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ASTRO BOT | State of Play Reveal Trailer
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midnightAI
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I've played Rescue Mission in VR and Playroom on PS5, both are great. If you have played Playroom you know what to expect.
Madserb2023
Member
Hopefully it won't be $70 . $50 would be fine. Not that the game couldn't be good enough to warrant it, but outside of Mario, Ratchet etc I don't think platformers can command that kind of price. Sackboy was a decent game but I was not paying full price for that. Waited for a sale before picking it up.
nowhat
Gold Member
Hello, I'm your friendly neighborhood AI translator. What you probably are trying to ask is "Isn't Astro Bot just a Sackboy with a robot costume?"
To which the answer is "no, fuck off".
Punished Miku
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He probably speaks Spanish as his 1st language. I think everyone got what he meant.
Fbh
Member
Sort of, though personally I like this robot aesthetic and cartoony CG look more than the arts and craft look of Little Big Planet.
Also while little big planet had the level creator stuff, the actual gameplay was never really good. The platoforming always felt floaty and unresponsive.
Alebrije
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Audiophile
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Lots of either-or / back and forth between the VR and non-VR crowd. Ideal approach to me is make the best game they can for PS5 and for flat panel; taking advantage of the traditional format and a large target audience to try and cement the franchise; and then port over/adapt Rescue Mission for PSVR2 a little bit after (not saying it's a cakewalk, but it's not a big ask).
Then if Astro Bot is successful, spawn off a small-ish team to work on Rescue Mission II for PSVR2; with a moderate scope and make that the very best game it can be for the VR format. Time its release with a price drop on PSVR2 (no way that thing is selling near cost) and make it cross-platform with the new PSVR2 PC support to give it a greater chance.
Ideally -- and again, if successful... -- they could be expanded to not only make large scale, mainline, flat-panel Astro Bot games but moderate scale, VR Rescue Mission games. A lot of tech, ideas/concepts and other stuff could be shared but each type of game will get to be the best it can be for its respective format.
Then if Astro Bot is successful, spawn off a small-ish team to work on Rescue Mission II for PSVR2; with a moderate scope and make that the very best game it can be for the VR format. Time its release with a price drop on PSVR2 (no way that thing is selling near cost) and make it cross-platform with the new PSVR2 PC support to give it a greater chance.
Ideally -- and again, if successful... -- they could be expanded to not only make large scale, mainline, flat-panel Astro Bot games but moderate scale, VR Rescue Mission games. A lot of tech, ideas/concepts and other stuff could be shared but each type of game will get to be the best it can be for its respective format.
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CitizenKratos
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No.
They could have made it hybrid and it would have sold as well and been better. The first game was vr exclusives and Sony reacted by building the studio up more. This shift from what fans liked in the past is baseless.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
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AtomicStarving
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I've been playing games for 20 years plus. I can tell this one is gonna be a huge hit, I mean, HUGE. 
begotten
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I've been playing games for 20 years plus. I can tell this one is gonna be a huge hit, I mean, HUGE.
Not sure if sarcasm but I actually see it.
It's giving Galaxy + Prime Gen 6 platforming vibes that's hard to feel in the modern gaming landscape.
Audiophile
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That's some politician-grade framing they're doing there.
TheTony316
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Oh ok. I thought you meant PSVR2 exclusive.
HeisenbergFX4
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Astro Bot has come a long way. Created by the Tokyo-based developers at Team Asobi, the character first arrived in 2013's The Playroom, a collection of augmented-reality games that featured this adorably pint-sized bot living inside the DualShock 4 game controller. From there, Astro Bot became the star of 2020's Astro's Playroom, a free demo that came with every PS5 console to help get players acquainted with the new tech in a fun, interactive way.
Now the lil' mechanical tyke is getting their first full-fledged platform game. Team Asobi announced the new title during Thursday's PlayStation "State of Play" presentation, and studio head Nicolas Doucet gives Entertainment Weekly exclusive intel on what we can expect when the game launches this Sep. 6 on the PS5.
"We wanted to make a big game," Doucet tells EW of the platformer with more than 80 different levels. "This is really about going up one notch — really several notches — and having Astro's big story. We call it Astro Bot because we treat this as a new beginning. That's a really, really big game. I think for us, that's the biggest game we've ever made."
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Astro Bot Kratos is just one of the many PlayStation Easter eggs in the new 'Astro Bot' game.
TEAM ASOBI/SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
The premise centers around an incident that breaks apart Astro's DualSense Spaceship (in the form of PlayStation gaming equipment) and scattering its bits across the universe. The bot now has to embark on a mission to find all the pieces.
According to Doucet, there are 80 planets spread out across six galaxies. One world, he explains, features an island in the form of a giant crab. Others, as seen in the announcement trailer released on Thursday, feature other environments like jungle, volcanic, and desert. "We really wanted to make sure that the player had a renewed experience every 10 minutes or so," he says.
And similar to Astro's Playroom, there will be various bot versions of classic PlayStation characters encountered along the way, including Kratos from God of War, Nathan Drake from Uncharted, Aloy from the Horizon games, and the titular duo from Ratchet and Clank.
