My Thoughts on “Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron”

 

 (This is the cover art for Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron.)

 

 

You’ve seen Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, but have you seen Jimmy Negatron, Evil Boy Genius? Well, you’re about to in this review. I honestly wasn’t planning on reviewing this game, but when I was watching the walkthrough by Rnjwalkthroughs, I was thinking of things to say about it that couldn’t just be conveyed through a foreword or a mere mention (or tangent rather) in an otherwise unrelated post. And I don’t want the next post following my repost about the female outfits ♀︎ in Mortal Kombat 🐉 to be yet another repost, I want to follow it up with at least one original post, and I haven’t seen any new movies, or played any new games, or finished watching any shows (I’ve just barely started watching Lilo & Stitch: The Series). So, I thought, what the heck, I’ll just review this game. It’ll be the follow up to my review of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, the PC game, and I’ll get to say all the things about this game that I wanted to say while watching the walkthrough. 

But first, since I mentioned it in the foreword of my previous post, I should give you update and tell you how my trip to Santa Fe was. It was good. I went to the Indian Market, which is an art festival held annually from August 16-17 for Native American arts and crafts. I went there with two of my grandmas (one of them is the aunt of my immediate grandma, but in our culture, she’d still be considered my grandma), and we went to support my aunt, who was selling pottery there. She is a potter, and one of the best there is. Certainly, one of the best potters in Acoma. One of her potteries was selected in the “Best of the Best” contest for the Santa Fe Indian Market, it was in one of the top spots. I don’t know if it won, but it was in the top spots. I don’t know if it was top 3 or top 5, I’d probably have to ask her about that. It was fun, I enjoyed myself, and my grandmas enjoyed themselves, looking around the Indian Market, even if we didn’t end up buying anything except for my immediate grandma, who bought a Star Wars shirt for my dad, since he’s really into Star Wars. We all had a great time, just getting out of the house, and traveling to Santa Fe, and supporting my aunt and her artistic endeavors while doing it. 

 

I got to see my baby nephew, and my sister-in-law. I don’t know, would she be considered my sister-in-law, are sister-in-laws even a thing? Either way, her and my cousin are not married so…I don’t know what she’d be considered 🤷‍♂️. But, she is the mother of my nephew (one of my nephews), and she’s the girlfriend of my younger cousin, and that’s all that counts. We didn’t expect to see them there, we thought it would just be my aunt and her fiancé (who’d also be considered my uncle I guess), but they were there. She and the baby came with her parents, while my cousin stayed in Albuquerque because he had to work. He’s a paramedic, and he’s also attending medical school at the same time. It was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one 😊; you’ll understand that reference if you’ve seen Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, or at least know any of the Star Wars prequel memes. We hit the Buffalo Thunder casino and hotel 🦬 after we left Santa Fe, and we all managed to win some money 💵. I have $70 some 💵 to my name (in my wallet) . It was a good trip, I’m glad I went. I needed that. 

I already said earlier that I haven’t seen any new movies lately. I still haven’t seen Jurassic World Rebirth, even though it’s out of theaters and is on digital, and I haven’t gotten the chance to watch Nobody and Nobody 2. And Primitive War hasn’t come out yet, and won’t be out until August 21, 2025, which is just three days away. Speaking of things that are on digital, Superman (2025) is out digital now. That movie came out on July 11, 2025, and it was only in theaters for a few weeks or so, and now it’s going on digital. That’s a sign that movie flopped, and performed way below Warner Bros.’s expectations. While it was in theaters, it only managed to gross $594 million 💵 worldwide, which is really bad for a movie that had a purported production budget of $225 million 💵, and had a marketing budget of $200 million 💵, which adds up to a total budget of $425 million 💵. Needless to say, but the movie needed to make a lot more money 💵 than just $594 million 💵 for it to be considered anywhere near profitable, or even just to break even. The movie did really poorly internationally, especially in China 🇨🇳 (the movie straight up flopped in China 🇨🇳), and it only managed to get that $594 million 💵 largely because of domestic turnout.  

 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps did even worse than Superman (2025), making only $468 million 💵 worldwide against an estimated production budget of $200 million+ 💵, but like Superman (2025), it was only to make that amount, largely because of domestic turnout. International audiences also did not turn for Fantastic Four either. It flopped badly there too. I won’t be surprised if it ends up going to digital pretty soon too, if it hasn’t already. This is a huge disaster for Marvel and Disney because this was supposed to be their big comeback movie, the movie that would show the world that Marvel was back and was ready to kick ass again and would pave the way for Avengers: Doomsday, their big release for 2026 and generate hype for that (since it has Doctor Doom and Doctor Doom is traditionally a Fantastic Four villain; just like how Thanos is traditionally a Guardians of the Galaxy villain), and everyone is in agreement that Fantastic Four flopped, there’s very little dispute or disagreement about that amongst comic book fans and entertainment media pundits. It’s not like with Superman (2025), where people on the Internet 🛜 are trying to spin its box office gross as a success rather than what it actually is, which is a failure. Not a total failure, but definitely not a success. People have been glazing that movie since the beginning and are in denial that it flopped, and I don’t know why. Just because it was directed by James Gunn? Because it wasn’t Zack Snyder? 

 

The YouTube channel, Dami made a video recently talking about it’s more accurate to say Superman (2025) was flop than to say it’s a success, and speculating why it and Fantastic Four both failed despite them both being the two biggest superhero movies of the year. And he ended his video by saying that if Supergirl (2026) flops next year, then it will mark the end of the superhero genre. He specifically said that it will confirm that we are in the “twilight years of the superhero genre.” Meaning that no superhero movie outside of the heavy hitters, Batman, Spider-Man, and The Avengers, will able to make money 💵 anymore, and they’ll be favored less than those heavy hitters. At least until even those heavy hitters stop making money 💵. Martin Scorsese would be much pleased about this recent development in the world of blockbuster cinema 🖕😆🖕, and both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg would be vindicated in the statements they’ve made in the past about the future decline of superhero movies because that future is here. And frankly, Marvel and DC have no body to blame but themselves. 

