I've beat the game numerous times, and would beat it again.
I also have fond memories of this game, and preferred it to Battle for Bikini Bottom. Sure, it's janky and the jelly fishing competition is annoying af, but every time I hear that music, I immediately get nostalgic.
I remember when I was very young I had this game on the ps2. I didn't have a memory card so I could never beat it as a child, the furthest I ever got was chum world. A few years ago I bought a gamecube just to play this game again and relive the nostalgia and honestly it still gives me the same feeling as when i was young. the game definetly has it's glaring problems but it's just fun, its one of the few games that i can pick up and just not want to put it down. Plus the square pants theme from this game is an absolute banger of a song. One part I always got stuck on was trying to find sandy in downtown bikini bottom, ive probably spent hours in that location just from looking for her not realising she didn't show up until later in the game. Anyway nice video man it's always great seeing a good video about a niche topic that not many people are also interested in.
My sister and I played this game a ton back in the mid to late 2000s. This thing, along with GTA: Vice City, Simpson's Hit & Run, Tiger Woods PGA 2007, THUG 2, and the Sims defined our childhoods.
I remember liking this game as a kid, but my PS2 copy stopped working after I beat it, so it's left in my nostalgic memories. As I got older, I was realy surprised to find out how many people hate it. Your fair analysis is much appreciated!
You should try to find a copy
My brother and I got stuck in the treasure hunter costume in Jellyfish fields while looking for Jellyfish. Kind of a pain that I learn over a decade later that we didn't need to be catching jellyfish THERE to progress. Makes me kinda wanna go back and finish the game, but I think it's better to just leave well enough alone.
To explain the reefblower part, i think the idea is that SpongeBob is just pretending to not know how to use a reefblower as an excuse.
I'm still in the middle of watching this video and I think your timestamp covers this later but I'll say it anyways. This was my favorite Spongebob game back in the day, it's janky but it represents very old Spongebob like it was made when only season 1 and maybe 2 aired. But this game's development has such an extremely sad history, another person made a documentary with interviews. The development studio, BigSky, weren't getting paid by the publisher on time and were being forced with unrealistic timelines, to the point where they put in a game-breaking bug by mistake, many kids had it including myself, fan reviews at the time mentioned it often. The gamebreaking bug is that if you played it with an old PS2 ("fat") model it couldn't load different zones properly, I think you needed a slim model or a different console to play it no problem. So basically trying to go to anywhere other than Bikini Bottom caused the game to freeze, completely unacceptable for a PS2 product it wasn't the NES days where you could just make un-finishable games. This caused such a headache for retailers, to the point where so many angry mothers complaining that they would just give you a new game for free if you traded it in lol. But to finish the sad development story BigSky got a lot of flack for that bug, to the point where they were blacklisted from getting any other IPs to make games from and going bankrupt soon after. Seriously check out that documentary if you haven't it's so sad to see the other side of the game. 58:30 Ah good you watched that documentary. I think you grew up with this game on the Gamecube so you had no problems, it was horrible growing up with this and only having a PS2, I had to revisit it years later. Great retrospective!
I remember having that big and being so frustrated with it 😂 eventually after trying again and again, it didn’t freeze and I was able to go to the next area tho
@@gandalfbaggins8859 I feel sorry for the people without memory cards back then. Especially when this was before autosave was common in ps2 game.
Until recently I had no clue the PS2 was so riddled, I grew up with the GC copy so didn't know that poor PS2 players had to deal with that 😭
Man what a nice and cozy video.
I remember playing this game when i was a kid but could never beat it because there was also the language barrier as a spanish speaker and never knew what to do, but this review of the entire game made me happy, specially when covering the plot, it was pretty nice. Despite the bugs and some other flaws the game does feel like it stands by the spirit of first years of spongebob.
Some of the best times as a kid were playing this game after school.. good stuff and great analysis!
29:48 It says it's the game total in the to do list.
Also, Doubloons and Jellyfish are counted seperatedly in each world for the Doubloon and Jellyfishing tiles in each of them, while Sand Dollars can only be found in Goo Lagoon(plus earned in one mission in Downtown) and you really just need the fixed amount to trigger two in-game events.
not to mention it tells you right after you’re done talking to rusty
I love your review of this game and you're so chill and speak like a normal dude. Please review Battle for Bikini Bottom in the same style.
