A card and dice game called SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton Rising is set in the well-known SpongeBob SquarePants universe. To stop <PERSON> from discovering the Krabby Patty recipe is your objective in the game.
The Op is the publisher of Plankton Rising: SpongeBob SquarePants. The main gameplay mechanics used in Thanos Rising and the other titles in The Op's Rising series are also used in this one.
Playing Plankton Rising
You roll dice, get new Friend cards that grant you additional skills, and attempt to complete a lot of food orders before <PERSON> discovers the Krabby Patty recipe in SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton Rising. A Team Home Base card and a Team Leader are dealt to each player at the start of the game, revealing their respective starting dice pools and starting skills. You will alternate with your teammates until one of you has won or lost. Four fast phases comprise each turn:
If you want to enter the kitchen or the dining area, place your team's token here. If you manage to collect the necessary dice icons, each location has four cards that you might be able to interact with. You can build your team by adding Friends, completing Orders, and attempting to vanquish villains.
Resolve a Plankton Card - Each <PERSON> card that is resolved brings <PERSON> one step closer to discovering the formula's secret and typically enables him to annoy diners. After flipping the card, place a Theft cube on the Ingredient tile depicted and move the <PERSON> figure there (or off to the side of the board if it says "Chum Bucket") as well as adding the Theft cube. <PERSON> will trigger the powers on any Villain and Order cards in the kitchen or dining room if he is there, the Friends on the active player's team as well as all other Friend cards there will receive a Time cube.
This stage involves rolling all the dice you receive from the supporters of your team and allocating them to friends.
The next step is to assign at least one die to a Friend, Order, or Villain card (or toss a die if you are unable to place it). 17
Any additional dice are rerolled, and the process is repeated until there are none left.
Resolve Friend Dice - You add a Friend card to your team if all of the icons on it matched your roll. An Order card becomes yours once you have matched every icon on it. If you successfully matched every icon on a <PERSON> card, you can either add a Time cube to the card or, if all of the Time Counter spaces are filled, you can remove the card and receive a number of Spatula tokens equal to the number of Time Counter spaces on the card. The additional symbols or skills you receive from spatula tokens are yours to employ whenever you like during any turn.
A new Plankton ability is activated each time an ingredient appears on a card if, at the end of a turn, an Ingredient tile has all of its Theft Counter slots filled. A Friend card is discarded and a new one is dealt in its place if all of its Time Counter spots are filled.
If all of the ingredient tiles are turned over, if Plankton takes away 10 or more friends, or if any player has no friends left at the end of a turn, you lose the game. Depending on the level of difficulty you selected at the game's outset, you must complete a specific amount of orders to win.
Pros.
Plankton Rising is a game that involves rolling dice to gain new abilities and feel more powerful. The designers did enough to make the game feel like an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, with every character from the series included. Turns are snappy, and players can adjust the difficulty level by filling more orders or removing one or more <PERSON> cards from the deck. It was a lovely thematic touch when the Krabby Patty tiles flipped over to reveal the computer analysis graphic.
Cons
The fact that there are only four playable Team Leader characters is really disheartening. My own view is that they ought to have at the very least added <PERSON> as a Team Leader and her Treedome as a Team Home Base card. 937