 

Dami got all kinds of shit on social media when he predicted that Fantastic Four would outperform Superman (2025) in the box office, and people wouldn’t let him hear the end of it when it too flopped and flopped worse than Superman (2025). Especially since he’s an admitted Snyder fan, he does like Snyder’s version of Superman (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Zack Snyder’s Justice League) more than he does James Gunn’s. But, his criticisms towards Superman (2025) and his assessments over it and Fantastic Four: First Steps’s box office performance have very little to do with his love for Zack Snyder, at least to me. Yeah, he has a bias, everyone does, but that alone shouldn’t discredit any of what he has to say. And at least he actually admitted he was wrong, which is more than some bigger and more respected YouTubers would do. So, I highly recommend that you go check his video out.

This game is more based off the TV show, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius more than it is the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius movie like the previous game was. So, you might think it’s weird that I’m reviewing this game before I even got to The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron. But, with that show it’s different because it’s not planned to be 200th or 199th post like the Jimmy Neutron movie is. I can review that show anytime I want, it doesn’t matter which order I do it in. If I review this game before the series or after the series. In fact, I can review this game on its own in isolation because despite it taking some elements from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, it mostly stands on its own and does its own thing. You could conceivably play this game without even watching a single episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron. You just need to have watched the Jimmy Neutron movie and played the previous Jimmy Neutron game (which was loosely based on the movie) that AWE Games made, and you’ll get it. 

 

It’s sort of a similar deal with Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, where you really don’t need to watch Lilo & Stitch: The Series to understand it, even if may take some elements from that series here and there. You just need to have watched the original Lilo & Stitch movie from 2002 to understand it, which many people have already done. They skipped the series and its two associated movies (Stitch!: The Movie and Leroy & Stitch) entirely, and went straight into Lilo & Stitch 2 (which is actually the third Lilo & Stitch movie despite its title). They didn’t even miss a thing. I mean, you’ll appreciate the movie slightly more if you’ve watched the show, or the other two animated Lilo & Stitch movies, but it’s not required viewing. I do plan reviewing Lilo & Stitch 2 someday, probably after I finish watching Season 1 of Lilo & Stitch: The Series and before I start watching Season 2.

 

I’ve already reviewed Lilo & Stitch (2002) and Stitch! The Movie if you want to check those out, and I wrote about the trailer to 2025 live action remake, where I wrote an update after the movie’s release talking about the reception from fans of the original towards that movie despite its amazing box office performance 🤑; the movie grossed $1 billion 💵 worldwide, exceeding pretty much all expectations. Needless to say, the reception from fans wasn’t great 😬. The remake caused a huge backlash from fans of the original 🤬, which is pretty much par for the course for Disney live action remakes. Except this time, Disney doesn’t even have to pay attention to the backlash or shift course, because unlike Snow White (2025), which released two months before, Lilo & Stitch (2025) was a box office success, meaning Disney can just laugh their way to the bank 🏦 🤣💰, and not just make a sequel to this specific remake, but also keeping remaking more of their animated movies; even if most of them probably won’t make a billion dollars 💵 like Lilo & Stitch (2025) did. 

This is in stark contrast to the other two Jimmy Neutron games that followed this one: The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Jet Fusion and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Attack of the Twonkies. Not only do they feature more characters from the show specifically (like Professor Calamitous, Jet Fusion, Principal Willoughby, Graystar, and of course the Twonkies themselves), but they’re directly based off of episodes from the show, entire TV movies (2-part hour long episodes). So, you have to be somewhat in tune with the show and the characters within to truly understand both games. Again, it’s just like with Stitch! The Movie and Leroy & Stitch, you kind of have to watch the series to truly get something out of them, although you could conceivably watch Stitch! The Movie without watching the series since it takes place before, but it ends on a cliffhanger or a sequel hook and you’d feel a bit unsatisfied if you didn’t watch the series afterwards since it continues from where Stitch! The Movie left off. It pretty much as a pilot for the entire series, and it’d be weird to watch the pilot to a series and not watch the series itself. 

 

It’s kind of like the Jimmy Neutron movie, and it essentially serves as the pilot to the series that followed, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron. But, even with Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, you could argue that it is more stand alone than Stitch! The Movie, like you could conceivably watch that movie without ever watching the show and still be pretty satisfied. They didn’t make it super obvious that they were setting up a TV show, unlike Stitch! The Movie, which made it very obvious that they were setting up a TV show. And Leroy & Stitch, you definitely need to watch the series before you watch that movie because it’s pretty a sequel to the series and acts as the finale to the series. You can’t exactly watch a series finale without watching the series first. 

There is one more thing I’d like to say before I start talking about the game proper. You know how in the foreword to my Army of the Dead 🧟‍♂️🎰 review, I was talking about how the post I wrote about the Mortal Kombat II 🐉 (2025) and Tron: Ares trailers was a trial run for when I eventually start reviewing multiple movies in a single post? And I went on this whole diatribe about how I wasn’t sure if I should review the live action G.I. Joe movies together in the same post or if I should give them each their own individual posts? Well, it turns out I’ve done that, I’ve already reviewed multiple movies in the same post: the Rugrats movie trilogy. I reviewed all three of the Rugrats movies together in the same post. Granted, that review was a repost from DeviantART when I was making the transition from DeviantART to Blogger, but it is still something that I did. I remembered that I did that when I was writing the update to my Ruby Gloom review. I can’t believe I forgot that, I guess it just slipped my mind because it was so long ago now. I originally wrote that post in 2023, that’s almost three years ago now. So, I was wrong about what I said in that foreword, I have reviewed multiple movies in one post, I just forgot that I did that. So, keep that in mind when you read that post (the Army of the Dead 🧟‍♂️🎰 review) before you give me any shit about it in the comments. 

