Asobi Studio
The new Astrobot game is a great PS5 candidate for GOTY 2024 and its first trailer is already in love
Sony’s big exclusive for this year is a 3D platformer that shows the way and comes loaded with tributes to the brand’s history. If it is as good as the previous ones... be careful.
It was the highlight of the State of Play on May 30th, and rightly so. The new Astrobot game, simply called Astrobot, aims to consolidate its protagonists as the new mascot of the PlayStation brand, and in its first trailer, it looks like the company’s best platformer in the last decade.
Although the closure of the Japan Studio is a wound that will never heal, the fact that Sony has given Asobi Studio so much importance at least helps to cope with it. After all, if the first game in the Astrobot saga is one of the best virtual reality games, and the second is one of the best on PS5, what can this third installment not become with more time and resources behind it? We will find out on September 6, 2024, when it will be released exclusively for PS5.
In the meantime, check out the first trailer and see how many nods and homages to PlayStation history you can spot.
Why is Astrobot getting so much attention?
If you don’t understand what all the excitement is about “just” an Astro Bot game, let us share with you a couple of paragraphs. The first one is directly extracted from the review of the original game, Astro Bot: Rescue Mission (rated 9.2 by our colleagues in Spain):
“Astro Bot is the best PlayStation VR game to date, and far from that, it is also one of the best platformers of recent times. The most brilliant exponent of all that virtual reality technology has to offer and give. A never-ending creativity, a canvas where each brushstroke is more inspired and original than the last, a breath of fresh air that reinvents the way you play and opens up new horizons. Its rhythm and surprise factor maintain an ascending line, with increasingly longer and more complicated levels, more challenging and satisfying. Surprisingly colorful and detailed, graphically and sonically, it is a delightful experience. Just when we think we’ve seen it all, it manages to prove us wrong. One of those games you never want to put down, but you never want to let go of the controller.