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 actually is, greater than the rest, a celebration of the consoles and video games that formed me, and sure a lot of you, too. It’s so fully possessed with pleasure and teeming with the lifetime of every little thing that PlayStation has meant to individuals over time. It’s also a superb platformer in its personal proper, stuffed filled with concepts that make it appear to be Asobi Group is simply getting began on this totally endearing franchise. For all its charms and wonders, nonetheless, there’s additionally a barely melancholy feeling that Astro Bot, which secondarily serves as a form 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, fairly than to infuse and electrify the video games of at present and tomorrow. — Moises Taveras
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