SpongeBob SquarePants featuring NickToons Globs of Doom
Battle it up with SpongeBob SquarePants Featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom. Travel to the familiar locations of Retroville, Amity Park, and Bikini Bottom with any of the 10 playable characters, and defeat the Morphoids in cooperative play as any of the five heroes and/or five villains. This action-packed adventure lets you fight against Globulous in the Globs of Doom. Perform a combination of attacks and combine gadgets with special abilities that are unique to your character’s specific personalities.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars My son like’s this game but …
My son really enjoys this game. The game features a number of the Nick Toon characters which he likes to watch. You and another player (either CPU or human) battle glob like aliens from space who have captured your friends and it’s up to you to free them. In the one player game you are able to switch back and forth between the two characters on screen. When two human players are participating the game runs into problems however. When the two characters get separated the game does not do a good job of handling it. It can be very frustrating to be off screen and not be able to get back to the lead character until the game eventually spawns you back on screen. Although this doesn’t seem to bother my son and his friends so this might just be the rantings of a middle aged experienced gamer. Overall I would say if your child enjoys Nick Toons they will more than likely like this game.
2 Stars Heartbreaking
My daughter received this for xmas and finally began playing this week. She got hooked and wants to play it all the time. We’ve been encountering the same data corruption issues as other reviewers. We try to exit the game after completing a level and not mid-way through, so it’s not a user issue. She’s getting really frustrated because she spends so much time trying to get to higher levels, only to have to start over everytime we try to play the next day. I hate having to tell her that she has to start all over again. THQ should issue a recall, and stop selling a product that they know is flawed.
1 Star Game flaw
I must say the reviewer who reported the game flaw was right. The same thing happened to us. We had rented the game and later bought it. My son started playing at the level he left off at with the rental. The next day when he went to play it the file was corrupt and he had to start all over. He was upset, and although he is playing it now, I am going to try and exchange it for a new disk or a different game tomorrow. I don’t know if this will help, but buyer beware. If my son didn’t love the game so much I would definitely return the game. However, he does love it and can play well by himself. It is loads of fun for him, which is why I gave 5 stars for fun level, but this game flaw made me give it only 1 star overall.
Update: I did exchange the game for another copy and we had the same problem. I called THQ and they said that exchanging the game won’t help, and then told me all these things to do before exiting (don’t exit in the hub and only on odd numbered levels). Well, to me it’s a waste. The game should work the way it’s supposed to. THQ would not give a refund, but offered to replace the game with another from THQ. I ended up selling it at one of those trade in stores (just easier for me). Too bad, because my son really liked it, but even he wanted to sell it and get something different. To me, the game should be recalled, but what do I know? BUYER BEWARE!
3 Stars OK game for under 10 crowd, Serious save game flaw
My 6 year old really likes this game (as well as a couple of 8 year old neighbors) and I admit I enjoy playing it sometimes as well. The difficulty level is not too high, in fact given that when you die you restart from that same point (but lose a small number of coins), the game is too easy for me at times, but I can see how it reduces the frustration for kids. The different levels are fairly interesting and varied, and the different characters add some extra variety as well.
I think I would give the game an overall 4 stars (instead of 3) where it not for a major flaw in the save game system: Just about every other time we exit the game, either powering off directly from the main game menu or first exiting back to the main Wii desktop, the save file becomes corrupt somehow. Subsequent attempts to reload it yield a corrupt save game message with the only option being to restart from the beginning. I actually emailed THQ about this, and this is the response:
“This is a known issue. We have noted that the corruption occurs more
often on the even numbered levels. So far, the test team has found that
the corrupt save data occurs when the game is exited while the player is
in the Hub. The Hub would be any portion of the game that is not
directly in a stage or level. Try exiting the game after entering the
next level in order for it to save properly.
Please try the following:
1. Complete stages 1 and 2 of the first level.
2. Upon entering the room with the portals to the other stages, enter
stage 3 and allow it to load completely.
3. Once you are in stage 3, it is safe to exit the game or turn off the
console.”
Using the above, I have not seen corruption in the last several plays, but I still think it is something that they should fix and offer replacement disks free of charge.
5 Stars Globs of Doom
Son is 8 yrs old, got for christmas, loves the different characters and levels of the game.
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