SpongeBob SuperSponge

SpongeBob Squarepants SuperSponge (SuperSponge) is a 2.5D Platformer released by Climax and was published in 2001 for the Playstation and GameBoy Advance.

It is based off of the TV show SpongeBob Squarepants, who to this day is still running, with a 13th season running.

Story
It is Patrick's birthday and he would really like to have a signature to his favourite superheroes, Mermiad Man and Barnacle Boy, but they request a sandwich before they'll sign it, so SpongeBob must find ingredients for the sandwich.

Gameplay
It is a standard 2D Platformer, but with some 3D character designs and the terrain is also 3D, You use your JellyFishing net to swat JellyFish, it can be thrown out to damage enemies, during the game you can also collect golden spatulas, which are collectibles, but getting hit, your golden spatulas fly out, similar to Sonic.

Even in some levels, you use a "Coral Blower" another form of attack. The game is are divided 5 chapters, each chapter has 4 levels in them.

Chapters
Chapter 1: Bikini Bottom


 * Level 1: JellyFish Fields


 * Level 2: Sandy's TreeDome


 * Level 3: Fish Hooks Park




 * Level 4: Downtown Bikini Bottom

Chapter 2: To The Center of the Earth


 * Level 1: Cavernous Canyons
 * Level 2: Thermal Tunnels
 * Level 3: Acrid Air Pockets
 * Level 4: Lava Fields

Chapter 3: Bikini Bottom Prehistoric Times


 * Level 1: Precipice Canyon
 * Level 2: Desert Wasteland
 * Level 3: Kelpzapoic Jungle
 * Level 4: Inside The Whale

Chapter 4: Rock Bottom


 * Level 1: Road To Rock Bottom


 * Level 2: Lonely Souls
 * Level 3: Graveyard
 * Level 4: Last Stop

Chapter 5: Industrial


 * Level 1: JellyFish Fields (Industrial)
 * Level 2: Man Ray's Lair
 * Level 3: Oil Rig
 * Level 4: Canning Factory

At the end, SpongeBob fixes Mermaid Man's Athena and the day is saved, they all come down to SpongeBob's house and celebrate Patrick's Birthday.

Differences Between Each Version
The Playstation Version is much more cleaner, with the "original" cast joining in the game's production, and of it having better music, whilst the GBA version being much more crusty with the audio, the sprites are small and the voice actors aren't in the game, they are place with text, which is in the PS version as well, in addition of the GBA version, the health is separate from the golden spatulas, this means the GBA version has the spatulas as more of collectibles, not related on health.

Success
The game had a mixed review after launch with gaming sites liking the PS version for, better audio, voice acting, gameplay and much more, while the GBA version is much more bad. There hasn't been to much re-releases of the game, but the GBA version had the most, where the game was featured on multi cart games (or Double packs).The game is backwards compatible on the DS, Lite and other DS models, the Playstation version is playable on the PS2 and PS3, older models of the PS3 only.

Trivia



 * The Game is the first to have voice actors, before the voice actors where on the game, the PS1 version had place holder voices that sounded nothing like the main cast.
 * In the files of the game, there are is a "Sh*t List" that lists the games mechanics and bugs that had to be fixed.
 * There is also a "old bast*rd" file to.
 * There are also lewd drawings of SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy in the files doing s*x.
 * Also in the files it was inspired from "Super Mario World 2, Yoshi's Island" and has files to other consoles, like NES, SNES.
 * The Prototypes where leaked after Climax was shut down.

The game originally had more 3D characters, like Mr. Krabs or Man Ray


 * Clips used in the beginning are, "Pressure" "Band Geeks" and much more.

Fundamental Flaws

 * in the PlayStation version, in the level Lava Fields, it's possible to get out of bounds, if standing on a barrel and trying to get in the wall, if you do this right, you are out of bounds in the stage.


 * You can do something similar to this in Lonely Souls
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SofhmNEqysM is a video where a guy has bugged GBA version.