This game is fun, entertaining, and enjoyable. Need I say more?
The graphics are okay, but not the best. They look old and cartoony and it has you seeing what appears to be a darker, faded version of highly bright colors. The graphics are not bad but not good either. They are just average, which is fine. I mean if they were better, the game would have looked a lot more nice and decent like in Battle For Bikini Bottom. But you know since these graphics are not bad, they are acceptable and the overall quality of the picture still looks okay, but not good.
The gameplay is what makes up the game. There are seven worlds. Bikini Bottom, Downtown, Tree Dome, Jellyfish Fields, Chum World, Goo Lagoon, and Flying Dutchman's Graveyard. In that order. You need a bus ticket to get to each world. Some you will need to search for, and others will be given to you by characters in return for something. When you get the bus ticket, you can go to the world. In each world, there are nine letter tiles that spell Spongebob's name. S-P-O-N-G-E-B-O-B. To get each letter tile, you have to complete a task. There is a to do list for each task on the main menu. Although most of these tasks are too easy, they are very fun and you will feel nothing but pleasure and satisfaction when you complete them. Some tasks from each world include defeating a thug in the Krusty Krab in Bikini Bottom, delivering orders to customers in Downtown, plugging up water holes with acorns in the Tree Dome, riding a giant white jellyfish, jumping clams, and more in Jellyfish Fields, reaching the upper part of The Big Top in Chum World, going to the lighthouse and the pier in Goo Lagoon, and returning booty to pirates in The Dutchman's Graveyard. These are only one task from each world. There are nine tasks in each world to get all the letters. Although they are easy and not hard to complete, they are still fun and rewarding to complete. When you complete all tasks and collect all letters in a world, you must then solve a puzzle using the nine letters and then find one of the Dutchman's treasures in that world using a stick that you can press the A button to help you find it. If it rumbles, that means you are close. When you find all seven of the Dutchman's treasures, you will end his revenge once and for all, save your friends, and face off in the final showdown with the dutchman.
A cool feature is the ability to change costumes. There are four total costumes. You must unlock them in different worlds as you progress throughout the game. There is Jellyfishing Gear, self explanatory. There is Mermaid Man that allows you to shoot waterballs at targets or enemies. There is the Reef Blower machine that allows you to blow on objects such as balls and make them move up and down to complete certain tasks. And well, there is Squarepants. Just Spongebob in his same old ordinary outfit. Each costume has its own music. All four sounds are memorable and pleasing to the ears. Nothing extroardinary though. The Jellyfishing Gear music is kind of depressing and kind of makes the levels seem less fun than they really are. But it is still awesome music and it also still kind of seems to fit the levels and is fun to listen to while you are playing the levels. So it only half fits the levels, and the other half of it doesn't.
Some of the dialogue lines are hilarious and the humor adds to the goodness of the game. Like in Goo Lagoon, Spongebob asks Larry for his belt that has a letter on it, but Larry says no. So he sings a song that goes: "Oh, there once were two fellas who met on the beach. One needed a belt that seemed out of reach. It had a big letter that would open a treasure. But the big guy who wore it did not want to remove it." Oh Spongebob, we can always count on you for a laugh.
Once you complete all the worlds, find all the treasures, and beat the game, there is nothing else left to do. No hidden collectibles, nothing to unlock, and no extra levels to give it replay value. So there is no reason to go back to any of the worlds. If you do, it is just depressing because you would just be walking around with no destination and nothing to do. You would just be staring through what you have already seen. That is a major complaint of this game. And it is way too short. There either should have been more worlds or there should have been hidden collectibles to find and extra content and levels to unlock to give the game some replay value. I think more worlds would have been the better of the two options, because I do not like to spend the time going back to previous worlds. But other gamers might.
Overall, Revenge of the Flying Dutchman is a very fun, entertaining, enjoyable, and memorable game, but it was too short and there is nothing left to do when you beat it.