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[onQ123]

Very fun, but I find the platforming parts far, far too easy most of the time. This makes it kind of weak in that aspect. The variety, music, aesthetics, and tight controls somewhat make up for that, but I only ever felt like I was half-engaged with the game outside of the symbol courses and Great Master Challenge. Astro's basic moveset could also use more tricks to interact with walls and platforms. I was initially having a blast with it and did until the end, but I kept waiting for the game to to take off, but it never reached the heights I thought it would and could.

It might be the best "modern" 3D platformer, but those don't have much of a presence anymore. Overall, similar quality to Mario Odyssey, maybe a bit better. Definitely not on the level of Mario 64, Galaxy, or even the original R&C trilogy (that in fairness are platformer shooters). It's a lot better than any Crash game and close to the original Spyro trilogy.

I believe they chose presentation over making it a real challenge in the main game. Like they wanted to keep a steady flow to keep more people engaged hoping they get to the end. Then added more of a challenge with the stuff that's unlocked after you finish the main game.

I wouldn't mind extended levels in the different tributes or if they went outside of PlayStation & made a Pacman or Sonic Level

I love platformers but perceive the game to be easy to plow with less interesting mechanics than Mario so I haven't played it yet. Came close to being my tipping point to grab a PS5.

I vow to come back and update this once I play it lol.

"Less interesting mechanics? " I don't think you even seen this game lol

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Mario 64 was the most mind blowing (you had to be there), but I do think Astro is the best.

 

[kevboard]

"Less interesting mechanics? " I don't think you even seen this game lol

probably, because that's an understatement.

the game has zero depth. so basically no interesting mechanics. it tries to counteract this with the items that add gimmicks, but those are mostly also just recycled from older games like Mario Sunshine, Galaxy etc.

 

[Aldric]

It's a bit better than the 3D Kirby on Switch, so basically a nothing game no one would care about if Sony didn't activate its marketing machine to make people forget about the Concord clusterfuck.

 

[Impotaku]

An average platformer with lots of member berries that make people overrate it.

It's not even as good as the previous one in VR which was superior in every way,, now that one easily goes up against mario playing rescue mission was game changing. The newest one is more like a sonic tier of game.

However when you own a PS5 and are starved of 3D platformers i guess anything looks like a AAAA must game GOTY

 

[onQ123]

C tier...

nothing special in any way other than technical polish.

it's very simple and has no depth whatsoever, and the weird safeguards they have where you can't walk off of certain ledges, make it also feel sub par.
almost every single gimmick they added is recycled from other games (mostly from Mario titles) and the level design is also pretty unremarkable.
enemy variety is very low and the default enemies can't even hurt you.

all in all, it's babie's first 3D platformer basically. super easy, no depth, a "best of" of older plartfomers' gimmicks, and technically well made.

Default enemies can kill you with one touch what are you talking about?

 

[kevboard]

Default enemies can kill you with one touch what are you talking about?

they literally can't. they just bounce you back.

the game is so unfathomably easy that you probably never have touched them, which is understandable. but I try mechanics when I play a new game, and found that they can't hurt you

 

[LordOcidax]

Best Sony first party platformer the answer is Yes.. overall not even top 10.

 

[Topher]

It's not even as good as the previous one in VR which was superior in every way,, now that one easily goes up against mario playing rescue mission was game changing. The newest one is more like a sonic tier of game.

However when you own a PS5 and are starved of 3D platformers i guess anything looks like a AAAA must game GOTY

That take doesn't make a lot of sense when the game is winning GOTY regardless of the platform.

 

[kevboard]

That take doesn't make a lot of sense when the game is winning GOTY regardless of the platform.

it does when you remember that those GOTY awards are given out by the same people that resuce a game's review score if it doesn't have enough diversity...

 

[Topher]

it does when you remember that those GOTY awards are given out by the same people that resuce a game's review score if it doesn't have enough diversity...

Whatever narrative makes you feel better my man

 

[Cakeboxer]

It's a bit better than the 3D Kirby on Switch, so basically a nothing game no one would care about if Sony didn't activate its marketing machine to make people forget about the Concord clusterfuck.

Sony didn't even market it nearly as much as their cinematics. 2024 was just a dry year like 2021 and so games like these could shine. To me it's a very good game gameplaywise, but the Astro Bots have no soul. They don't do anything to me, so i prefer games with characters i like.

 

[onQ123]

Whatever narrative makes you feel better my man

That's the guy that tries to sell the phone clip-on in every PlayStation Portal thread he probably just googled for negative takes on the game & never even touched the game.

