1 year ago

Just finished playing through the main levels of Astro Bot.

I actually got very emotional playing this game.


I’m going to start off by saying that this game totally deserves the GOTY award it got.

It’s very fun, incredibly adorable, and surprised me with a few pretty good challenges. It makes good use of continuing to use multiple power-ups, which is something that other games I’ve played like it tend to not do so well, so I was very happy with that.

It makes great use of the PS5 controller’s functions too. I was so giddy with the unique ways the controller vibrates and how you need to sometimes push harder than usual on the left and right triggers. Hoping more games on the PS5 use these features!

It’s true, yeah you saw it in the title, I got very emotional playing this game, mostly towards the end. Not exactly the ending itself (I was emotional there too though), but before the main final boss fight. I guess I’ve grown really attached to these little robots and their silly little antics and squeaky noises. Something about them makes me really happy, and getting to see all of the ones I’ve rescued so far being together was really fun. I guess I kind of felt like crying lol. Happy things seem to make me feel that way now.

This game basically showed me I’m still actually sane lol. I know that might sound weird and maybe dumb, but I’ve focused on making so many dark stories and games for many, many years, even to a point where I’ve even questioned if it’s healthy for myself. But no, I still have a love, maybe a desire, for simple and cute things like Astro Bot. I’ve also been stuck in such a dark time of my life, and this game has been such a sweet little escape from it.

It’s very inspiring to me as a game developer. While I still plan on making original games with darker tones, I do want to make fun and simple single player games like Astro Bot. We need more games like this in the world.

If you have a PS5 (and have the money), I 100% recommend anyone to play this game. I seriously love this game to pieces and am so happy I played it myself.

I’ve still got tons of stuff to do in this game!

💙 💙 💙 💙

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