It’s a loopy week for Sony. Only a day in the past they needed to announce the closure of Harmony, the live-service shooter from Firewalk Studios that launched lower than two weeks in the past. It’s undoubtedly the largest flop the PlayStation model has ever seen. However whereas Harmony is being laid to relaxation, probably eternally, PlayStation’s newest unique is on the brink of meet its adoring public, and the evaluations are nothing in need of glowing.
Tremendous cutesy platformer Astro Bot is because of launch tomorrow, September 6 for PS5 and the evaluations have begun rolling in. Critic after critic have bestowed excessive scores on Asobi’s new sport. In reality, primarily based on each Opencritic and Metacritic, Astro Bot is the best reviewed sport of the yr.
Nicely, nearly. On Metacritic the problem is confused barely as a result of Astro Bot’s spectacular rating of 94 at the moment grants it second place. First place is held by Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree with a rating of 95. In fact, Shadow of the Erdtree is definitely an enlargement somewhat than a standalone sport, so all of it comes right down to a technicality: Astro Bot is the best scoring standalone sport of 2024.
Over on Opencritic, the reply is rather more clear reduce as a result of Astro Bot at the moment holds a 95, placing it one entire level forward of Fromsoft’s huge add-on.
That mighty spectacular rating additionally means Astro Bot is now the highest rated PlayStation unique on Opencritic, in addition to the eighth greatest reviewed sport. The earlier best-reviewed PlayStation sport on the positioning was held by Kratos in God of Warfare 2018.
Metacritic’s historical past goes again loads additional than Opencritic, so Astro Bot doesn’t rank as extremely. Over there, it’s Uncharted 2: Amongst Thieves that boasts the accolade of being PlayStation’s highest rated sport. In the meantime, Astro Bot’s rating of 94 ties it with quite a few superb video games, together with the likes of Gears of Warfare, God of Warfare, Name of Obligation 4, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Satan Could Cry. Not dangerous firm to be in.
In fact, vital reception doesn’t all the time equal gross sales, so we should wait and see if the lovely Astro will shift hundreds of thousands of copies. Anecdotally although, I’ve to say there’s quite a lot of hype surrounding Astro’s triple-A, full-game debut, particularly given how good his earlier journey was.
