Altron was basically the Heavy Irons Studios of SpongeBob DS games being a company that usually does licensed games like their Phineas and Ferb game along with the 2nd dimension DS game, but most if not all of their games have been really great.
Ohh that's the game I knew truth or square ds reminded me of something it felt very familiar watching that gameplay even though I didnt play truth or square
9:20 You have no idea how happy I get whenever someone else remembers the Drawn to Life games. The original and the sequel are both really important to me, and I'm so happy that they aren't completely forgotten.
Same, when I saw the notification for this video, all I thought was "Holy Shit Antdude Might Know About Drawn To Life :poggers:". Pog Moment as one says
Did anybody play that new DTL game? I tried it our cause it was cheap, thought it was alright but not nearly as good as the originals or spongeBob version
@@ChampionofShadowsAE I was really hyped when was announced, but I started to get worried once gameplay started being shown. Got it on launch day anyway, and absolutely hated it. I'm still really upset that the first new game in 11 years was basically a barely functional mobile game that was quickly ported to consoles.
@@ChampionofShadowsAE never played it, but saw the steam review and it was rated like 5.5/10 plus it dosnet seem to have the heart of the original, ill get it at some point but not rn
One thing I really appreciate as a fan of Spongebob is how Ant really puts so many lines and gags from the show into his retrospectives, it shows that he really did love the original source material.
Glad to know that as a kid I had the smelly games exclusively. I had Yellow Avenger, Creature from the Krusty Krab. And the gba version of Lights Camera pants. ...What a time to be alive.
I'm amazed Drawn To Life: SpongeBob doesn't end with a reveal that the events of the game were a dying dream by a cancer-stricken 5 year old who loves Nickelodeon and the last thing he sees is SpongeBob waving solemnly in a white void. If you think this sounds out of left field and unprompted, I envy you for not knowing the things I do about Drawn To Life.
Sounds like the concept of the 360 RPG Eternal Sonata which was about Chopan (Sorry if I butchered his name I think it's French) going on a Wizard Of Oz like retrospective on his deathbed.
Yeah the drawn to life ending was dark. Till “two realms” came out. It’s the recent drawn to life game and said JK everyone is A-Ok living in a separate dream world ala kingdom hearts DDD and Wilfre wasted his life. Edit: Except Mikes parents there still dead because it follows up the original ending, but Heather’s face is healed.
What I really liked about Altron's games is the music. Such unforgettable good music and yet so unknown. I especially can't get the "Moon Surface" Music from Drawn to Life out of my head! :)
1:19 To be fair, Warioware games story modes usually only take about an hour or 2 to finish. 5:30 I've never seen a game raise so many red flags in a single sentence. 9:20 A games series suddenly getting a cartoon crossover for the new entry is a really weird thing.
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I KNEW he was gonna hate Creature from the Krusty Krab and The Yellow Avenger. The former I never got that far in as a kid cause of the bad controls. And I rented the latter from Gamefly once and it felt painful.
Man, I have so many memories of playing Atlantis Squarepantis. It was a really fun game. I played it a lot. When I beat the game for the first time and saw that i could play the game again as Squidward, I was so happy.
@@pixelator5312 Yeah, it's essentially new game plus. But I think you don't get access to Squidward until you get to the middle section of the game (you know, the part of the game that doesn't actually happen in the episode).
I had the audacity to sell all my DS and GBA games, but that was the only one that I bought again. And then beat it 100% in like 5 hours. It wasn’t that difficult but DAMN was it my childhood
Man I remember playing the DS version Spongebob Truth or Square a lot back in the day. I'm glad that Antdude confirmed that I wasn't a stupid kid for liking it.
Man, Drawn to Life was my FIRST videogame and I remember being blown away when they had a direct sequel to the original game. Played them both back to back several times. I'm now a game artist. How little I knew back then.
Been watching this Spongebob retrospective journey since the OG BFBB video. And my gosh, I never realized just how many Spongebob games there were...and also how many of them were rough compared to how many good ones there are. But I guess we have Rehydrated, and now Cosmic Shake, to thank for this! What an amazing series of videos (that were filled with references) these turned out to be!
@@IdNoPurpose it sucks cause the dev wanted to do remakes of 1 and 2, but I'm pretty sure the reception to Two Realms killed any chances the series had at coming back.
