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But it does nothing more than other games like this do. There are the typical hooks that will grab you if you let them: setting up your town just right with decorations, the compulsive levelling systems, the desire to see everything the game has hidden away. This is a main character, in a game I paid for, who will take half a day to have move in. Unless I'd like to pay to speed up the process with a little premium currency, of course. I'm at a point now where moving a central character into my town - the grumpy but loveable Squidward - is going to cost me an arm, a leg, and 12 hours of real time. If SpongeBob Moves In were free, I'd be telling you that it's your run-of-the-mill builder - the kind you've played many times before, albeit one with a slight tilt towards halting your progress with significant grind.

SPONGEBOB MOVES IN SERIES

I get the appeal of building your own version of the Bikini Bottom of the TV show, and I like the little nods to elements of the series that only fans will appreciate - the Tattletale Strangler was a nice touch - but none of this is desirable enough to justify the entry fee when combined with the other freemium elements. I'm running out of resources quickly, and I have to wait for my actions to complete so that I can play the game more, and I have to pay for the game up front? You have to wait for crops to grow, you have to wait for patties to cook, you have to wait for buildings to build, you have to. You run out of Coins very quickly, though, and completing actions still takes time. The overall goal seems to be finding a balance between completing Quests to earn experience, fulfilling the food-based Wishes of the populace for bonuses, and expanding your version of Bikini Bottom to include more Bottomites. It certainly makes the repetitive gameplay a little easier to swallow - not to mention the nagging feeling that I've paid good money for a game that, without the licence, would have been free.

With a laidback, easygoing vibe, the score is filled with sliding, leaning, flowing Hawaiian guitars that, though evocative of an island landscape, never fall into cliché.

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It's probably one of the biggest reasons for the significant download size, but it's worth every single byte. I adore the soundtrack in SpongeBob Moves In. I hope that's not a sign of things to come. His spongy yellow face is too square (he's actually rectangular), and he's gained a bit of a chin that now protrudes from his shorts.Įven the voice actor playing him sounds wrong - almost bored. I'd say that I'm enjoying the visuals - as I'm a fan of the TV show on which it's based - but SpongeBob doesn't quite look right. If it's solely the latter, then perhaps this isn't a freemium game at all, as I've been charged £2.49 (that's $3.99, America) for the privilege of downloading and playing it.īut if it's either of the first two, SpongeBob Moves In absolutely fits that description, because from what I've played so far this is an exercise in creating and gathering resources, completing missions, ranking up, and creating more buildings. Is it the presence of waiting periods while things build? Is it the inclusion of pay walls that force you to cough up money, or spend an age grinding resources until you can progress? Or is it simply the fact of a game being free, but with optional payments? What is the defining property of a 'freemium' game? This week it's off to Bikini Bottom to catch up with SpongeBob SquarePants and his aquatic pals.Īfter being thoroughly bored by the builder game I played last week, I'm hoping this one from Nickelodeon is more entertaining. Ready, that is, to play another freemium game for seven days to see whether it's worth recommending. Click on the links to jump straight to day three or day seven. That's what the strange sub-headings are all about. This is a (sort of) freemium game review, in which we give our impressions immediately after booting a game up, again after three days, and finally after seven days.

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