Oh, and about that post about the Tron: Ares trailer (the second one), you know how I was talking about how people on the Internet 🛜 don’t like Jared Leto, and how some of his real world antics have had something to do with it? Well, it turns out I was right. His real world antics have a lot to do with why people don’t like him. And by real world antics, I mean sexual assault, rape, and molestation, sex crimes and possible pedophilia. Because a few months ago, before the second trailer even came out, Jared Leto was credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple women ♀︎. A lot of the women ♀︎ who accused Leto of these sex crimes, were underaged. That’s why I brought up that pedophilia and molestation stuff. Jared Leto not only denied these allegations, but he even denied the things that we do know that he actually did, all stupid and horrible stuff he was doing on the set of Suicide Squad (2016), sending his co-stars used condoms and dead animals, all under the pretext of it being “method acting.” Honestly, “method acting” is often just used by actors as an excuse to act weird and act like an asshole. Jared Leto didn’t have to do any of that stuff to get into character as the Joker. 

 

But now, he’s denying that, even though we have evidence that he did those things, we have his co-stars’ testimonies, they were interviewed about Jared Leto’s antics behind-the-scenes of Suicide Squad (2016), and none of them were having it 😑. Especially Viola Davis, she was not happy at all about what Jared Leto was doing on the set, sending all this gross stuff to her and the other actors, sending these grotesque things to their trailers as “gifts 🎁” in-between filming. She was not amused at all by his behavior and his so-called “method acting.” No one thought that what he was doing was funny or thought it was called for 😒. Now, he’s being accused of even worse shit than that, worse than just being an asshole on set to everyone. Now, he’s being accused of actual crimes. 

 

But, it doesn’t seem like nothing has really come of these allegations, they didn’t make a dent, since both trailers to Tron: Ares came out, Nine Inch Nails released their song for the movie, and no one was talking about Jared Leto’s allegations. A lot of the comments that I saw were clowning on Jared Leto and talking about how they didn’t like him for the more “innocent” reasons like they don’t like him as actor, or they find him annoying or they find to be obnoxious, or even an asshole. Nothing about him allegedly being a rapist or a pedophile. It could be that none of those commenters knew about Jared Leto’s allegations. Because they didn’t really make any kind of world news, they didn’t make the entertainment or pop culture news the same way the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, P. Diddy, Kevin Spacey, and other actors accused of sexual stuff. But, we’ll see what happens when the movie gets closer to release, it’s only three months away. 

 

I don’t think Disney will do anything about him now, since the movie’s already finished, it’s in the can, and it’s ready to release in October. If they were to remove him from the film itself, it’s already too late for that, unless they delayed it to do reshoots with a different actor, sort of like what Ridley Scott did with Kevin Spacey on All the Money in the World 💵 (2017) when he was accused of sex crimes. He completely removed him from the movie, cut all of his scenes out, and reshot the movie with Christopher Plummer in the role instead. I don’t think Disney will do that with Jared Leto on Tron: Ares, there’s just too much money 💵 riding on this, and if they were going to do that, they would’ve done it already immediately after the allegations came out. When it comes to the sequels, if Tron: Ares is even successful enough to get a sequel, I could see a scenario where they just choose not to bring him back, like they fire him, and go in a different direction with the Tron franchise with a different star. Kind of like what they did with Jonathan Majors and his role as Kang the Conqueror after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 🐜 after he was arrested for domestic abuse. 

 

They fired him, and then went in a completely different direction with Phase 5 and beyond, scrapping Avengers: Kang Dynasty, and shifting the focus away from Kang and the multiverse in general, and doing a completely new story with a different villain, Doctor Doom. They greenlit Avengers: Doomsday in Kang Dynasty’s place, and cast Robert Downey Jr. in the role as Doctor Doom. Their decision to do that was a lot easier since not only was Quantumania a flop and got terrible reviews from critics and audiences, but people just weren’t vibing with this direction the MCU was going in with Kang and his variants, and the multiverse in general. People got tired of it, and they didn’t really like Kang as a villain. Besides He Who Remains in Loki, Quantumania was not a good showing for this character, in fact, they kind of undermined him and made him look lame; a total step down from Thanos. 

 

I could see them doing something like that with Tron, firing Leto and completely changing course, focusing on a completely different character; perhaps even bringing back Sam Flynn and Quorra, and going back to their story after this minor distraction with Ares; a character that wasn’t in the previous movies, wasn’t hinted at before and is a completely new character, a new protagonist that they’ve shoving down our throats and trying to make happen. I mean, if they didn’t fire Jared Leto, it would just make Disney look hypocritical and even a bit racist for firing Jonathan Majors, robbing him of his starring role as the next main villain of the MCU after Thanos, and not firing Jared Leto, when Jared Leto’s been accused of way worse than Jonathan Majors. I mean, it would be in line for Disney, people kind of expect hypocrisy, double standards, and even a hint of bigotry (not just racial, but other kinds of bigotry like bigotry towards LGBT people 🏳️‍🌈) from them. 

Now, as I said in my review of the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius PC game, I have never played Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron before in my life. And thus, I don’t have the same level of nostalgia or attachment to it as I do to Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (PC game). This isn’t a game that I’d be taking with to the apocalypse if you know what I mean. For the longest time, I had no idea that this game even existed. I only learned about later on, sometime in the 2010s, after I revisited the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius PC game, and I saw that this was yet another Jimmy Neutron PC game that was made by the same company. How could I have missed that? So, like my review of Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, this will be another game review where I didn’t actually play the game for myself, but rather just watched someone else play it, in a longplay, or a walkthrough in this instance. It’s not like I could actually play this game even if I wanted to since it’s unavailable on modern systems. The gameplay footage Rnjwalkthroughs was recorded for his walkthrough using a modified exe that ran the game in HD (1920x1080 resolution) instead of SD (640x480 resolution) like it was originally. That’s how you’re play the walkthrough back in 1440p HD resolution on YouTube, because he heavily modified the game so that it could be played in HD. 