Such a wonderful SpongeBob game review finale. (Future ones on stuff like Cosmic Shake I'll consider bonus episodes) Though If he does videos on the dedicated Nicktoons games I wonder how long he'll be able to play the last one Globs Of Doom (Which had SpongeBob in the title cause like most of the other shows had ended by then) before running into the save data corruption problem Dafawfulizer mentioned.
DUDE THANK YOU!! Atlantis DS was how I met my current partner... no joke. Beautiful game. I love the way they hugely expand on the story, as an excuse for such crazy bosses
Fun Fact! Not sure if any other versions had this but the Psp version of Truth or Square actually had 3 minigames you could play in the main menu. The first was a bumper cart style game where you drive around trying to catch jellyfish and the person with the most at the end wins. The 2nd was literally just straight up hockey, and as someone who is literally a stick figure and doesn't give a shit about sports, it was actually super damn fun. The 3rd game though, was literally a Worms styled game but with Spongebob characters. I remember spending hours playing that minigame and it was so damn fun.
Playing as Plankton and air striking the shit out of Spongebob was my favorite part of the whole game. I wish they brought this back somehow in a modern game.
I've owned Atlantis Squarepantis and Krusty Cook-Off since I was a kid and loved them and I can say that Atlantis Squarepantis is probably the only spongebob game that is better than it's console counterpart 🤣🤣🤣
Holy crap, I got the Big One Cook Off for my seventh Birthday alongside my DS. It was one of the first video game I ever played, so the weird blocky graphics are insanely nostalgic to me.
I remember getting it out of the Walmart bargain bin at one point and being so happy to have found SpongeBob in the mix. I like cooking mama so (maybe it's rose coloured glasses) I thought it was a good game.
Can I just say it's amazing that a """"next-gen"""" Spongebob game in 2013 on console (i.e. Plankton's Robotic Repetition) can be ported to the 3DS and be the same exact game with no strings attached? It's baffling.
Just from the fact that the 2010's output of Spongebob games were mediocre at best showcased just how much the series had lost most of its charm. Spongebob games from the first game during the early 2000's to the late 2000s showcased just how good the licensed tie ins could be even during its first post movie missteps. In spite of the few road bumps along the way
7:25 Why was Atlantis Squarepantis on the DS so good? It was developed by Altron, a company who was known for co-developing games with licensed properties. Unlike some certain other developers, they actually knew what they were doing and filled the games with so much references and made them feel part of the series they were based on. A good example of this is the Phineas and Ferb trilogy of games, my personal favorites.
16:20 Okay so i'm digging up old memories of the Xbox 360 for this so bear with me here, but I think the context of Plankton robots in Truth or Square was that, since Plankton had Spongebob hooked up to some machine that helps dig through his memories in a scheme to get the Formula from his brain, that a bunch of evil Plankton bots would show up as a way of representing Plankton trying to exploit his memory? Been a while
as soon as he said that i went scrolling down the comments looking for someone saying something about this congratulations you got a bunch of kromer for being the first person i see
Ashame that since they were Shockwave games they can't be played on modern computers easily (The Big Fish Games website last time I checked was somehow still a thing but I A. Haven't checked to see if it's since been taken down, And B only had a few SpongeBob games last time I checked years ago)
You know, it's kinda hard to believe that the DS is weak in 3d platforming, after some pretty good ones you went through. Crash of the Titans DS, TLoS Eternal Night DS, and now Spongebob Atlantis Squarepantis DS and Truth or Square DS.
Thank you so much for making this series - you have no idea how much fun it's been to watch these videos. But Ant I am begging you, please make a video about the Drawn to Life games, I'd love to hear your take on all four (especially the Wii game and maybe even the iOS port)
And so, with another video under his belt, Antdude completed the SpongeBob series with the exception of the worst SpongeBob Kinect game and the other Xbox game. However, little did he know, his fans would expect him to return to play the Nicktoon series of games as well as Nickelodeon's All Star Brawl.
When most of the other people that I used to watch stuff like this moving on to other formats and such, I'm so thankful Ant Dude is still going strong.
I'm sure Ant is proud that he can claim that his legacy on the internet is playing almost all the licensed Spongebob games there are in history. A hell of a legacy to leave behind
There’s a reason for the robots in Truth or Square games Plankton sent micro bots into SpongeBob’s brain to try to get the secret formula out of his memories but they didn’t work so he went in there himself so that’s why he’s helping SpongeBob in the game.
so heres a nifty little bit of trivia, later prints of Drawn To Life 2 changed the ending credits cuz it was so damn saddening.....i never knew this till years later since i had the original version....and that ending has lived in my brain rent free for over a decade
“No, I don’t wanna talk about the ending of the second Drawn to Life game.” Why, Ant? Every kid needs some legit traumatising video game endings, it builds character dangit!
