SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated

It is a remake of the console versions of Heavy Iron Studios' SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom , developed by Purple Lamp Studios and published by THQ Nordic for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, and mobile devices. Despite receiving mixed reviews, the game was a commercial success, selling over 2 million copies. The core gameplay involves collecting items and defeating the robots which have attacked various areas in Bikini Bottom while crossing platforms and avoiding environmental hazards like spikes and flames. Switching characters requires the player to find a Bus Stop, upon using which the current character will switch to another, and using it again will switch back to the previous character, giving the player an option of two characters in each level. The default character throughout the game is SpongeBob; Sandy and Patrick do not share any levels as playable characters. Throughout the game, the player will collect Shiny Objects, Socks, and Golden Spatulas. Golden Spatulas are used to unlock new areas in the game, and 75 of them are required to fight the final boss. A new addition to the remake is a multiplayer horde mode in which two players face waves of robotic enemies. The mode includes cut content from the original game, including a fight against a robotic Squidward, a scrapped version of Patrick's dream, and a cut phase of the Robo-SpongeBob fight. Development for Rehydrated began as early as January 2018, when THQ Nordic enlisted Purple Lamp Games as one of their developers. Edition also comes with two similarly sized figurines of Sandy Cheeks and Patrick Star, as well as a set of five tiki keyrings. The game features the original archived and new recordings from the English voice cast, as well as new recordings from the French, German, Italian, Spanish , Polish and Japanese voice casts. SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated flops like a fish out of water when it comes to this." They concluded that the game "winds up being an unpleasant nostalgia trip that nobody should pack their bags for." SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated placed at 19 on NPD's list of top 20 sales in the month of June. In the UK, Rehydrated was the 3rd bestselling video game software in the week of June 27, 2020. On August 13, 2020, Rehydrated was announced to have sold over 1 million copies. As of May 19, 2021, it reached more than 2 million copies. In January 2021, THQ Nordic CEO Klemens Kreuzer called Rehydrated a "fantastic success" due to its sales and hinted at the potential for similar games to be developed by the studio in the future.