Astro Bot: The New King of 3D Platformers [Video Essay]

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Nico-op

Күн бұрын

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@Soooooooooooonicable 4 ай бұрын

Damn. This was the best written Astro Bot review I've watched so far.

@Nico-op 4 ай бұрын

@@Soooooooooooonicable thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ve always wanted to get into more reviews and essays and I knew from the second I started this that Astro would be a great first one haha

@craftboy338 4 ай бұрын

Astro's games pump pure joy directly into my soul, and that's _hard_ to find anywhere else these days.

@Nico-op 4 ай бұрын

@@craftboy338 I agree completely. You could tell from the first few minutes just how great of a game it was going to be. Wholesome, fun, and Joyful like you said. Rarely do you feel these things with new games nowadays.

@craftboy338 4 ай бұрын

@@Nico-op I'll take 6 hours of condensed fun over 90 hours of grinding and repetitive side-quests _any day._

@Nico-op 4 ай бұрын

@@craftboy338 100% for sure. It felt like the perfect length. I just finished my 100% run yesterday and while I would love 800 more hours of this, it felt like just the right amount of time to really stand out compared to some of the other platformers I’ve played. I’d be really curious to see how this game is received in like 5 - 7 years from now. I think it deserves to become a classic.

@craftboy338 4 ай бұрын

@@Nico-op I wish more people talked about the PS4 VR Astro Bot game. It was so good.

@Nico-op 4 ай бұрын

@@craftboy338I knew about that game but didn’t realize until I was doing this video that it was the basis for this game. I’d love to play it now after clearing this one. Oculus/meta did a similar thing with their lucky’s tale games. They released the VR one, then saw the potential in it and released it to everyone, then made a true sequel. If Astro’s VR game was multiplatform I’d play it for sure.

@callinater6133 2 ай бұрын

As far as modern 3D platformers go, I think Spark the Electric Jester 3 is king. Amazing mechanics and level design, and pretty much the best possible execution of the Sonic adventure formula.

@Nico-op 2 ай бұрын

Dang! I just looked at the reviews for that game and it has a great track record. Wild that I've never heard of it. I'll have to give it a try, thanks for sharing your thoughts!

@callinater6133 2 ай бұрын

@@Nico-op Glad to hear it! Hope you enjoy it. I haven't played Astrobot myself though, looks fun! Wish the PS branding wasn't so baked into the game as I feel this may prevent it from being ported elsewhere.

@Nico-op 2 ай бұрын

@@callinater6133 i think it was a great game and definitely worth your time even if you're not the biggest playstation fan. You never know what will happen next, maybe they can find a new way to expand this idea because they pretty much included all the ps properties. Playing a sequel to this where we collect the same characters might feel dated, so maybe they will open the licensing up!

@atzouff 4 ай бұрын

Can't wait for Sony to do nothing with this IP.

@Nico-op 4 ай бұрын

@@atzouff I’m worried about that too. Thinking out loud, a classics one would be really cool. Something where Astro can play as crash or sly but who knows if they’d even be allowed to do that. People might get turned off too if we have to collect the same 300 bots, but maybe they can innovate the goals a bit more. The reviews for this game is what made me pick it up. I have faith in them, I just hope it sells well enough for Sony to do so too.

@Mozartkugel 4 ай бұрын

I love this game to death and I have loved every Astro Bot title ever, especially Rescue Mission. But even if it‘s very good, very smooth and very fun it still falls short to Mario Odyssey. That one still takes the cake and it’s not as close as you’d wish it was.

@Nico-op 4 ай бұрын

I think I was saying this to someone else, but I think time will be the big decision factor here. Mario Odyssey I remember so vividly and fondly. It’s one of my favorites and it will always be. Astro was such a great, fresh experience. If a year or so from now we still look back on it like we do now, I think for me personally it’ll be tough to decide which holds more space in my heart.

@godssalvation87 4 ай бұрын

I respect your opinion but to me if u play zelda because u dont like mario or you like mario but dont like zelda! They are literally the same game with one being more colorful then the other. princess zelda needs saving by link an you gotta go thru different environments to get to her, Princess peach needs saving by mario an gotta go thru different environments to save her. I compared them because Games are becoming too same-ish an having astro bot come out an try to do something fun with the platforming concept put its its zelda an mario for me personally.

@Creepfan 25 күн бұрын

If you really think Odissey is better than Astro Bot than you have no clue about video games at all. Astro Bot beats the shit out of Mario in every way possible. The amount of Detail put in some of these levels is astounding, and Odissey cant offer a fraction of that. Also Odissey is insanely repetitive. Some of the objectives re apair during a playhtrough about 20 times to spam the moons to almost 1000, but they are just meh in an awful amount of cases. Astro Bot has almost nothing like that.

@Mozartkugel 25 күн бұрын

@Creepfan „Odissey is insanely repetitive.“ - Besides not being able to spell the game’s name correctly at least once, this is all I need to read to know that you neither have a single valid argument nor the logical intelligence to come up with one that’s not total bs.

@mrk1075 4 ай бұрын

Eh, it’s ok. Give me Portal 3 and Ratchet and Clank.

@Nico-op 4 ай бұрын

@@mrk1075 not having portal 3 is the biggest sin known to man. Portal 2 is my favorite game of all time.

@Tomweldonsays 4 ай бұрын

It’s great. It’s fun. But it still doesn’t touch any Mario game. It has lots of potential though. It’s the extra stuff in Mario games that elevates it. I love the hub world in Astro Bot but it’s small. And the bonus world is neat but it’s really just another world. It doesn’t do anything. There’s a much better sense of discovery in Mario games.

@Nico-op 4 ай бұрын

That’s a fair criticism. I will say odyssey has stuck with me for a while. It was equally as fun and I’d love to play through it again. 64 is a classic too. With Astro I’d say it’s impressive when it seemingly came from nowhere you know? Like sure, the devs have a made a few games but for a lot of people this is the first big step in this genre from them. I think it’s exciting to see what they could do next, and maybe they can help push Mario to innovate even further as well.

@aceofspades001 4 ай бұрын

Another insecure Nintendo fan. The haptics and feel of Dualsense alone shits on any Mario game

@Tomweldonsays 4 ай бұрын

@@aceofspades001 The funny thing is I’m a Sony fanboy. I had a feeling I’d get a comment like yours. I’m a fan of GAMES. My Switch has sat behind my tv for 3 years and I play my PS5 just about every day. Astro Bot has room for improvement. There’s nothing wrong with that. There is so much potential. Just consider Super Mario World. An incredible world map. Levels that unlocked things in other levels so you could find more secret levels that unlocked other things. Multiple exits sometimes that made multiple things happen. The star world that had multiple exits and if you found the secret proper exit for all those you entered a secret super hard world that if you defeated all those it changed the whole world. Astro Bot on the other hand is VERY straight forward. It’s really fun but you basically go straight to the end. I feel like they’re missing that extra special layer that Mario games have.

@marconylara1272 4 ай бұрын

So you're just comparing it to Mario?

@Tomweldonsays 4 ай бұрын

@@marconylara1272 Everybody else is. I’ve seen so many “it’s better than Mario” and I don’t want us to become complacent here. I don’t want them to just make another Astro Bot exactly like this. I want them to realize it’s not better than Mario and I want them to know why. Because I want the next Astro Bot to actually be better than Mario.