Creature From The Krusty Krab was also on PC as a game called "Nighty Nightmare". It did not exactly follow the same notes as the former, if I recall, but most levels were shared, except in NN, you play from a top-down perspective. If you feel up for it, why not give some of the Downloadable PC games a try? Things like Krabby Quest, Operation Krabby Patty, Battle For Bikini Bottom (this one is not what you think it is.), Truth or Square (also not what you think it is), etc...
Man, watching this video gives me good memories, I had tons of good memories from the Spongebob 3D platformers, Boating Bash, and Cook-Off, thank you for refilling my memories for these good games
This series of videos indeed proves that the idea of adapting one media to another isn't really all that bad of an idea, but is unfortunately seen that way due to its long-term controversial reputation due to there being more blemishes compared to successes. But luckily as people we learn, adapt, and evolve from past mistakes and experiences to be better. And that seems to be a true case with the Spongebob Francise as with not only "Battle for Bikini Bottom", but also the next big console videogame coming out soon as of typing. Also, have a great DAY!!
This awaken a memory. When I was like 11-12 I got kinda into metal detecting. I got one for Christmas. I was metal detecting at a local beach (a lake beach at a state park but a beach) and I found a DS cartridge in the sand. The label was worn off but i put it in my DS and it worked! It was the SpongeBob drawn to life game
I’m so glad Ant covered my childhood game of Spongebob Drawn To Life. A game I never completed or got far into but the amount of time I drew characters and drew stuff was a blast
While there was (probably) no spongebob DS covers or anything like that, the Yellow Avenger game came in a pack with a blue lanyard and a charging cable with two different heads (One fits the DS, one fits the 3DS oddly enough) with spongebob's eyes painted on them....and also an eye on the part you plug the cable into, as well making it look like spongebob's got a 3rd eye we don't know or want to know about. I know this, because I had it and still use the charging cable to this day because it's trusty and can suffer a *lot* of abuse aparently.
23:03 After Ant throws the PRB cases, the audio of this footage starts abruptly muting inbetween sentence pauses. Also, I grew up with both the DtL game and Boating Bash; A bit dissapointed you didn't mention Seymour Scales in the latter, though
I honestly found it depressing. Wanna know why. At this point what I want to have happen to and feel about Sonic can be described by the lyrics to The Living Tombstone's FNAF 3 song Die In A Fire. If ya wanna know why remember what's happened to Sonic over the past few years and listen to the actual song. You'll probably understand where I'm coming from at the end of the experience.
Gosh, I think my favorite part of this retrospective was just those brief glimpses into quality. Like, it’s super interesting to see so many licensed games, expect nothing but the usual shovelware, and then find a few diamonds in the rough. It goes to show some companies will just do this kind of stuff for a quick buck, but the stars will align and a good game miraculously manifests out of a cash grab for any licensed property. Also, Sonic saving Spongebob. That was something I needed in my life- Spongebob having a Sonic OC where the only difference was he could survive without drowning.
Niiiice the SpongeBob finally I'm actually so curious to check out the 3 games you rated the highest. I've always loved the idea of 3d platformers on the ds but I've never played anything outside of Mario 64 DS which I didn't care for because the original is just better, but yeah!
Atlantis Squarepantis for DS surprisingly enough was ALSO my childhood, i loved this game man. I never got that far in it though. Also super interesting to hear that the DS Truth or Square game was super great too. I always played the Wii game, and i’m interested in that though. But surprise surprise it’s finally over! You look super drained, but at least it’s all over now! :p
It’s like my nostalgia for the GBA (which is pretty much the handheld version of another one of my favourite consoles by the same controversial company), SNES.
You should review the Tak trilogy! Amazing 3D platformers on GameCube! Tak and the Power of Juju, Tak 2 the Staff of Dreams and Tak the Great Juju Challenge! Definition of underrated amazing trilogy
Man, this reminds me that I haven't played another Drawn To Life game since the original, those were good times. But nine SpongeBob games on the DS? Dang, they put his face on a lot of games during that time, that porous freak.
Altron was basically the Heavy Irons Studios of SpongeBob DS games being a company that usually does licensed games like their Phineas and Ferb game along with the 2nd dimension DS game, but most if not all of their games have been really great.
