For example, SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, and Squidward make appearances in the latest video, the first for the game this year (they’ve been busy marketing it since October last year).

Purple Lamp Studios is trying to do what anyone couldn’t manage to do in a long time: make a decent classic SpongeBob game. After the remaster of Battle for Bikini Bottom, THQ Nordic commissioned the studio to develop a new game. It looks like they’ve nailed the atmosphere and style as a whole, which is a good starting point, but a lot depends on the gameplay, and it’s impossible to tell correctly from this video whether it’s any good or not.

The sponge and the star have their Steam page up as well: “Wish-granting Mermaid’s Tears in the hands of SpongeBob and Patrick… What could go wrong? Sure, the fabric holding the universe together could come very undone, opening portals into Wishworlds full of knights, cowboys, pirates, and prehistoric snails. But that’s nothing everyone’s favorite sponge can’t handle—with the right cosmic costume! Everybody do the Cosmic Shake!

SpongeBob and Patrick meet the mysterious fortune teller Kassandra who gives them a vial full of Mermaid’s Tears. Legend claims they grant the wishes of those who are pure of heart… Naturally, the two best buddies get overexcited, and their flurry of wishes tears open the very fabric of space and time. All while releasing Cosmic Jelly onto Bikini Bottom and opening portals to strange Wishworlds. Now it’s up to our heroes to rescue their friends who got lost in the Wishworlds and bring back Bikini Bottom’s most iconic buildings. But Kassandra has her devious plan…

Unlock classic and new platforming skills like the Fishhook Swing and Karate Kick. Don more than 30 F.U.N.tastic costumes like SnailBob and SpongeGar. Travel to seven distinct Wishworlds like Wild West Jellyfish Fields and Halloween Rock Bottom. Experience all the buddy movie banter with SpongeBob’s permanent companion Balloon-Patrick. Meet all your favorite Bikini Bottomites from the series, voiced by their original actors. Enjoy the in-game soundtrack featuring 101 songs from the series, including Sweet Victory,” Purple Lamp Studios wrote.SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake will be released on January 31 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. In October, we reported on a somewhat unbelievable collector’s edition; that’s something you’d have to be a hardcore fan to buy. We are not one of them.

Source: Gematsu