Behind the scenes, Doucet calls the game a "PlayStation fiesta," given that it's stacked with so many callouts to the entire history of PlayStation. There's even a bot version of PaRappa the Rapper, the hip-hop canine star first introduced back in the 1990s. It's not a coincidence, either, that Astro Bot is arriving during the yearlong 30th anniversary of PlayStation celebration.
"It's a kind of eye candy," Doucet says of all the cameos. "There's going to be more. We're going to be talking over time about what they mean to the game, but, yes, there's going to be a big reunion. There's a lot of characters from the PlayStation universe crossing over with Astro's path. It's an Astro Bot story, of course, with Astro being the main character, but there's a lot of PlayStation characters that play a part."
It's more than just characters from PlayStation's vast lexicon, though. Scenes from the trailer feature the Whispy Woods tree from the world of Kirby, as well as an Aladdin-style dark genie that serves as a boss.
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'Astro Bot'.
TEAM ASOBI/SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
"I would say it's pop culture in general in a very broad sense," Doucet remarks of those reveals. "That's something we've always done as part of our games — look at iconic real-world inspirations, a lot of them from Hollywood movies or famous animation — and looking at themes that really cross generations."
It's surreal that Team Asobi can now count Astro Bot as a character on par with the likes of Kratos and all of PlayStation's other first-party heavy hitters that the new game features in some way. Doucet recalls how Astro's Playroom "was really about focusing on the PS5 and sharing what we could do with the controller." He notes, "The charm of Astro and how he resonated with people went beyond what we expected. At that point, we decided to make a big game."
Don't let the Easter eggs and Kratos cameo fool you. "The core effort has gone into making Astro's own game so that he can stand on his own feet as a new PlayStation character with a good reputation and confidence," Doucet adds. "But also on top of that, there is this whole coating of nostalgia."
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Mozzarella
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Best reveal in the show!!!
This is a possible GOTY winner
This is a possible GOTY winner
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
This looked so good. When do pre orders open up as I need to support this bad boy!
Go team asobi!
Go team asobi!
nial
Gold Member
Some new information like
Over 150 is crazy, around 100 more than in Astro's Playroom. This is truly a PlayStation 30th anniversary game all around.
On June 7th.
nial
Gold Member
Is it out of stock? Would love to get it someday, it's so damn cute.
Recent SIE X Good Smile collabs have been pretty good, even the AMTT-519M Shikon from Gunparade March is getting a Moderoid this June.
Jinzo Prime
Member
I would seriously buy a PS5 if I knew more games like this were in development. This game and the love it has for old-school PlayStation tiles and Nintendo platformers is incredible and refreshing in the landscape of hero-shooters and mature/cinematic games.
We need more games that look like this OMG!
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Pretty sweet move dropping this before Uncle Nintendo drops off the next Mario evolution.
The way they describe the powers you obtain throughout, along with the level design makes it seem like it’ll have some Metroidian elements which is going to make it all the more nuts.
The game is going to quick drain your controller battery like a motherfucker
The way they describe the powers you obtain throughout, along with the level design makes it seem like it’ll have some Metroidian elements which is going to make it all the more nuts.
The game is going to quick drain your controller battery like a motherfucker
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Unknown Soldier
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Wait, what? Odyssey and Wonder were great.
But there was a pretty long interregnum between Galaxy and Odyssey/Wonder for sure. The New Super Mario games and Super Mario 3D games were very mediocre.
Wonko_C
Member
This. Astro Bot 2024 will likely be a great platformer, and that'll be it, nothing more. Rescue Mission on the other hand was THE freaking Super Mario 64 moment all over again, something unrepeatable. And it's a shame people rather miss on it entirely because they don't want to buy a VR headset even if the game looks so cool. Motion sickness? I had motion sickness playing FPS games back in the late 90's. Did that stop me from buying consoles? Hell naw, I just paced myself until I could play without getting sick.
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gow3isben
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Yo this has actually been a pretty stacked year for PS5 console exclusives no?
Helldivers 2 (Banger)
Rise of Ronin (Critcally ok but commercial banger)
FF7 Rebirth (Banger)
Stellar Blade (Banger)
Astro Bot (Assuredly banger)
Concord (Not sure about this one)
Silent Hill 2 (hopefully banger)
Helldivers 2 (Banger)
Rise of Ronin (Critcally ok but commercial banger)
FF7 Rebirth (Banger)
Stellar Blade (Banger)
Astro Bot (Assuredly banger)
Concord (Not sure about this one)
Silent Hill 2 (hopefully banger)
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Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
Yep. 200 is the average cost second hand.Is it out of stock? Would love to get it someday, it's so damn cute.
Recent SIE X Good Smile collabs have been pretty good, even the AMTT-519M Shikon from Gunparade March is getting a Moderoid this June.
onnextflix5
Member
Day one, well maybe not at 70$, hopefully buy it on its first sale,
Unknown Soldier
Member
But I was told by GAF that PS5 has no games
nial
Gold Member
Honestly? This better be in.
It's literally the first ever first-party game published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
I disagree, though I never played wonder, I was strictly talking about 3D mario games. Odyssey was a huge disappointment to me with the bland level design and soundtrack. It has awesome mechanics but they're not used very well.
