

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated is rarely amusing or challenging, and completing it is an entirely dry experience. These kinds of gameplay barricades are common, and force you to restart and face your demons again, and again, and again. That means you fall off of the button, which closes the gate and prevents you from bowling the bubble where you intended, when you intended. The only problem is that during SpongeBob's wind-up animation for bowling, he walks forward.

In one section of the puzzle, all you need to do is stand on a button, and that button opens a gate for you to bowl a bubble into so you can progress. It’s a simple task in concept, but trying to execute it is some of the most unfun and Sisyphean gameplay in recent memory.

Once you activate the machine you have to match the ball’s painstakingly slow speed while using SpongeBob's arsenal of bubble abilities to make sure it doesn’t fall over. Nearing the end of SpongeBob's journey under the sea, you're tasked with guiding a ball through a giant Rube Goldberg machine in Mermaid Man's Lair.
