He may not be a mustachioed former plumber, but Astro Bot feels like he’s delivering the same inquisitive playfulness wrapped up in an innovative platform that has for so long been Super Mario’s literal stomping ground.
In “Astro Bot Rescue Mission,” players take control of the diminutive, big-headed bot from “Playroom Vr’s” “Robot Rescue” as gamers lead him through 20 virtual reality levels spread across five planets on the hunt for more than 200 lost bots.
The standalone game was developed by the Asobi team at Japan Studio and comes in response to the overwhelmingly positive response to “Robot Rescue.”
Nicolas Doucet, creative director on the game, calls that free 2016 mini-game for the PlayStation Vr a primitive prototype for what has now become “Astro Bot Rescue Mission.”
“We wanted to make that at the time because we thought it was a cool thing to try,” he told Variety during...
In “Astro Bot Rescue Mission,” players take control of the diminutive, big-headed bot from “Playroom Vr’s” “Robot Rescue” as gamers lead him through 20 virtual reality levels spread across five planets on the hunt for more than 200 lost bots.
The standalone game was developed by the Asobi team at Japan Studio and comes in response to the overwhelmingly positive response to “Robot Rescue.”
Nicolas Doucet, creative director on the game, calls that free 2016 mini-game for the PlayStation Vr a primitive prototype for what has now become “Astro Bot Rescue Mission.”
“We wanted to make that at the time because we thought it was a cool thing to try,” he told Variety during...
- 5/23/2018
- by Brian Crecente
- Variety Film + TV
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