I’ve consumed a number of SpongeBob media in my time. As a child I’d file the present onto VHS tapes each faculty morning and seize any SpongeBob recreation my pocket cash would enable, and even now I benefit from the odd episode on telly or on-line – I’ve been a fan for a majority of my life now. And together with my love of 3D platformers, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake positively appeared dressed to impress.
After tackling SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Backside – Rehydrated in 2020, Austrian studio Purple Lamp GmbH is again with some extra SpongeBob goodness. Not dissimilar from what Toys With Bob did with the latest Crash Bandicoot recreation after they ported the N. Sane Trilogy, Purple Lamp GmbH acquired warmed up with the remaster then actually leant into issues with an all-new title. Enter the Cosmic Shake!
After SpongeBob and Patrick have a hand in inflicting a castrophe of cosmic proportions, they’ve acquired to make issues proper. With the assistance of the fortune-telling new character Kassandra, SponegeBob is ready to don new costumes which permit him to leap into alternate universes to hopefully undo the multi-dimensional mess.
As SpongeBob, with the aide of balloon-Patrick, you’ll be frolicking across the hub world of Bikini Backside, and diving into seven alternate dimensional ranges, together with a dusty cowboy city and spooky halloween village. Like your basic 3D platformers you’ll run, leap and kick butt, all whereas selecting up new talents to open new paths and seize beforehand unobtainable goodies. The gold doubloons are the primary collectible right here, as they’ll assist unlock extra secret costumes, apart from the primary story ones, virtually all of which reference a basic SpongeBob episode!
And the sport is simply chock-a-block with all kinds of references to the basic Spongebob episodes – that is fan-service turned as much as 11! I’m speaking Pizza Supply, Graveyard Shift, Chocolate With Nuts, Rock Backside and I Was A Teenage Gary, and that’s simply the tip of the iceberg. In case you grew up watching Spongebob you’ll be selecting up a reference a minute. And my favorite bits have been the handful of cutscenes which cutaway to these grotesque single-frame close-ups that Spongebob was well-known for – you already know those I’m talkng about.
There’s been a couple of bugs on launch however nothing {that a} fast patch can’t repair. I’m speaking a little bit of audio overlap or lacking audio, graphic pop-in, clipping, and so on. Nothing that actually hampers the expertise an excessive amount of, and if something makes you’re feeling such as you’re enjoying an outdated, unpatchable GameCube recreation. As a child I used to have a SpongeBob recreation disc that was scratched as heck, and it glitched out and crashed on a regular basis, so if something I’m simply getting much more nostalgia. And in comparison with that it is a dream.
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is nice! In case you just like the sponge-meister and friends there’s no manner you gained’t have enjoyable with this gut-busting romp. Previous-heads and sponge-newbies alike – get shaking!
Ranking: 4.5/5
