SpongeBob SquarePants: Dawn of the Duplicatotron 3000

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SpongeBob SquarePants: Dawn of the Duplicatotron 3000 is a platformer/fighting game released for the Nintendo Blaze as an installment in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise. The game is developed by Good-Feel, produced by quoopoowoo and published by THQNordic for Nickelodeon as a direct sequel to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. The game is also a crossover with the animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot.

## Plot

The game takes place one year after the events of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, in which the franchise’s titular protagonist, SpongeBob SquarePants, is able to fulfill his dream of being the manager of The Krusty Krab 2.

The game begins somewhere in outer space, where the French Narrator informs the player that space is “an unlimited frontier with infinite possibilities for intelligent life, be it planets, galaxies, or even alternate dimensions”. Suddenly, a purple and pink spacecraft is shown spiraling out of control, towards Earth.

Elsewhere, in Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob is ready for another day as The Krusty Krab 2’s manager. Along the way to work, he stumbles upon a shiny object which looks like a crystal. SpongeBob picks up the crystal, not realizing what it actually is or what it can do, and makes it to The Krusty Krab 2 on time. To SpongeBob’s surprise, there are no customers, but SpongeBob decides to wait for customers to come.

However, several hours pass, and SpongeBob starts to realize that something isn’t right. He steps outside to see, to his horror, that Plankton had once again taken control of Bikini Bottom as Planktopolis 2, and vows to set things right like he had done so before. Unfortunately, SpongeBob is ambushed by robots and violently beaten to the point of unconsciousness.

SpongeBob wakes up to find himself in a dungeon, where he meets Patrick, who is revealed to find “a piece of rock candy” that resembles the crystal that SpongeBob had found earlier. The two crystals magically fly out of their hands and unleash a powerful blast of energy, which destroys the bars of their cell, freeing them in the process. However, they are immediately spotted by a large robot guard. Fortunately, the crystals give SpongeBob and Patrick tremendous power, and they are able to defeat the robot guard and escape the dungeon.

SpongeBob and Patrick make their way through the streets of Planktopolis 2, and stumble upon a giant robot-making machine in the center of town. This machine is actually none other than the Duplicatotron 3000, one of Plankton’s creations. SpongeBob remembers that Plankton had used it before, and proceeds to turn it off. Suddenly, Plankton shows up and tells SpongeBob that the machine cannot be turned off. SpongeBob demands that Plankton put a stop to this at once, but Plankton explains that the Duplicatotron 3000 cannot be destroyed without the seven Self-Destruct Pennies. Plankton orders his robots to destroy SpongeBob and Patrick, but a huge blast of energy destroys the robots. To SpongeBob's surprise, the blast came from none other than Princess Mindy, wielding King Neptune's trident and wearing his crown. Princess Mindy, who now prefers to be called Queen Mindy, informs SpongeBob that she had to become queen to stop the onslaught of robots invading Bikini Bottom. Queen Mindy notices the crystals that Spongebob and Patrick had found, and explains they are Pip Crystals. SpongeBob asks what Pip Crystals are, but Queen Mindy insists that there is no time for an explanation, and uses the trident to teleport herself, SpongeBob and Patrick to King Neptune's castle.

After arriving at the castle, Queen Mindy explains that the Pip Crystals are exactly what she needs to defeat Plankton and his robots. Patrick is still madly in love with her, but SpongeBob is able to ask why the Pip Crystals are so important. Queen Mindy explains that Pip Crystals are interdimensional and powerful ancient relics that are scattered throughout the multiverse, and possess an incredible power that can decimate any evil force, but that same incredible power can also be used for evil instead of good. Patrick is too distracted by Queen Mindy's beauty, but SpongeBob asks her where they can find Pip Crystals. Queen Mindy pulls out her magic clamshell and shows them Shell City, the place where the cyclops kept King Neptune's crown. SpongeBob insists that he’s not afraid of the cyclops anymore and vows to go on an epic journey, but Queen Mindy explains that she can just teleport them to Shell City instead. She uses the trident on SpongeBob and Patrick, and our two heroes are sent to Shell City in a flash of light.

TO BE CONTINUED…

## Gameplay

SpongeBob SquarePants: Dawn of the Duplicatotron 3000 is a hybrid between a 2D sidescrolling action-platformer and an arcade fighting game. The game is level-based with linear progression, with one or two gameplay genres represented in each level. A large majority of levels are of the sidescrolling platformer variety, with the main objective of each level is to reach the goal, with the secondary goals being to collect Pip Crystals and Self-Destruct Pennies. However, some levels are a boss fight between the player and a boss enemy, which is played out like an arcade fighter similar to Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Characters have more complex movesets in the fighting levels than they do in the platforming levels.