Their second Phineas and Ferb game, Ride Again, is my favorite from that series, almost on par with Truth or Square DS
Across the Second Dimension was a classic.
Omg i had noth Atlantis and the phineas and ferb game and always thought they were similar lol
they also did the simpsons road rage on gba which was a really impressive game for the hardware
Ohh that's the game I knew truth or square ds reminded me of something it felt very familiar watching that gameplay even though I didnt play truth or square
I'm just surprised it took that long for a cooking Spongebob game, it's like, his thing
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9:20
You have no idea how happy I get whenever someone else remembers the Drawn to Life games. The original and the sequel are both really important to me, and I'm so happy that they aren't completely forgotten.
Same, when I saw the notification for this video, all I thought was "Holy Shit Antdude Might Know About Drawn To Life :poggers:". Pog Moment as one says
Legit I love these friggin games, so glad people acknowledge them, all we need now is a series retrospective and my life will be complete.
Did anybody play that new DTL game? I tried it our cause it was cheap, thought it was alright but not nearly as good as the originals or spongeBob version
@@ChampionofShadowsAE I was really hyped when was announced, but I started to get worried once gameplay started being shown. Got it on launch day anyway, and absolutely hated it.
I'm still really upset that the first new game in 11 years was basically a barely functional mobile game that was quickly ported to consoles.
@@ChampionofShadowsAE never played it, but saw the steam review and it was rated like 5.5/10 plus it dosnet seem to have the heart of the original, ill get it at some point but not rn
I fucking loved Atlantis Squarepantis on the DS as a kid but completely forgot it existed until this video, thank you
Ayy, me too. I played that game to death as a kid. Still have it to this day actually.
Hell yeah
Oh hi LS Mark you watch Antdude
me too, i forgot completly it existed, this video made me have a lot of flashbacks
I'm so glad I grew up with that game
One thing I really appreciate as a fan of Spongebob is how Ant really puts so many lines and gags from the show into his retrospectives, it shows that he really did love the original source material.
Ikr, i fucking love it
I really appreciate that too!
I went to collge!
That's more effort than the NFL ever gave to Spongebob...
Hopefully Cosmic Shake will show love as well.
Glad to know that as a kid I had the smelly games exclusively.
I had Yellow Avenger, Creature from the Krusty Krab. And the gba version of Lights Camera pants.
...What a time to be alive.
The legend himself
Lol
Oh, hiya Bosh! What a surprise it is to see you in the comments of a video like this.
My sincere apologies that you had those games, too.
You misspelled Breature from the Krust Karb
Me too.
Thank you for putting Sonic underwater, hopefully that is where he will stay.
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@@arcanehornet he’s p good
@@arcanehornet Hello fellow commenter that I also do not know
Sonic Underwater! Sonic Underwater! They made a vow, their mother will be found!
Nah that's not sonic
That's a faker!
I'm amazed Drawn To Life: SpongeBob doesn't end with a reveal that the events of the game were a dying dream by a cancer-stricken 5 year old who loves Nickelodeon and the last thing he sees is SpongeBob waving solemnly in a white void. If you think this sounds out of left field and unprompted, I envy you for not knowing the things I do about Drawn To Life.
We must never let them know...
Tommy Deonauth's Archives and let them live a lie in which the kid fell from a tree?! I refuse to let two games of subtile forshadowing go to waste!
Sounds like the concept of the 360 RPG Eternal Sonata which was about Chopan (Sorry if I butchered his name I think it's French) going on a Wizard Of Oz like retrospective on his deathbed.
Yeah the drawn to life ending was dark. Till “two realms” came out. It’s the recent drawn to life game and said JK everyone is A-Ok living in a separate dream world ala kingdom hearts DDD and Wilfre wasted his life. Edit: Except Mikes parents there still dead because it follows up the original ending, but Heather’s face is healed.
Nobody played 2 Realms so as far as I’m concerned the “everyone fucking dies” ending is still the end of the series
Friendly reminder that SuperSponge has an amazing OST
Most of the DS SpongeBob games have super good soundtracks.
Truth or squares music was Little-Me's jam.
What I really liked about Altron's games is the music. Such unforgettable good music and yet so unknown. I especially can't get the "Moon Surface" Music from Drawn to Life out of my head! :)
Altron also developed the GBA version of Simpsons Road Rage!
The joys of solely relying on a former Data East composer for over 10 years.
i actually use the soundfonts from their games mainly Phineas and Ferb, and the 3 Spongebob ds games
1:19 To be fair, Warioware games story modes usually only take about an hour or 2 to finish.
