Astro Bot is an excellent online game. Sony’s new platformer is full of superb ranges and a great deal of enjoyable moments. And Astro Bot’s solely going to get larger because of a free DLC replace that may add some characters solely talked about within the sport’s credit, too.
On September 6, Astro Bot was launched completely for PS5 and the world turned a greater place. Certain, the sport is full of 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, in the event you’ve already completed Astro Bot, you may need observed a couple of cameos talked about within the sport’s credit that don’t truly seem wherever. Nicely, maybe Astro Bot’s free DLC will repair that.
As noticed by GameSpot on September 9, in an interview with Quest Day by day, Group Asobi’s Studio Director Nicolas Doucet confirmed that extra content material was coming.
“So we now have free DLC. So it’s going to be free. It’s going to come back this 12 months,” stated Doucet. “It is going to be small. It’s not going to be like a, , large, large quantity, nevertheless it [will] be specializing in one of many options that folks 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 stated individuals like to optimize and lower seconds as they play phases again and again. So this DLC will embrace that. And it’ll add “some characters we didn’t embody but” in Astro Bot.
Who would possibly these new cameo bots be? Nicely, we could already know, because of the sport’s credit. Don’t maintain 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 in the event you’ve performed Astro’s Playroom and picked up the bonus characters. So it appears possible that characters from these franchises might be added within the new DLC.
And for these frightened that the brand new DLC might be too targeted on difficult speedrun ranges, don’t fear, Group Asobi needs so as to add some more easy and extra enjoyable stuff to the platformer, too. Doucet described this additional, upcoming content material as “toy-like” within the interview with Quest Day by day.
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