Astro Bot merece más que solo el juego del año

En pocas palabras: si hacer un juego de plataformas que pudiera sostener una vela para Mario fuera fácil, PlayStation lo habría logrado antes en sus treinta años de historia. Just because something is cheerful and cute doesn't make it any less of a technological feat than a game that is gritty and super difficult. Not everyone who likes Black Myth is going to like Astro Bot – they're ridiculously different games. But that doesn't mean that the wonders of Astro Bot deserve to be downplayed.

Astro Bot merece el juego del año, cientos de veces.

A True Wonder

Earlier this year, Sony released Concord , a shooter that it hoped would compete with Fortnite, whose tone felt torn out of the Guardians of the Galaxy pitch bible. The game was a massive flop, so much so that Sony removed it from storefronts and issued refunds back to players.

Concord had a seven-year development cycle at a studio with around 200 employees and probably cost several million to make. Astro Bot , on the other hand, took three years to make at a studio with only about 65 employees – employees who have been working together for years at this studio. These employees would regularly get together and – gasp! – play the game through its development.

In a time where there's massive layoffs in the game industry and the biggest studios are scratching their heads over how AAA games can be profitable with such bloated, multi-million dollar development budgets, Astro Bot offers a sustainable answer. Keep teams together. Maybe they make smaller games over smaller development cycles.