After its announcement final yr, we’ve been eagerly awaiting updates on Purple Lamp Studio’s SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake. While we’re nonetheless with none signal of a launch date (guess the mail should be gradual out of Bikini Bottom), we’ve now acquired the primary take a look at some gameplay footage.

Showcased at Gamescom immediately, the extent that we see being performed is ready within the Wild West Jellyfish Fields — one of many seven worlds that it is possible for you to to discover within the recreation. (Thanks to Nintendo Everything for sharing the footage.) And, very like the very pleasurable SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated — which we gave a 7/10 in our overview — this 3D platformer places SpongeBob on a McGuffin hunt round a Wild West setting, tapping cacti and dispatching troublesome jellyfish.

What is nice to see within the gameplay is the genuine voice forged, which collects unique present members together with Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown and extra, giving them a complete new script and unique story to work with.

It is value allowing for that the above footage is captured from the PC model of the sport so the Switch launch might doubtlessly look and run a bit completely different That being stated, the gameplay appears remarkably just like Battle For Bikini Bottom’s personal, so the variations will not be too jarring.

For a way of what else the sport has to supply, try the next record of fishy options that you can find in SpongeBob’s upcoming deep-sea journey:

– Unlock basic and new platforming abilities just like the Fishhook Swing and Karate Kick
– Don greater 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 of the buddy film banter with SpongeBob’s everlasting companion Balloon-Patrick
– Meet all of your favorite Bikini Bottomites from the sequence, voiced by their unique actors
– Enjoy the in-game soundtrack that includes 101 songs from the sequence, together with Sweet Victory

We will likely be holding an eye fixed out for any information of a Cosmic Shake launch date. Considering the state of the gameplay footage, we’d think about that this information will come sooner reasonably than later.

What do you make of this primary take a look at SpongeBob’s latest journey? Let us know down under!