Originally released 17 years ago, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom ? Rehydrated is a remaster of the classic 2003 licensed platformer, accurate to a fault. Perhaps ?remaster? is an unfair term. Watching comparison videos, it?s clear that Rehydrated is a remake, with new character models, animations, and environments that better capture the spirit of the beloved TV show?but while many things were remade and improved, still more elements on the gameplay side were left the same, creating a pretty looking, yet dated adventure into a nostalgia-inducing cartoon franchise.
Based on the early years of the show (SpongeBob first started airing in 1999), the jokes and references mostly call back to the classic humor of the series, though many of those jokes have also become long-running bits over the last 21 years, so not much is lost to the annals of time. Elements like SpongeBob getting his driver?s license (or trying to), drying up in Sandy?s dome, and the ol? classic Rock Bottom sketch all get nods here, among many others. With the new animations, much of the humor and personality is recreated more accurately than the dated engine of the 2003 original could muster, so the game overall looks and feels a lot more like the cartoon, even if there?s still that uncanny valley divide when making a 2D show into a 3D game.
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