Astro Bot |OT| MC: 94

the-pi-guy · Sep 16, 2024, 05:02 PM

Legend · Sep 16, 2024, 05:36 PM

Pretty good.

Real test is if the game has legs. If it's still a top seller by Christmas, then that's great.

the-pi-guy · Sep 21, 2024, 03:04 PM

Got the platinum yesterday.

Was a good time.

nnodley · Sep 21, 2024, 03:56 PM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Sep 21, 2024, 03:04 PMGot the platinum yesterday.

Was a good time.

I am getting straight pissed at the last great master challenge. Some of the other speed levels were annoying and some took quite a few but I finally got them.

But this last one is annoying the shame out of me big time. To the point I'm about to delete the game and say fudge it to the platinum. Not worth about snapping my controller in half

Legend · Sep 21, 2024, 04:45 PM

Quote from: nnodley on Sep 21, 2024, 03:56 PMI am getting straight pissed at the last great master challenge. Some of the other speed levels were annoying and some took quite a few but I finally got them.

But this last one is annoying the shame out of me big time. To the point I'm about to delete the game and say fudge it to the platinum. Not worth about snapping my controller in half

Goty

Haha I felt the same about the final challenge in Super Mario Odyssey. I can't even remember if I finished it or just got super close, but that sure was painful!

nnodley · Sep 21, 2024, 04:53 PM

Quote from: Legend on Sep 21, 2024, 04:45 PMGoty

Haha I felt the same about the final challenge in Super Mario Odyssey. I can't even remember if I finished it or just got super close, but that sure was painful!

Besides the challenge levels the overall game is probably GOTY for me. But challenge levels are very much not my cup of tea. I don't play games to get frustrated

It's not even super hard in terms of what you have to do in it. It's just one that's easy to do one little mistake and you have to restart the entire thing. Which gets super frustrating

the-pi-guy · Oct 03, 2024, 12:13 PM

Edge gave it a 10, while acknowledging the game has some flaws.

nnodley · Oct 03, 2024, 01:09 PM

doesn't look like its added to metacritic yet, but I WONDER if that puts it up to 95? And who predicted 95? HMMMM

kitler53 · Oct 03, 2024, 02:13 PM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Oct 03, 2024, 12:13 PMEdge gave it a 10, while acknowledging the game has some flaws.

having plat'd the game now,...

....i still love it but i can see some of the complaints about it having too much sony corporatism or whatever it is people said. i felt a lot of joy when i got the reference. i felt pretty numb when i did not. it's not great game design if the joy of the game has a dependency on having experienced hundreds of other games. the need to "stand up on it's own merit" is something i kind of get now.

luckily for me i got nearly all of the references even if i had not played the game.

the-pi-guy · Oct 03, 2024, 03:31 PM

I have a lot of thoughts about the game. This is just a few of them.

Spoiler for Hidden:

kitler53 · Oct 03, 2024, 04:19 PM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Oct 03, 2024, 03:31 PMI have a lot of thoughts about the game. This is just a few of them.

Spoiler for Hidden:

1. Have some mixed feelings on the PlayStation representation. They make up some of my favorite levels, but Astro Bot Rescue Mission was better without any of it. I would worry in the future that there's too much reliance on it. I think the game is better without it.

2. I think one of the biggest weaknesses of the game is that Astro is lovely, but the big enemy isn't particularly notable. Mario has Bowser, Crash has Dr. Cortex, Sonic has Doctor Eggman. It's not a huge issue with the game, but it's a big area where I think things could be improved.

3. I feel like it would be more interesting if the nebulas had some theming. Most of the worlds could be swapped around without changing the game. It almost feels a little silly that you have to progressively unlock them as is. I think it could be a lot cooler if you had a Ghost nebula, a water nebula, etc.

I really loved the game overall. The kids are still playing the game to this day, and that's really awesome.

I hope that Team Asobi takes the right lessons for whatever they do next.

Spoiler for Hidden:

@1 - i just straight up agree with you. @2 - so i kind of a agree but i mostly disagree.   <a href="https://astrosplayroom.fandom.com/wiki/Nebulax#:~:text=Nebulax%2C%20the%20Space%20Bully%20is,of%20the%20Astro%20Bot%20franchise." class="bbc_link">nebulax</a> is not this well fleshed out character but in all seriousness neither is bowser if you limit your view to the entire collection of all mario platformers.   all of them have the same level of shallowness as nebulax does.   the only reason bowser has any more characterization to him is because he's been featured in soo many other games like mario kart, the sports games, mario RPG, ect.   i don't think a platformer really needs a deeply engaging story line and to be honest i loath the recent sonic game specifically because they have all those terrible cut scenes in them.   @3 - i did kind of like that astro bot was always changing things up.  it is probably more fun to be constantly doing different things than to have an entire nebula focusing on 1 gameplay element.   what i will say is that astro kind of had too many gameplay mechanics and that most of them had such a short amount of time to them that they felt like we didn't really fully explore them.   like there is literally only 1 level to the monkey with symbols.   maybe i'm misremembering but i think there was only 1 water level with the penguin.  even the ones we came back to like the dog only had like 3 levels i'd guess. additional thoughts - i do wish astro had more of a move set on his own.   in a lot of platformers there is a "roll" option and I was specifically missing that during astro bot.   his movement speed is a bit low and soo many enemy types spit projectiles at you.   astro has a very limited ability to respond to that,.. a roll would be nice.   also,.. while technically there are a lot of enemy types too many of them are not all that distinguished from each other.  If you look at the bottom row: <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTHZbJWiiZZj_3ylCZhCTZiVnc4xpmdXOBJfI8-_0vsFmQR42-IbGI1xoPtqB3bZmLDwnnV7cI4Tmsvqi5M2_Q4ezJk9G-9Ac5jxHHfBKPHKoMOOjtEYcIEFM_s5gotg1RQAi_DJgdsE/s1600/10_5b_steps.PNG.jpg" alt="" class="bbc_img" loading="lazy">... i'd say 9 of them are very similar because to all of them you jump over them and let the jet thing kill them.  like specifically there is fundamentally no difference between the bots with spikes or the bot with electricity from a gameplay perspective.  it's just cosmetics.   it's an area where giving astro more base movements would allow more variable enemy design.

Legend · Oct 04, 2024, 11:50 PM

Astro Bot turned into Dark Souls wtf #AstroBot #PS5 pic.twitter.com/weYWzq0vb4
— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) October 4, 2024

Is this the hardest level?

the-pi-guy · Oct 05, 2024, 12:04 AM

Quote from: Legend on Oct 04, 2024, 11:50 PM
Astro Bot turned into Dark Souls wtf #AstroBot #PS5 pic.twitter.com/weYWzq0vb4
— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) October 4, 2024

Is this the hardest level?

It's top 3 I would say.

Legend · Oct 05, 2024, 12:48 AM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Oct 05, 2024, 12:04 AMIt's top 3 I would say.

Git gud, that looks ez!

kitler53 · Oct 05, 2024, 02:43 AM

Quote from: Legend on Oct 04, 2024, 11:50 PM
Astro Bot turned into Dark Souls wtf #AstroBot #PS5 pic.twitter.com/weYWzq0vb4
— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) October 4, 2024

Is this the hardest level?

I'd say there are at least 2 that are much harder. ...but 3rd hardest is probably right. there wasn't a ton of hard challenges.

tbh,.. this one wasn't that bad. really none of them were that bad but the master challenge is probably 3x longer so it too longer to perfect.