SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake Reviews

It's a 3d spongebob platformer. You explore different worlds, fight mean things, and get cool costumes. This is a sequel to Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom remastered, with more platforming and less exploration. Combat and the patrick assistant is unique but has so much unused potential, I think of this like a really good flash or mobile game you pay for really good unreal engine 3d graphics. I like it but it's tough for me to tell friends to play.

as others who let negative reviews say it's just an ok game. Levels are longer than they should be with how limited the fun is. More designed for kids

Meh. Battle For Bikini Bottom is a better game in every way imaginable. This game is not terrible, but incredibly underwhelming.

Battle For Bikini Bottom is better. Plain, straight missions and a lot of farming at the end for the costumes. Not really worth it.

I'd like to enjoy this, but the game randomly crashes in the first major cut-scene, and when every transition from one scene to another, or gameplay to a cut-scene shows visual bugs, flashing stutters, and acts like it's fast forwarding the game... I guess my mid-range hardware (3x better than recommended specs btw) is to fast for this game. it's clear that minimum effort was put in, to release this. Perhaps I'll get around to it someday, but this thing seriously needs updates. I shouldn't be seeing the UE4 crash reporter, less than 15 minutes in.

The humor is so bad its crazy. this is just the lobotomized spongebob era humor. As for the gameplay, it isn't horrible but the older ps2 era games were more inspired, this just feels hollow but there is a little bit fun of that can be had.

Wasn't attractive enough to make me stay for the first few moment. The pacing was all over the place, too fast to be exact, that when compared to BFBB this felt like it wanted you to get over the game already and move to the next one. The constant hand-holding with the purple blob (?) thingy was one of the stuff that made me fed up with the game. I felt like I was chasing/ following the blob more than I was exploring the region (not that it's very memorable or special anyway). I would recommend people trying out the remastered/ remake BFBB series before looking up this game on Youtube and see if the first 30 minutes would convince you of playing the game any further.

This is a really cool and fun game. The visuals are nice and I don't need a 4090 just to run it at 30 fps. The game is cluncky in some arcade style areas. The platforming is good, the controls are smooth, the worlds are beautiful as ever. The enemies are the same till the end of the game which does make them repetitive. More are added overtime but they all look the same. This is also shorter and easier than the previous title. Getting it on a discount is the way to go.

TL;DR: The Cosmic Shake is an enjoyable enough platformer, but I wouldn't recommend it over other games in the genre. If you're interested enough, purchase on an at least 67% sale, at least to me it's not worth the $40 full price. I honestly did not enjoy this game as much as I thought that I would. Back when this was announced I was admittedly a little skeptical considering Purple Lamp's work on the Battle For Bikini Bottom remake. I'm a big fan of the original version of BFBB, it was one of my favorite platformers as a kid and even today I love revisiting it every now and again. Sure its not perfect, it IS still a licensed game at the end of the day, but by licensed game standards the original BFBB is the holy grail. I played that remake and felt mixed at the end. I still enjoyed it enough to beat it, but so many minor icks kept popping up that really hampered my enjoyment. Physics just not feeling right, some elements just looking off to me, Mr. Krab's spatulas costing WAY TOO MUCH and requiring TONS OF GRINDING. Despite all of my issues with that game, I was admittedly interested in what a unique game done by Purple Lamp would be like. After some time most reviews that I heard were saying that this was the new best spongebob platformer, blowing BFBB and other games like Creature from the Krusty Krab out of the water. My interest was at a max at this point, maybe Purple Lamp learned from the (minor) mistakes with Rehyrdated and made something awesome. Fast forward to last week, got the game on sale, and... Yeah its, like its okay. Most of my issues with this game are about the same as Rehyrated, boiling down to many tiny icks that just build and build. When you move the stick, Spongebob has about a quarter second delay where he builds up speed before reaching his max speed and it just feels sluggish. Once you get past that the movement is fine if a bit slow, but why even have the slow start to begin with? The glide move also feels half baked, its so slow with very little horizontal momentum. Instead of sinking like a stone you sink like a flat stone you'd use for rock skipping. Most of my deaths in this game came to putting too much faith in the glide and Spongebobs ledge grab range (I guess that's what you'd call that?). The unlock-able moves in this game are fine, but the way you unlock them is just boring and lame. 90% of the time its "Oh, the player entered the level where they get this move. They can now do it with no explanation." Literally you just enter a level and some instructions show up at the start saying "Hey you can ground slam now". Meanwhile the karate kick and the reef blower moves have actual introductions, actual dialogue relating to them, every other move just ruined my immersion whenever I got them. They just feel like keys used to open locks for when you want to backtrack later in the game (Again, with the exception of the karate kick which is just OP in combat.) The humor is sadly just modern spongebob humor. Very few jokes made me chuckle during my playthrough aside from the occasional obscure reference. Most of the jokes are either unfunny modern kids stuff or "HEY REMEMBER THE MY LEG FISH? REMEMBER THE PIZZA? REMEMBER WHEN FISH SCREAM "CHOCOLATE!!" AT SPONGE? FUNNY" Like haha, yes, I remember these. I remember when they were funny. Repeating the joke a bunch isn't funny. Please stop it, we get it. Prehistoric Kelp Forest just straight up feels unfinished. It feels like a late beta build of the level instead of a completed product. Almost every single cutscene ends or transitions abruptly, shoving you into completely different areas and making you feel dazed every time they happen. The boss has maybe 2 or 3 voice lines she constantly repeats, its one of the shortest levels in the game, it was easily the moment where I realized I wasn't having that much fun and nothing from then on really picked me back up. Part of me wants to give the benefit of the doubt to the developers, maybe there were certain restraints or demands or deadlines from Nickelodeon that caused the issues this game has, but we've been through this before with Rehyrated. I probably won't be playing whatever Purple Lamp's next project is, but I wish them the best in whatever it is, Spongebob or not. I'd give this game a 6/10. Enjoyed it enough to beat it but I don't see myself going back anytime soon if ever. Perfectly okay tier videogame.

SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom was so amazing that when the remake finally came out it allowed for the creation of a sequel! and what is there to say? this game is amazing and is definitely a worthy successor. i am so happy i pre ordered it, it was worth the full price!