Astro Bot is more important Sony news than Concord or the PS5 Pro

I cried at the end Astro Bot. I know this doesn’t say much more than my sentimentality, but I thought it would be an important note to highlight something else, something important about PlayStation’s excellent new platformer. It really is Is

more than anything else, a celebration of the consoles and games that have shaped me and probably many of you too. It is so full of joy and brimming with the life of everything PlayStation has meant to people over the years. It is also a brilliant platformer in its own right, packed with ideas that make it feel like Asobi Team are just getting started with this extremely endearing franch ise. For all its charm and wonder, however, there is also a slightly melancholy feeling that Astro Bot which also serves as a kind of museum of the history of the PlayStation, puts this heritage and the spirit of innovation that shaped it under glass so that it can be viewed and appreciated as a relic of yesterday, rather than trying to penetrate and sweep away the games of today and tomorrow. – Moises Taveras

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