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THQ Nordic has revealed the fir🔯st gameplay foot🎉age for SpongeBob Squarepants: The Cosmic Shake.
During its 2022 showcase, one of THQ's biggest announcements of the night was the long-awaited gameplay reveal of SpongeBob Squarepants: The Cosmic Shake. The Cosmic Shake was revealed last year through a CG trailer that showed SpongeBob running through different dimensions with a balloon Patrick by his side. Now we've finally seen for ourselves how the game plays.
The trailer showed SpongeBob and Patrick starting off in a world where Gary has mutated into a giant slug spitting poison. We then get to see several shots of gameplay, where it's made clear that The Cosmic Shake is a spiritual sequel to Battle For Bikini Bottom, with the same kind of movement and combat.
SpongeBob does seem to have a variety of new moves, however. Alongside being able to swap costumes to get different abilities like using karate to jump be🦂tween enemies and riding seahorses around, SpongeBob also seems to be able to glide using a Krusty Krab Pizza box as a permanent addition to his moveset. Battle for Bikini Bottom fans will also recognise the tongue slide that SpongeBob performs in one section of the trailer.
The trailer showed a few distinct worlds, and it was stated that there will be seven of them overall, including a Wild West world, a prehistoric wor𒊎ld featuring SpongeGar and Squog, and Halloween Rock Bottom, which seems to be the first world we get to see in the trailer with SpongeBob in a daisy costume. It looks like each world will be laidꩵ out in a similar manner to Battle for Bikini Bottom, with individual challenges and objectives to complete around them.
Interestingly, several retailers have suggested that . This wasn't confirmed during the THQ Showcase, but considering several retailers have it listed as such, it's possible that we'll get some sort of announcement soon.