Like I also said in that review, this is a way more polished game compared to Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. You could tell just by looking at this game, and especially playing it (I assume), that this is more of what they wanted the previous Jimmy Neutron game to be, but couldn’t because of time constraints and budget constraints, and probably a little bit of inexperience; not just with the IP, but with making games in general I’m sure. The character models are able to move a lot more fluidly, they’re more expressive, there are more NPCs besides the main cast and they actually walk around the environments this time, the city, downtown Retroville, is more detailed and looks more like an actual city, there’s a much wider variety of enemies to fight, and it has actual boss battles. It doesn’t look or feel as empty as Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius did, it feels more like a more populated world, which would’ve helped if this was an open world game like Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius was but it really isn’t. And it actually looks and feels like a finished product, whereas Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius looked and felt unfinished; like they just rushed this product out just so they could something to release before the movie came out. But, with this game, they clearly had a lot more time and money 💵 to really refine the game and get it to where they really wanted it to be since they didn’t have a movie that they had to help promote, a deadline they had to meet to get it out there. 

It also has a more coherent story than Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Not that didn’t Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius didn’t have a plot, it did, but the story wasn’t as important, or it wasn’t prioritized. More emphasis was put on the open world gameplay, the exploration and collect-a-thon aspect of the game. But, this game is a lot more story-based, with a lot more cutscenes (it has one long ass opening cutscene that takes up the first 6 minutes of the game and the game is only 2 hours and 8 minutes long; or 128 minutes long), and a lot more in-game dialogue (dialogue during gameplay as opposed to just during cutscenes), and it is a much more linear experience. Though it isn’t that linear since you can choose the order in-which missions you complete. Like, you don’t have to do the Libby first, you can do the Ms. Fowl first, or the Carl mission first. Either way, it ultimately leads to the same conclusion: Jimmy Neutron defeating Jimmy Negatron and saving his dimension from his villainy. I should probably explain what the plot is before I go any further, since I mentioned the different missions you can choose, and I didn’t want to go on without explaining the context behind those missions. 

 

Basically, the game’s story is about an evil version of Jimmy from another dimension named Jimmy Negatron, who travels to Jimmy Neutron’s dimension (the prime dimension I guess you could say) after Jimmy attempts to impress Cindy by building a time machine inside the Retroville museum and ends up creating an interdimensional portal instead, and immediately starts causing chaos. He corrupts VOX, turning her into a malevolent trickster, and she traps Libby in a virtual reality world of her own creation, he traps Ms. Fowl and later Jimmy’s parents, Judy and Hugh in the Ancient Egypt 🇪🇬 exhibit at the museum which he modified and made it real? I guess 😕, he ruins Jimmy’s room and fills it all of his stuff, he hypnotizes Cindy 😵‍💫 by making her drink Black Flurp (an evil version of Purple Flurp that Negatron created) and she immediately falls in love 😍 with Jimmy (Neutron that is), he makes Carl grow to gigantic size by also making him drink Black Flurp. He does other small things like traveling back in time ⏱️ (using Jimmy’s time machine ⏱️) to try to ruin Jimmy’s past, but those are the big ones. All so that he can blame it all on Neutron, so that everyone will hate Jimmy, or love him I guess in the case of Cindy, who’s behavior and personality was changed so that she would fall in love 😍 with Jimmy; which Jimmy doesn’t like because he’s not into girls ♀︎ yet, or at least is in denial that he is and doesn’t want to admit that he likes Cindy. 

 

There is no deeper reason as to why Negatron is doing this, he’s just doing it because he can, because he is evil, absolute evil (being evil is his whole personality), and he just wants to mess with Jimmy and make his life a living hell. You know he’s evil because he inexplicably has a goatee even though he’s presumably a prepubescent kid just like Neutron is. Yes, this does follow Star Trek rules where the evil parallel universe version of somebody has a goatee. Even Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness followed this rule, even though Doctor Strange already had a goatee in the 616 universe. But here, it’s played more as a joke because well, Jimmy Negatron, like the prime universe Jimmy Neutron, is still just a kid. The weird thing about Negatron in this game is that even he’s supposed to be the stereotypical mad scientist, some of the things he does feel less like science and technology and more like magic. Like, what he did to the Ancient Egypt 🇪🇬 exhibit, how did he do all that with just science and technology? There’s no way he could’ve done that with science and technology alone, it had to have been done with magic. Like, Jimmy Negatron feels like an evil scientist like Dr. Robotnik, or Dr. Wily, or Dr. Frankenstein (the original mad scientist, the mad scientist in-which all other mad scientists are derived from), or Dr. Moreau, or Dr. Mifune, or Dr. Smith, or Dr. Malic, or Plankton, or even Mandark to a certain extent, and more like chaos agent, a chaos god or chaos entity like Q from Star Trek, Eris from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, or Discord from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, who was heavily inspired by Q from Star Trek (even being voiced by the same guy ♂︎ who played Q, John de Lance).  

So, it’s up to Jimmy and Goddard to set things right and defeat Negatron and send him back to his own dimension, even as Negatron has managed to turn a lot of their close friends and family against them. Besides the cosmetic and wardrobe changes, like Jimmy wearing pants 👖 instead of shorts and Cindy wearing a green tank top, beige pants, and having a ponytail instead of bunches, almost nothing was taken from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron. This game has a lot of characters and things that are not in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron and only exist in this game and no where else in the franchise, like the fireworks stand guy 🎆🎇♂︎ during the Fourth of July 🇺🇸 section, or the Sporko’s employee, in fact the whole fast food chain of Sporko’s doesn’t exist at all in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron. 