 

[kevboard]

Whatever narrative makes you feel better my man

Dragon Ages Inquisition won GOTY in 2014.
a year where Wolfenstein The New Order and Divinity Original Sin released... games media has no credibility, therefore whatever they deem is GOTY is meaningless

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Second only to 3D Mario for me.

Donkey Kong Bananza may be about to change that though.

 

[kevboard]

That's the guy that tries to sell the phone clip-on in every PlayStation Portal thread he probably just googled for negative takes on the game & never even touched the game.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/astro-bot-ot-robot-in-disguises.1674553/page-21

...how does the world record reach 28 seconds? there has to be some glitch or obvious shortcut I don't get lol.

I already use a shortcut to get 34.1
maybe my shortcut is actually slower lol... but it feels faster

https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/29085-astro-bot/kevboard1990

I beat the final "super hard" level in like 3 tries btw... sadly I have no proof of that, but I found it funny how everyone was talking about how ridiculously hard it is online, only to turn out to be mildly challenging

 

[Cakeboxer]

Dragon Ages Inquisition won GOTY in 2014.
a year where Wolfenstein The New Order and Divinity Original Sin released... games media has no credibility, therefore whatever they deem is GOTY is meaningless

It won 138 awards, not just the stupid Game Awards where i kind of would agree with you. They can't all be biased. Your games won 9 awards combined.

Top games of the year 2014 - Game of the Year

goty.gamefa.com

 

[Randall365]

Top.

 

[p_xavier]

Best 3D platformer.

 

[Topher]

Dragon Ages Inquisition won GOTY in 2014.
a year where Wolfenstein The New Order and Divinity Original Sin released... games media has no credibility, therefore whatever they deem is GOTY is meaningless

No, it simply means you didn't agree with that selection. Nothing more. Hate to be the one to tell you this, but your personal opinion doesn't override jack shit.

It won 138 awards, not just the stupid Game Awards where i kind of would agree with you. They can't all be biased. Your games won 9 awards combined.

Top games of the year 2014 - Game of the Year

goty.gamefa.com

I see a lot of "reader's choice" awards in there as well.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

What you've achieved with this thread is bring out fanboys of all stripes - many of whom I doubt even played the game - to hate on the little Astrobot that could. As someone who has been doing this gaming thing from the very beginning and played aaaaaaall the great 3D platformers I can say without a doubt that Astro is in the top 10, maybe even top 5 greatest 3D platformers, haters keep hating, we love your salty tears.

Which one is the "best"? Judging each *for it's time* nothing will ever top the wonder and joy of playing SM64 when this 3D platformer thing was shiny and new, if you know you know.

 

[kevboard]

No, it simply means you didn't agree with that selection. Nothing more. Hate to be the one to tell you this, but your personal opinion doesn't override jack shit.

I see a lot of "reader's choice" awards in there as well.

if it is all just opinions then why bring it up in the first place as an argument?

you used it as some sort of proof that it has to be good because of the subjective opinions of others. and then tried to flip the script when I said I don't value their opinions.
opinions of a group of people that gets constantly shat on by this very forum btw., a group that is usually labelled political activists on here

 

[onQ123]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/astro-bot-ot-robot-in-disguises.1674553/page-21

https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/29085-astro-bot/kevboard1990

I beat the final "super hard" level in like 3 tries btw... sadly I have no proof of that, but I found it funny how everyone was talking about how ridiculously hard it is online, only to turn out to be mildly challenging

You probably pulled a Elon & paid someone else to do it

 

[Topher]

if it is all just opinions then why bring it up in the first place as an argument?

you used it as some sort of proof that it has to be good because of the subjective opinions of others. opinions of a group of people that gets constantly shat on by this very forum btw., a group that is usually labelled political activists on here

Bullshit. I didn't bring up GOTY. I replied to a post that did. And I also didn't say a damn thing about GOTY being "proof that it has to be good". I pointed out, factually, that Astro Bot won the overall GOTY, not just PS.

Stop making shit up man.

 

[Baemono]

It's okay, nothing to write home about it, not as "flexible" as a Mario can be, doesn't have the fun a Crash Bandicoot or Spyro can have, and feels somewhat repetitive after 3 levels

 

[Seider]

if it is all just opinions then why bring it up in the first place as an argument?

you used it as some sort of proof that it has to be good because of the subjective opinions of others. and then tried to flip the script when I said I don't value their opinions.
opinions of a group of people that gets constantly shat on by this very forum btw., a group that is usually labelled political activists on here

This is the proof Astrobot is good.

