SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab

SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab is a video game for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS,Wii and Lego.com. It stars SpongeBob and his friends as they journey to nine different worlds, supposedly, inside the dreams of the characters.

Gameplay
Four different types of gameplay have been incorporated into the game. They have been dubbed to be: flying, destruction, racing and platforming.

Flying
The game constantly sets tough obstacles in front of another, and the player must fly out of their way. In most cases, the game will tell the player which way to fly (up, down, left and right). On the Wii, you use the controller like an actual plane control stick. The most common cases of this is when SpongeBob uses his plane to attack a giant-sized Plankton.

Destruction
In these levels, which have only been known so far to be playable as a giant-sized Plankton, the player uses special powers and moves to destroy everything in your path. The player's laser's power is indicated by a bar on the right side of the screen, which refills after use. The Wii version features controller movements that respectively activate moves.

Racing
Racing gameplay is similar to most racing games; it is featured in both the air and the ground's gameplay. In racing try to remember to always get fuel to keep on going .

Platforming
There is some platformer gameplay throughout the game, such as when Plankton must escape from a live Krabby Patty.

Plot
Diesel Dreaming The game starts at night with the narrator, suddenly the camera goes in Spongebob's house and shows him pull of the covers of his bed to reveal a big hot rod car. Suddenly he crashes out of the pinneaple seeing a race track as he turns into a crazy hyper version of himself, although he talks normal. After the first race, Plankton comes and crashes into Spongebob causing his license to fall. The license blows away and Spongebob goes past an obstacle course and finds Mrs. Puff which after that Spongebob finds the licensce and a crazy hyper version of Patrick comes. He calls himself "Piston Patrick" After beating him, Plankton comes again, and this time he destroys Spongebob's car. Now he must go back on foot to find the parts. He then challenges plankton to a race, which after A crazy hyper version of gary comes and knocks Spongebob over. Spongebob goes on foot to find motors so he can use a turbo boost on the track. The final episode race begins with Gary, when Spongebob wins he doesn't notice a pit up ahead and falls into it.

Starfishman to the Rescue The second level is Patrick's story. He gets out and transforms into Patrick Starfishman. The world is strangely flat, like a comic. Even Patrick has a pencil outline, the evil villain is an evil version of Patrick named Dreaded Patrick. A phone guy gives Patrick tips throughout the game. At the end of the first level, Patrick advances to the 2nd where he must save a town civilian. Then he needs his clothes back, so he goes and finds the 5 clothes pieces and returns them. Then Patrick beats the town of baddies and Starfishman advances to the 3rd and last level of his episode. Here Patrick battles enemies going up an elevator, after the elevator is beaten Patrick goes down a hallway to see the civvilian tied up to a rocket. When calling to say everything is alright, Patrick is knocked out from behind. Then Patrick wakes up to see he is strapped to the rocket instead. While complaing, he is launched out of earth and hits and asteroid which makes a ring, the ring falls to earth and traps dreaded patrick.

Who Ordered the Super-Size Patty? This is where the main story begins, the other two levels were just minor levels leading to the levels ahead. Plankton gets a krabby patty piece and places it on a large ray that makes things big. When doing it the patty doesn't stop and becomes giant, Plankton orders Karen to make him 100 times bigger, when that happens Plankton grows the size of a normal sea critter, the patty is still big. Plankton runs and equips a freeze ray, the whole episode is 3-D with a 2-D point of view. The first level is a run through bikini bottom, the 2nd is a run through an industrial park, the 3rd is a run through a laboratory, the 4th is through the oyster stadium, and the 5th and final is a path leading to the chum bucket. After this plankton hides behidn a rock, the patty doesn't seem to notice and walks away, Plankton brags loudly and the patty notices and jumps on him.

Alaskan Belly Trouble This is where Spongebob's story left off. Back in the 1st level, Spongebob fell off the track into a pit, he falls of his hot rod and becomes lost falling down a pit, as he falls the player controls spongebob falling, at the end he falls into an Alaskan bull worm, here we find Old man jenkins, working on an aeroplane. He must first find parts for it. He rescues the chief and then rescues his wife (which is an ironing board) the chief lets Spongebob have it so they can use it for wings. Then Spongebob goes into a lab were he must find 3 jellyfish power cells. Then he wins and gets another part. The next level is about removing a can of chilli from the worm. (Note: If you manage to mess up after turning winches, you might be stuck here unless you start a new game) then Spongebob finally gets to exit the Alaskan bull worm. They go off and they go to see the Alaskan bullworm's mouth close. They are not sure if they will make it out.
 * Rocket Rodeo

Rocket Rodeo Beginning from the horrible fate Starfishman suffered in episode 2, he is alive in space, still attached to the rocket. After getting out the 2nd level begins in which the player must destroy meteors, then the player advances to a level where they must destroy cells, and then the final level of the episode. A face-off against the krabby patty UFO. Things go right and Patrick returns to earth but he doesn't know the stop button and crashes into the sea.

