ASTRO BOT is Actually Amazing: Let's Play All of it -Sponsored

Everything in this video was recorded live on my Twitch Channel. My schedule is Tuesday & Thursday @ 7pm, Saturday & Sunday @ 3pm - all times based in Ireland.

#astrobot #ad

[RTGame]

I genuinely loved playing this and I'm so excited to see what Team Asobi makes next. Absolutely hoping for an ASTRO BOT 2 of some kind. This is just really great and it's up there with Mario Odyssey for me in terms of fun gameplay and polish. It's easily my Game of the Year

[natel]

Sony: hey rt hows that 20 minute video coming along
Rt: it is 2 hours long
Sony: what

[IncoisaRadio]

I like how half of this game is "Yes yes, we all know the PS5 can render hyperrealism. You wanna know what else it can render? Five. Hundred. Apples."

[Deadsphere]

I love how this game comes:
-After Sony shoots Concord in the head after two weeks
-After Sony says they don't have any original IPs

[Fridays_ai]

Shoutout to Cloé doing the supercut of the rescued bots at the end of every level. That wasn't how the level ended in the game on stream. Nice touch to add to the edit.

[EvilMastermindOfDoom]

I think it's hilarious that I've seen like 3 different people be sponsored to play this game and all of them widely exceeded the timeslot they were paid for. Honestly goes to show that any game can become captivating if it has love and creativity poured into it.
This is basically just Tech Demo x Fan Service, but you can tell the people behind it _care._
If you give your devs time, resources, and control to actually craft a game rather than check specific boxes as fast as possible, the results will absolutely speak for themselves.

[jmrsdn]

For some reason I am completely enamored with the “very crass but extremely helpful uncle who pretends like he’s making everything worse while he fixes up your favorite toys” character

[zestyquestman]

This is your game of the year because its legitimately good

This is MY game of the year because John Yakuza is in it.

[redbirb]

There's probably a Sony Rep whose job is just to watch this video lol, like imagine you sign into your business meeting and your boss just goes "today I need you to watch a video by a popular youtuber and twitch streamer to find things to use for marketing of the game."

[kevinvolkel]

I like how he makes the "John [insert game here]" joke on so many characters, except for Kratos when it was actually canonically confirmed that his full name is "John Kratos"

[westhawk]

being sponsored to do a 10 mins video which turns into 100% the game is probably the biggest compliment you could give a game.

[TheDiggiridunk]

I know Dan was largely being facetious about Ape Escape, but as a massive nerd I feel the need to point out that there's actually a really sweet reason for it being so prominent: It was one of Japan Studio's first flagship titles.

Japan Studio was an in-house publishing arm that used to make a bunch of Playstation exclusives, often as a collaboration with other studios, but they were shut down in the ps4 days to help fund Concord (lol. lmao even). Team Asobi is what's left of what was formerly Japan Studio, so it makes sense that they would christen their first major game release with a stealth remake of their old studio's first big game.

There are also a LOT of Japan Studio references in Astro Bot because of this. Some other Japan Studio cameos are Motor Toon Grand Prix, Parappa the Rapper, Wild Arms, Everybody's Golf, Devil Dice, Legend of Dragoon, Vib-Ribbon, Boku no Natsuyasumi, Dark Cloud, Mister Mosquito, Mad Maestro, Ico, Arc the Lad, Shadow of the Colossus, LocoRoco, Everybody's Tennis, Rogue Galaxy, Patapon, Demon Souls, Tokyo Jungle, Gravity Rush, Puppeteer, Knack, Bloodborne, The Last Guardian, Death Stranding, and Ghost of Tsushima.

As someone who has been a hardcore Japan Studio fan since the ps3 days, the plot of Astro Bot being "the ps5 is falling apart and the only way to put it back together is by freeing a bunch of old playstation ips from prison" feels a bit more passive aggressive than I think most people realize. If sony hadn't shuttered Japan Studio, "the ps5 has no games" probably wouldn't have become a meme in the first place. I'm not even sure sony themselves realized how many games they were making.

That being said though, I'm really glad the studio is finally getting their dues after all these years! Thanks to everyone who played Astro Bot for keeping the faith. If you want more astro bot but can't wait for a sequel, I'd highly recommend playing puppeteer for the ps3. It's a 2.5D platformer instead of a 3D one, but you can feel the bones of a lot of what astro bot would become in it. It's the closest thing you're gonna get to a spiritual prequel without playing the VR game.

[ImTheGuy]

1:37:19 I like Dan doesn't recognize multiple gaming Icons but immediately and instinctually knows who the guy from Buzz is from just a glance.

[SylviaGrome]

Funfact if you find 4 secret bots in Astro’s Playroom (a free game pre installed onto your PS5 that was mostly just supposed to be a tech demo to show off what the controller can do) they’ll join you in Astro Bot brining the total bots up to 304 also I love how they mostly used the PS5’s graphical potential to allow there to be like 500 random objects on the ground after beating a miniboss or something

[cee_ves]

instead of beating you over the head with a reference, astrobot is like a grandma showing you their photo albums

[CosmicCake]

Joker being on top of the cassino in the same pose as he was in p5 makes me KNOW that some other bots locations are references and I don't know what they are

[gctypo]

43:45 Sony will look at the telemetry and see that players overwhelmingly picked the Hunter costume, say "hmm, interesting, I wonder if that means something..." and carry on.

[CrumbySoulsol]

AKA Dan has no idea who most of the characters are and chat tells him who they are.

[Catsrules]

I just finished the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour archive stream video, hopefully Astro bot is a better game.

[herobrineharry]

They got so sick of “PlayStation has no games” they made PlayStation itself a game