oh you know we were checking this one out right away it it was fun how they did the whole countdown to midnight and then it became playable all at once it's a nice touch and that's what team Mobi has become known to do and with something like astrobot I mean I've been looking forward to this game ever since they announced it and it blew everyone's expectations away with the review scores so I'm excited to jump into it here I think I'm going to play for I maybe like 30 or 40 minutes it's not a long quote unquote long game right it's like 9 or 10 hours something to beat it uh but I I like that I'm okay with that good good nice tyght experience 3D platformer and right off the bat I mean look your save files are PlayStation 1 memory cards I mean come on like it it's good stuff okay here we go see now we need a story or at least somewhat of a story for Astro whereas in playroom it was basically just hey we're going to show you the PS5 now they have to actually create some kind of storyline here PS5 the the Dual sense controller is very very involved already uh we saw this alien in the in a lot of the previews in like the beginning trailer okay so he's like the I guess this is like the big bad then rip us apart I've stayed away from a lot of the the review videos for the most part oh okay so all the all the little astrobots go flying everywhere then we crash land on the planet how the little things they have like the Dual sense Mak making the static noise all the sound is like synced up with the like the the haptic feedback on it got the gyro involved okay we're back oh look at that it's three and a half minutes and we're we're playing the game me get you get you in quick I did go back and play some more Astros playroom before this just to just re familiarize myself with some of the movement for it which I I got the Platinum 51 out 51 did everything in that it's a a solid pack in game I mean it's almost a full-fledged game really um it's just it's doesn't take long to Beed or anything but it is if you're wondering right now should I go should I go try out ast's playroom yes you should have tried out ast's playroom as soon as you turn the PS5 on oh it's it's the beginning like with the trailer they showed [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh we're like in we got like the whole overw like little map here flying around in space okay let's go over here let's see gorilla nebula have a chart showing all the puzzle pieces and Bots we need to get there we go [Music] oh so it's so like it's like super bright and colorful you this on like a nice OLED it's going to look good all the leaves get there this is really funny cuz we all this all the stuff is interactive here we we we'll play like Call of Duty like war zone for example sometimes and the our the thing we'll talk about and the people from this spawncast like look you can't do nothing around you in this in this big game will interact like if if you like shoot something on a desk for example nothing happens here it's like everything is just interacting with your character okay we got to move on I'm just going to sit here and just stare at everything while we're trying to at least play some of the game here okay there you go one bot down here we go that's me the other fun part are just some of the cameos that haven't been spoiled yet I feel like I've had I've seen so many already and in a way that's kind of disappointing because I I would have liked to have discovered a bunch of them but I mean they even even Sony showed up like all their different regions on social media would were just showing us the different Bots I mean they're very excited obviously I'm sure for some of the cameos that they were able to get since we had third party ones in here now it's like so with as playroom they would hide like uh artifacts right so you'd get like a PlayStation 3 controller or a v or something like that in this case I'm I'm I'm looking all over the place for Bots and I'm not going to want to miss many of them so that I can see a ton of uh just even playing it after you beat the game just to find them all although I am curious how much how I guess how integrated they are with the game like so for example we do know that you get some abilities I believe like the they've shown Kratos like the Kratos bot in here for example um but I'm curious how many others are like more playable or or mean something to the gameplay itself and climb ladders there you [Music] go oh found ratchet a good start so far see if if I picked that one up and it was like the fifth one I'd go okay where are the other two I got to go back and look for them and it's a water slide oh look at all the stuff it feel it's it's very smooth to control so this is It's just 60 frames and it seems like they're they were heavily prioritizing it so you know the dynamic frame rate and stuff but like the art style for this works so well to cover up any kind of issue say with resolution oh what is over here oh got bubble under here what's down [Music] here fish tank oh got squished oh a little flat like uh a little like the flattening [Music] animation I was ready for a this time oh we got another ratchet bot or rivet but you get it from the ratchet game there apparently there some really obscure cameos in here too so there's definitely going to be some that uh that are are going to be a little less noticeable right away [Music] they do I think when you walk across different surfaces it'll give you different effects on the haptic and the speaker so here it's feels more sounds more grainy feels a little little less uh impactful as right here where it's just Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump over and over again that