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Three years later, the new work will return
To be honest, when I was a child, I wasn't too cold about SpongeBob SquarePants, and at that time I still preferred Japanese animation to European and American animation, pure and pure day stay. However, as I get older, my taste has changed, and I have begun to become willing to contact, and even become a light fan in the past two years, and the intermittent brush animation on station B has been brushed for more than a hundred episodes, and I really survived (?) Can't stop at all.
The root of it is that SpongeBob animation appears in the form of a unit drama, an episode of ten minutes, two episodes of double spelling is only more than 20 minutes, basically maintaining a relaxed and funny style is really super decompressing, it is easy to be SpongeBob that is extremely optimistic (?) I was infected, and my mood really improved a lot after reading it. Of course, all the pariah stars who have elevated blood pressure look like normal people but are also abnormal in a sense (?) Brother Octopus, as well as Sandy, Boss Crab, Boss Ruffian, etc. are also very attractive characters.
After all, I still have a heavy player there, so of course I will also be interested in SpongeBob related games - in the "Nickelodeon" series, that is, "Nickelodeon All-Star Smash" and "Nickelodeon International Kart", SpongeBob is still very active, but there are relatively few who really feature cheese head brown pants as the protagonist.
There may be a little more on the console, but there seem to be two on Steam, one is 2020's "SpongeBob SquarePants: Fight for Bikini Beach Refill the Water", which is a 2003 PS2 version remake, produced by Purple Lamp and distributed by THQ Nordic, Steam currently has more than 10,000 reviews, 94% of the praise rate is generally particularly praised, well, in fact, the game was listed for more than a month on the whole platform cumulative sales exceeded 1 million copies, the quality can be seen.
And the other is also their "SpongeBob SquarePants: Cosmic Swing" that they only produced this year, well, this time is finally completely new, the gameplay is basically the same as the previous work, so the experience will have a good continuation, students who have played the previous game and feel good should not miss it.
Cartoon real style picture
Crossing from 2D animation to 3D games is actually a difficult thing, and it is necessary to break the stereotypes of audiences and players - of course, SpongeBob also has 3D movies, which can be regarded as a new attempt in recent years, although it is not yet mainstream.
However, it can be regarded as laying a solid foundation for the wider audience of the game, well, although it looks a little strange at first glance, it is actually good to see more, at least not to the extent that it will make people feel a strong sense of discord. This cartoon real style (?) The 3D art performance has also been carried over to the game, I don't know if you can adapt, of course, compared to pure audience fans, we gamer fans will definitely be more tolerant, compared to various styles have seen too much.
Specifically, this work is the same as the previous game, although neither character modeling nor scene modeling is very detailed, but this is not the point, and who will stare at SpongeBob SquarePants? Everyone is more concerned about the degree of restoration - the production team is still doing quite well at this point, well, as soon as I saw the iconic three rows, that is, SpongeBob's pineapple house, Brother Octopus's Easter Island portrait house and Patrick's stone house, and Brother Octopus still hopes that SpongeBob SquarePants will disappear from his eyes immediately, and it will taste right (?) ）。
I think as a fan-oriented work, it is already very satisfying to see the familiar scenery and characters of Beachburg. However, the difference between this work and the previous work is that Beechburg is not the home field, we need to enter another world to adventure, the main change, whether it is the Wild West, pirate ship water features, primitive style, can still bring very enough freshness. Although there are some dark scenes during the journey, the overall tone still maintains a sense of brightness and makes the atmosphere quite relaxed. As for the UI, there's not much to say, it's also card airy and reduces presence as much as possible, allowing the player to focus on the main screen.
The plot picks up the mess again
Although in other platforming games, it doesn't matter if the plot is there or not, there must be in SpongeBob SquarePants, on the one hand, it plays the role of explaining the reason for the adventure, and on the other hand, it will also provide fans with a better sense of substitution. Of course, there is no need to pursue the depth of the plot, and no one pursues this in cartoons.
The beginning of the story of "SpongeBob SquarePants: Cosmic Swing" is still related to SpongeBob and Patrick, the destruction king, but I really don't blame them. They bought magical bubble soap from the strange witch - well, SpongeBob is known to have four hobbies of going to work, catching jellyfish, blowing bubbles, and karate, so naturally it was used to blow bubbles.
This blow did not expect to blow out things, it turned out that this was actually the property of the sea king, not for the use of mortal creatures. So the bubbles exploded all kinds of sparks with lightning, followed by large vortexes (?) The appearance sucked in the villagers of Beachburg, the protagonist's side was basically destroyed, even Pai Daxing turned into a balloon, SpongeBob was spared because of the protagonist's aura, of course, the ruffian boss and Karen are not a big deal, probably the bad guys are indeed not so easy to be knocked down (mistaken).
