Battle for Bikini Bottom (home console)

Template:VG SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a video game based on the television show SpongeBob SquarePants. The game has been released for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox consoles (the Xbox version is backwards compatible for the Xbox 360 console). The player attempts to defend Bikini Bottom from an invasion of robots created by Plankton with a machine called the Duplicatotron 3000. The playable characters are SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy. The Windows version features a series of minigames and differs from the console versions.

Gameplay

Players control SpongeBob, Sandy the squirrel and Patrick Starfish through a number of locations such as the Jelly Fish Fields, and can switch between characters at bus stops throughout the game. Core gameplay involves collecting items and defeating the robots which have attacked Bikini Bottom, whilst crossing platforms and avoiding environmental hazards like spikes and flames. A number of mini-games are also accessible throughout the game.

Three types of item can be collected. Shiny objects are the game's currency, and can be used to pay tolls within game areas or to buy golden spatulas. Golden spatulas are used to grant access to new areas, they are hidden throughout the game and can also be earned by completing tasks set by Squidward and several other characters from the cartoon. These tasks can involve defeating particular robots or searching for items. The other collectible item type, smelly socks, can be traded for golden spatulas.

Though some areas can be navigated by any character, several sections can only be completed with a specific character, due to each one having a unique abilities. SpongeBob can create a bubble helmet for head-butting enemies, launch a bubble-blowing spin attack and double jump to reach higher platforms. Patrick can throw objects at switches, freeze goo rivers and attack enemies with a belly flop. Sandy can glide over distances and wields a lasso, with which she can tie up enemies or swing on hooks to reach distant areas.

Plot

Plankton creates an army of robots but forgets to switch the Duplicatron's "Obey" switch.

This game is also the introduction to a new character, Prawn. In addition to the several regular robots that litter the levels, SpongeBob and friends will defeat four boss robots along the way: Robo-Sandy, Robo-Patrick, Robo-SpongeBob, and Robo-Plankton. Along the way, they will tangle with three semi-bosses who each has 3 lives: King Jellyfish, Prawn, and the Flying Dutchman.

Levels

• Bikini Bottom (3 parts)
• Jellyfish Fields
• Downtown Bikini Bottom
• Goo Lagoon
• Posiedome
• Rock Bottom
• Mermalair
• Sand Mountain
• Industrial Park
• Kelp Forest
• Flying Dutchman's Graveyard
• SpongeBob's Dream
• Chum Bucket Lab

Note: Robot attacks is seen in Posiedome, Industrial Park, and Chum Bucket Lab.

Other ways to get golden spatulas

• The robots stole Patrick's socks and, if SpongeBob returns 10 of them, he could get a golden spatula.
• Mr. Krabs agreed that if SpongeBob gives him enough shiny objects, he would trade it for a golden spatula.

List of Characters

Playable

• SpongeBob SquarePants (voiced by Tom Kenny)
• Patrick Star (voiced by Bill Fagerbakke)
• Sandy Cheeks (voiced by Carolyn Lawrence)

Bosses

• King Jellyfish
• Robo-Sandy is the first robot boss in the game. Her main attacks are a karate chop, a large jump (which for some reason stuns itself), and a clothesline move(the move can be avoided by jumping through or over the springs).
• Prawn (voiced by Doug Lawrence)
• Robo-Patrick is the second robot boss in the game. His main attacks are spitting moves, frezze breath, ice cream slams, and a spinning move(that leaves the robot vulnerable by making him).
• Flying Dutchman (voiced by Brian Doyle Murray)
• Robo-SpongeBob is the third robot boss in the game. His main attacks are a large arm swing, karate slams(that flip the platform you're on), and a KA-RA-TE three part sweeping attack. According to Robo-Plankton, they were supposed to be married.
• Robo-Plankton (voiced by Doug Lawrence) is the final boss of the game. His main attack is a ray beam. According to himself, the robots have always been obeying him through the entire game.

In the concept art, you can see that a Robo-Squidward was originally planned to be in the game, possibly as a secret boss. This was scrapped before the game's release. But in the Game Boy Advance version, a Robo Squidward is present.

Also in the GBA version, King Jellyfish, Prawn, the Flying Dutchman, and Robo-Plankton are not present. Robo-Squidward is the penultimate boss, and Robo-SpongeBob is the last boss.