bird had a puzzle piece oh jeez sound you just they just had fun with this game like just making it you can kind of tell just just already already all right what we got [Music] here oh I can turn into like an astro balloon [Music] [Music] oh now oh now I can get the puzzle piece I just saw that the corner my eye [Music] all right oh I can still inflate in the [Music] water okay another bot I'm Miss I'm missing one oh it has like the blur effect when you stare like it's really far away big duck there [Music] remember back in the so back in the day when we had like the remember the PS2 and the original Xbox came around draw distance was a big thing that was pointed out and now you just get up to something like this and you look over you see the beginning of the level from like way up high it's uh I think there was a racing game that I remember playing on I think it was on the original Xbox like one of those San Francisco Rush games or something and you could uh you could actually see cars in the distance coming down the hill and I thought that was incredible I was like oh yeah there's just the the beginning of level all the way over [Music] there okay we got another bot still missing one [Music] oh oh I have to launch at it I'll keep h both those all just coins all right well and I'm sure they have like a claw machine or something you put them in for this game like they did with playroom maybe that's where you get a bunch of extra Collectibles from them you might miss 304 Bots Wow Let's see kind of want to go to the place it looks like creamy Canyon yeah let's go there actually have an exclamation point over here too go back let me check let me check this out real quick crash site oh this is the this is the scene that made people think that it was the P they were showing the PS4 Pro in the trailer oh now we okay this is our this is our Hub world well our like our home base oh and the boss are just here they just run around search them every planet and try to rescue them all okay we put our puzzle piece are puzzles together here well that's a small puzzle I assume there's a couple of these then yeah there are gotcha lab safari park so like each world of course has levels in them so I guess each world just has its own puzzle actually the Bots that I got from the playroom should be here I thought so we should have like Grand Turismo bot ape Escape bot oh yeah there it is bloodborne bot there they are who's this oh you need two Bots to save my bloodborne bot oh I help [Music] him okay well then that means that my I guess they're all here but they're like kind of messed up or something need 10 Bots for that I don't have 10 well they just got crushed by a [Music] rock I have to like call them in is like a little little Pikmin stuff going on here there's my AP Escape [Music] bot oh I don't I can't use my power here my uh floating ability 10 [Music] Bots two go get my grand turis bot up actually I find one more I'll be able to do those those ones with [Music] 10 10 oh well this should be two there we go help put my come on there we go got the returnal bot back so we're good we have 10 now let's try one of these big rocks see this is pretty cool so you'll just unlock stuff around like the your home base as you get more Bots that's a that's that's a fun idea oh be that's good all right we we we'll go play some of the oh okay we'll go play we'll go play one of the levels May just locked oh it's like the ice ice cream uh oh oh I can jump off them oh hold on a minute is that snake need to save snake should go further over there [Music] there we [Music] go was a terrible child [Music] well oh I need them over there oh there's a Snowman [Music] [Music] oh there's something down there there's something down there oh psycho mantis hey what I want to get psycho mantis but I also want to see what's down here [Music] okay another bot see it's cool to find the bot I'm less excited for the regular Bots this makes me wonder if they had even more cameos planned but they just like okay we can't get that many [Music] me get psycho mantis [Music] back oh they have like the PlayStation symbols next to the ones that are like cameos okay so it kind of tells you ahead of time [Music] oh look at all the candy wow well I got I got two I got way too interested in all the candy on the ground see like stuff like this it it's probably things that aren't as noticeable that is actually pretty impressive to have oh they have STR on them to have like all this stuff that's just completely interactable like you just do whatever you want with it there that's actually really cool [Music] something you don't really see as much anymore actually I'm thinking about it oh this guy sliding all over the [Music] place oh I got to get that puzzle piece still [Music] [Music] [Music] oh there's a there bot over there well oh I'm missing one of the Cameo Bots [Music] oh there's like a oh you got spin I can't on great Fox all right mystery ninja I like I like it's like all metal gear solid or metal gear themed that's fun I said I was still missing a bot though it's not one of the Cameo ones I care less but still oh that think I got crushed oops [Music] [Applause] I supposed hold that pig here Pig I was bot I missed one in the first level too and I missed one in this one [Music] oh they like faked me out there see going through that I mean they have 304 Bots there's a lot but I felt like I'm always like finding stuff there like there's something constantly being thrown at you all right here we go Aztec Trail again this is kind of the benefit of yet it's a shorter game technically we see so many games try to be 80 hours long but when it is shorter you can pretty much condense everything look at all the