 

The main fast food restaurant in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron is McSpanky’s which is an amalgamation and stand-in for both McDonald’s and Burger King 🍔. Like, it’s pretty much if you mixed McDonald’s with Burger King 🍔 into the same restaurant, and then gave it a Scottish theme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and you pretty much got McSpanky’s. Sporko’s could conceivably exist alongside McSpanky’s, like maybe it’s the Retroville equivalent to Stufy’s, which is a local restaurant we have in Albuquerque that mainly serves Mexican food 🇲🇽 (or more accurately, New Mexican food) like burritos 🌯, tacos 🌮, tamales 🫔, stuffed sopaipillas, and enchiladas, but they also sell burgers 🍔 too, so which is why I mainly associate that place with burgers 🍔. 

 

That’s usually what my family ordered from there when we went there, which was very seldomly; not that the food at Stufy’s is bad or anything (I’ve tasted it myself), but it’s usually not one of our first choices, and it’s never on our minds that often; which is why I had a hard time remembering the name of it and finding the name of it just for this segment. Or maybe it’s like the Retroville equivalent to Perico’s that’s another one to consider, even though Perico’s is even less known for hamburgers 🍔 than Stufy’s. Although, when we see Sporko’s in the game, it looks like a pretty small place, like one of those drive thru only places like Dutch Bros., or the Human Bean, or like that one Weinerschnitzel location near I-40, next to that Walmart; if you live in Albuquerque, or if you’ve been to Albuquerque multiple times, and you drove on I-40 to get there, you’ll know which one I’m talking about, you’ll know which one I’m talking about. I guess I associate Sporko’s with Stufy’s because the names kind of sound similar. 

Interestingly, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron would introduce a very similar character called Evil Jimmy, who was a clone of Jimmy (being one of six clones created by Jimmy initially to get out of doing his chores, so that he can go to space and collect some rare ice crystals ❄️ to make the perfect ice cream 🍨) rather than an alternate version from him from another dimension. So, that’s probably why Jimmy Negatron was never brought into the show proper, and why he remained confined to this one game, because they already had an evil version of Jimmy. They didn’t need two ✌️. Besides Evil Jimmy fits the look and overall tone of the show a lot better than Jimmy Negatron does. The only exception to this was Carl, Libby, and Nick, who all retain their movie and early Season 1 looks. Libby has the same outfit and hairdo that she had in the movie and most of Season 1 of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Nick has same outfit that he had in the movie and in Season 1 (in the following seasons, they dressed him up like a 1950s-style greaser), and Carl still has his suspenders which he only had in the movie and in the series. That’s cool, I don’t why they got rid of his suspenders for the show, but I’m glad they’re here. But, one more word about Nick, he has a lot less of a role here than he did in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Like, I think he only has one word of line of dialogue in the entire game, and then he’s never seen again. Which actually mirrors the movie and the show. He had a huge role in the movie, pretty much being a sixth main character, but has a small role in the actual show, pretty much being a side character who often has no lines and just fades into the background. The show kind of did him dirty, I got to admit. 

This game does admittedly reuse a lot of assets from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Like, the character models on all the characters that were in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius are the same here, except for those few cosmetic changes. The graphics are also about on the same level of detail, which is not very as you can imagine. They even reused a lot of sound effects. One of my favorites that they reused is actual technically a voice clip, whenever Jimmy climbs over something or on top of something, he goes, “Foom.” He made that sound every time he climbed on top of something or over something in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and they reused it here, in Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron. It’s kind of like how the 3D era Mortal Kombat 🐉 games (Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance 🐉, Mortal Kombat: Deception 🐉, and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon 🐉) all reused a lot of the same assets as each other (the only thing they’d usually change are the voices, though the voices were mostly the same from Deception to Armageddon), but it was a slightly more enhanced version. 

 

Like, even though Armageddon reused assets that were created in 2004 and 2002, they still enhanced them slightly, so that would be a more higher quality version of what you’ve seen before, so that it would look like a modern game from 2006, which is when Armageddon was released. It’s really the same deal here, even though Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron reused a lot of the same assets from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which came out in 2001, it still enhanced them, so you were seeing something that was higher quality than what you saw before. This game was released in 2002, just a year apart from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, so the time window in-between is a shorter with these games than the time window in-between the 3D era Mortal Kombat 🐉 games, so it was perhaps a bit more excusable than they reused those assets. I think as a kid, I would’ve appreciated that because I liked my games to consistent from installment to another. If a video game got a sequel, I wanted that sequel to look just like the previous one. I never really liked it when games looked too different from the last one, unless it was a reboot or a remake. Like, my kid version probably would’ve hated that Mortal Kombat 11 🐉 looks so different from Mortal Kombat X 🐉, or even that Mortal Kombat X 🐉 looks so different from Mortal Kombat 🐉 (2011) AKA Mortal Kombat 9 🐉. 

One area where they did get kind of lazy was the Halloween section 🎃. In the Halloween section 🎃, where Jimmy chases after Negatron in the past (using the time machine that Negatron modified to actually be a time machine), and they end up in a past Halloween 🎃, everyone was wearing the same exact costume. They were all wearing ghost costumes 👻, like the kind where you put a bed sheet on someone and cut out some holes for the eyes. Even when it makes no sense for them all to be dressed up as ghosts 👻. Like do you really think Cindy, Libby, Nick, and Sheen would go Trick ‘r Treating dressed up as ghosts 👻? No. I could see Carl dressing up as a ghost 👻 for Halloween 🎃, but none of those other characters. Really, they just had them all dress up in the same costume so that they could have Negatron hide in plain sight amongst the crowd 😶‍🌫️, and also so that they didn’t have render unique character models with different costumes for each character. That would’ve taken too much time and money 💵. 

