They need new actors to fill the roles in their scenes, so SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and others attempt to audition for the part. In this story, the producers of The New Adventures of Mermaidman and Barnacleboy are filming a new episode in Bikini Bottom. It’s your chance to take part in a original story, which is pretty neat considering they could have gone the easy route and recycled previous episodes. It sure sounds like a SpongeBob episode, I’ll give it that. With a name like Lights Camera Pants, you might be confused as to what this game could even be about. If you enjoy the humor and overall look of the cartoon, you will feel right at home here. In all honesty, it felt like watching a slower version of SpongeBob, but SpongeBob, nonetheless. Speaking of the cutscenes, they are home to some of the best cartoon graphics of the era it was released in. During the wonderful cutscenes in the story mode, you’ll be graced with the same voice actors that voice the characters within the show.
Sound effects are crisp and match the actions that is occurring. Luckily, the rest of the audio makes up for this. However, that’s about as memorable as the music gets. It’s as catchy as always, so I’m glad it was managed to be added in some manner. It only has a bite animation and an idle, which is one frame.As soon as you enter the game, you’ll be greeted with the official SpongeBob SquarePants theme. Considering its origin, it likely would've appeared in Prehistoric Bikini Bottom.Ī blob. It appeared inside the whale in early versions.Ī 3D nautilus, likely the same one from the episode SB-129. This is used in the map editor.Ī very bizarre, semi out of place eyeball on a stalk. These can be seen in the map editor and can be reimplemented.Ī placeholder for the items you collect at the end of each level. In this version, SpongeBob's health is his spatulas.
These items would heal SpongeBob in early versions, and the GBA version. It allowed you to catch blue jellyfish (probably explaining why the jellyfish sprite is gray) in some prototypes, another thing completely taken out of the final. They can be seen in the prototype, at the beginning of Jelly Fields. This animation is used in a cutscene, but his expression is covered up by a sandwich.ĭue to the SharkMan enemy being an incomplete duplicate of Man Ray (or vice versa), a few cut animations of him are leftover.Ī spatula floating on a balloon. SpongeBob goes into deep thought, only to be presented with an idea and a sheepish smile. In the final, he carelessly runs with his objects. SpongeBob makes a weird noise when performing this action. This seems to be an early version of the used animation, which is calmer. The eye pop frame is probably for blinking.Īn animation meant to be used when SpongeBob is holding an item. The used animations are in separate folders.Ī bizarre idle animation of SpongeBob turning his face into a large eye and back.
It may have been used in a cutscene.Īn odd animation of every face SpongeBob can make, including deaths. Interestingly, the eighth one appears to be a reference to the episode Frankendoodle.Ī strange animation of a shy SpongeBob. The fifth animation was used in early prototypes. Several unused SpongeBob death animations.