Players start the game assuming the role of SpongeBob SquarePants, but eventually unlock other characters to play as such as Patrick Star and Misty, the latter being a newcomer to the SpongeBob universe who originates from the My Life as a Teenage Robot series. Each character has their own exclusive moves, such as Misty’s ability to turn into mist and possess enemies, but some characters share moves such as SpongeBob and Misty (in her mist form) sharing the ability to wring themselves dry when wet.

The game has a hand-drawn art style, similar to another one of Good-Feel’s games, Wario Land: Shake It!.

## Levels

The game is presented in the same way as a storybook, with each level in the game being categorized into different Chapters.

### Chapter One

* Thank Gosh It’s Monday - SpongeBob must make his way to The Krusty Krab 2.
* Shanghaied Redux - SpongeBob gets captured by Plankton’s robots and he/Patrick must defeat the dungeon’s robot guard.
* The Return to Planktopolis - SpongeBob and Patrick must navigate their way through the streets of Planktopolis 2 to King Neptune’s Castle.

### Chapter Two

* Big Trouble for Little Heroes - SpongeBob and Patrick must navigate their way through the surface world en route to a relocated Shell City to obtain a Pip Crystal.
* An Elusive Mystery - SpongeBob, Patrick and/or Sandy must challenge Misty in a duel for the right to collect Pip Crystals.
* Frozen Sponge Pops - SpongeBob and Patrick must navigate through the Frozen Tundra to rescue Sandy Cheeks, while avoiding the Abominable Snow Mollusk.
* Release the Krackus - Our heroes must sprawl against one of Plankton’s cluster robots, Krackus. Defeating him rewards players with the second Self-Destruct Penny.

### Chapter 3

* Fast Times at Tremorton High - In this extended platforming level, our four heroes are sent to an alternate version of the surface world via Squidward’s time machine, known as Tremorton. Our heroes must navigate their way through the town, and after rescuing Tuck from a tree, they must navigate their way through a high school to find the third Self-Destruct Penny.

### Final Chapter

* The Final Battle - The “final” level in the game that is unlocked after collecting all seven Self-Destruct Pennies. Completing this level unlocks the “bad ending” in which Plankton is free to restart his evil plan.
* The FINAL Final Battle - The actual final level in the game that is unlocked after the player has collected every Pip Crystal. Completing this level unlocks the “good ending”, in which Plankton is sent to the Nothing Dimension by Queen Mindy.

## References

### References to SpongeBob SquarePants

* The names of some of the levels are references to SpongeBob media:
	+ The first level’s name is a reference to the deleted song of the same name, which was supposed to be featured in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
	+ The second level’s name is a reference to the Season 2 episode Shanghaied.
* The idea of the having the Duplicatotron 3000 be destroyed by Self-Destruct Pennies is a callback to the Krabs Robot from the Season 2 episode “Imitation Krabs” in which it self-destructs when SpongeBob inserts a penny into its slot.

### References to My Life as A Teenage Robot

* Misty’s ability to wring herself when wet is a reference to the Season 3 episode “Mist Opportunities”
* Jenny’s monster form is taken directly from the Season 1 episode “Hostile Makeover”.

### Miscellaneous References

* The level name “Fast Times at Tremorton High” is a reference to the film “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”.

## Voice Cast

The game features fully voiced cutscenes, with characters having extensive lines of dialogue. During levels, characters will occasionally utter quotes depending on the player’s actions.

Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants and French Narrator
Bill Faggerbake as Patrick Star
Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks
Doug Lawrence as Plankton
Scarlett Johanson as Queen Mindy
Audrey Wasilewski as Misty and Tuck Carbunkle
Cree Summer as Vexus and Tiff Crust
Moira Quirk as Brit Crust
Bill Farmer as Krackus
Steve Blum as Smytus
Janice Kawaye as Jenny Wakeman/XJ-9

## Trivia

* This is the first video game in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise to be developed by a Japanese studio since the Nintendo DS version of SpongeBob’s Truth or Square, released in 2009.
* Originally, the game was supposed to be a 3D platformer in the similar vein to SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake. However, it was decided to make it a 2D game with hand-drawn characters so the art styles of SpongeBob SquarePants and My Life as a Teenage Robot could blend together well.
* 98% of all characters and enemies in the game are two-dimensional hand-drawn sprites placed in three-dimensional rendered environments. However, some characters, like the Abominable Snow Mollusk and The Cyclops, are not hand-drawn, but instead three-dimensional renders like the level environments.
* The events of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie film are referenced in this game. However, this game does not pick up after the events of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie game, as in the game’s ending cutscene, SpongeBob does not become manager of The Krusty Krab 2, like he does in the film. Therefore, SpongeBob SquarePants: Dawn of the Duplicatotron 3000 is directly a sequel to the film and not the game.
	+ In addition, the presence of the Duplicatotron 3000 reveals that the game takes place after the events of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, making it a direct sequel to said game as well (though only in terms of story).