Days Gone Director Criticized for Belittling Astro Bot

Days Gone artistic director and author John Garvin has taken subject with the truth that the online game appeared in Sony’s current platformer Astro Bot.

In a current submit on social media, Garvin shared a photograph of the sport’s character, Deacon St. John, as a small robotic, watching two robotic canine performs that got here from a submit of Bend Studio congratulating Workforce Asobi on Astro Bot’s launch.

What did the Days Gone director say?

Within the submit, Garvin lamented that the character had been diminished to “selling different video games.” In a subsequent submit, Garvin additionally chided followers who didn’t perceive the anger. “Haha, I see my character diminished to a cartoon schill selling some small sport and I’m being harsh?” stated Garvin within the submit.

Garvin has been a loud proponent for 2019’s Days Gone ever since its launch. In 2022, the previous Bend Studio member blamed “woke reviewers” for the sport’s poor reception, a transfer that pressured Bend Studio to distance themselves from Garvin in a social media submit. So far as the sport goes, a sequel to Days Gone just isn’t within the works, with Bend Studio reported to be engaged on a brand new live-service title.