I got your channel recommended to me and you got a new subscriber instantly. You are such a chill charismatic funny person. Plus i loved this game growing up. I'm a proud 25-year-old who still plays this game for nostalgia sometimes haha.
Thanks for the awesome content dude. Cannot wait to see more from you.
"When you're a kid do you know what an Albatros is?"
Kids who played sonic riders: *yes*
I LOVED this game as a kid. So much charm, I actually love all the loose ends to it, adds to the charm.
I also don't think it was that unpopular among fans at all. It won Kids Choice Awards in 2003
I also actually still do think its kind of a creepy game. There's definately an eeriness to it, particuarly the treasure hunting treasures. I also think it lends to the uncanny valley at times unintentionally which also makes it more creepy
The treasure hunting sections were such a shift in vibe from how the levels felt when first playing through them that they started to feel ominous and empty the second they began. Especially since the npcs seemed to vanish once the treasure hunting began.
My MAN, thank you for talking about this game! I grew up with this one (missing out on the other "good" ones) and hearing you talk about it fills me with so much nostalgia... And fear of the game haha 🤣
This was one of 3 games I had growing up and I loved it so much. Despite the bugs and my amazing ability to get lost no matter where I am, I really loved it and felt accomplished when I finally beat it. This game deserves a remake/remaster
This video gave me much joy you are a super star brother. Thank you for making me remember all the good times and the bad times in this game
This was a joy to watch! I’m so glad to see other people making videos on this game, purely just because it was a part of their childhood. It also awesome to see that this video was inspired by the same video that inspired my own video on this game 😂. Props to you, my dude. This was awesome!
this is my FAVORITE childhood game! the creepy ass french narrators voice is so nostalgic to me. it reminds me of rainy days watching my older brother try to play this game so i can watch :-)
With you all the way on the Jellyfish total design problem. That's just extremely confusing that there's only one element that doesn't carry over from level to level, especially when collecting for 100% doesn't net you anything.
The animation looks awkward and in "pieces" is because models back then were designed to be either open meshes (where you control each body part of the model individually and the rig, or skeleton of the limbs are typically not actually 'attached'), or closed meshes (where the models limbs are attached and moving parts of the mesh will effect other nearby parts). Hope this helps anyone who is curious!
Comment for engagement-- Such a long, well-made video deserves more recognition.
thank you for covering this game! played a ton as a kid, and I also loved the faithfulness to the earliest episodes of the show.
about the jellyfish: if I remember correctly (it's been many years), the colour determines their behaviour.
pink has a fixed pattern of swimming, blue runs away, red chases, green floats up, and yellow has a more-random pattern.
I absolutely love this game, this was the first ever video game I played when I was 4 back in 2002
This was the second game I ever bought, was worth every $6 sad that people dont give it much attention
Honesty this is a Classic despite its reception, only 3 issues i found w this game:
1. No Autosave Feature
2. Really Annoying Music
3. 4 some reason the PS2 version constantly freezes on Loading Screens
However heres my advice:
1. Always remember 2 save b4 shutting off
(I have a Note 📝 Written in my Game Case)
2. Mute the Music in the Pause Menu
3. Avoid the PS2 version completely
Done! ✅
i played this game with my mom as a kid and it scared the absolute shit out of me. watching this video, seeing the the game and hearing all the music again brought me right back to that feeling of dread and uneasiness that i felt around 20 years ago. the vibes of this game are atrocious and off-putting even now
I played Revenge of the Flying Dutchman so much as a kid! I’m having serious nostalgia.
I played that game as a kid too! I had so much fun on that game
Fun video, I love people just explaining their childhood experiences with games
This game is so strange and bizarre. I love it. I'm that weird guy that prefers it to BFBB. There's just something about it that keeps me coming back to replay it at least once a year.
I couldn't pass downtown as a kid because I didn't know what an albatross was. Had to cave in and look it up.
Using the word "albatross" and making it mandatory to progression in a game for young kids was an... interesting design decision.
Encouraging children to ask for help when encountering an unknown word is a good decision to me
I didn't either, but I knew what a Seashell was and what a Storm was so that kind of narrowed it down
One of my favorite games as a Kid was SpongeBob SquarePants The Movie Game, the one made for the original. It was my favorite one, I even preferred it over BFBB. I remember it so vividly, it was one of the first games I ever 100%
The one annoying thing that I hate in this and in some old games is there’s only a few soundtracks that repeat over and over again.
