In SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake, players have to save various Bikini Bottom citizens while traversing iconic locales and events from the show. This includes classic characters like Mr. Krabs, Pearl, and Squidward in multiple settings like the Wild West, Medieval, and Stone Ages, referencing famous episodes from the show. This allows for the tone and story to remain light-hearted despite the stakes involved. Purple Lamp’s love for the property is quite evident so far, and it seems the development studio would like to continue working on games using the SpongeBob brand as well.

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In an interview with Nintendo Everything, SpongeBob Squarepants: The Cosmic Shake project directorAndreas “AJ” Jarzbek said that there were still plenty of ideas that he wished to explore with SpongeBob. He hopes that players will enjoy the upcoming release of Cosmic Shake in a few days, and that this will lead to other future games.

Cosmic Shake is looking to take inspiration from not only its source show, but a number of other platformers of its kind. The game still features the same kind of exploratory and combat mechanics found in the previous entry, but offers a number of unique ideas that make it stand out in comparison to previous SpongeBob games. Unlike the previous game, Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated, the titular SpongeBob is the sole playable character in Cosmic Shake.

The game is now only just a few days from release and is looking to be a rather fun and modern re-imagining of the past platformers, which is emboldened by the reprises of the original cast of actors from the series. Depending on the sales, Purple Lamp Studios could get another chance to make another wholly original SpongeBob game like Cosmic Shake, and maybe implement some ideas that the team wanted to include but got left on the cutting room floor. Considering the sales success of Battle for Bikini Bottom’s remaster, Cosmic Shake could potentially hit those numbers too.

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake releases on January 31 for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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Source: NintendoEverything