Sacred Symbols+, #407 | Astro Bot Review Discussion and Spoilercast

Reminder that Mario Odyssey is a Masterpiece

Bailey Callis

Time stamp?

Eric Smith

Yes, it would be nice if the time mechanic was in its own game, like Crash 4 and Blinx 😏

Jakob Podstawek

Chris ‘enamored’ at 53:59

Ryan

I feel like ye could do another episode on Astro Bot, think there are lots of things other guests could talk about in a bit more detail - music, special levels, different mechanics, kinda feel like ye missed quite a bit!

Cormac

2:19:00 i liberated your mom's starfish last night.

Keith Huntington

Who the fuck did the Bentley impression? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Cormac

SWADDLE 😂 😆 😝 🍆 💦

The Devmeister

Hell yeah dude! I love Tyler. I have all of his albums (and all variations lol) on vinyl, cd and cassette. Been following him since 2012ish and seen him 5 times now. Glad to find another fan in the wild

DaxterDays

Cherry Bomb PFP? hell ye I've got the album/instrumentals on vinyl. Also have a Cherry Bomb mask. And an Igor wig. And all his other stuff on vinyl. Bit of a Tyler superfan lol

Gooch Gobbler

Such a great episode. Great cast, a ton of funny moments, and it’s just a great game that deserves some praise. Thanks for all the hard work as always 👌

Johnny Lamotte

Chris, Soichi Terada created the sound track for Ape Escape. He has his own solo stuff that’s really good! Give it a listen if you really liked the music.

Simon Freeman

Astro’s Kart,Astro’s Olympics, AstroSports, AstroParty, Astro smash, Astro’s Fury, Astro May Cry, Astro Link to the Past, Astro and Clank, Astro and Daxter, Astro Crashers,AstroCity, Astro Calibur, Astro’s Revenge, Lies of Astro, Astro Dragoon, Astrofield, Astrogeddon, Astro Rush 2, Astrostorm, Astrofall, AstroBlade ok I’m done.

Special Needs Cannon

Speaking of the museum piece they do have a part in the main hub where you see all the characters you've collected but they don't say exactly what game they're from.

Derrek Beeck

Colin - “I don’t know how people have so many controller problems they must just not take care of them” Also Colin - “I gronk spike my controller on my hardwood floor for fun more times than can be counted” Forgive my paraphrased quotations

Bartevious

Agreed Sony needs to break off More ~80+ devs to make more games like Astrobot or more on the same extremely focused level. I am in Chris’s camp with this WE NEED A KART RACER W/ SAME QUALITY

Otacon_Ocelot

My son fucking loves Astrobot and put 100hrs himself into Astros Playroom (he's 5). Since we've been playing Astrobot him and I have gone back to PS Prem + and played every PS-OG I played in my youth and more I missed!

Otacon_Ocelot

Give us a sequel, make it like Kid Chameleon so you can switch between characters

Simon

I’m talking about getting 100%. I dunno about you but i don’t want to platinum something and still see “97%”

Gene Park

This game has also made me want to go back to older Playstation games. I actually hooked my PS3 up again to play through the Jak and Daxter Remastered Trilogy. I also want to play the Resistance trilogy for the first time. BTW - surprised to see no mention whatsoever of Resistance in astrobot. Maybe that will be one of the ones they add in the upcoming free updates?

Austin Eller

Maybe he was talking about Miles Morales

Adam Barnes

Jeece

PSN took a clip of mine for game help and it wasn’t useful at all. It was for finding a secret area but the video started in the secret area

DaxterDays

"I can tell that Herman Hulst gets a lot of pussy." Gene, never change 😂😂

Queef Wellington

Assassins Creed is Taco Bell and Horizon is Chipotle. Like yeah, it’s better- but it’s still not great 🤣.

Diddy’s Dong Quest

Something is definitely weird over at Square. There’s the FF9 remake, FF9 anime, and FFT remake we’ve known about for years now and they haven’t spoken. They ported Chrono Cross but no Trigger?

Diddy’s Dong Quest

You guys need to know that there is a setting that defaults the mic on your controller to being muted. I haven’t had to worry about my mic being on in years

Tom Gentry

I’m in the middle of finishing the plat for H:ZD, and it’s very easy to see why most people drop off.

Jared R

I think they missed out for not having a gran turismo cart racing level

Chris Adams

I've played a lot of amazing games that have released for year. Astro is probably my GOTY (but it could be Penny's Big Breakaway). That being said it doesn't quite hit the highs of 3d mario because of the limited movement set. Astro is fun and tight to control but all those extra options with mario make it an absolute dream. It ain't far off though. The game is pure joy

Matt The Outlaw 🤠

Fun listen but surprised no mention at the “ending”. Had me shook lol

Bobby C

😂

Henry Velasco

Square Enix not wanting their IP in Astro makes sense. There’s definitely something wrong with that relationship — they’ve been aggressively pro anything not Sony ever since they made their full shift to multiplatform. My conspiracy theory is that Sony led them on for years about an acquisition, then didn’t follow through once the bottom of their strategy fell out with Xbox going 3rd party and Bungie blowing up in their faces. Remember when Square Enix shed all their Western devs and dumped like 15 games into the market over just a few months? They were prepping for an acquisition.

Jimmy G

Every skull bot you find is a reference to Resistance. Your welcome.

Jacob Lesperance

C’mon, guys. Pretend to yawn or something when he gives you shit. Fuck with him back! lol.

Michael Cline Jr.

The God of War level was my favorite. Seeing the World Serpent included as a bot was so cool!

Trevor Myers

I agree that the game should have at least named where the characters came from. The Astros and the way thier costumes are designed I was struggling to recognize some of these characters despite 100% knowing who they were if you showed me their original art.

Powerman

I hope the Bentley voice becomes a thing and an impression they come back to. It’s so fucking funny for some reason lmao.

Bryan Lozano

Horizon games will outsell Astro like 5:1, even though few people actually care about them. Only 60% of players made it through the tutorial in Forbidden West. People like the idea of Horizon, but don’t actually play the games.

Jimmy G

I just think they did collectibles better than anyone, ever? It’s not just the bots, but the little gatchas that transform them too. It was really fun going up to hundreds of them after and seeing what their item did. Bloodborne guy parrying you was probably my fav

Caleb Peacock

I think Colin is pretty wrong about “These aren’t the types of games people want from PlayStation”. I have never seen the cesspool known as Twitter be SO positive about a game like they have Astro Bot. On the flipside, I barely see anyone praise Horizon. Hopefully the sales back this up.

Diddy’s Dong Quest

Yes.

Diddy’s Dong Quest

Just be finished the ending this morning - AMZING finale

A Hind D

Pushing back a little on Nintendo not using the tech, wasn’t Mario 128 the origin of Pikmin?

Jared R

Yes! I was hoping Gene would be here. Loved his Astro Bot review/interview.

Adam Razak

Glad to have Brad "The Emporor" Ellis on the show

Craig Carter

GOTY for sure

StewDog

First? First.

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