SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake Evaluation

A PC assessment 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 recreation from recreation 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 gives a combined 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 attention-grabbing to play the sport in Hindi, and it’s one thing that I want 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, among the platform mechanics will be irritating at instances. Let’s try our full assessment for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake beneath.

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake – An underwater journey

In fact, as this can be a recreation involving SpongeBob, we journey below the water to Bikini Backside, the place everybody from the animated collection resides. It’s price 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 change into misplaced within the respective worlds.

Issues reached this dire state as a result of SpongeBob and Patrick by accident induced 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 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 pleasing change of surroundings and gameplay. As for fight and journey, you may 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 by means of the sport. These new strikes and the expertise whereas transferring forward within the recreation improves your playstyle. Combating enemies generally is a bit wonky, however it’s fairly straightforward general with some difficult moments.

Nevertheless, I discovered among the platform mechanics to be a bit irritating typically. At instances, the Karate Kick was exhausting to purpose with a keyboard. The degrees do change into difficult as you progress within the recreation, although. This improve in problem is an efficient factor, as I anticipated the sport to be a whole informal expertise. As an alternative, I used to be pleasantly shocked to search out the difficult facet 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 contains a wide range of costumes for SpongeBob, that are based mostly on among 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 does not differ 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, regardless that I like 3D platformers.

The sport additionally begins to really feel lengthy, which isn’t a great signal for me. I’m not saying this can be a drawback per se, as there’s 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 could have been good if there was extra selection to maintain issues contemporary for the whole thing of the sport.

Voice performing reels you in

What I discovered excellent in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake was the voice performing. 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 players from the story.

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

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is out there on Steam on the value of Rs. 1,600 at launch. This can be a truthful asking value for the quantity of content material the sport gives, particularly for individuals who like platformers and SpongeBob followers. A fancy dress 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 won’t be an excessive amount of of an ask. Right here is all the pieces this SpongeBob costume pack gives:

• 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 won’t be an excessive amount of of an ask.