That's what it's called right? When a character is a caricature of what they used to be.
The only spongebob I've seen is the first 3 seasons and I've seen the movie like twice I think.
I still return to those first three seasons because even as an adult, I think they hold up and are funny.
I've seen clips on Youtube of more modern spongebob and it seemed like garbage, but I haven't seen enough to see how bad it is.
Patrick in this game, and I assume it's representative of how more modern spongebob is written, in particular is completely flanderized.
He was always really dumb, but in a funny way.
Here he's straight up retarded and is just like a caricature of how he was in the first 3 seasons.
All the writing and characters feel off, but his stands out the most, and I skip all the dialogue so mostly I'm hearing the quips Spongebob and Patrick make as you play the game.
Patrick went from a self-confident, well-meaning moron, to a complete retard who might actually be using his idiocy as an excuse to be a jerk to people.
It really is interesting, seeing how smart writers create a stupid character, versus how stupid writers make a stupid character.
All Spongebob characters have been "flanderized" since like Season 5, or whenever the guy died abouts. Either way its been nearly 20 years of Spongebob/Patrick being literally retarded and barely functional.
Like most long running shows, the period of time when it was "well written/good" and the characters were interesting or nuanced is now a fraction of the time its been on air, and their current form is by all intents and purposes the majority of their writing and screentime.
Hillenberg only died in 2018, so most of this was under his helm to begin with.
Huh, wonder why I thought he died.
Either way, upon doing actual memory refreshing he left the series after Season 3 and the movie to be mostly uninvolved, which lines up with what most people consider "good parts and flanderized parts."
Its like how lisa simpson became an unlikeable bitch and only bitter, feminazis like her.
You are correct on the definition of "flanderised." The little I know of Spongebob I learned from memes, but it's old enough that you might have people writing Spongebob who grew up on Spongebob, creating an exaggerated version because those are the memories that lasted to adulthood.
Modern audiences are that dumb they need their hands held in all media and spoon fed instructors what is funny or not. Catering to a denominator so low means trash like this.
What did you expect?
He's voiced by a Fagerbakke.