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. A staunch commitment to quality infected every arena in the SpongeBob multiverse, but it's still pretty impressive that the sense of duty turned out a decent game.
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Yes, it follows the generic licensed game blueprint, but the charm, heart, and humor of the original series somehow didn't atrophy away in the process. Unlike, say, Superman 64, or Rugrats: Search for Reptar, or *shudder* Shrek Smash 'n Crash, SpongeBob's sojourn is actually kinda good. But Battle for Bikini Bottom was different.
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It was, and still is, one of those hastily programmed licensed products from the early 2000s-emblematic of a time when comic book publishers, movie houses, and television studios raced to get their mascots plugged into floaty console platformers as quickly as possible. SHIFT, like most people who are rediscovering Battle for Bikini Bottom, first played the game during his elementary years. "Essentially, speedrunning Battle for Bikini Bottom is much like playing God." SpongeBob can also levitate infinitely, float at a set height and fall anywhere out of bounds if the player has deactivated kill triggers with glitches," says SHIFT, the 22-year old New Jerseyite who currently holds the world record in every SpongeBob speed category under the sun. "The game's engine supports speeds up to millions of units per second if the player can find a way to execute them, along with the ability to clip through any wall and floor at certain speeds and lag levels. Cruise Boosting hints at why it's popular: it turns out that Bikini Bottom is a vibrant playground for wild speedrunning tricks.Įssentially, speedrunning Battle for Bikini Bottom is much like playing God SHiFT Inexplicably, a lot of people want to speedrun Battle for Bikini Bottom, a 2003 3D platformer.
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