5:30 I've never seen a game raise so many red flags in a single sentence.
9:20 A games series suddenly getting a cartoon crossover for the new entry is a really weird thing.
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@@JacobMcBaggins Just ignore this spammer and cross your fingers the mass reports makes them dissappear (Update. HOORAY! Only took 2 days but Senpay is gone. AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST!)
@@CeHee123 THANK YOU!
I KNEW he was gonna hate Creature from the Krusty Krab and The Yellow Avenger. The former I never got that far in as a kid cause of the bad controls. And I rented the latter from Gamefly once and it felt painful.
Man, I have so many memories of playing Atlantis Squarepantis. It was a really fun game. I played it a lot. When I beat the game for the first time and saw that i could play the game again as Squidward, I was so happy.
You can WHAT
@@pixelator5312 Yeah, it's essentially new game plus. But I think you don't get access to Squidward until you get to the middle section of the game (you know, the part of the game that doesn't actually happen in the episode).
Mistaaa
I only had two spongebob games, Atlantis squarepantis, and the swipe to move one, you can probably guess which one I liked more
@@jonieljoestarzawarudo8172 There's a mini-game where you can also play as Squidward.
If you’ve played any of these games you’re automatically allowed inside the Salty Spitoon.
All hey
I played the boating bash one I'll run in and slip on an ice cube and get covered in boo boos
@@PaperBanjo64 Boo-boos eh? I think you want THAT hospital.
@@senpay3658 What?
I played both Atlantis Squarepantis and Truth or Square on the both the DSi and 3DS
I grew up playing Truth or Square DS and I still absolutely love it.
I'm so glad you enjoyed Truth or Square DS. That shit was my entire childhood.
Saaaame, I remover adoring the talent show minigame as a kid
Same. It also has great music.
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That one is fun, but I'm a fan of the Krabby patty building game.
Same.
I had the audacity to sell all my DS and GBA games, but that was the only one that I bought again. And then beat it 100% in like 5 hours. It wasn’t that difficult but DAMN was it my childhood
Man I remember playing the DS version Spongebob Truth or Square a lot back in the day.
I'm glad that Antdude confirmed that I wasn't a stupid kid for liking it.
Man, Drawn to Life was my FIRST videogame and I remember being blown away when they had a direct sequel to the original game. Played them both back to back several times.
I'm now a game artist. How little I knew back then.
My first DS game as well.
Been watching this Spongebob retrospective journey since the OG BFBB video. And my gosh, I never realized just how many Spongebob games there were...and also how many of them were rough compared to how many good ones there are.
But I guess we have Rehydrated, and now Cosmic Shake, to thank for this! What an amazing series of videos (that were filled with references) these turned out to be!
We NEED a full video series on the Drawn to Life games. Even the Wii version of 2 and that....THING of a third game.
Don't forget the Switch game that kinda just exists...
@@IdNoPurpose it sucks cause the dev wanted to do remakes of 1 and 2, but I'm pretty sure the reception to Two Realms killed any chances the series had at coming back.
What things of a third game?
“This is my fan fiction, don’t shame me”
Wise words right there
Yes! The inevitable new part to the SpongeBob game series.
Now we wait for that new game coming eventually.
Such a wonderful SpongeBob game review finale. (Future ones on stuff like Cosmic Shake I'll consider bonus episodes) Though If he does videos on the dedicated Nicktoons games I wonder how long he'll be able to play the last one Globs Of Doom (Which had SpongeBob in the title cause like most of the other shows had ended by then) before running into the save data corruption problem Dafawfulizer mentioned.
I love the progression of Ant's descent into insanity throughout the thumbnails of these videos
Yeah.
It’s called “advanced darkness”
I like how Antdude as squidward in the thumbnails gets progressively more and more fed up with all these spongebob games
DUDE THANK YOU!! Atlantis DS was how I met my current partner... no joke. Beautiful game. I love the way they hugely expand on the story, as an excuse for such crazy bosses
Man, I miss Plankton always saying “I went to college!”
Plankton used to say that every other episode he appeared in, but now It's become a rare jewel to hear.
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I remember putting many hours into a lot of these games as a kid specifically Cook Off and the Altron games good times. Great episode Ant!
