Are you ready kids?! I know I’m ready for this game! Have you ever wondered how SpongeBob ended up living in Bikini Bottom and working at the Krusty Krab? Well you can learn about SpongeBob’s beginnings in Bikini Bottom in this game!
After spending my evening watching the latest Spongebob movie, the hype is definitely strong ion this new game, so as you can imagine, I was pretty excited to try out this game.
SpongeBob Moves In is your average city builder type game, you play as the sponge himself – SpongeBob, who is embarking on a journey into life on hisown. He arrives in town with a mere cardboard box full of his belongings and no place to call home, which is where you come in, you have to build up the Bikini Bottom community and get the population up all the while helping SpongeBob successfully complete his brand new day job at the Krusty Krab.
The story begins in a pre-game cut scene where we see SpongeBob being dropped off by his parents in the sparse Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob gets to work right away with the building of his pineapple under the sea. Before long, you’ve already established a bit of a civilization with some semblance to what you’d expect of Bikini Bottom. With the construction of Spongebob’s beloved Krusty Krab, you begin to get a bit of an income, preparing you for even more building projects, yes, that’s right, everything you earn now is going right back into the beautification of the tiny underwater town.
To make even more money, you can build other people’s homes, in order to collect rent from them, this can be a decent money maker, but not until you’ve really built up your town, sure you can make okay money on the early houses, but it is definitely peanuts in comparison to what you can make when you’ve progressed even further. Another way of making money is by fulfilling the wishes of the various citizens of Bikini Bottom, these will usually be what a citizen is really wanting, and this will usually be some kind of food that they are really craving. For example, making up a Krabby Patty from the various ingredients you have to gather up then serving it to a citizen with a burger icon in their wishes, you’ll receive a reward, occasionally, you may be rewarded with new recipes and new items in place of your regular coin reward.
In addition to building homes and working your day job, you can also work on prettying the town up with the use of a variety of decorations. Improving the way the town looks will increase your overall town score, progressing further into the game will also unlock occasional short movies that show you the impact that Spongebob has had on the community of Bikini Bottom.
As you play through this game, you will get the distinct feeling that it is trying to sponge (excuse the pun) some of the success that has been created with similar city builder games based on TV shows such as Simpsons Tapped Out and Family Guys Quest for Stuff. The thing is, in these games, they’re fully of witty references from the shows, making the experience of play a comical one full of nostalgia as you place where a certain phrase or storyline is from. Unfortunately for Spongebob moves in, it doesn’t seem to use any of the great material that is provided to us in the shows, there is so much potential for use of hilarious references such as goofy goobers, plankton’s antics and Mr Krabs overwhelming love of money, I would have loved to see some of these classic references, but nope, the game designers clearly passed up on this opportunity, with only a few half assed references dotted here and there, not enough to really make you forge a connection between the faces of the game and those of the show.
Individuals that are fans of the show will be severely disappointed with the boring and generic dialogue that is presented in the game.
My biggest problem with this game is that sure is offers most of what every other city building simulation has to offer, but Spongebob Moves In has one huge difference; Spongebob Moves In is not actually a free game. Despite the fact that it plays like a lot of freemium games on the market these days, this game will cost you $3.99 to play through. You’ll still have the obscene waiting times that you have to ensure while building, unless you’re willing to throw a few pieces of your premium currency at it, yeah, that’s right, you still have premium currency after already throwing money at the developers to obtain the game in the first place.
If I’m completely honest, Spongebob Moves In isn’t even worth the $3.99 it asks for. The time is takes to even load the game is quite ridiculous, I was fairly sure that my game had crashed because it was loading that slowly, the storylines in the game are not in any way compelling, which automatically makes for a very boring experience.
The goal of this game appears to be trying to obtain the perfect balance between the fulfillment of wishing, successfully completing quests for experience and building up both the population and the buildings of Bikini Bottom, as easy as all this may seem, it actually isn’t as you end up running into a lot of problems before you even get into the groove of the game itself.
One of the biggest problems you’ll encounter while playing the game is the fact that you will use a lot of coins in the game and you will completely run out of said coins very quickly. There are still waiting times to endure also, you have to wait for you crops to finish growing , which will provide you with items needed for other tasks, really there is a long chain of things that you need to do, but you also have to gather a collection of items first, however, to do this, you must collect the items one at a time and in a specific order, a fact which makes the game very complicated when you have multiple quests that need completing and you’re not able to because of the fact that you still haven’t finished waiting for the previous item to be ready, this is a huge flaw in the mechanics of this game.
I can definitely understand the appeal of getting to build your own version of Bikini Bottom, especially if you’re already a fan of the show, but really, there is not enough on offer within this game to justify it being a paid app instead of a free app. If this were a free app, the waiting and the in app purchase pestering might be worth it, but really, if you’re paying for a game, you expect higher quality than this; this is just an utter disappointment.
Even at a point of feeling like you’re making progress, such as getting to move in the iconic character Squidward, you’ll still notice that for the amount of work you put into the progress, you don’t move anywhere nearly fast as you would hope, you end up paying out of the wazoo and STILL have to endure the twelve hour wait time, and yes, we are talking about a main character here. SERIOUSLY GUYS?!
Sure, there is plenty that might entice you into playing the game such as the great assortment of fun decorations to make your town look awesome, you’ll be attracted by the desire to find everything that the game really has to offer as you unravel the story (albeit, short), but really, is there anything here that we haven’t seen in every other city building simulation game? I sincerely doubt it.
SpongeBob Moves In is currently running version 4.29 and requires that your device be running iOS version 5.1.1 or Android. Whilst this game has been around for a while, there may still be bugs in the game, so if you experience any bugs, take note of exactly what happened to you and report it to the developers, which can be done in a variety of ways; you can write a note on the games Facebook page, tweet the developers, email them, or even through the app itself in the help section. Reporting any issues ensures that the problem is taken not of and a fix will likely be released in a future update.
