I do know you weren’t anticipating a SpongeBob recreation to be insanely demanding, however the PC port for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is really simple to run. The really helpful Nvidia GPU is only a 1050 Ti. If in case you have fashionable {hardware}, you’ll be capable to run this recreation at rock-solid excessive framerates with ease. I performed the sport at 120 fps with an RTX 3090 and it was easy crusing the entire method by means of. I don’t recall any body dips in any respect, however I did have at the very least one crash. The sport autosaves continually, although, and with three rotating autosaves, shedding any important progress is unlikely.
When you performed the remake of the early 00s recreation earlier than, you doubtless know precisely what to anticipate, as this recreation isn’t technologically all that totally different. The set up dimension can be fairly small, coming in at solely 8.59 GB. However that’s sufficient about all that. Let’s check out the show, graphics, and management menus.
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Keep in mind once I stated we’d have a look at the graphics menu within the final paragraph? I’m positive you do. You simply learn it. Nicely, I lied – there isn’t one. From what I can see, you’ll be able to’t change any precise graphical settings in any respect. No textures, anti-aliasing, or draw-distance. You’ll be able to select between fullscreen, windowed, or borderless, activate vsync and decide your decision when fullscreen is enabled. And that’s it. The framerate will depend on what your display screen’s refresh charge is. It’s fully barebones however I suppose the sport’s visuals are easy sufficient that the developer didn’t suppose something was mandatory. However that’s nonetheless fairly bizarre.
In one other weird twist, there doesn’t seem like any strategy to rebind any of the controls, even for mouse and keyboard. You’ll be able to view what they’re, however clicking them doesn’t do something. Possibly it will get patched if sufficient folks complain, as this was one other very odd alternative.
And there you’ve it. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake has a PC port that’s insanely simple to run however it’s additionally as barebones as doable. With out with the ability to change any of the graphical presets or set your individual controls, there’s little or no customization accessible. I performed with a controller and was completely fantastic with the default configs. However in the event you’re not, then issues might get a bit of aggravating. As for graphics, you would possibly be capable to make a few of your individual enhancements with the Unreal unlocker, however the recreation at the very least appears to be like first rate sufficient for what it’s.
