Got 100% on Astro Bot. What a delightful, lovingly-crafted game.

Please let Team Asobi do more platformers. It’s a drastically underserved genre, save for the Mario series. If more Astro would be “too much” or whatever, give them… Klonoa or something?

Now, as AMAZING as the deep-cut references were here’s a shortlist of “why wasn’t THIS in the game”?

- anything Final Fantasy (a wild exclusion, surely Square’s fault, disappointing)
- Breath of Fire
- Fear Effect(!!)
- the “Strike” copter series
- Omega Boost
- Gex
- Tiny Tank
- Twisted Metal(??!)

@Graham_LRR Wow, I haven't thought about Gex in... well, probably since the last time there was a deep cut joke about Gex on Checkpoint.

@Graham_LRR no Twisted Metal? Doesn't that have a currently ongoing television show?

Feels like something you would want to promote.

@Graham_LRR I hope I get to play it soon! Looks amazing!
@Foxmar It’s so much fun. Absolute throwback.
@Graham_LRR Come watch us stream some pummel. It’s a blast tonight.
@Graham_LRR I was honestly impressed that they packed as much in as they did, GOTY (so far) for me. Really didn't think about any of those exclusions aside from Final Fantasy though.
@Graham_LRR Also, the 100% rate on this game is ridiculous. 20% of people got the Platinum trophy. A full fifth of the people who bought this game completed it.
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Boost is an explicit endorsement, in this case
@Graham_LRR I had completely forgotten Klonoa. Played at least one of the games on the GBA. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.