Titans of the Tide Reddit Verdict: Fun but Short

Spongebob becoming a legitimate and consistent platforming franchise is wild to me, but I'll never complain about it.

You could also add the spongebob squarepants movie game that released for ps2. It was in the same playstyle as those.

Played for two hours. It's so good and even better than cosmic shake

Battle for Bikini Bottom (along with other Heavy Iron gems from that era like Night of 100 Frights) is a deeply special game to me, so Rehydrated even existing still feels like a pipe dream come true, let alone this whole resurgence of modern day Spongebob platformers. Nothing makes me feel like a kid again quite like these games. Will probably wait for a few patches first (sounds like a similar deal with how Rehydrated/Cosmic Shake launched, needed a bit more time to polish things up) but super excited for this.

Battle for Bikini Bottom is much more a collectathon than the others. Cosmic Shake and Titans are more in the style of the Movie game (which I really wish would get remastered).

If this game is as good as Battle for Bikini Bottom, it will be a great game. Battle for Bikini Bottom is still by far the best Sponge Bob game.

Congratulations to SpongeBob for outlasting Crash Bandicoot as a relevant platformer mascot.

This game feels way better to play than The Cosmic Shake. But the game is very short, and the level variety leads to a lot of odd pacing issues and a hefty amount of linearity. Especially when it comes to how they use certain characters. Sandy especially. But if you just want a fun game that FEELS like a SpongeBob movie with the pacing and writing of the show's heyday, this game DELIVERS.

The demo was pretty fun, the voices are great and the writing feels like a solid episode from the shows' heyday. I'm probably gonna get the full game for myself and my kid soon enough.

I really liked the cosmic shake so I'm excited for this.

Cosmic Shake while a bit janky wasn't too far off quality wise from Battle for Bikini Bottom and this looks pretty much in line with that. One of the better non-Nintendo 3D platformers I've played in a long time, so I'm optimistic.

Those are the primary modern ones, yeah. I appreciate Purple Lamp focusing on new games, but I would gladly take a remake of the movie game in the same style as BfBB Rehydrated.

Just like The Cosmic Shake, I really like the team behind this one because you can tell they enjoy the source material, understand it, and give it lots of justice. I think this game took everything that was great about its predecessors and improved on it (I'm honestly quite impressed with the gameplay from Titans of the Tide, which I'd argue is the best in the franchise)

Maybe in the PS5 or other consoles but it runs significantly worse on the Switch 2. Disappointing that a SpongeBob game can't run decently when other more demanding games run better. Gonna buy this on the PS5.

That's especially disappointing given both bfbb and cosmic shake run on phones.

I just beat it on PS5 there is some occasional dips especially towards the end with a lot of stuff on screen. But overall it stays pretty smooth.

it's even better than cosmic shake to me plus i see why they did the dlc route. they had to put it out around the same time as the movie but we still get more levels out of it in a couple months. works for me

Honestly, I'm so glad the Battle for Bikini Bottom remake has led to all these new sequels in a similar style. I actually like that Titans of the Tide and The Cosmic Shake are more linear based too.

I'm having lots of fun with it. My only minor takeaway is that it's the same gameplay loop (for Spongebob) as BfBB and Cosmic Shake, but otherwise it's still really good.

Im really enjoying these spongebob games lately.

There's a quality and performance mode, but performance mode in the demo has issues. The game struggles to hit 60 fps in levels, feeling more like 40-50 fps. It's only stable in the hub world and the first tutorial.

Not sure what you're talking about. I just bought this game for switch 2 and it runs and looks magnificently.

i've had zero bugs so far.

I think it's one of the better platforming games I've played in quite some time. It's got somewhat challenging puzzles, and it's family friendly. 7.5-10 all day. Definitely one of the better SpongeBob games released in recent memory.

Titans of the Tide is really good! I liked it better for reasons different than writing. I loved how utilized Patrick and Spongebobs abilities were, and the fact that you could play with Patrick. Helped diversify the lines a little more. It seems like most complaints people had regarding the smaller annoyances were fixed.

I played the demo yesterday and really took my time and explored and kept collecting coins and when I was collecting trash in the water the frames DROPPED and the game ran super super slow even just walking.

As someone who liked BFBB but didn't like cosmic shake, I'm excited to try this.

Titans of the tide was such a disappointment compared to battle for bikini bottom and cosmic shake. Such a short game comparatively, it was not as fun.

This game felt weaker to me than bfbb and cosmic shake. I 100% both of those games but I have no drive for this one. Something about it feels more janky than the others.

I liked this one way more with the switching back and forth and the platforming challenges. This felt like it got closer to BfBB and the Movie game for me.

I would disagree. This game is very short, filled with lots of bugs and glitches, and the time trial slide races are far too difficult where when beaten, you have less than a second to spare. I had fun playing it, but I was finished in 10 or 11 hours. This is far too short for the price. The glitches and bugs are frequent.

So this game is good!!??? I played the other 3, Patrick star, cosmic, and battle for bikini bottom, and I want this one!

I played the demo and thought to myself that this game has some serious potential. I'll have to pick it up as soon as I can.

The performance was quite bad in the tutorial on switch 2, even in performance mode.

I have a switch 2 and steam deck and the steam deck looked better and was also smoother. Got constant 45 fps on steam deck.

I just finished playing the demo again! First time was on ps5 and I'm soooooooooooo excited!!! So far so good! And a course correction from cosmic shake which felt too easy.

The flow in this game (both the movement and pacing) is way better than the cosmic shake. It's just a shame it's so short I feel like they could've made a few more detours. I think the collectibles are way more rewarding too — cosmic shake always 'go back to the level and find x number of things' which is kinda lame. This game is much closer to the bfbb sequel I always wanted!

There are technically several optional sidequests and time challenges but most players just usually do them right away once the game gives them. Plankton will also give you several optional arena and sliding challenges but they're disconnected from the main game levels. Out of all Spongebob games it's by far the most similar to Movie Game.

I heard it's more on par with the movie game and Cosmic Shake. Idk if even $26 is worth it imo. Not that I can't afford it, but I just feel I can put that money towards better games that are on sale. If anything I'll wait for a better sale like $10-$20 — cosmic shake has been $10 when on sale since last year.

Demo was fun. Performance was bad. Felt like dripping to 15fps at some point.

Its actually pretty fun.