I do know you weren’t anticipating a SpongeBob sport to be insanely demanding, however the PC port for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is actually straightforward to run. The really helpful Nvidia GPU is only a 1050 Ti. When you’ve got trendy {hardware}, you’ll be capable of run this sport at rock-solid excessive framerates with ease. I performed the sport at 120 fps with an RTX 3090 and it was easy crusing the entire means by way of. I don’t recall any body dips in any respect, however I did have at the very least one crash. The sport autosaves always, although, and with three rotating autosaves, shedding any important progress is unlikely.
In case you performed the remake of the early 00s sport earlier than, you seemingly know precisely what to anticipate, as this sport isn’t technologically all that completely different. The set up measurement can be fairly small, coming in at solely 8.59 GB. However that’s sufficient about all that. Let’s check out the show, graphics, and management menus.
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Bear in mind after I mentioned we’d take a look at the graphics menu within the final paragraph? I’m positive you do. You simply learn it. Effectively, I lied – there isn’t one. From what I can see, you’ll be able to’t change any precise graphical settings by any means. No textures, anti-aliasing, or draw-distance. You possibly can select between fullscreen, windowed, or borderless, activate vsync and choose your decision when fullscreen is enabled. And that’s it. The framerate relies on what your display’s refresh fee is. It’s fully barebones however I suppose the sport’s visuals are easy sufficient that the developer didn’t assume something was obligatory. However that’s nonetheless fairly bizarre.
In one other weird twist, there doesn’t look like any method to rebind any of the controls, even for mouse and keyboard. You possibly can view what they’re, however clicking them doesn’t do something. Perhaps this can get patched if sufficient individuals complain, as this was one other very odd selection.
And there you will have it. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake has a PC port that’s insanely straightforward to run however it’s additionally as barebones as potential. With out having the ability to change any of the graphical presets or set your personal controls, there’s little or no customization obtainable. I performed with a controller and was completely tremendous with the default configs. However when you’re not, then issues might get a little bit aggravating. As for graphics, you may be capable of make a few of your personal enhancements with the Unreal unlocker, however the sport at the very least appears first rate sufficient for what it’s.