leaves so you have to go back and forth feel trying to feel like this very subtle Rumble there we go thank you see I found that one right away a little longer let's see can you yeah so you can you can pick your hands up by just kind of pressing him slightly you going to press all the way down the all right that's cool app oh oh it's the it's the fruit wber fruit there's [Music] crash it's actually good to see that crash got in here I mean I don't think Microsoft would have said much or really probably could have been no it yeah it could have been done before obviously with them buying Activision Blizzard but still it is kind of a if you think about it now that the Crash Bandicoot Crossover with Sony is technically a Microsoft Sony crossover now still weird to think about that by the way so many people still think crash as like a as a Sony thing especially if you're back in like the obviously the PS1 day you're going to think that but times change quite a bit these gloves are just annihilating everything what you do oh all right it's free coins basically all right let's see how the swinging feels here they basically they have it home in on whatever you're looking at so it's not it's it's pretty hard to miss from what I'm seeing right now may was like look in the general direction of something it'll uh it it'll just home in hit it you're [Music] good oh that that might be the way I'm trying to figure out if this is the side this a side paath oh slingshot that's awesome okay oh I punch tree yeah that makes sense there we go [Music] w [Music] ah I put a little ramp here to try to trick you up [Music] oh I have to like time this so I can back all the way up w see it makes it a lot easier to deal with these spiked enemies usually if you like could get close to them and Miss A Punch they would just they would basically just kill you with their spikes way easier with the punching gloves [Music] oh um I'm kind of looking at like sideways a bit oh okay I was not expecting that lot's happening right now there we go oh that was close boom and look they okay so they closes out with Jack look you can look at all of them there you go oh you like shake them around too that's pretty funny oh [Music] I think that's I think I got everything actually in that level me see [Music] [Music] uh oh what's the there's like a no I did miss one bot well I think I missed bot one bot there a bot here this one also has like this like Whirlwind looking thing there go figure out what that is this spot over here and the Whirlwind thing okay so far so I'm three levels yeah basically three levels in I played around like the the home base place a little bit this is a lot of fun wait what is this what's going on here is that just another place to go oh it is let's do this they it looks like only has one thing so maybe it's [Music] quick oh okay this will be fun do I have to use the touchpad no okay good that's one thing I wasn't a fan of was the um oh you hear like the metal too there that is a bumper mess me up anyone remembers having a deal with uh can I just run these guys over I can oh you get like momentum from that oh oh that was [Music] close oh I was supposed to oh I kick it at him okay cool boom Mo them around there you go aspiration [Music] cat that was fun that reminds me like the the the one that I was referring to where he used the touchpad at like concentrate there for a minute was uh where we have to like get to swipe at the touchpad it was always a whole thing it was like figure how to get past it was really narrow Ledges was like always a very tense moment you know what having fun with this game I mean I have what really three levels then one of those guys I guess that's like a challenge level or something it's like a one-off um I don't know what I need to I need to obviously need to beat this destruction Derby and I guess this is a this would be a boss here I guess or like a big big level that you unlock so if that I mean if that's the case then I mean it's pretty oh oh I just got some okay well that was easy I uh I I see what they mean when it's when they say it would be a considered a a shorter game but the fact that I still have to go through these and get those spots and everything I I like the idea of this being a concise 3D platformer where I just felt like I was unlock I mean I I unlock 23 Bots I feel like I was just doing a lot as I was going through each level didn't feel like there was a lot of uh empty space I guess is the point so because of that I'm I'm interested to go to the next level and then the next level and the next level and this feels like a game you could sit down and play for realistically 10 or 15 minutes and actually get through one the levels and get something done so uh in that sense I'm uh I like what I'm seeing here it seems very very creative so far there's a lot of stuff they're playing around with here for the the Dual sense controller unfortunately it's very hard to kind of convey that through like a gameplay video but the Dual sense was constantly doing something when I when I'm when I'm uh running through these levels so yeah so far so good with astrobot go figure I liked Astros playroom a lot I've been calling for a big astrobot game we have it so yeah I'm going to continue playing through this obviously and uh hopefully be I assume through this and the next couple of days and we'll talk about it some more again on the podcast then click R3 next week but let me know what you guys thought about astrobot if you got a chance to pick it up or if you're picking it up soon or maybe waiting for it to come in the mail what are your thoughts so far on some of the things you're seeing thanks guys for watching I'll see you next time