Fun Fact! Not sure if any other versions had this but the Psp version of Truth or Square actually had 3 minigames you could play in the main menu. The first was a bumper cart style game where you drive around trying to catch jellyfish and the person with the most at the end wins. The 2nd was literally just straight up hockey, and as someone who is literally a stick figure and doesn't give a shit about sports, it was actually super damn fun. The 3rd game though, was literally a Worms styled game but with Spongebob characters. I remember spending hours playing that minigame and it was so damn fun.
Why couldn't those be in the console version? They sound like potential for good multi-player fun.
Playing as Plankton and air striking the shit out of Spongebob was my favorite part of the whole game. I wish they brought this back somehow in a modern game.
I've owned Atlantis Squarepantis and Krusty Cook-Off since I was a kid and loved them and I can say that Atlantis Squarepantis is probably the only spongebob game that is better than it's console counterpart 🤣🤣🤣
The oddball Ds Saga of a Sponge.
Both “big shot” and “the big one” was said in this video, amazing.
He’s really gone off into insanity now
Holy crap, I got the Big One Cook Off for my seventh Birthday alongside my DS. It was one of the first video game I ever played, so the weird blocky graphics are insanely nostalgic to me.
I remember getting it out of the Walmart bargain bin at one point and being so happy to have found SpongeBob in the mix. I like cooking mama so (maybe it's rose coloured glasses) I thought it was a good game.
@@mrtruman4339 I couldn't remember what the game was called but as soon as I saw it I recognized it.
I'm so happy someone actually talked about Drawn to Life SpongeBob!
15:21
"You can still become a big shot"
Haha. Spamton Deltarune. Funny.
I’m so happy to see Drawn to Life getting love. First game to make me cry along with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
It needs to be reviewed.
The end of an era. Looking forward to that Cosmic Shake review though
I really hope that you do a video on the drawn to life series, its so good!
That ending still hurts me to this day!
Can I just say it's amazing that a """"next-gen"""" Spongebob game in 2013 on console (i.e. Plankton's Robotic Repetition) can be ported to the 3DS and be the same exact game with no strings attached? It's baffling.
Just from the fact that the 2010's output of Spongebob games were mediocre at best showcased just how much the series had lost most of its charm.
Spongebob games from the first game during the early 2000's to the late 2000s showcased just how good the licensed tie ins could be even during its first post movie missteps. In spite of the few road bumps along the way
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Couldn't agree more.
@@SolidSpartanX yeah and that makes me wonder with most of the 2010s games: where did the quality control go?
SpongeBob’s had a pretty rough history ever since his jump to… Dual Screens.
Yup... He did it. The joke is tired now.
7:25 Why was Atlantis Squarepantis on the DS so good?
It was developed by Altron, a company who was known for co-developing games with licensed properties. Unlike some certain other developers, they actually knew what they were doing and filled the games with so much references and made them feel part of the series they were based on.
A good example of this is the Phineas and Ferb trilogy of games, my personal favorites.
10:46 The Sonic Colors soundtrack is SO wonderful!
16:20 Okay so i'm digging up old memories of the Xbox 360 for this so bear with me here, but I think the context of Plankton robots in Truth or Square was that, since Plankton had Spongebob hooked up to some machine that helps dig through his memories in a scheme to get the Formula from his brain, that a bunch of evil Plankton bots would show up as a way of representing Plankton trying to exploit his memory? Been a while
Im not shaming you, I'm congratgulating you for doing the same thing that I did, when I first got drawn to life. My childhood in a nutshell
You should definitely talk about Drawn to Life at some point! I loved those games back when I was a teenager!
I am ashamed to say that 15:22 had me laughing on the floor psychotically
KRIS!?!? WAS THAT A [BIG SHOT] JUST NOW!?
4:14 antdude: “the controls are slow and floaty” , maybe because it’s underwater
The Altron trilogy really brought me a lot of nostalgia
As truth or square on the DS was the first DS game I ever received when I was little, I still hold it close to my heart to this day
ayyy, drawn to life gang!! i would LOVE to see you talk about the series sometimes if you have any interest in doing so !!
"Two Screens, Nine Games, Much Pain" and 100 % reason to remember the name!
15:22 Thank god, I was worried that he couldn't be a [BIG SHOT!] on the DS. Now I know it's safe to spend some [Kromer] on this version.
Don't belive that spongeguy on tv!
Spongebob becomes world's best sales man of 1997
I played that game last night at 3 AM and when i became BIG SHOT i heard this: Now your chance to be a [BIG SHOT] and heard that music.
