SpongeBob - The Cosmic Shake 9+

The game itself is quite cool with multiple bosses on your journey, the graphic is supremely impressive and immersive , all of the vibrant colors and well detailed background truly amazing ,this is definitely one of the best game on macOS that stand out, but when it comes to performance it’s constantly crashes and sometimes you have to start the level from a scratch, which is annoying and unbearable and you just want to quit and play other games ,it’s quite a bit of time passed since it was released and I just have hope that it will be fixed, but still I am experiencing an unpleasant aftertaste after my purchase. P.S I still think that’s one of the greatest adventure game on macOS and I have high hopes that developers will take into account the issue with crashing and fix it asap. I’m playing on iPad Pro m1, so haven’t had any issues until now and it made me drop a very first comment regarding this game.

Hey there, we just pushed a patch that should fix the frequent crashes on iOS devices, as well as a few other things. Please update the game to the latest version and see if the problem has been resolved for you. Kind regards, HG-Support

I asked for a refund!!! Not worth any $ whatsoever!!!!

Hey there,
and sorry for the trouble. Why do you want to refund the game? Did you contact us at support@handy-games.com before? If you did, could you please bump the message again so we can look into it.
Kind regards,
HG-Support

Appreciate the quick response from the developers but it is such a shame that so many issues weren’t caught by the QA team before release! With all of the issues present, I felt like I was working as an intern QA tester at HandyGames while playing and writing this review (maybe I can get some compensation huh 🤨).

Hopefully these issues get fixed in a new update as they ruined the gaming experience for me upon my first play through, and I would have held off buying this port had I known the state it was in.

I’m playing on the iPhone 13 Pro Max running iOS 17.2.1, and here are the issues I’ve experienced:
- Game sometimes crashes when several enemies are screen. This has happened multiple times on the “pirate” level, such as when there are many enemies like in the giant sandcastle part of the level.
- Game sometimes crashes when loading a new world by going through a portal.
- Once giant Gary is in Bikini Bottom, the slime/green ooze he spits is all glitchy looking (the texture flashes erratically)
- When looking at the life raft trampolines from the bottom/underneath, they are see-through (ie. the “tarp” that you bounce on is not visible so it looks just like a hollow life raft)
- Even with the latest update the game crashes during loading the last boss fight - Game crashes during glove boss fight, particularly after the first stage.
- Game crashes during reef blower challenge in Karate level parking lot
- The dabloon does not appear in the Rock bottom level button challenge with fire hoops immediately after the snail race (where there are two fire hoops and four enemies to defeat, once the enemies are defeated no coin appears)
- Despite collecting all prior achievements, the last achievement “One Sponge to Rule Them All” did not unlock
- Pirate level background/sky is glitchy and turns white sometimes
- In a few areas the lines indicating a new button or slingshot do not disappear even upon pressing/using these buttons/slingshots (an example of where this occurs is with the first slingshot on the Karate level)
- Checkpoints sometimes don’t pop-up/activating the animation of the sign springing up
- The last set of costumes aren’t available to purchase with jelly until the game is complete and you’ve basically 100% everything. This makes no sense since you have no real opportunity to use them in-game since everything is complete at that point (no New Game+ option either)
- This port of the game requires a high amount of jelly to unlock costumes. In the PC/console versions the amount of jelly was reduced with a patch to a more realistic cost (500 per costume). In the mobile version of the game this patch was not applied, so players end up needing to spend hours farming jelly after completing everything in the game just to be able to unlock all of the costumes—this is not fun!

Hey there,
and sorry for the trouble.
We are aware of some issue with crashes, especially in Pirate Goo Lagoon and are looking into a fix for this.
For the costumes, that is intended this way as far as we know. At least it is the same in the PC and Console versions and we are just doing the port and not changing anything about this kind of stuff.
Kind regards,
HG-Support