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Wish-granting Mermaid’s Tears in the hands of SpongeBob and Patrick… What could possibly go wrong?
Sure, the very fabric holding the very universe very together could come very undone, opening up portals into Wishworlds full of knights, cowboys, pirates, and prehistoric snails.
But that’s nothing everyone’s favorite sponge can’t handle - with the right cosmic costume! Everybody do the Cosmic Shake!
KEY FEATURES
Unlock classic and new platforming skills like the Fishhook Swing and Karate Kick
Don more than 30 F.U.N.tastic costumes like SnailBob and SpongeGar
Travel to 7 distinct Wishworlds like Wild West Jellyfish Fields and Halloween Rock Bottom
Experience all the buddy movie banter with SpongeBob’s permanent companion Balloon-Patrick
Meet all your favorite Bikini Bottomites from the series, voiced by their original actors
Enjoy the in-game soundtrack featuring 101 songs from the series, including Sweet Victory
STORY
SpongeBob and Patrick meet the mysterious fortune teller Kassandra who gives them a vial full of Mermaid’s Tears©. Legend claims they grant the wishes of those who are pure of heart…
Naturally, the two best buddies get overexcited and their flurry of wishes tears open the very fabric of space and time. All while releasing Cosmic Jelly© onto Bikini Bottom and opening portals to strange Wishworlds in the process.
Now it’s up to our heroes to rescue their friends who got lost in the Wishworlds and bring back Bikini Bottom’s most iconic buildings.
But Kassandra has her own devious plan…
System requirements for PC
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 7/8.1/10/11
- Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 925 / Intel Pentium Dual Core G3320
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon HD 7870
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11
- Processor: AMD FX 6300 / Intel Core i5-3570K
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon R9 380 / Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake reviews and comments
As one of the people who have completed Heavy Iron’s trilogy (BfBB, Movie and Tr.or Sq.), I think this is a great comeback of the old SpongeBob. Yes, I’ll admit that the charm of BfBB is still yet to be repeated, but it’s really close to it, with many cool references and how a cast of characters is being treated. The levels were very well constructed, even if they’re just a one road now (well like in a movie game basically), they’re still fun to play. The music is fine enough, though nothing special like in BfBB and Movie (the licensed songs comeback is amazing tho). The bosses were really well-designed (for the most part), except for the final boss, which was a huge letdown, most likely rushed for release. The gimmicks are also fun and SpongeBob’s moves are also satisfying to use.
My only gripe with this game, is the replayability though. I’m not having any trouble with being told to collect things everywhere and replay the levels again and again. The problem was with guidance - there is none! My guidance was my friend, who googled everything to tell me the exact location, because I was tired of replaying the same level over and over. One of the doubloons in the first stage was a sick joke, because that’s the only time you use a mechanic (if you know, you know). Yes, I like the style of side-quests and how much they reference, but the quests themselves were so dull and tedious, because they were well hidden, but the game never tells in which part of the level you need to explore, which kinda defeats a whole point of exploration, because you’re empty-handed without any hints. Unfortunately there is no case of giving you a reward for 100% like was in BfBB and Movie game, instead you just get an achievement, like in many other generic games. I’m disappointed with 100% aspect of the game and it counts, because I was satisfied with all this in BfBB and the Movie game, which Cosmic Shake was trying to be a successor to. The other minor nitpick is the difficulty, but that’s a given for games for kids nowadays.
Other than all that, I’m happy that SpongeBob is not in hands of greedy Activision anymore, who didn’t care about SpongeBob for a whole decade. Now we got a real deal after like, what? 20 years almost? (Movie game came out in 2004) So yeah, it’s good to be a SpongeBob fan with this coming out and I can say that SpongeBob’s game series are in good hands once more!