Astro Bot Reviews

When the PS5 mothership is attacked by ASTRO’s long-standing galactic nemesis, scrambling its wires and scattering the crew throughout space, only ASTRO can make things right. Setting off on his biggest mission yet, he needs your help to rescue the stranded crew and rebuild the mothership. Make...

www.metacritic.com

 

[Wonko_C]

Unless you're Super Mario 64, platformers don't keep my attention for long. This only changed with Astro Bot: Rescue Mission on PSVR1, which was this huge jump like when Mario went from 2D to 3D. Astro Bot PS5 on the other hand? yet another platformer that couldn't keep my attention for long. I guess I have just never been big on platformers unless they do truly world-shattering stuff. (So this will likely never happen again unless we somehow get BCI or Holodeck platformer stuff, LOL)

 

[Fake]

Is a big journey to sit among the top tier plataformers, but is so fucking close.

Almost hard to believe a game good like that came out in the age of Sony story telling GAAS garbage we are facing.

Astro Bot is really the light at the end of the tunnel because Sony is passing for a dark times of incompetence and terrible games.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

It's not even as good as the previous one in VR which was superior in every way,, now that one easily goes up against mario playing rescue mission was game changing. The newest one is more like a sonic tier of game.

However when you own a PS5 and are starved of 3D platformers i guess anything looks like a AAAA must game GOTY

I regret never playing Rescue Mission, don't see why they will remaster Days Gone and rerelease Last of Us a hundred times but won't put that one on PSVR2.

Sonic tier of a game is a perfect description. Maybe B or C tier of platformer.

 

[kevboard]

You probably pulled a Elon & paid someone else to do it

I surely didn't pay you, you'd probably not even be able to platinum it... probably got stuck at the final level lol

 

[vaibhavpisal]

It won 138 awards, not just the stupid Game Awards where i kind of would agree with you. They can't all be biased. Your games won 9 awards combined.

Top games of the year 2014 - Game of the Year

goty.gamefa.com

Dunno man.

The Last of Us 2 swept even more awards, up against Doom Eternal and Half Life Alyx.

Even Cyberpunk won more awards than those 2 games.

One is unanimously considered as best VR game ever made. Other one is considered as best shooter ever made by a lot of people.

I don't think game awards mean anything.

 

[kevboard]

Bullshit. I didn't bring up GOTY. I replied to a post that did. And I also didn't say a damn thing about GOTY being "proof that it has to be good". I pointed out, factually, that Astro Bot won the overall GOTY, not just PS.

Stop making shit up man.

you were the one who used GOTY awards as an argument that someone else's opinion "doesn't make a lot of sense" because the game won GOTY awards.

he said:
"when you own a PS5 and are starved of 3D platformers i guess anything looks like a AAAA must game GOTY"

to which you replied:
"That take doesn't make a lot of sense when the game is winning GOTY regardless of the platform."

he simply used it to say the game seems overhyped, and you used it to say that makes no sense because it got GOTY awards.
so you used the opinions of others to argue for the quality of a game, he simply disagreed with the hype around it.
generally, noone should be using reviews, awards and scores as "proof" of the quality of a game, it's such a non-argument.

 

[onQ123]

I surely didn't pay you, you'd probably not even be able to platinum it... probably got stuck at the final level lol

I'm not a trophy hunter I'll go back for the little things when I'm bored, the final level isn't hard nothing to get stuck on .

 

[onQ123]

you were the one who used GOTY awards as an argument that someone else's opinion "doesn't make a lot of sense" because the game won GOTY awards.

he said:
"when you own a PS5 and are starved of 3D platformers i guess anything looks like a AAAA must game GOTY"

to which you replied:
"That take doesn't make a lot of sense when the game is winning GOTY regardless of the platform."

he simply used it to say the game seems overhyped, and you used it to say that makes no sense because it got GOTY awards.
so you used the opinions of others to argue for the quality of a game, he simply disagreed with the hype around it.
generally, noone should be using reviews, awards and scores as "proof" of the quality of a game, it's such a non-argument.

I'm pretty sure his point was that the game of the year awards are for all platforms & not just PlayStation. Meaning that it's not because of the lack of Platformers on PlayStation.

 

[Topher]

you were the one who used GOTY awards as an argument that someone else's opinion "doesn't make a lot of sense" because the game won GOTY awards.

he said:
"when you own a PS5 and are starved of 3D platformers i guess anything looks like a AAAA must game GOTY"

to which you replied:
"That take doesn't make a lot of sense when the game is winning GOTY regardless of the platform."

he simply used it to say the game seems overhyped, and you used it to say that makes no sense because it got GOTY awards.
so you used the opinions of others to argue for the quality of a game, he simply disagreed with the hype around it.
generally, noone should be using reviews and scores as "proof" of the quality of a game, it's such a non-argument.