Episode Refrences

• This game makes a lot of references to its show:

• In the episode Neptune's Spatula, there is a golden spatula in a museum exhibit, which SpongeBob pulls out with ease. In the game, there many golden spatulas in levels, which SpongeBob and friends earn by completing certain tasks. The golden spatulas serve as keys to unlock levels depending how many spatulas the player needs. Plus, the stadium where King Neptune and SpongeBob had a cook-off is also where SpongeBob and Patrick fight Robo-Sandy.
• In the Treedome section of the game, the player can clearly see that SpongeBob is dehydrated due to him being a sea creature. This also happened in Tea at the Treedome and Squirrel Jokes.
• The level 'The Mermalair,' is based on the episode Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III. The mini-boss battle is also a reference to the episode, in which Prawn was released and imprisoned in a simular experience that Man Ray had.

• The Mermalair is located under the Shady Soals Rest Home, a reference to the episode Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II.

• In the episode Pre-Hibernation Week, SpongeBob and Sandy go to the industrial park, in which SpongeBob melted after taking the course. In the game, the industrial park is where SpongeBob and Sandy go to fight Robo-Patrick.
• In the episode Club SpongeBob, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward were stranded in a kelp forest. In the game, the same kelp forest serves as a level, but the field wasn't completely covered in kelp. Instead there are open spaces in the level where the player can explore.
• In the episode Sleepy Time, SpongeBob traverses around the dream realm to visit some of his friends' dreams. The level 'SpongeBob's Dream' is based on the episode, in which SpongeBob has to enter his friends' dreams in order to get Golden Spatulas and to reach Patrick's Dream.
• On the design of Robo-SpongeBob, Robo-SpongeBob has rocket jets for legs. It's simular to when SpongeBob blasts off in the water when he was picked hall monitor in the episode Hall Monitor. Plus, the first form of Robo-SpongeBob is simular to when SpongeBob puts on his karate gear in various episodes like Karate Choppers, or No Weenies Allowed.
• When Robo-SpongeBob is defeated for the first time, Robo-Plankton will repair him into a form simular to when SpongeBob got Anchor Arms in MuscleBob BuffPants. Also, during the Goo Lagoon scene, the Juice Bar from the same episode is seen.

• As Robo-SpongeBob grows due to Robo-Plankton's repairs, Patrick thinks that he's shrinking. This is a reference to the episodes Suds and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV.

• Rock Bottom is shown, a refrence to the episode Rock Bottom.
• If the player falls into a pithole or goes to a restricted area long enough, a hand will come out and will take the player out of the danger. Simularly, in the episode Suds, when SpongeBob is about to get his treatment, a hand comes out and takes SpongeBob to his treatment.
• Bubble Buddy appears in the game, a reference to the episode Bubble Buddy.

• When SpongeBob encounters Bubble Buddy for the first time, Bubble Buddy says something about "defeating the giant monkey men and saving the 9th dimension." This line is a reference to the episode Big Pink Loser.
• When you defeat the robots in the Rock Bottom Museum, Bubble Buddy said "I think it's time for a victory screetch!" Then, he and SpongeBob does one. This is a referance to The Algae's Always Greener.

• When you return 10 socks to Patrick, he says "Here's your golden backscratcher.", to which SpongeBob replies "Spatula." and Patrick says "I don't speak Italian." This line was used in Wormy.
• When the player goes down a slope while playing as SpongeBob, SpongeBob will go down the slope on his tounge, just like in the Sand Mountain scene in Pre-Hibernation Week.
• In the episode Hooky, SpongeBob gets his pants caught on a fishing hook. In some points of the game, SpongeBob can bungee-jump on the fishing hooks (with his pants caught on them, of course).
• In the episode Ripped Pants, a women forgot to put on sunscreen. In the Goo Lagoon scene, the robots stole people's sunscreen.
• The police station from the episode Life of Crime is seen.
• One of SpongeBob's moves, the Bubble Bowl, is named after the stadium with the same name from Band Geeks.
• In a few points in the game, a mime fish can be seen. This is a reference to the episode The Sponge Who Could Fly, where SpongeBob saves Patrick from a mime fish.

Trivia

• At the intro movie The Krusty Krab becomes a parking lot.

External links

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