Today Sony Interactive Entertainment and Team Asobi presented a nice chunk of gameplay of the upcoming Astro Bot on the stage at Chinajoy in Shanghai.
The demo, which lasted about 20 minutes and was aired on PlayStation China’s Weibo channel, showcases some fun platforming gameplay and a boss battle.
Things get interesting as our little bot has to fight against a giant octopus featuring a typically Japanese design and multiple stages.
You can watch it below, courtesy of YouTube user GamersPrey.
If you’re unfamiliar with Astro Bot, it was initially announced during one of PlayStation’s occasional State of Play presentations in May 2024, and it’s coming exclusively for PS5 on September 6, 2024.
It’s the third game of Team Asobi’s platforming franchise following Astro Bot: Rescue Mission in 2018 and Astro’s Playroom in 2020. That being said, its cute bots actually debuted in 2013 in the minigame collection The Playroom, when Team Asobi was still part of Sony’s unfortunately defunct Japan Studio.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has a very large presence at Chinajoy in Shanghai, both with its party games and titles created by third-party partners.
The house of PlayStation is also presenting the lineup of the China Hero Project, within which three new games have been announced as part of the third wave.
We also saw some new gameplay of Lost Soul Aside, which is one of the games that were recruited for the project’s first phase and has not yet been released. That being said, it certainly looks great so far.