 

So, it was cheaper and easier to just have them all dress up as a ghosts 👻.  They were just being lazy 😒, I’m sorry, I can’t forgive that. But, like I said, at least there are actual NPCs walking around the environments in some sections sometimes. That’s more than what Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius had where there no NPC walking around at any point during the game. The only NPCs we only really saw were the main cast of characters, and even then, they’d only just show one character at a time. It just made the world feel small that we just saw those characters and no body else (everyone else was a disembodied voice); you could tell that it was made on a budget. So, that is one thing that I gotta give to this game, even when they were doing that lazy shit with the ghost costumes 👻, at least, they populated the world this time and made it feel at least a little bit bigger. 

But, even though the game is more polished than Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, even though it is technically better made, better put together than Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, it still lacks the charm that game had. I said this in the review for that game, but the jankiness added to that game’s charm, jankiness that, for the most part, this game lacks. The only janky element of the game is that it will loop back to the beginning sometimes after you finished it and after it shows you your final score from all the points you acquired (because this game does have a point system just like Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius), which is the same glitch that occurs after you finish Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Yes, it was less polished than this game, but that lack of polish added to that game’s charm. It was comforting and nostalgic to me, which this game isn’t. I’m not saying Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron is a bad game or anything, I’m just saying that I lack a connection to it, largely because I never played it when I was a kid, and I discovered it years later. And thus it doesn’t impress me, or give me that comforting nostalgic feeling like it does many other people. 

Surprisingly, from the comments that I saw, no one really finds this game scary like they did Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. I talked in my review how some people found that game scary, off putting, and how reminded them of a liminal space. A liminal space, for those that don’t know, are empty or abandoned spaces, usually buildings, that should otherwise be fully occupied and full of life, and evoke feelings of uneasiness. Liminal spaces tend to be eerie, forlorn, and surreal, according to Wikipedia. The most famous liminal space of all would have to be the Backrooms, which turned into this whole mythology. People were creating whole stories set in this fictional location called the Backrooms, which was based on a real photograph of a HobbyTown under renovation, and is even getting a motion picture based on it made by A24 and produced by James Wan amongst many others, much to my chagrin 😒. The movie is being directed by Kane Parsons, the guy ♂︎ who directed a series of short films based around the Backrooms on YouTube, and apparently A24 thought they were good enough to greenlight a feature film, and hire one of the most prominent names in the horror genre to help produce it. 

 

So, by making a series of short films on YouTube based on an urban legend and creepypasta, this guy ♂︎ is getting the chance to direct his first feature film and being granted an entry point into Hollywood to pursue further endeavors as a feature film director; if this film is successful. And when I said, “amongst many others,” I meant it. The Backrooms (2026) has a whopping 7 producers, James Wan is just one of many. Usually, when a movie has that many producers, it’s usually not a good sign, but the jury is still out on this movie. At worst, this could be yet another Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023) or Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025) (which hasn’t come out at the time of me writing this but it still looks bad and I don’t have confidence in Blumhouse to deliver a good product with that sequel), or it could actually be surprisingly good and exceed expectations, which are frankly pretty low; even amongst people who liked the Backrooms series on YouTube by Kane Parsons, people who like James Wan, and people who like A24. 

 

James Wan and A24 both have produced bad work in the past, their record isn’t clean, they’ve made some stinkers over the years, and you cannot rely on them to give you a worthwhile product, which what movies are, they’re products; at least they’re better than Blumhouse, I’ll put it that way. I was never really that interested in the Backrooms mythos, in fact, I found it pretty stupid more than anything else, so I probably won’t see it when it comes out regardless of what the word of mouth is like. If people say it’s good or that it’s a “horror masterpiece” or even that it’s a “masterpiece” in general, it’ll just be another overhyped movie I’ll avoid like KPop Demon Hunters, and if people say it’s bad, and that it’s not just one of the worst horror movies of the year, or even one of the worst horror movies of all time, but one of the worst movies A24 and James Wan have ever produced, then I’ll treat it as if I dodged a bullet by not seeing it. 

So that’s what a liminal space is. And at least person in the comments of Rnjwalkthroughs’s walkthrough of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius said the game was like a “liminal space simulator” because of how empty it was. But, Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron doesn’t really have that problem. It is more populated, and feels like it’s full of life. There are sections where you see NPCs walking around the environment, or you see enemies roaming. It feels like there’s more activity on screen compared to Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. It looks and feels more like a proper finished. So, no one’s saying that it’s scary or that it’s off putting, or even that it’s weird. In fact, they’re saying what I said about Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, that it’s nostalgic and brings back childhood memories. This is still a weird game, like why does the title card for the entire game show Herman holding Judy? That never happens in the game at any point. Herman and Judy never interact at any point during the game, they never in the same room or location together, and aren’t even aware of each other’s existence.  

 

Or while we are still talking about the title cards, why does the title card for the King Carl section show the giant Carl holding Cindy in one of his hands? Is it because it’s supposed to be a reference to King Kong, you know, King Carl, so they needed him to hold a blonde girl ♀︎ in his hand and the only one that fit the bill was Cindy? Even though Carl and Cindy really don’t have a connection or a relationship like that in the movie or in the show. They’re just doing things that don’t make sense, just so that they could have a movie reference. There’s a lot more weirdness than that, but those were some of the ones that stuck out to me, and I felt I had to say something. All of the games AWE Games made were weird. Even the SpongeBob 🧽 games they did were weird, especially the first one they did, SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty 🧽🍔. That game almost makes Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron look normal by comparison, and it’s just as janky, if not, more janky than Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. It actually came out the same year as Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and they were probably made back-to-back, these games were made so quickly. 