Revenge of the Giant Plankton Monster This is were Plankton's story left off on, he wakes up at his normal size and then the patty is still there, it wakes up and Plankton orders karen to turn him 50 feet high. Then he goes after the patty. He also destroys most of Bikini bottom too. But then after catching it, Spongebob comes out with his aeroplane and the krabby patty grabs on and Plankton follows Spongebob.

It Came from Bikini Bottom This level takes place after Revenge of the giant plankton monster, Spongebob must flee from the giant plankton in 2 boss rounds as well, one in a construction site, another near what seems to be a tower that plankton hangs on to resembling king kong. When Spongebob feels sorry for plankton, he flies over but is caught.

Rooftop rumble This level is the final level before the final level. Starfishman arrives from his last story and falls on the rooftops were he battles Giant plankton to help Spongebob, after shrinking plankton down to size, Spongebob, Patrick and Plankton go into a white dream bubble.

Hypnotic Highway The doctor in the bubble explains this happening with all the dreams is because they all ate a krabby patty before bed, this is what caused it, the patty runs away and turns into the same patty plankton chases, Spongebob, Patrick and Plankton head into the final level, here they all race in a strange dream to get out of their dream, in which they argue about if it's their dream. If all sleepy seeds for a person have been collected, the person can acess that person in this level. Also Spongebob is the only playable character if you do not have all seeds. The end is when Gary wakes up and sees Spongebob, Patrick and Plankton doing stuff similar to their dream. When Gary comes home he sees Spongebob in the kitchen eating a krabby patty, but gary sees the patty moves it's mouth. Then the bullworm rushes through, eating Spongebob, Gary goes to sleep.

Hint: Use the cheatcode ROCKFISH under the main menu to get help.

Items
There are five normal items you could find in this game, these include:
 * Snooze Zs: Currency in this game, take this to the shop and you can unlock pictures in the gallery, codes, difficulty levels for bonus games, (and possibly every single world in the game.)
 * Sleepy Seeds: There are two colors for the sleepy seeds, the pink ones (you need 27 of them to unlock Patrick on the last level) and the green ones (you need 27 of them to unlock Plankton on the last level); as you collect them your character might make a comment that one would expect from either Patrick or Plankton.
 * Fuel: You can use fuel in the game to keep Patrick's spaceship in the air to fight the Patty UFO and Spongebob's plane in the air to fight against the giant Plankton. There is also a cheat code to let you have infinite fuel which is called "GASSY"
 * Roar: Use this to use the special attack giant Plankton uses in the level where he destroys everything.
 * Health: Find this in some places in Bikini Bottom or by defeating monsters to heal your life.
 * Tools: collect 20 of these to open a door (only seen in Diesel Dreaming)

Playable Characters

 * SpongeBob SquarePants/Extreme Racer SpongeBob (played by Tom Kenny)
 * Patrick Star/Extreme Racer Patrick/Starfishman/Phone Dude/Various "Patrick" citizens (played by Bill Fagerbakke)
 * Sheldon J. Plankton (played by Mr. Lawrence)

Non-Playable Characters

 * Mrs. Puff (played by Mary Jo Catlett)
 * Karen, Plankton's computer wife (played by Jill Talley)
 * Old Man Jenkins (played by Tom Kenny)
 * Gary (played by Tom Kenny)

Other Characters
Some characters from the TV Show appear at varying points during the game, serving as cameo appearances. Some of these characters are the following:

Note: All voice talents from the show return execept for Mermaid Man and Sandy Cheeks.


 * Mrs. Puff (played by Mary Jo Catlett)
 * Karen (played by Jill Talley)
 * Old Man Jenkins (played by Tom Kenny)
 * Mermaid Man (played by Joe Alaskey)
 * Squidward (is mentioned)
 * Mr. Krabs (is mentioned)
 * Gary (played by Tom Kenny)
 * French Narrator (played by Tom Kenny)
 * Sandy Cheeks (Cameo)
 * Barnacle Boy (is mentioned)

Release
This game is the first SpongeBob SquarePants game released on a seventh generation video game console, the Wii. The Xbox 360 had been available for a year prior to this release. Currently there is a game planned for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 platforms based on the series, titled "Spongebob's Atlantis Squarepantis". This title is actually SpongeBob Adventure 3 under a different name, but thanks to the "Creature From the Krusty Krab" title, people would be enjoying a much fresher experience.

Reception
The game has been referred to, by Nintendo Power as being the "most ambitious and most successful SpongeBob game to date", in their December 2006 issue. Further to that, the game has received good reviews. The following ratings have been released for the game:


 * Nintendo Power: 8.5 out of 10
 * Play Magazine: 7 out of 10
 * Game Informer: 6.75 out of 10
 * X-Play: 2 out of 5

Key points brought out in the above reviews include:


 * The ease of navigating through each level.
 * The play control is both "perfect" and "responsive".

And key flaws brought out in the reviews include:


 * Bad graphics.
 * A continuous racing and 2D levels.

The game was also nominated for an Annie Award for best animated video game in 2006. It also won the award for favorite video game at the 2007 Kids' Choice Awards.