Battle for Bikini Bottom: Rehydrated

This is the page about the 2020 video game. For other uses, see Battle for Bikini Bottom (disambiguation).

Template:Unrealeased Videogame Template:VTab Template:Video game SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated is an upcoming 3D platforming video game based on SpongeBob SquarePants. It will be released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam on June 23, 2020.

Rehydrated is a remake of the Heavy Iron Studios version of the original Battle for Bikini Bottom, which was originally released in 2003. The player controls Template:Data:Links, Template:Data:Links, and Template:Data:Links to defend Bikini Bottom from a robot army created by Template:Data:Links. Rehydrated includes all of the original game's content and adds a new multiplayer mode, which will feature content that was cut from the original game.

Rehydrated is being developed by Purple Lamp Studios and published by THQ Nordic. It was officially revealed on June 5, 2019; the first gameplay footage was shown at Gamescom 2019 a month later. Special physical editions were made available for pre-order in October 2019; digital pre-orders became available on April 16, 2020.

Plot

The game will follow the same plot as the original. THQ Nordic's announcement featured the following overview: "Are you ready, kids? The cult classic is back, faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor! Play as SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy and show the evil Plankton that crime pays even less than Template:Data:Links. Want to save Bikini Bottom from lots of rampant robots? Of course, you do! Want to underpants bungee jump? Why wouldn’t you! Want to join forces in a brand new multiplayer mode? The battle is on!"

Cast

All of the following voice roles were performed for the original Battle for Bikini Bottom. The archived recordings of the original lines were reused for Rehydrated.

• Tom Kenny - Template:Data:Links, French narrator, Gary, SpongeBot SteelPants
• Bill Fagerbakke - Patrick Star, Robo-Patrick
• Carolyn Lawrence - Sandy Cheeks, Mermalair Computer
• Doug Lawrence - Plankton, Larry the Lobster, Fish Announcer, Prawn, Robo-Plankton
• Rodger Bumpass - Squidward
• Mary Jo Catlett - Mrs. Puff
• Joe Whyte - Mr. Krabs, Mermaid Man
• Tim Conway - Barnacle Boy
• Brian Doyle-Murray - The Flying Dutchman
• John O'Hurley - King Neptune
• Brad Abrell - Template:Data:Links

Karen Plankton appears throughout the Chum Bucket with no lines. Mr. Krabs and Mermaid Man are the only two characters who are not voiced by their original actors, Clancy Brown and Ernest Borgnine, and are instead both voiced by Joe Whyte. Tim Conway passed away in 2019, making RehydratedTemplate:'s use of his archived recordings his first posthumous role.

Development

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Concept art

There have been online petitions from fans wanting a Battle for Bikini Bottom remake as far back as 2014. According to Gematsu, the game will be "faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor."

THQ Nordic created a Flash-animated teaser trailer to announce the game. In it, SpongeBob wears his helmet from the original Battle for Bikini Bottom and even does the original pose from the box art. The trailer was released alongside a piece of concept artwork, showing shaded artwork of the playable characters: SpongeBob on top of a defeated robot, Patrick eating a throw fruit, and Sandy swinging on her lasso.

Rehydrated will also feature content that was cut from the original iteration of the game, including a cut boss fight with Robo-Squidward. A well-known speedrunner of the original game, known as SHiFT, helped to test the remake and consulted with the developers.

Changes

This list will be incomplete until the game releases.

For level-specific changes, see the level's article.

• The game uses Unreal Engine 4 instead of Renderware.
• The graphics and visuals have been significantly improved. As part of this, many of the tikis and robots have received redesigns and the character models have changed.
  • Purple Lamp Studios noted that the original game's 3D model for SpongeBob was based on his Template:Data:Links design. In this game, SpongeBob appears to be based on his Template:Data:Links design.
  • Other small details have also been added or changed to reference newer episodes since the original game's release.
• Danger areas appear on the ground for projectiles that can hurt the player, including Tar-Tar's shots, Chuck's missiles, and Robo-Patrick's toxic waste.
• Robots' eyes are green when idle, but now turn red when chasing the player, similar to the buckethead enemies' antennas from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
• Character animations are more fluid. Characters move and emote more naturally during conversations, and their mouths fully articulate instead of just flapping up and down.
• The golden spatula collection is replaced by a map which tells on which area you should get the spatula.
• A new sound effect plays when advancing through menus and text boxes.
• Golden Spatulas, Underwear, Patrick's socks, and level-specific items are contained in bubbles instead of simply floating.
• The ESRB rated this game at Everyone 10+. The original game was rated at Everyone because the "Everyone 10+" rating did not exist until 2005, two years after the original game was released.
• The game's box art features SpongeBob in the same pose from the original game's box art, except his left eye is opened and he is not wearing an army helmet.
• If the player uses Sandy's lasso move in mid-air, Sandy will now stay in mid-air for a second.
• The player can now use Patrick's forward belly attack in mid-air.
• The timer is now visible above the character instead of in a box in the upper right.
• When using the cruise bubble, the bubble torpedo is now visible onscreen instead of from first-person perspective.
• Patrick now slides on his back rather than his butt like the original.

Jellyfish Fields

• While Squidward is describing Spork Mountain in the introduction cutscene, in the original the camera pans to the left; in the middle, the camera pans up.
• The giant flowers that can be jumped on are red in the original, but blue in the remake.

Rock Bottom

• There are pink neon lights on the slide.
• All the pictures in the museum are different.

Kelp Forest

• The lighting is slightly brighter than the original.
• The leaves that can be jumped on are green in the original, but orange in the remake.

Trivia

• This will be the first SpongeBob SquarePants video game:
  • to be released through Steam;
  • to be released for the PC since SpongeBob and the Clash of Triton in 2011;
  • where the PC version will be the same as the console versions;
  • to be developed by Purple Lamp Studios and published by THQ Nordic;
  • to be released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One;
  • to use Unreal Engine 4 as the game engine; and to be a remaster or remake of an older SpongeBob game.
• This is the second SpongeBob game to have an ESRB rating of E10+, following Plankton's Robotic Revenge.

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Karen's design

• Karen appears throughout the Chum Bucket. In the original version of the game, her wall form was used. In Rehydrated, her design is a mix of her wall form and mobile form: the monitor is attached to the wall and has a control panel like her wall form, but it also has a stalk under it like her mobile form.

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SpongeBob making the surprised face.

• In the Jellyfish Fields level, when SpongeBob says to Squidward, "Oh my gosh -- you're bald!" he makes his surprised face from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
• The box art uses the 2009-2017 version of the SpongeBob SquarePants logo instead of the version of the logo being used at the time of the game's release.
• On the PS4 and Xbox One covers, the Krusty Krab can be seen in front of the lighthouse, but SpongeBot SteelPants is missing from the background. On the Nintendo Switch cover, SpongeBot SteelPants can be seen in the background while the Krusty Krab is missing from the shot. The PC cover is somewhere in between, so it can fit both the Krusty Krab and SpongeBot SteelPants. This is due to the size of the game cases, as the PS4 and Xbox One cases are wider, the Nintendo Switch case is taller, and the PC case is just about in the middle.

Easter Eggs

Coming Soon.

Videos

• File:SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated - Announcement Teaser
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated - Gameplay Demo Gamescom 2019 HD 1080P
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated - Pre-Hydrated Trailer
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated - Boss Fight Trailer
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated - Languages are F.U.N. Trailer