Astro Bot is an excellent online 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 due to 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 stuffed with a ton of PlayStation-branded content material that just about makes it really feel like a industrial disguised as a platformer, however the factor is…the sport’s actually, actually good, y’all. Nonetheless, when you’ve already completed Astro Bot, you might need seen a couple of cameos talked about within the sport’s credit that don’t really seem anyplace. 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, Crew Asobi’s Studio Director Nicolas Doucet confirmed that extra content material was coming.
“So we have now free DLC. So it’s going to be free. It’s going to come back this yr,” mentioned Doucet. “It will likely be small. It’s not going to be like a, you already know, big, big quantity, however it [will] be specializing in one of many options that folks loved in Astro’s Playroom...the speedruns.”
Whereas the degrees are fairly brief in Astro’s Playroom and Astro Bot in comparison with these in another platformers, Doucet mentioned folks like to optimize and reduce seconds as they play levels 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? Nicely, we might already know, due to the sport’s credit. Don’t hold studying if you wish to keep away from spoilers.
As reported by VGC, the tip 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 when you’ve performed Astro’s Playroom and picked up the bonus characters. So it appears possible that characters from these franchises can be added within the new DLC.
And for these frightened that the brand new DLC can be too targeted on difficult speedrun ranges, don’t fear, Crew Asobi desires 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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