The eternally well-liked SpongeBob SquarePants is again in a model new 3D platforming journey with the freshly revealed SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake. It’s coming quickly to PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Change and PC.
The Cosmic Shake rips SpongeBob and Patrick out of Bikini Backside for an journey throughout a mess of Wishworlds, each with a singular setting and algorithm to comply with. The handful of ranges featured within the announcement trailer noticed them first in Halloween Rock Backside with Gary having been reworked by evil Halloween sweet. What follows is a platforming stage the place it’s worthwhile to keep away from Gary’s gaze and time your leaping and battling to not get caught.
After that it was trek again to prehistoric instances, using round on rock boulders in lava rivers, leaping between man sponge-eating lilypads and extra. Then was a world themed round washing up and combating crime as RockyBob, there’s the Wild West Jellyfish Fields, and extra.
Introduced again in 2021, it appears to be like like a pleasantly wild and diversified journey, and it’s coming from a studio that’s acquired loads of expertise with SpongeBob SquarePants. Purple Lamp was final seen having made Battle for Bikini Backside – Rehydrated, the remake of the PS2 period platformer that was launched in early 2020. In our evaluation for that recreation Thomas wrote:
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Backside – Rehydrated is a stable remake that maybe stays a bit too true to the unique. The up to date visuals carry the sport extra inline with the unique cartoon collection, however some dated recreation design holds the port again from being actually distinctive.
It’s a part of a sample that we’ve seen with THQ Nordic, of remastering licenses that they’ve picked up earlier than reviving them with full on sequels. Right here’s hoping The Cosmic Shake finally ends up on the higher finish of the spectrum for it.
Supply: press launch, YouTube