Currently the game can only be played in English which makes playing this game significantly more difficult for individuals that love SpongeBob and want to play the game, Regardless, of this, the game is designed to be for children, so figuring out what you are generally supposed to do in the game should not be too hard, even if you don’t understand the language. However, if you feel that there may be a high demand for your language, I would once again advise contacting the developers so that they are made aware of the fact that more international languages are needed in the game. The game can be purchased from the app store for $3.99 and also includes optional in app purchases. The game currently has a rating of three and a half stars and a n overall rating of four stars. There has been mixed reviews concerning the latest update to the game, reporting various bugs and glitches they had experienced.
Players can purchase currencies from a variety of different packages. Both coins and Jelly – the premium currency, can be bought as an in app purchase. For a one hundred coin pack it will cost you ninety nine cents, for a five hundred coin pack it will cost you $3.99, for a one thousand two hundred and fifty coin pack it will cost you $9.99 and for a ten thousand pack of coins it will cost you $49.99. You may also purchase different packs of Jelly; for a Jelly Sampler it will cost you ninety nine cents, for a Jelly Grande it will cost you $1.99, for a Jelly Heap it will cost you $4.99, for a Jelly Batch it will cost you $14.99, for a Jelly Big Batch it will cost you $49.99 and for a Wumbo Supply it will cost you $99.99.
If your kids are in the middle of playing SpongeBob Moves In, then you probably know that you need a lot of coins and jelly to get through the game and buy needed items. While you can make these purchases through the app store, it costs real money, and that adds up quickly.
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Check out the image below to see just how easy the SpongeBob Moves In hack tool is to use, with the options menu being where you enter the amounts of coins and jelly that you want to add to your gaming account.
Simply download the hack tool from our website, which takes about 30 seconds, and then wait another 20 seconds while the hack automatically installs. Once that is done, simply select either iOS or Android depending on which device you are using, and then enter the amounts of each item you want to add to your SpongeBob Moves In gaming account.
Press on “Start” to begin the hack tool, which should take no more than 40 seconds to complete. After the hack has completed, you can open up the game as normal and you will find the amounts of each item are already on your account. If you use our free hack tool you will find yourself being more impressed with the game since you will never need to purchase items from the app store.
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When starting the game, I seriously advise against making a lot of various foods at once, especially if you don’t actually need them at that moment in time. Sure, it’s a good idea to have a backup of a few items in case you need one at short notice, although you’ll find that really a lot of the items will end up costing you more money to create than they are actually worth, so again, only make specific things when you actually need them.
Hate waiting for things to finish growing/cooking/building? Go entertain yourself with something else. Do not, I repeat, do NOT spend your jelly on speeding up these processes, Try to keep as much of your jelly as you can since you will probably need it for special premium home later on in the game, these are the houses that will provide you with the most money return in rent, so it’s a good investment for you.
Even if you find that you can’t actually do anything in your town like building houses or anything, there are still things you could be doing to work on the town such as preparing areas for future development by clearing greenery that really does not need to be there, you can also add decorations if you find that you have the coins to be able to do so, this can really kill some time if you want to get the placement of your buildings and decorations on point.
Don’t worry about reorganizing anything in your town, it won’t cost you anything to move any buildings or decorations, so if you want to just plop things down wherever before you’re ready to organize, it’s totally okay as you can always get back to it later when you’re bored and make your town look awesome. This can also help you in making more space for any other future buildings and decorations.
Artwork: I give SpongeBob Moves In an 8/10 for its artwork. I can honestly say that I really do love the artwork in this game, as a fan of the show myself, it’s great to see so much familiar stuff that I’d usually only see on TV. I will say that Spongebob looked a little… odd; he wasn’t quite what you would typically expect from the name, which is kind of disappointing really, especially since he’s the titular character. Sure the artwork is great, but I wonder whether it’s just a smokescreen for a sub-par city building simulation with nothing new to offer.
Music and SFX: I give the game an 8/10 for its music and SFX. I’ll admit, the soundtrack for this game is pretty badass, it’s full of the Hawaiian style tracks you’d expect for anything Spongebob, you can almost see a bunch of hula dancers doing their thing to this music, it’s super relaxing, which can be great for the hectic process of building up your own town. My only complaint is the fact that the voice actor for Spongebob was all wrong, he speak almost monotone through the entire game and it just makes whatever story there is absolutely dull.
Story and Originality: I give the game a 6/10 for its story and originality. Okay, let’s be blunt, there is absolutely nothing original about this game. It has taken from just about every city building sim out there and has given nothing back to the genre, this is one of the most disappointing things a game can do in my opinion. Sure there is a slight story to the game, but it is rarely referenced to, so actually playing the game feels mostly pointless.
Gameplay: I give the game a 4/10 for gameplay. The game seriously lack polish, which is something that could have made it a hell of a lot more appealing, it works slowly a lot of the time, even taken up to ten minutes to even load the game. On top of these factors, this game is not free, so you’re paying for something completely devoid of content and still riddled with bugs. Why is this even on the app store?!
Addictiveness: I give the game a 3/10 for its addictiveness. This game really has the potential to be one of those really addictive ones, however there are far too many problems such as the long waiting times and the fact that you run out of money so quickly, things like these can make it really hard to get into a grove and really get into the game, which is a real shame. Really, all this game seems to be about is making even more money off the Spongebob brand.
Overall I give SpongeBob moves in a 5/10. The first step to making this game better would be to remove that price tag, until then, I’m boycotting this game.
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