A PC evaluation copy of SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake was offered 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 collection and was excited to dive into the sport to discover its acquainted world and characters equivalent to SpongeBob and Patrick. After spending a number of hours on the sport, I can say that it affords a blended expertise, with some pleasing moments in addition to some irritating facets.
One factor I cherished 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 once I watched SpongeBob with Hindi dubs. It was attention-grabbing to play the sport in Hindi, and it’s one thing that I wish to see occur extra in video video games.
Nevertheless, the sport is just not with out its flaws, as some ranges are long-winded and contain repetitive duties. As well as, a number of the platform mechanics will be irritating at occasions. Let’s take a look at our full evaluation for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake beneath.
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake – An underwater journey
In fact, as it is a sport involving SpongeBob, we journey below the water to Bikini Backside, the place everybody from the animated collection resides. It’s value noting that the sport is just not 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 buddies who’ve develop into misplaced within the respective worlds.
Issues reached this dire state as a result of SpongeBob and Patrick by chance prompted mayhem in Bikini Backside through the use of a magic bubble cleaning soap given to them by Madame Kassandra. Now, it’s as much as them to avoid wasting the world as Kassandra assists them whereas they journey to completely different worlds. They should save their buddies and repair Bikini Backside little by little in every world. Nevertheless, it quickly turns into obvious that Kassandra has her personal plans, which places them in battle with King Neptune.
One factor I cherished 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’ve gotten a number of strikes equivalent to Spin Assault, Glide, Karate Kick, and Fishhook Swing. The sport introduces these strikes one after the other as gamers progress by means of the sport. These new strikes and the expertise whereas transferring forward within the sport improves your playstyle. Preventing enemies could be a bit wonky, however it’s fairly straightforward total with some difficult moments.
Nevertheless, I discovered a number of the platform mechanics to be a bit irritating generally. At occasions, the Karate Kick was onerous to goal with a keyboard. The degrees do develop into difficult as you progress within the sport, although. This enhance in problem is an effective factor, as I anticipated the sport to be a whole informal expertise. As an alternative, I used to be pleasantly shocked to seek out the difficult side of the sport.
Whereas SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is charming for certain, 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, equivalent to cosmic jelly, gold doubloons, golden underwear, golden spatulas, Plankton’s pet Spot, and different collectibles. Nevertheless, I opted to only play the sport straight, as I’m not a lot of a completionist. The sport additionally consists of quite a lot of costumes for SpongeBob, that are primarily based 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 certain, it began to really feel a bit tedious to me after some time. The gameplay itself would not fluctuate an excessive amount of and whereas every of the seven worlds has its personal distinctive design and challenges, they comply with the same sample. This made me generally lose curiosity, though I like 3D platformers.
The sport additionally begins to really feel lengthy, which isn’t a great 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. Nevertheless, the repetitive nature of the gameplay felt like SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake was dragging on for too lengthy. It will have been good if there was extra selection to maintain issues contemporary for everything 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 be nice, with the traditional foolish SpongeBob humour making me giggle. 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 in addition 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’ authentic 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 – Well worth the value?
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is out there on Steam on the value of Rs. 1,600 at launch. It is a honest asking value for the quantity of content material the sport affords, particularly for individuals who like platformers and SpongeBob followers. A dressing up pack can 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 every little thing this SpongeBob costume pack affords:
- 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.
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is a sport that followers of the present will certainly get pleasure from. It options trustworthy portrayal of the characters and its likeable humour, together with phenomenal writing and voice appearing. Whereas the platform gameplay can get a bit monotonous and the addition of accumulating a number of costumes is just not sufficient to maintain the sport contemporary for repeated playthroughs, the distinctive environments and entertaining story make it value trying out for any SpongeBob fan.