#Astro Bot incorporates a surprisingly naughty reference to a PS2 cult traditional – Destructoid
Well-known Bloodborne hacker Lance McDonald simply made a really fascinating discovery in Astro Bot. Whereas he hasn’t discovered a technique to play the sport in 120 frames per second, he’s discovered the subsequent smartest thing: Sony being quietly very naughty.
In a current tweet, McDonald exhibits Mister Mosquito’s cameo in Astro Bot, then reveals its secretly naughty origins.
Astro Bot options quite a few cameos from PlayStation characters, most of them from extremely popular video games. Mister Mosquito, nevertheless, is however a novelty stealth recreation from the PS2 the place you simply went from room to room attempting to suck blood off of individuals with out getting observed.
Mister Mosquito exhibiting up not as an Astro Bot clone however as an precise tiny mosquito in a cold world probably had the few individuals who observed his presence scratching their heads. Seems the rationale was fan service in probably the most in-the-know sense of the phrase. That cameo isn’t a mere reference to Mister Mosquito, however particularly to a degree the place the titular Mosquito has to suck blood out of a lady whereas she’s sleeping in a bath.
There’s no precise nudity concerned, however anybody versed in anime tradition will know the precise objective of together with such a stage in a recreation.
Mister Mosquito even passes out, in a hearts-in-his-eyes cartoon type, upon mission completion. We are able to maybe forgive Sony for this bizarre mission as a result of Mister Mosquito is from a time earlier than Bee Film inadvertently taught humankind concerning the grossness of human-insect lust. Nonetheless, it’s a reasonably peculiar factor to be referencing proper now in a recreation for teenagers. Did workforce ASOBI snuck this reference into the sport, or, even higher, was Sony attempting to have a good time the time when builders put all kinds of lewd Easter eggs in video games? We could by no means know.
Now you can play Astro Bot on PlayStation 5 or get Mister Mosquito for the PS4 or PS5 from the PlayStation Retailer.
