Astro Bot is a very good video game. Sony’s new platformer is stuffed with superb ranges and a great deal of enjoyable moments. And Astro Bot’s solely going to get greater because of a free DLC replace which may add some characters solely talked about within the recreation’s credit, too.
On September 6, Astro Bot was launched solely for PS5 and the world turned a greater place. Certain, the sport is stuffed with a ton of PlayStation-branded content material that nearly makes it really feel like a industrial disguised as a platformer, however the factor is…the sport’s actually, actually good, y’all. Nonetheless, should you’ve already completed Astro Bot, you may need seen a number of cameos talked about within the recreation’s credit that don’t really seem wherever. Effectively, maybe Astro Bot’s free DLC will repair that.
As spotted by GameSpot on September 9, in an interview with Quest Day by day, Workforce Asobi’s Studio Director Nicolas Doucet confirmed that more content was coming.
“So we have now free DLC. So it’s going to be free. It’s going to return this 12 months,” mentioned Doucet. “It is going to be small. It’s not going to be like a, you understand, enormous, enormous quantity, however it [will] be specializing in one of many options that individuals loved in Astro’s Playroom...the speedruns.”
Whereas the degrees are fairly quick in Astro’s Playroom and Astro Bot in comparison with these in another platformers, Doucet mentioned individuals like to optimize and minimize seconds as they play phases time and again. So this DLC will embrace that. And it’ll add “some characters we didn’t embrace but” in Astro Bot.
Who would possibly these new cameo bots be? Effectively, we might already know, because of the sport’s credit. Don’t hold studying if you wish to keep away from spoilers.
As reported by VGC, the top credit in Astro Bot comprise references to Murderer’s Creed, Past Good & Evil, Rayman, Croc, Worms, Stellar Blade, and Rise of the Ronin. No bots from any of those video games seem in Astro Bot, even should you’ve performed Astro’s Playroom and picked up the bonus characters. So it appears seemingly that characters from these franchises can be added within the new DLC.
And for these apprehensive that the brand new DLC can be too targeted on difficult speedrun ranges, don’t fear, Workforce Asobi desires so as to add some more easy and extra enjoyable stuff to the platformer, too. Doucet described this further, upcoming content material as “toy-like” within the interview with Quest Day by day.
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