Wrong. See below...

I'm pretty sure his point was that the game of the year awards are for all platforms & not just PlayStation. Meaning that it's not because of the lack of Platformers on PlayStation.

Exactly right. Thank you.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

It's right there among the best.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Mid since it's not the best but also not bad.

Ratchet and Clank series are still the best by far.

 

[ReBurn]

It's a great game and I love it, but it's not my favorite platformer. I still enjoyed Mario 64, Galaxy/Galaxy2 and even Sunshine more. It's in my top 10, though.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Dunno man.

The Last of Us 2 swept even more awards, up against Doom Eternal and Half Life Alyx.

Even Cyberpunk won more awards than those 2 games.

One is unanimously considered as best VR game ever made. Other one is considered as best shooter ever made by a lot of people.

I don't think game awards mean anything.

Of course personal taste > any awards or meta score. I don't agree with many GOTYs or MC scores and i bet some games get extra points for being woke or from a generous/favorite publishers. But those are the metrics most people like.

 

[NeverYouMind]

If only comparing good releases in the franchises:

Psychonauts > Sly Cooper > American McGee's Alice > Banjo Kazooie > Mario > Crash > 3D Sonic > Astro Fraud

 

[Dacvak]

It's up there with the best 3D Marios. Doesn't top most of them, but it's absolutely part of the conversation.

It is, without any hesitation, the best non-Mario 3D platformer of all time.

 

[fastest finger]

3rd place, just behind Mario 64 and Astro Bot Rescue Mission.

 

[R6Rider]

As someone who tried to play Galaxy recently and quickly realized it has a dogshit camera.

I rank it better than Galaxy.

 

[kevboard]

I'm not a trophy hunter I'll go back for the little things when I'm bored, the final level isn't hard nothing to get stuck on .

neither am I, Astro Bot's unlocks basically by default tho. I only have 9 platinum trophies in 3 console generations that supported them, because I only get those who are extremely simple.

literally the only thing I had to do to get the platinum after finishing the game was do the weird side things like getting Nathan Drake and Lara Croft into the same picture and stuff like that.
finding all the secrets is basically an auto unlock, as none of them are really all that hidden given the simple level design, and finishing all the bonus levels is also just something I'd do in any platformer anyway.

and as for the final level, well if many are to believed it's considered really hard (it isn't)

 

[kevboard]

Wrong. See below...

Exactly right. Thank you.

I interpreted his comment as him simply saying "if you don't have any alternatives you'd might think it's a GOTY candidate"

 

[tTHANOSs]

Easily in top 5. Super Mario Odyssey and Kirbys forgotten kingdom. The original Crash trilogy. Of course Super Mario Sunshine.

 

[GametimeUK]

The game is fantastic and has a lot of things going for it. The nostalgia, artstyle and music combo really carries the game along with the sometimes creative gameplay twists. It has come at a time where 3D platformers aren't too popular. I just feel other games have superior character movement. It's up there for sure, but it's a tier lower than the all time timengreats of the genre.

 

[Topher]

I interpreted his comment as him simply saying "if you don't have any alternatives you'd might think it's a GOTY candidate"

Even that doesn't make sense considering Astro Bot is the consensus GOTY for 2024

 

[kevboard]

Even that doesn't make sense considering Astro Bot is the consensus GOTY for 2024

see, and you use awards by people you do not know as a qualifier to say his opinion is wrong... just like I originally said you did.

it's irrelevant how many awards it got, why should anyone care about that?
"your opinion doesn't make sense because some faceless entities that I don't know gave it a meaningless award"

especially after the recent news about some of the people who have voting power for the Oscars, arguably the most prestigious award in entertainment, noone should ever use awards of any kind as an argument.
people voting for certain movies because they didn't want to watch other nominated ones. people voting for certain actors because they think another nominee already has too many awards and shit like that.

now imagine how freaking ign determines what games they think deserve an award

 

[Topher]

see, and you use awards by people you do not know as a qualifier to say his opinion is wrong... just like I originally said you did.

it's irrelevant how many awards it got, why should anyone care about that?
"your opinion doesn't make sense because some faceless entities that I don't know gave it a meaningless award"

You misunderstand. I'm using Astro Bot's status as GOTY winner to say it doesn't make sense to say "you might think" Astro Bot is a "GOTY candidate". And yeah, the actual awards won do matter if you are going to discuss GOTY awards.

Let's be clear here. I'm not saying anything about any opinions on Astro Bot. Only the references to Astro Bot and GOTY awards. Nothing more. I agree with you that awards do not negate any opinions on a game and I haven't said anything otherwise.