A PC evaluate 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 sequence 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 gives a blended expertise, with some gratifying moments in addition to some irritating elements.
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 fascinating to play the sport in Hindi, and it’s one thing that I want to see occur extra in video video games.
Nonetheless, the sport 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 could be irritating at occasions. Let’s take a look at our full evaluate for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake under.
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake – An underwater journey
After all, as it is a sport involving SpongeBob, we journey underneath the water to Bikini Backside, the place everybody from the animated sequence resides. It’s price noting that the sport 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 mates who’ve change into misplaced within the respective worlds.
Issues reached this dire state as a result of SpongeBob and Patrick by accident 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 avoid wasting the world as Kassandra assists them whereas they journey to totally different worlds. They should save their mates 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 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 might have 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 via the sport. These new strikes and the expertise whereas shifting forward within the sport improves your playstyle. Preventing enemies generally is 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 typically. At occasions, the Karate Kick was exhausting to purpose with a keyboard. The degrees do change into difficult as you progress within the sport, although. This enhance in problem is an effective factor, as I anticipated the sport to be an entire informal expertise. As an alternative, I used to be pleasantly stunned 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. Nonetheless, I opted to simply 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 range an excessive amount of and whereas every of the seven worlds has its personal distinctive design and challenges, they observe an analogous sample. This made me typically lose curiosity, although I really 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 downside 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 thing 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 snigger. 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 had been misplaced in translation. And there have been moments when the translations had been a bit off. However nothing main that deviates followers and avid gamers from the story.
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake – Well worth the worth?
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is on the market on Steam on the worth of Rs. 1,600 at launch. This can be a truthful asking worth for the quantity of content material the sport gives, particularly for individuals who like platformers and SpongeBob followers. A dressing up pack can also be accessible for Rs. 480, however that is purely beauty and doesn’t add something to the precise gameplay expertise.
In case you are 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 the whole lot this SpongeBob costume pack gives:
- RoboBob SteelPants
- Mermaid Man Bob
- Purple Sponge
- Primitive Sponge
- Dried Sponge
- Reverse Day Bob
- Band Geek
In case you are 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 isn’t sufficient to maintain the sport recent for repeated playthroughs, the distinctive environments and entertaining story make it price trying out for any SpongeBob fan.