IM so glad someone made a spamtom joke, didn't think anyone would lmao
as soon as he said that i went scrolling down the comments looking for someone saying something about this
congratulations you got a bunch of kromer for being the first person i see
Surf & Skate Roadtrip looks like a 2000's cellphone game.
Agreed.
"It's like Diner Dash."
You just made me remember that Spongebob had a Diner Dash game...2 of them!
Ashame that since they were Shockwave games they can't be played on modern computers easily (The Big Fish Games website last time I checked was somehow still a thing but I A. Haven't checked to see if it's since been taken down, And B only had a few SpongeBob games last time I checked years ago)
you are easily one of my favorite content creators, I love the perspective you have on so many different games
Hats off to you, dude of ants. To still have some kind of mental awareness left after this SpongeBob kick, is nothing less than a miracle.
You know, it's kinda hard to believe that the DS is weak in 3d platforming, after some pretty good ones you went through. Crash of the Titans DS, TLoS Eternal Night DS, and now Spongebob Atlantis Squarepantis DS and Truth or Square DS.
Then again even Nintendo couldn't get it right since they ported Mario 64 one handheld to early.
Thank you so much for making this series - you have no idea how much fun it's been to watch these videos. But Ant I am begging you, please make a video about the Drawn to Life games, I'd love to hear your take on all four (especially the Wii game and maybe even the iOS port)
Drawn to Life: Spongebob Squarepants Edition was my first ever DS game, I played that one constantly when I was younger.
And so, with another video under his belt, Antdude completed the SpongeBob series with the exception of the worst SpongeBob Kinect game and the other Xbox game. However, little did he know, his fans would expect him to return to play the Nicktoon series of games as well as Nickelodeon's All Star Brawl.
What a journey it was XD You tackled these games very well dude! I think this calls for a victory screech
had DS truth or square as a kid, nice to see it gets the antdude seal of approval
When most of the other people that I used to watch stuff like this moving on to other formats and such, I'm so thankful Ant Dude is still going strong.
I'm sure Ant is proud that he can claim that his legacy on the internet is playing almost all the licensed Spongebob games there are in history. A hell of a legacy to leave behind
There’s a reason for the robots in Truth or Square games Plankton sent micro bots into SpongeBob’s brain to try to get the secret formula out of his memories but they didn’t work so he went in there himself so that’s why he’s helping SpongeBob in the game.
so heres a nifty little bit of trivia, later prints of Drawn To Life 2 changed the ending credits cuz it was so damn saddening.....i never knew this till years later since i had the original version....and that ending has lived in my brain rent free for over a decade
I remember the Atlantis Squarepantis having the weirdest death sounds, like just listen to a play through and you’ll hear Patrick making a boat noise
Spongebob: WAHHHHGGGG!!!!
“No, I don’t wanna talk about the ending of the second Drawn to Life game.”
Why, Ant? Every kid needs some legit traumatising video game endings, it builds character dangit!
Creature From The Krusty Krab was also on PC as a game called "Nighty Nightmare". It did not exactly follow the same notes as the former, if I recall, but most levels were shared, except in NN, you play from a top-down perspective.
If you feel up for it, why not give some of the Downloadable PC games a try? Things like Krabby Quest, Operation Krabby Patty, Battle For Bikini Bottom (this one is not what you think it is.), Truth or Square (also not what you think it is), etc...
" I don't care about the gameplay! I just want the parent's money!"
5:56 Seeing Patrick use the Comic Sans MS font for dialogue feels so surreal in retrospect.
I can't even begin to comprehend the amount of braincells that ant must've lost while recording this
Man, watching this video gives me good memories, I had tons of good memories from the Spongebob 3D platformers, Boating Bash, and Cook-Off, thank you for refilling my memories for these good games
This series of videos indeed proves that the idea of adapting one media to another isn't really all that bad of an idea, but is unfortunately seen that way due to its long-term controversial reputation due to there being more blemishes compared to successes. But luckily as people we learn, adapt, and evolve from past mistakes and experiences to be better. And that seems to be a true case with the Spongebob Francise as with not only "Battle for Bikini Bottom", but also the next big console videogame coming out soon as of typing.
Also, have a great DAY!!
This awaken a memory. When I was like 11-12 I got kinda into metal detecting. I got one for Christmas. I was metal detecting at a local beach (a lake beach at a state park but a beach) and I found a DS cartridge in the sand. The label was worn off but i put it in my DS and it worked! It was the SpongeBob drawn to life game
I'm ready, I'm ready!
