Easily the best platformer and PS VR game on the market this year. Astro Bot: Rescue Mission is a showcase to how VR should be utilized moving forward. Astro Bot: Rescue Mission is a must buy.
After played the PS5‘s Astro game Ihad to give it a chance to Rescue Mission,I’m not surprise any more Astro Bots games are high quality games, very fun games too.
Not only is it the best platformer on the PSVR, it's also good enough to rival some of the recent releases on modern consoles. It's a fun, friendly, and charming title that will make you 'ooh' and 'ahh' for the game's duration.
Astro Bot: Rescue Mission is one of the best examples of the virtual reality that we’ve ever played, and it’s also one of the best platform games of the year.
Astro Bot Rescue Mission succeeds in almost everything it tries. And it shows that you can have a great VR game without first person perspective. It is both entertaining, fun and unique, despite some bad camera positionning.
If you don’t have PSVR then you are SERIOUSLY missing out! Thankfully Astro Bot is getting his first full length game soon so everyone with a PS5 can experience how amazingly fun it is to play as this little robot!
Story: Not much to say about the story of the game. As expected for a platformer, the story was very minimalistic and also not thrilling or interesting at any moment.
Gameplay: This is where Astro Bot Rescue Mission plays his trump cards. The gameplay is very varied from the beginning and throughout the game, as the player never has the feeling that a level or design idea of a level repeats. Therefore each level and world (each world consists of five levels) feels unique and interesting. Also the development team managed to greatly implement the VR, as the player controls the Astro-Bot as a third person "robot", who also controls the Bot ingame.
Graphics: Graphics and visuals are perfect for this game. The different levels feel unique and detailled.
Astro Bot Rescue Mission is an amalgamation of recent Nintendo platform games, such as Super Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, and Splatoon. Problem is, those games weren't great, they were just average. This rendition is greatly improved by a clever second-person view that I would love to see more of in video games. Problem is, while taking ideas away from Splatoon, they could have taken the lives system (maximum of 3, restores every checkpoint). Problem is, this game is just good. It's not GREAT. It's not enough to justify the prices of PSVR on top of what a PS4 or PS5 costs. And make sure it's at least a PS4 Pro, because this is a very advanced game that might crash on something earlier.
Overall, this will be a fun game when many more people experience it for the first time in 2025 when it runs smoothly enough and prices of the hardware are low enough.
The gameplay is very short - around 5 or 6 hours which is a terrible value. This game does nothing new, I don't even understand third person VR and how it brings anything new to the table. If you like quirky characters you might like this. Otherwise I'll be playing Firewall Zero Hour
SummaryAstro Bot Rescue Mission is a platformer, developed exclusively for use with PS VR. Take control of Astro the captain Bot and go on an epic VR rescue mission to save your fellow Bots who are dispersed all over space.