Just as the so-called bell must also tie the bell man, SpongeBob and Balloon sent Big Star to find the witch and learned the reason for everything - it turned out that the extraordinary bubble blown by SpongeBob blew holes in the universe, squeezing out the cosmic jelly, the real adhesive everywhere, so if you want to correct the situation, you must go to the portals that appear everywhere to collect jelly for the witch. The witch customizes the spacesuit to help SpongeBob go to more worlds and rescue her friends.
At this point, the thread of the story is already obvious, this witch named "Lady Cassandra" is a bad person, her set of rhetoric is obviously using SpongeBob SquarePants, and her frequent "sinister laughter" is even more suspicious. It turns out that there is nothing wrong with our guess, but don't worry at all, everyone knows that there will be no surprises at all in the ending anyway, right?
Platforming is quite enjoyable
In terms of game genre, SpongeBob SquarePants: Cosmic Swing can be said to be a very pure platform jump, and we are climbing high and low for most of the time, as long as you can use the two-stage jump and slide very skillfully, it is relatively easy. In terms of organs, such as what needs to fall to attack the button to press, step on a board that collapses, will trigger the fear of heights passive (?) The canoe bridge and the like are very common in similar works, and I believe that it will not cause much hindrance to everyone. In addition, there are some high-speed levels of riding vehicles or pure running, and the swish will pass quickly, of course, you will need to avoid obstacles or break through, jelly picking up and other operations, well, in fact, it is quite cool to experience this sense of speed.
Of course, it doesn't matter if you are not good at platforming, after all, there is a lot of health, even if you accidentally lose your footing, you will lose a block of blood, and not all drops will lose health. And this time the performance of the balloon party star is still more surprising, actually out of the daily state of "what can't be done, trick-or-treating", and the very few episodes in the animation have become reliable, we fell off the cliff is to send balloons to pull us up, from time to time will throw us pants to restore the amount of blood, nothing to perform the explosion selling cute (?) Entertain us. Pai Daxing, what's wrong with Pai Daxing, was it really taken away?
As for the battle, there is really nothing to say, the sense of existence will be relatively weak. Although the enemy has a strong desire to attack and rushes over when he sees SpongeBob SquarePants, ordinary miscellaneous soldiers are really a second, and the advanced point directly inhales a bubble in the past, and then breaks the bubble. So even if you are surrounded by a group of miscellaneous soldiers, it is still very easy to fight while running, the amount of health will hardly be lost, and you don't even have to press the dodge button, and the boss battle is also not difficult, it is really eating hot pot and singing songs.
If you like it, let's start decisively
After experiencing it, "SpongeBob SquarePants: Cosmic Swing" and "SpongeBob SquarePants: Fight for Bikini Beach Refill" are the kind of excellent works that fully meet the expectations of fans. For fans, it's fun enough to see SpongeBob and familiar characters active. And embarking on an adventure from the perspective of SpongeBob SquarePants, feeling hours of lighthearted and a little nonsensical plot, is like watching a super long spin-off movie, really satisfying and looking for nothing else.
So it's not hard to understand why this game has a 92% positive rating on Steam, which is basically the same as the previous game. But it should be reminded that there is no emotional blessing for passers-by after all, so you still have to carefully consider whether the work is suitable for you. The plot still needs to be on the airwaves, well, you might as well watch two episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants to see if you can accept it. And the platform jumping gameplay is not everyone's favorite, some masters may feel that the platform of this work is relatively simple and has no desire to challenge, which is a point that needs to be accurately recognized.
As for the purchase advice, I think that from the perspective of fans, it is always a loss, and buying a game is still too much money compared to buying figurines and peripherals, so there is nothing to entangle in following your own ideas. From the perspective of interested passers-by, the so-called "buy early, enjoy early, buy late and enjoy discounts", well, in fact, the pricing of this game is lower than the previous game.
Take the national area as an example, "SpongeBob SquarePants: Fight for Bikini Beach Refill Water" itself is priced at 159 yuan, including OST packaging to provide an additional 5% discount, that is, 176.7 yuan, while "SpongeBob SquarePants: Cosmic Swing" is priced at 136 yuan, and a 42 yuan clothing package is actually a pre-order reward DLC, including primitive people, mermaid warriors and many other classic costumes are still quite valuable to buy, so it adds up to 178 yuan is really very conscientious. In addition, everyone knows that the THQ discount is also quite powerful, so choose the right time to start decisively!
Overall evaluation: 8/10
Recommended for: SpongeBob fans, players who like to platform jumping