Spamton: *Little sponge* now's your chance to be a *big shot*
"This has one of the choppiest framerates ever"
Run 3: Hold my beer
I’m so glad Ant covered my childhood game of Spongebob Drawn To Life. A game I never completed or got far into but the amount of time I drew characters and drew stuff was a blast
I should play Atlantis SquarePantis DS again, it was literally my first game ever, and I haven't played it since.
15:21 Good to see spongeBob becoming a [BIG SHOT]
While there was (probably) no spongebob DS covers or anything like that, the Yellow Avenger game came in a pack with a blue lanyard and a charging cable with two different heads (One fits the DS, one fits the 3DS oddly enough) with spongebob's eyes painted on them....and also an eye on the part you plug the cable into, as well making it look like spongebob's got a 3rd eye we don't know or want to know about. I know this, because I had it and still use the charging cable to this day because it's trusty and can suffer a *lot* of abuse aparently.
ngl, drawn to life was my FUCKING childhood, I remember spending my entire summer one year trying to 100% it.
After all these years, I finally have all three videos of miscellaneous spongebob games
Yellow Avenger, Cook Off, and Atlantis especially were my childhood. I even put Spongebob stickers on my DS back then lol
23:03 After Ant throws the PRB cases, the audio of this footage starts abruptly muting inbetween sentence pauses. Also, I grew up with both the DtL game and Boating Bash; A bit dissapointed you didn't mention Seymour Scales in the latter, though
Atlantis squarepantis...memories.
I finished this game a lot of times when I was a kid. I always tried to finish it as fast as possible.
Right before he showed Sanic as his decision I guesses it, that was so cool.
Thats not Sanic. Thats pepperspray Sonic
I honestly found it depressing. Wanna know why. At this point what I want to have happen to and feel about Sonic can be described by the lyrics to The Living Tombstone's FNAF 3 song Die In A Fire. If ya wanna know why remember what's happened to Sonic over the past few years and listen to the actual song. You'll probably understand where I'm coming from at the end of the experience.
Gosh, I think my favorite part of this retrospective was just those brief glimpses into quality. Like, it’s super interesting to see so many licensed games, expect nothing but the usual shovelware, and then find a few diamonds in the rough. It goes to show some companies will just do this kind of stuff for a quick buck, but the stars will align and a good game miraculously manifests out of a cash grab for any licensed property.
Also, Sonic saving Spongebob. That was something I needed in my life- Spongebob having a Sonic OC where the only difference was he could survive without drowning.
I keep thinking that the AntSponge coming out of the ds is flipping off AntDude
I love the thumbnail. Anthony’s not done with Sponge Bob just yet.
Niiiice the SpongeBob finally
I'm actually so curious to check out the 3 games you rated the highest. I've always loved the idea of 3d platformers on the ds but I've never played anything outside of Mario 64 DS which I didn't care for because the original is just better, but yeah!
Atlantis Squarepantis for DS surprisingly enough was ALSO my childhood, i loved this game man. I never got that far in it though. Also super interesting to hear that the DS Truth or Square game was super great too. I always played the Wii game, and i’m interested in that though.
But surprise surprise it’s finally over! You look super drained, but at least it’s all over now! :p
The nostalgia I have for the DS is borderline unhealthy.
It’s like my nostalgia for the GBA (which is pretty much the handheld version of another one of my favourite consoles by the same controversial company), SNES.
@@kieranstark7213 grew up on that aswell thanks to backwards compatibility on the DS lite.
Because the Switch is both a handheld and home console, I think that’s why we didn’t get the 4DS (another sequel to the 3DS)… yet.
10:53 best line ever: This is my fan fiction, don’t shame me. I crack up hard.
You should review the Tak trilogy! Amazing 3D platformers on GameCube! Tak and the Power of Juju, Tak 2 the Staff of Dreams and Tak the Great Juju Challenge! Definition of underrated amazing trilogy
You could still be a [big shot] if you get happy enough
Spamton moment
I'm pretty certain "Vs. The Big One" was what got me and my siblings to stop tuning in for new SpongeBob episodes.
Oh my god seeing Atlantis Squarepantis and hearing the music brought me RIGHT back, I played that game so much as a kid!
Man, this reminds me that I haven't played another Drawn To Life game since the original, those were good times.
But nine SpongeBob games on the DS? Dang, they put his face on a lot of games during that time, that porous freak.
I remember playing Truth Or Square on the DS nonstop so I had a big smile on my face seeing it again