I don’t dare what anyone says this game was an integral part of my childhood living in the early 2000s. I adore it and its repetitive OST.
Narrator: The treasures only make you mostly immune to the Dutchman's magic.
SpongeBob: Once again, something that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY!
Dude how do you only have a few hundred subscribers? This was gold!
The Jellyfish do act differently based on color. Pink flies in a set path, Green sits there and will float up when approached while not sneaking, Yellow and Red both sit still until you get close enough then they go straight for you. Yellow is slower than Red I think, or Red deals more damage. Blue flies away when approached
I remember beating this on the gameboy advance, man it’s crazy thinking about how long ago that was
I remembered owning this game when it come out and playing it thinking, “meh, it’s okay. Not great but it’s ok I guess.”
But then couple years later Battle for Bikini Bottom came out and I was like “DAMN! This is what a SpongeBob game is supposed to be! This game is freaking awesome!”
good video, i subscribed. you’re up next bruhbruh keep grinding 💯
hopefully this gets a remaster.. we can only pray!
I played the entire game in 5 hours without saving yesterday, and honestly... it's not as bad as people say it is. Now, of course, I grew up with it, so I'm a lot more softer to it than most would be. It's definitely an uncanny valley kinda game from the models to the atmosphere. It's not a horror game, yet I always got weird vibes when playing it even when I was younger. Whether it be all of SpongeBob's friends disappearing or Downtown Bikini Bottom and Chum World giving off lonely vibes. The lack of level music definitely adds to that feeling. This is a game asking for an iceberg lol. It's like "Wet Dry World negative emotional aura" if it were an entire game. Despite all this lambasting, I still enjoy it, though it's definitely a lesser game compared to the other SpongeBob games released that generation. Collecting Jellyfish was definitely a wakeup-call realizing you have to accumulate the Jellyfish you catch period if you want the Reef Blower and Larry's Goo Lagoon ticket.
26:02 If you look in the background of the cutscene where Squidward gets taken, you can see the jellyfish with the ticket. So there is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it showing of what you need to do.
This game and bratz rock angelz ruled my childhood
Great video! Pretty much reflected my thoughts playing this growing up.
thank you for the amazing video man! love your content and can’t wait to see more. for me, I played the hell out of BFBB, and also had this game as well, but it crashed EVERYTIME I played it, so it was nice to see the game played to completion 🤣
It's so interesting how the Nickelodeon videos blow up, right? Great video dude! Thanks for referencing me haha.
I remember being a kid and playing this after playing Battle For Bikini Bottom and being deeply confused.
Seeing this (and other games from my childhood). Never fails to make me feel old but smile
So many reasons why rotfd is a great game:
-cinematic
-narrative
-immersive level transitions
-charming narrator
-not overstimulating
-smooth music
-funny dialogue and characters
-the characters are consistent to the early show
-atmospheric
-all very creative
-great soundbits and SFX
SPOILER ALERT:
The booty trope
Canon transport
Many shipwrecks
No running on the beach
The lighthouse
The jellies
Patrick eating a letter tile
The list goes on and on...
THQ needs to remaster Spongebob Squarepants Revenge OF The Flying Dutchman for The PS4
They need to not.
@@theproboscisarchive6812. Yes they do. THQ is remastering all of the old nickelodeon games. This game Revenge OF The Flying Dutchman is going to be remastered soon as well too
@@Golagawolgrag haven’t heard anything about them remastering this one, but doing so would make no sense, since this game was never mastered to begin with. I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would want this terrible game to be remastered.
@@theproboscisarchive6812 maybe to make it actually good
I second this.
Remakes of good games are usually gonna be fine, especially when their for much older games that could use some polishing up.
But remaking bad games is even better, since it gives the game a chance to shine. Fixing what was wrong or bad with the game to make it into something good.
I grew up playing this game’s GN advanced version which is obviously way different but I liked it
I had to learn how to speed run this game cause it was one of the Gamecube games I had before I got a memory card which is probably why I remembered as much as I I did from watching this video, a lot of this game is still embedded in my brain than I thought.
That intro music gave me so much nostalgia! I played globs of doom religiously as a kid with only like 3 games for their ps2!
Great content man, earned a sub.
I played the Gameboy Advance version as a kid; a very simple and enjoyable 2D platformer. The game encouraged multiple playthroughs by having multiple endings. Loved that game to pieces.
