SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake Review

A PC overview copy of SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake was supplied to IGN India by THQ Nordic.

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is the most recent platform sport from sport developer Purple Lamp Studios and writer THQ Nordic. I grew up watching the Nickelodeon animated sequence and was excited to dive into the sport to discover its acquainted world and characters resembling SpongeBob and Patrick. After spending a number of hours on the sport, I can say that it presents a blended expertise, with some gratifying moments in addition to some irritating features.

One factor I beloved about SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is its faithfulness to the supply materials. All of the beloved characters from the present make appearances, together with the traditional SpongeBob humour and well-written dialogues current all through. The sport additionally comes with dubs and textual content translated into a number of languages, together with Hindi. This made me revisit my childhood after I watched SpongeBob with Hindi dubs. It was fascinating to play the sport in Hindi, and it’s one thing that I wish to see occur extra in video video games.

Nonetheless, the sport just isn’t with out its flaws, as some ranges are long-winded and contain repetitive duties. As well as, a number of the platform mechanics might be irritating at instances. Let’s try our full overview for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake under.

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake – An underwater journey

In fact, as it is a sport involving SpongeBob, we journey beneath the water to Bikini Backside, the place everybody from the animated sequence resides. It’s value noting that the sport just isn’t restricted to this location. The sport takes you thru a number of “Wishworlds” the place you assist SpongeBob and Patrick save Bikini Backside and their pals who’ve turn out to be misplaced within the respective worlds.

Issues reached this dire state as a result of SpongeBob and Patrick unintentionally triggered mayhem in Bikini Backside by utilizing a magic bubble cleaning soap given to them by Madame Kassandra. Now, it’s as much as them to save lots of the world as Kassandra assists them whereas they journey to totally different worlds. They should save their pals and repair Bikini Backside little by little in every world. Nonetheless, it quickly turns into obvious that Kassandra has her personal plans, which places them in battle with King Neptune.

One factor I beloved about SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is its faithfulness to the supply materials.

All the degrees in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake are distinctive and supply a nice change of surroundings and gameplay. As for fight and journey, you will have a number of strikes resembling Spin Assault, Glide, Karate Kick, and Fishhook Swing. The sport introduces these strikes one after the other as gamers progress via the sport. These new strikes and the expertise whereas transferring forward within the sport improves your playstyle. Combating enemies is usually a bit wonky, however it’s fairly simple general with some difficult moments.

Nonetheless, I discovered a number of the platform mechanics to be a bit irritating generally. At instances, the Karate Kick was exhausting to intention with a keyboard. The degrees do turn out to be difficult as you progress within the sport, although. This improve in problem is an efficient factor, as I anticipated the sport to be an entire informal expertise. As a substitute, I used to be pleasantly stunned to seek out the difficult side of the sport.

Whereas SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is charming for positive, it began to really feel a bit tedious to me after some time.

There are additionally a number of issues to gather all through the sport, resembling cosmic jelly, gold doubloons, golden underwear, golden spatulas, Plankton’s pet Spot, and different collectibles. Nonetheless, I opted to simply play the sport straight, as I’m not a lot of a completionist. The sport additionally contains a wide range of costumes for SpongeBob, that are based mostly on a number of the most iconic episodes from the present.

Boring Bikini Backside in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake

Whereas SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is charming for positive, it began to really feel a bit tedious to me after some time. The gameplay itself does not range an excessive amount of and whereas every of the seven worlds has its personal distinctive design and challenges, they observe the same sample. This made me generally lose curiosity, though I really like 3D platformers.

The sport additionally begins to really feel lengthy, which isn’t an excellent signal for me. I’m not saying it is a drawback per se, as there may be loads of content material to maintain you engaged for hours on finish. Nonetheless, the repetitive nature of the gameplay felt like SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake was dragging on for too lengthy. It could have been good if there was extra selection to maintain issues recent for the whole lot of the sport.

Voice appearing reels you in

What I discovered excellent in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake was the voice appearing. It feels genuine to the TV present. I performed the sport in each English and Hindi, and the voice actors in each the languages knocked it out of the park. The writing can also be nice, with the traditional foolish SpongeBob humour making me chortle. The dialogues are additionally well-written, they usually really feel like one thing the characters would say in an episode.

The inclusion of Hindi and different languages not only for in-game textual content (UI and subtitles) but additionally dubs is nice for followers of the present. The Hindi voice actors did an exceptionally good job of conveying the humour and power of the characters. Although some minor characters’ unique personalities have been misplaced in translation. And there have been moments when the translations have been a bit off. However nothing main that deviates followers and avid gamers from the story.

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake – Definitely worth the worth?

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is obtainable on Steam on the worth of Rs. 1,600 at launch. It is a honest asking worth for the quantity of content material the sport presents, particularly for individuals who like platformers and SpongeBob followers. A dressing up pack can also be obtainable for Rs. 480, however that is purely beauty and doesn’t add something to the precise gameplay expertise.

If you’re somebody who cares about cosmetics and would pay to entry these costumes, then Rs. 480 may not be an excessive amount of of an ask. Right here is all the things this SpongeBob costume pack presents:

• RoboBob SteelPants
• Mermaid Man Bob
• Purple Sponge
• Primitive Sponge
• Dried Sponge
• Reverse Day Bob
• Band Geek

If you’re somebody who cares about cosmetics and would pay to entry these costumes, then Rs. 480 may not be an excessive amount of of an ask.