 

And you want to talk about off-putting, when these character models try to emote and show more facial expressions, they look more off-putting to me. Probably the most off-putting one is Jimmy’s character model, but mostly because the most doesn’t close all the way when he’s done talking, it kind of stays open a little bit. And it’s clipping a little bit, so instead of the inside of the mouth being all black like it’s supposed to be, there’s a little of white in there, like a little white line. I know it’s not teeth because these character models don’t have teeth, so that’s just the mouth clipping a bit. For some reason, that made me uncomfortable while I was watching it 😫. But, at least, all the same voice actors came back for this game. The voice acting in this game is good, even if the sound quality on the voices is compressed, though it’s not as noticeable as it was in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. You can tell Debi Derryberry was having a blast (no pun intended) voicing Jimmy Negatron 😄. The only one who didn’t come back was the voice for Ms. Fowl. Her voice sounds noticeably different in this game than it did in either the movie, the series, or the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius PC game. 

One aspect of the game that I won’t dispute is the music. The music in this game is fantastic, genuinely. There’s much greater variety of music in this game than there was in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, like different genres. Like, the theme for the wharf has this smooth and cool jazz sound to it (almost like a noir sound to it), the theme for VOX’s virtual reality world has a techno synthesizer sound to it, the theme for museum has this whimsical academia sound to it, Jimmy Negatron’s theme which is like generic Halloween organ music 🎃, almost like trying to sound like Dracula music 🧛‍♂️, and of course, you all those Egyptian themed sections 🇪🇬 inside the museum, so you know that they’re going to play Egyptian music 🇪🇬. There’s some nice ones in here like the theme for the pyramid or the tomb theme, the tomb theme is probably my second favorite song in the entire game. 

 

But, probably my favorite piece of music in the entire game, my #1 favorite is probably the underwater theme 💦, the theme that plays when Jimmy and Goddard are in a submarine trying to get back to Negatron’s underwater lair 💦 so they can get back to portal back to their dimension, the prime dimension, and they’re exploring the ruins of this ancient underwater city 💦, with statues that look suspiciously like Jimmy’s dad (maybe they’re of Jimmy Negatron’s dad in this dimension, or one of his ancestors or something). That theme is so ethereal and soothing, it makes you feel like you’re in the ocean. I like themes like that, that make you feel like you’re in the ocean, exploring this underwater world 💦, seeing all these coral reefs 🪸, seeing all these sea creatures 🐠🦀🐡🦑🐙🐬🦈, these ship wrecks, these ancient underwater ruins. The “Aquatic” theme in the original 1994 Donkey Kong Country does a good job at evoking that same feeling. I even added it to my Frutiger Aero 🫧💦🐠 playlist, which you can watch now clicking that link. I’m thinking of even adding the underwater theme 💦 from this game to that playlist. 

 

So does the song, “The Ride” on the Chronos soundtrack. Chronos BTW was a documentary that was released back in 1985 and shown exclusively in IMAX theaters. It was shot in IMAX (with 70 mm film cameras 🎞️), and this was still back when IMAX just did documentaries, they hadn’t started doing narrative movies, blockbusters, yet, they were just exclusively a documentary focused company. All of their theaters were still in museums, there weren’t any IMAX theaters in multiplexes yet. It was a Koyaanisqatsi style movie, where it was a non-narrative documentary, it didn’t have a story to speak of, no actors, no dialogue, it was just time-lapsed footage of landscapes and cityscapes, set to this very ethereal sounding music composed by Michael Stearns, and the music was composed as if it was one singular continuous piece. Although, on the soundtrack album, they broken it up into multiple tracks, so that the listener wasn’t just to one really long track. But, if you were to listen to the entire album from beginning to end, you could almost replicate the feeling of watching this movie, the way you experience the music while watching the movie. 

 

Well, the part of the soundtrack that I have is called “The Ride” and that particular track used as the trailer music to one of the trailer to the 1989 James Cameron sci-fi adventure film, The Abyss, which of course takes place primarily underwater 💦 at the bottom of the ocean, near the Cayman Trough, hence why it was called The Abyss. And that theme fit perfectly for that trailer, it works so well for an underwater movie 💦, even though that’s not what it was composed for originally. It reminded me of the underwater theme 💦 from this game the first time I heard it. There’s an uncompressed version of the song that someone uploaded that you can listen to. You listen to both versions of the underwater theme 💦 by clicking on these links. The music for the Herman boss battle was also good too. Oh, and the music inside of Jimmy’s house is the exact same as it was in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. They even kept that weird trap door fireplace 🔥, which leads a whole other room. These games are only times Jimmy and his family have that: a fireplace 🔥 that’s actually a secret trap door that leads to a secret room with goodies inside. And by “goodies,” I mean blue and red neutrons, which are still used as health packs and collectibles in this game. Though this time, you can collect red neutrons by completing a puzzle 🧩, like it’s mini jigsaw puzzle 🧩 where you collect these pieces and form the image of a red neutron and then you got it. 

I do think that I would’ve enjoyed this game as a kid if I knew about it and my parents (or grandparents) bought it for me. It does look like a fun game on its own, despite me saying it lacks the charm of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius due its more polished and refined gameplay and graphics. I do appreciate that it actually has an original story, as opposed to being adaptation of an already existing Jimmy Neutron story, like this isn’t based on the movie or any of the specials from the TV series, this is its own story. Even if the story is similar to ones The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron would tell later on, and the main villain is similar to one that The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron would introduce later on. Evil Jimmy would be introduced in Season 2, in the episode, “Send in the Clones,” which premiered on March 9, 2004, 2 years after Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron was released. But, despite that, it really does make you wish that THQ did more Jimmy Neutron games that had original stories instead of them all being adaptations of the movie or one of the TV specials. Almost all of the SpongeBob 🧽 games (all of the really popular ones) and all of the Fairly OddParents games had original stories to them, so couldn’t the other Jimmy Neutron games besides this one? If they do another Jimmy Neutron game in the future, whether it’s for PC, Mac 🖥️💻, or console, or all three, they should have it be an original story rather being an adaptation of preexisting material. Let Jimmy go on a completely new adventure, let him face a completely new enemy, instead ones he’s been on before and ones he’s already faced before. 

