When it comes to PlayStation exclusives, my eyes tend to glaze over. Though I can certainly see how they’re good games worthy of praise, when it comes to the likes of God of War, Spider-Man,🔯 orﷺ Uncharted, I struggle to get on board the hype-mobile to the same degree as everyone else. Prestige puts me off, and no one does prestige like Sony.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Astro Bot is different, though. An earnest celebration of PlayStation, that little guy has sucked me in and dragged me across the cosmos, and I’v🍎e loved every second of it. But one level in particular makes me wonder 🥃if Astro Bot could be what I need to get into its bigger, more suave console mates.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dude Raiding is🌌 Astro Bot’s take on the Uncharted series. Near the start, you pick up roওbo-Nathan Drake’s gun and start blasting your way through jungles and ruins, hunting for his friends and maybe some treasure along the way.

As others have pointed out already, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Astro Bot has the vibes of the Lego se♕ries. It takes ofte🍃n heavy source material and gives it a light-hearted, kid-friendly tone that’s uꦅnderpinned with utterly killer gameplay.

Having played all of the first Uncharted game and about half of Among Thieves before giving up, the first sign Asobi was onto a winner with Dude Raiding was how quickly I locked back into the cover-based shootouts and precariously dangling from ropes. I was taken abaღck at just how faithful Astro Bot was to its source material.

Of course, it’s more simplistic than Naughty Dog’s Uncharted. There are no grenades, melee takedowns, or Nolan Nor🌺th blabbering away at you, but that helps Dude Raiding become a distillation of Uncharted.

The shooting feels fantastic despite being a single button with no aiming needed, the platforming is ꦜstellar and often combines with the shooting to add more difficulty to both, and, in its far-too-short runtime, it has a great range of set pieces, arenas to fight in, and puzzl🗹es to solve that Drake’s adventures are known for.

But it still feels like🐷 there’s more it could do with the foundations Dude Raiding introdu🦹ces. We only got a taster of what Astro Bot: Uncharted could be. A whole game could be full of bigger setpieces, more complex platforming sections, more involved puzzles, larger combat encounters, and even a great focus on characters and story beats, all without losing any of the Astro Bot charm that carries it so far.

Vehicle sections with the tactility of how Astro Bot uses the DualSense controlle꧟r would be wild.

Astro Bot Remembers When Uncharted Used To Be Fun

Astro Bot feels like it only scratches the surfa▨ce of what it could do in homage to Uncharted, but that’s only part of why I’m🍎 so interested in seeing a full Astro Bot remake of it. Dude Raiding is Uncharted without the bulging budgets and triple-A gumph, and it’s fun as hell.

As I mentioned before, the perfect sheen of Sony’s brand of prestige gaming has never grabbed me. Whether it’s Christopher Judge constantly making nods to playing Kratos at the Future Game Show, or arguments about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:how much of a twink Peter Parker is, it’s always felt♛ like there’s a self-important smarm surrounding not just Sony, but big-budget gaming in genera𝕴l.

Astro Bot isn’t like that. There’s unabashed earnestness to it that isn’t trying to capture the conversation or become an icon, even though it probably will become that anyway. It cuts through the pomp and preeninꦗg Sony’s known for and just enjoys being a video g🎃ame, rather than a media property.

I don’t care about how many rays are traced, or how many hours Nolan Nor🐈th and Troy Baker spent strapped into a mocap suit. With Astro Bot, all of the big reasons I bounced so hard off the Uncharted series are gone. I want the joy of being Nathan Drake, or a cute robot approximation of him, shooting up merce🍃naries in an incredibly structurally insecure jungle, and Astro Bot is how I get that.

Asobi has already☂ proved the mechanics are there for an Uncharted Astro Bot game, and the result is one of the best levels in one of the best games of the year. Give Robo-Drake his own outing, and I’d be there day one. Which isn’t something I can say about A Thief’s End or any of the games that came before it.