#Astro Bot provides extra characters to its credit, hinting at future DLC

This 12 months’s Astro Bot is a large love letter to all the PlayStation model, primarily as a result of it featured many VIP bots dressed up as beloved characters from basic franchises, like God of Warfare, Horizon, Crash Bandicoot, Parappa the Rapper, and extra.

Happily for followers, Workforce ASOBI stored making and releasing free speedruning DLC ranges to Astro Bot after launch, they usually added new VIP bots from video games like Stellar Blade, Helldivers 2, and Future. Nevertheless, followers observed that the studio additionally up to date the sport’s credit very lately, and now they checklist a brand new character that wasn’t there earlier than.

Since its preliminary launch, Astro Bot’s credit function the copyright of third-party franchises that don’t seem within the base sport, and this checklist retains getting greater and greater with every new replace. Particularly, all of the cameo-less IPs thus far are: Rayman, Assasin’s Creed, Past Good & Evil, Worms, and Croc. And now, Tomba/Tombi seems on the credit as properly.

Whereas Workforce ASOBI launched Astro Bot’s remaining speedrunning degree earlier this week, it additionally talked about its different DLC plans prior to now, which signifies that VIP bots dressed up as characters from all these franchises listed within the credit will most certainly seem in upcoming problem ranges. Nevertheless, we presently don’t know whether or not this DLC may even be free or not.

Astro Bot understands the significance of all these franchises

Despite the fact that Astro Bot featured cameos from a number of beloved franchises which can be vital for the historical past of PlayStation, some apparent and anticipated selections have been weirdly lacking. So it’s good to know that extra of them will arrive within the close to future, and these credit point out that Workforce ASOBI positively is aware of what it’s doing.

It appears the studio is collaborating intently with Ubisoft to make extra Astro Bot content material, and for good purpose. In any case, players nonetheless keep in mind the older Rayman video games as among the finest PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 platformers, Past Good & Evil gave the PS2 an exhilarating journey sport that might compete towards The Legend of Zelda and the Assasin’s Creed collection was an enormous deal in the course of the PlayStation 3 period.

The addition of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Tomba can be fairly fascinating. Whereas they aren’t as recognizable as different platforming icons, like (Crash Bandicoot or Spyro the Dragon) these nonetheless have been stable PlayStation 1 video games that many individuals admire to this present day. Curiously sufficient, a remastered model of the primary Tomba title lately launched on fashionable consoles, and Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Remastered is about to launch within the close to future. So it’s potential that corporations are planning the addition of their respective VIP bots as some kind of timed cross-promotion for every remaster.

The one oddity within the checklist is Worms, as a result of this franchise of cartoony tactical video games thrived extra on PC quite than on residence console. However a few of them launched on PlayStation methods, so its inclusion wouldn’t be utterly out of the blue. No matter these minute particulars, you’ll be able to count on extra enjoyable ranges and cute cameos to reach to Astro Bot very quickly.