This game was also the first to have multiplayer mini-games (referred to in the game as “auditions”), though they could be played solo or with friends. The Battle for Bikini Bottom rages on.SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! released in October 2005 and received mixed to favorable reviews from critics and fans. For now, SHIFT has his eyes on hitting a sub 1:20, 100 percent run. Will THQ do their due diligence and seal off some of the gaping programming oversights that people like Conker and SHIFT are taking advantage of? Or will they instead recognize that the speed community is one of the spare reasons that there was enough interest for a Bikini Bottom remake in the first place? That will be decided next year. It makes you wonder what will happen after Rehydrated is released. After that you mash the pause and select button to bring up the menu which can come out every frame to lag the game and clip you through any floor." Using cruise boosting we can fall from a high platform and it will store our downward momentum. "This game has an insane amount of glitches, skips, sequence breaks, and broken mechanics you can use to beat it as fast as possible," adds Conker. This is a licensed game based on a children's cartoon, and those tend to have a lot of bugs. Of course, the final ingredient is something more natural to Battle for Bikini Bottom's DNA. "I believe that helps explain why the game has gained so much traction competitively in recent years." "A good speedrun needs both initial shock factor to interest viewers, and impressiveness of execution to keep people interested in watching the same run again and again," says SHIFT. The first half, he says, plays like a 3D Zelda run, where you organize extremely precise, Rube Goldberg-like levitation glitches, money generation scams, and damage-boosting cheese that can "skip entire levels." But the back-half is an exacting test of platforming ability, filled with the sort of acrobatic fireworks that get people hooked on speedruns after watching their first 120-star Mario run. To him, a SpongeBob speedrun is divided into two distinct parts. SHIFT takes that comparison even further. This game is regarded as one of the harder speedruns at the top level and it definitely shows." "There is little to no downtime throughout the entire speedrun which games like Super Mario Sunshine struggle with.
"The amount of control you have over SpongeBob is insane and super fun," he continues. He tells me that one of the reasons he's fallen for Bikini Bottom is because it plays like "Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time combined." Another runner, a 17-year old from California who goes by Conker, currently sits in 5th place on the 100 percent format. The one thing I've learned about Spongebob speedrunning is that it's a surprisingly compelling bracket packed with enough nuance to seduce any aspiring speed player. He's probably onto something there, but personally, it feels more like the latest manifestation of memetic primordial soup-how any joke, if told long enough and seriously enough, can beget life.īut I'd like to think that even if THQ wasn't readying a remake, the Bikini Bottom diehards would still be here, shaving away at the world record pace. SHIFT tells me that for a period on Twitch, top streamers would list their channels under the Bikini Bottom name as they were delving into some other obscure game.
Nobody has a good answer for why it happened. Even in an age of remakes, Bikini Bottom's renaissance is a spectacular outlier. The ocean's tender seaweed fields sway in glistening 4K, and you can stare into each and every pore on Squidward's nose. The company showed off footage at Gamescom. At 2017's Awesome Games Done Quick, SHIFT's SquarePants run topped 108,000 viewers.Įarlier this year, THQ Nordic announced it will publish a remake entitled SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom-Rehydrated.
A yellow, spongey snowball was now rolling downhill. Today SHIFT streams the game constantly on his Twitch channel, and says that initially, his efforts caused a stir in the greater speedrunning community: "People were curious to know why anyone would play a SpongeBob game seriously, and the attention that brought helped build my channel up to eventually become partnered with Twitch and get the game into Awesome Games Done Quick 2017," he explains.
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