I cried on the finish of Astro Bot. I acknowledge this isn’t indicative of a lot past my sentimentality, however I believed it was a vital tidbit to underscore one thing else, one thing vital about PlayStation’s glorious new platformer. It truly is, greater than the rest, a celebration of the consoles and video games that formed me, and sure lots of you, too. It’s so fully possessed with pleasure and teeming with the lifetime of every thing that PlayStation has meant to folks over time. It’s also a superb platformer in its personal proper, stuffed filled with concepts that make it appear to be Asobi Workforce is simply getting began on this totally endearing franchise. For all its charms and wonders, nevertheless, there’s additionally a barely melancholy feeling that Astro Bot, which secondarily serves as a type of museum of PlayStation’s historical past, is placing that legacy and the spirit of innovation that outlined it below glass to be gazed upon and appreciated as a relic of yesterday, slightly than to infuse and electrify the video games of immediately and tomorrow. — Moises Taveras
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