There have been plenty of comparisons this yr suggesting the PlayStation hit Astro Bot is extra like a Tremendous Mario or Nintendo sport than a Sony one. With this in thoughts, it appears the sport’s director Nicolas Doucet may need lastly put all of this debate to relaxation.
In a shocking second in the course of the ‘Recreation of the 12 months’ section at this yr’s Recreation Awards, he took a second to pay tribute to a couple key inspirations…
Though his studio ‘Group Asobi’ is underneath the management of Sony, he acknowledged Tremendous Mario Bros. and Nintendo for driving his ardour and galvanizing your complete group. Here is what he needed to say, all while fastidiously avoiding really saying the corporate’s identify.
“Final and never least…and I did not plan to say it, however I will say it anyway, platformers, PlayStation 30 years, and we mde a platformer which is nice – it is very nostalgic and contemporary on the similar time however let’s not neglect that even earlier than PlayStation there have been folks making platformers. I bear in mind I used to be a child in 1989 Christmas, and I obtained a gray field, there was a sport packed in, it was referred to as Tremendous Mario Bros. and it was actually, actually nice – so we’re in Japan, we’re in Tokyo, they’re in Kyoto, however I need to pay tribute to the corporate who actually put like platformers and confirmed us innovation and high quality persistently, and impressed us to really make the sport that we made…And I’ve managed not point out them, have you ever observed? However you all know who they’re”
Comparisons apart, Astro Bot is an impressive 3D platformer that celebrates 30 years of PlayStation. Our associates at Push Sq. gave the sport an “excellent” ten out of ten stars when it arrived in September, labelling it one of many biggest platformers of all-time.