PaintTinJr
Member
I own both, and neither are good games by Iwata/Miyamoto measures. Could both have been made by generic Ubisoft IMO, the better half and youngest played them mostly - me only helping on the hardest levels - and neither were enjoyable with awful soundtracks, Wonder being the better of the two IMO, but neither were worth returning to by anyone in the house, and Astro's playroom has been completed at least twice by each of us, and Super Mario 3D world - the last truly great 2D/3D mix gameplay Mario - has been completed twice on WiiU and twice on Switch and still occasionally gets wheeled out for multiplayer.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
AstroCat is an insta-seller.Here’s a few more full res SS from PSstore
And the rest.
My most anticipated game of this year by far.
Alan Silvestro
Member
Meanwhile in London…
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KaiserBecks
Member
So Astro Bot: Rescue Mission didn't happen?!
Astro Bot has come a long way. Created by the Tokyo-based developers at Team Asobi, the character first arrived in 2013's The Playroom, a collection of augmented-reality games that featured this adorably pint-sized bot living inside the DualShock 4 game controller. From there, Astro Bot became the star of 2020's Astro's Playroom, a free demo that came with every PS5 console to help get players acquainted with the new tech in a fun, interactive way.
Now the lil' mechanical tyke is getting their first full-fledged platform game. Team Asobi announced the new title during Thursday's PlayStation "State of Play" presentation, and studio head Nicolas Doucet gives Entertainment Weekly exclusive intel on what we can expect when the game launches this Sep. 6 on the PS5.
"We wanted to make a big game," Doucet tells EW of the platformer with more than 80 different levels. "This is really about going up one notch — really several notches — and having Astro's big story. We call it Astro Bot because we treat this as a new beginning. That's a really, really big game. I think for us, that's the biggest game we've ever made."
Astro Bot Kratos is just one of the many PlayStation Easter eggs in the new 'Astro Bot' game.
TEAM ASOBI/SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
The premise centers around an incident that breaks apart Astro's DualSense Spaceship (in the form of PlayStation gaming equipment) and scattering its bits across the universe. The bot now has to embark on a mission to find all the pieces.
According to Doucet, there are 80 planets spread out across six galaxies. One world, he explains, features an island in the form of a giant crab. Others, as seen in the announcement trailer released on Thursday, feature other environments like jungle, volcanic, and desert. "We really wanted to make sure that the player had a renewed experience every 10 minutes or so," he says.
And similar to Astro's Playroom, there will be various bot versions of classic PlayStation characters encountered along the way, including Kratos from God of War, Nathan Drake from Uncharted, Aloy from the Horizon games, and the titular duo from Ratchet and Clank.
Behind the scenes, Doucet calls the game a "PlayStation fiesta," given that it's stacked with so many callouts to the entire history of PlayStation. There's even a bot version of PaRappa the Rapper, the hip-hop canine star first introduced back in the 1990s. It's not a coincidence, either, that Astro Bot is arriving during the yearlong 30th anniversary of PlayStation celebration.
"It's a kind of eye candy," Doucet says of all the cameos. "There's going to be more. We're going to be talking over time about what they mean to the game, but, yes, there's going to be a big reunion. There's a lot of characters from the PlayStation universe crossing over with Astro's path. It's an Astro Bot story, of course, with Astro being the main character, but there's a lot of PlayStation characters that play a part."
It's more than just characters from PlayStation's vast lexicon, though. Scenes from the trailer feature the Whispy Woods tree from the world of Kirby, as well as an Aladdin-style dark genie that serves as a boss.
'Astro Bot'.
TEAM ASOBI/SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
"I would say it's pop culture in general in a very broad sense," Doucet remarks of those reveals. "That's something we've always done as part of our games — look at iconic real-world inspirations, a lot of them from Hollywood movies or famous animation — and looking at themes that really cross generations."
It's surreal that Team Asobi can now count Astro Bot as a character on par with the likes of Kratos and all of PlayStation's other first-party heavy hitters that the new game features in some way. Doucet recalls how Astro's Playroom "was really about focusing on the PS5 and sharing what we could do with the controller." He notes, "The charm of Astro and how he resonated with people went beyond what we expected. At that point, we decided to make a big game."
Don't let the Easter eggs and Kratos cameo fool you. "The core effort has gone into making Astro's own game so that he can stand on his own feet as a new PlayStation character with a good reputation and confidence," Doucet adds. "But also on top of that, there is this whole coating of nostalgia."
So rescue mission no longer exists? Weird how uninformed some of these "journalists" are..
TropicanaTwista
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Fun/fun
Danjin44
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DeepEnigma
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James Sawyer Ford
Member
Nice, composer is back
Roman Empire
Member
Same, maybe $50. I loved Astro but I'll only buy it at full price if there is enough content to justify the purchase. I did see there should be around 50 worlds, so I'm waiting for reviews in September.
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Robb
Gold Member
I think I read there will be ~6 worlds and ~80 levels in this one. Rescue Mission was 5 worlds and 20 levels for reference, and priced at $40.