SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake pulled a Sonic Superstars for me... just nowhere near as severe.
First off, let me get the positives out of the way. Firstly, and the most obvious/apparent is that the graphic's and overall presentation are a HUGE step up from BFBB Rehydrated. The game has decent lighting, textures and the character models actually have good animations and don't look completely wooden. Another positive is the voice acting. To my knowledge, all the cast members of the show reprise their roles here and they all do a stellar job as usual and did the best with what they could do with the corny ass script they were given. The combat is incredibly simplistic but can be fun if you're fighting hoards of base level goons at a time. Sometimes I just like to shut my brain off and kick some ass don't judge me lmao.
Now for the negatives. Now obviously I don't expect the world from a licensed game let alone a SpongeBob one. But not only is the level design so simple that even calling it "simple" in the first place is a massive understatement, but like Sonic Superstars, levels go on for way too fucking long. If you've played other licensed games like Simpsons Hit and Run, you'd know how missions consist of nothing but a long lined string of fetch quests that ultimately means nothing in the game's story. Same deal here. But the absolute biggest sin of this game and what made it such a huge disappointment... is that this game is just one giant asset flip of BFBB. I started to have my suspicions about it when I was playing through Wild West Jellyfish Fields but it didn't become blatantly obvious until Karate Downtown Bikini Bottom (which is the worst fucking stage in the whole game).
I have some other criticisms here and there but I think I made my point. All in all; this game is inoffensive enough and if you have little kids who like SpongeBob or if you yourself are a fan I can say this game is harmless enough to try out. But if you're not a fan of the source material, you're just left with an incredibly basic, tedious 3D platformer. 5/10. It's okay.
First off, let me get the positives out of the way. Firstly, and the most obvious/apparent is that the graphic's and overall presentation are a HUGE step up from BFBB Rehydrated. The game has decent lighting, textures and the character models actually have good animations and don't look completely wooden. Another positive is the voice acting. To my knowledge, all the cast members of the show reprise their roles here and they all do a stellar job as usual and did the best with what they could do with the corny ass script they were given. The combat is incredibly simplistic but can be fun if you're fighting hoards of base level goons at a time. Sometimes I just like to shut my brain off and kick some ass don't judge me lmao.
Now for the negatives. Now obviously I don't expect the world from a licensed game let alone a SpongeBob one. But not only is the level design so simple that even calling it "simple" in the first place is a massive understatement, but like Sonic Superstars, levels go on for way too fucking long. If you've played other licensed games like Simpsons Hit and Run, you'd know how missions consist of nothing but a long lined string of fetch quests that ultimately means nothing in the game's story. Same deal here. But the absolute biggest sin of this game and what made it such a huge disappointment... is that this game is just one giant asset flip of BFBB. I started to have my suspicions about it when I was playing through Wild West Jellyfish Fields but it didn't become blatantly obvious until Karate Downtown Bikini Bottom (which is the worst fucking stage in the whole game).
I have some other criticisms here and there but I think I made my point. All in all; this game is inoffensive enough and if you have little kids who like SpongeBob or if you yourself are a fan I can say this game is harmless enough to try out. But if you're not a fan of the source material, you're just left with an incredibly basic, tedious 3D platformer. 5/10. It's okay.