Team Asobi’s Astro Bot is rightly taking the gaming world by storm right now. A full-priced PlayStation Studios platformer is something we haven’t seen since, well, the release of Sackboy: A Big Adventure back in 2020. But even then, the genre’s been a rarity for Sony since the halcyon days of the PlayStation 2 and 3 and series like Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, and LittleBigPlanet.
But that dormancy could be over now; Astro Bot has been released to critical acclaim and is currently enjoying its place as one of the highest-rated games of the year on review aggregator sites. The game isn’t just a slick and charming platformer though, as it makes exceptional use of the PS5’s DualSense wireless controller.