People's favroite 3d platform games are mario 64, mario galaxy, battle for bikini bottom, and the movie
mine is sunshine and revenge of the flying dutchman. Both being called unpolish and unfinish but they both are special for being different from the others.
I love this game so much, so nostalgic for me even if it's not the best of games, I still have lots of fun with this game!
25:28 dude she lifted an anchor in an episode. I’m sure she can move a bed
Your framed SpongeBob popsicle is so cool 😯
This was the last SpongeBob game I got on GC (I got it after all the others growing up lol)
That’s also a channel sub; great video and I feel like I’ll be able to brag about being 300 at some point 👍
I loved playing this game as a kid, I played it a bunch and HATED the mini golf section
Make more content like this! You have a great voice and cadence for commentary!
its funny to me that this game is seen as forgotten because it was the Only spongebob game i knew about up until about 3 years ago
How do you only have 900 subs your stuff is quality!
back in my childhood, I loved this game. As a 6years old I used to play this all the time. though, at some point I did not understood what to do and just restarted the game over and over again. After years and now being 22 I played it again and I found it really boring. Even with my nostalgia I could not bring myself to play it past that city area. RIP my childhood memories of this game
12:21 The episode Patty Hype and other episodes from seasons 1-3 establish the Krusty Krab as this super unsuccessful business where there's like 6 people in the restaurant max, compared to now where Bikini Bottom can't like without it.
its so weird to know I took part in this game but not the knowing this version of the game existing. I grew up with the gameboy version and loved it as a kid
I remember those deliveries being impossible to find the destination.
Oh shit I j watched the video more lol
There are multiple models of Reef Blower, even in the show.
There's the original Jumbo one from the titular episode that's shown up a couple times in modern seasons as a callback, but there's also the 'newer model' that they get for the first time in Squidville and then shows up on and off again until S8. SuperSponge has a 'Coral Blower'.
Maybe Spongebob has never made the specific model Rusty had? It's smaller then the OG, but has a huge pump assembly on the back missing from the Squidville model.
My nostalgic SpongeBob game was the SpongeBob movie game. Awesome to see someone who loved an entirely different childhood spongebob game lol.
So, imma be honest. I had gaslit myseld into thinkint this game WAS battle for bikini bottom, thought the tents and such were a fever dream....but im so glas im not.
This game was fun, even if a bit janky, this and nicktoons unite where so underrated tbh
Bro I used to play a SpongeBob game when I was little bit I can’t remember it you had to like collect stuff and go in caves. I don’t think it was 3D. I honestly can’t remember. Got any ideas of what it could be?
I actually had revenge if the flying Dutchman. It was fun and I would love to have it remastered
this video was extremely well made
Even the thumbnail made me sad. The game and the devs deserved so much better
To be fair about the Reef Blower, it is a different model than the one in Reef Blower, so it may work differently than that one.
Watching this in October, so it's a Halloween Spectacular to me
During Shift’s subathon last year, chat was able to beat the deliveries after like a solid whole day
I really like this video! good job!
I read the title and immediately thought “left behind for multiple reasons”
6:47 help,too funny
I loved playing this game when I was little, still have it all!
Brother, that's one of the top 3 favorite shirts I've ever seen
i find it hilarious that i bought Lights camera pants, the movie game, bfbb, and rotfd same day, yet Rotfd is the first i played of the bunch, and was honestly not disappointed. I still play it sometimes on my new ps2 slim i got thrit shopping
"oh man time to sleep, better find something interesting to listen to while I doze off"
*Puts on a one hour video essay about a SpongeBob SquarePants video game*
In the first seasons of SpongeBob there were times where the Krusty Krab was slow, sometimes almost to the point of closing down. As the show went on it became always popular. So it being slow in this game considering it was so early in the life of the show, I can find completely believable
Those thug fish in downtown Bikini Bottom really creep me out.
"being a level makes it so you interact with it more than a regular hub world"
Essentially the Spyro hub worlds
This was the game your mom would get you for Christmas if she couldn't find the popular spongebob games
i think spongebob means he hasn't used that particular model of reefblower before, meaning it was more powerful than he expected
Everybody has a childhood game that they remember being so good and fun but upon returning discover how horrible it is
I’m honored Flying Dutchman is that game💀
I just played this all the way through for the first time and i had fun. Not much fun though