Astro Bot developer Team Asobi says its upcoming PS5 game will take around 12-15 hours to beat. Trophy hunters and 100% completionists won’t have to sink too much time into the game’s campaign to acquire every single trophy, it seems.
Speaking to French YouTuber Julien Chièze in a recent interview, Astro Bot creative director Nicolas Doucet revealed that it will take players 12-15 hours to beat the game’s campaign. He stressed that the team didn’t want to unnecessarily bloat the game’s length to 20-30 hours as it could make some levels feel repetitive, so the decision was made to cut back on the overall length of the adventure to favour quality over quantity.
Doucet added that Astro Bot is being built with an overhauled engine so players can expect the game to look and play better than Astro’s Playroom, a short digital game which came packaged with every PS5 console at launch.
A recent interview with Edge Magazine revealed that Astro Bot almost went open-world in its early development stages before Team Asobi decided against it, opting to create 80 curated planets as levels. 80 may seem daunting and doesn’t make much sense for the 12-15 hour time it will apparently take to beat the game but it’s likely that levels will be short enough to accommodate a variety of different stages without overstaying its welcome.
The official description for Astro Bot reads:
“When the PS5 mothership is attacked by ASTRO’s long-standing galactic nemesis, scrambling its wires and scattering the crew throughout space, only ASTRO can make things right! Setting off on his biggest mission yet, he needs your help to rescue the stranded crew and rebuild the mothership. Make the most of ASTRO’s new power-ups, handcrafted to level up your immersion: from springy punches and rockets all the way to a giant sponge!”
Astro Bot launches on 6 September 2024 for PS5.
Source: Julien Chièze