It is a bummer that you don’t get to use your inventions anytime you want, like you could in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. This game has a mechanic where you have to collect items scattered around the world, the different environments that you explore, and then use those items to build one of your inventions. And you only get to use that invention for a limited time before it’s unavailable. Jet Fusion and Attack of the Twonkies both have a similar mechanic, but unlike this game, you can keep using the inventions even after you build them. You know, they aren’t a limited time thing, they’re a permanent thing, you can keep using them, and you can choose each one anytime you want, depending on which one suits your needs. It’s like those games took the invention mechanic from both Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and combined them to make the perfect invention mechanic. Attack of the Twonkies pretty much perfected it, got it down to a science (no pun intended), which is why it is best Jimmy Neutron game ever made. It took all of the things that worked about the previous Jimmy Neutron games and left out all the things that didn’t work. This game though, Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron, still has some flaws. It may be a good game, it may be a fun game, but it is not a perfect game. 

 

For one thing, besides the invention mechanic, the game has an anticlimactic ending. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius had the same problem but worse, and while it isn’t as egregious as that, is still anticlimactic. Jimmy Negatron isn’t even the final boss in the game, like you don’t fight him all in the end. After Jimmy Neutron infiltrates the Purple Flurp factory and stops the flow of Black Flurp, he traps Negatron inside a vat before he escapes and then teleports back to his own dimension; but not before Jimmy changed the coordinates, so that Negatron would teleport inside of that cage that he trapped him in the first time, then Herman, being the stupid robot 🤖 that he is and mistakenly thinking he is Jimmy Neutron, would keep Jimmy Negatron in there for the foreseeable future. Instead, you fight a bunch of mechanical dinosaurs from the museum that Negatron reprogrammed before he got trapped, that escape and go on a rampage throughout downtown Retroville. Those are the final bosses, not Jimmy Negatron, but a bunch of animatronic dinosaurs. And then after that last cutscene of Jimmy Negatron being teleported to inside of that cage, and Herman just keeping him in there, the game just ends. No epilogue, no final cutscene to wrap things up. Just that last cutscene with Negatron and Herman, and then the game just shows you your final score board on how you did, and depending on your copy, it’ll just loop back to the beginning because of that glitch I was talking about. That’s a bit disappointing. I think the game would’ve been a lot better if Negatron was the final boss, and the dinosaur battle was placed somewhere before that. It would’ve made for a more satisfying game. 

 

It is weird that the museum is used as the hub world for this game, as opposed to, oh I don’t know, Jimmy’s lab. We spend even less time in Jimmy’s lab in this game than we do in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and we don’t even get the chance to explore it like in that game. It only appears during cutscenes. What is it with these Jimmy Neutron game and them trying to get as far away from the lab as possible. In Attack of the Twonkies, the lab only appeared once, during what was essentially a glorified tutorial section, but at least in that game, you can actually explore it a little bit and do stuff in it. It wasn’t just confined to just cutscenes. I know a lot less about Jet Fusion, but I’m assuming that the lab doesn’t make an appearance in that game, neither in game or during cutscenes, given what the plot of that game is. The closest thing we’ve ever got to the lab being a hub world for a Jimmy Neutron game was the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius console game, the one that was available on the PS2 and the GameCube. But even then, it doesn’t entirely count because that was more of an interactive menu rather than a hub world. 

 

Of all places, you’d think Jimmy would be the most comfortable and where he’d do all his planning and strategizing in his lab, which is almost like his man cave in a way. A place where he can alone, and be himself, doing what he loves, building inventions, and conducting scientific research and experiments. Science is his passion, and it’s what he dedicates most of his time to. And by man cave, I really do mean it since for a long time, he had a strict “no girls ♀︎” policy, he didn’t let any girls ♀︎ into his lab, until he started softening up and letting at least Libby and Cindy come in, especially after they got on friendlier terms with each other, and Jimmy and Cindy grew to like each other a lot more 🥰; being more honest about how they felt about each other; going from being rivals to lovers 🥰. He spends more time in his lab in both the movie and the TV series, especially in the TV series, he spends the majority of his free time there. Whenever he’s not hanging out with Carl and Sheen, he’s in his lab. And even when he does hang out with Carl and Sheen, he’ll still bring Carl and Sheen into his lab; usually to conduct experiments on them, and use them as guinea pigs for his latest invention, but he still invites them in. 

 

It’s just like with Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory, they’re both married to their labs and they both treat them as their own personal little clubhouse, a place where they can get away from the world and do their thing, although Dexter’s even more dedicated to his lab than Jimmy is, and he’s a lot more strict about who he lets into his lab than Jimmy is. Dexter allows no one to enter his lab but him. But, that could be because Dexter’s a lot less social than Jimmy is (he’s a lot more antisocial) and doesn’t have any actual friends who he can invite over to his lab like Jimmy does. If they ever do another Jimmy Neutron game in the future, they better incorporate more of the lab in there, and have it take place there more, and maybe even make it the hub area for the game if it has open world elements like the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius PC game did or like this game sort of does. 

 

 

(This is the walkthrough of Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron that I saw by Rnjwalkthroughs, the same guy who did the walkthrough of the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius PC game that I featured at the end of the review for that game. If he does a cutscene video for this game like he did for that game, I’ll be sure to feature it here alongside the walkthrough of the entire game.)