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In the music industry, a band often uses a self-titled album years into its career to denote a reinvention. "This is who we are now" is the intended and unspoken message. PlayStation's Astro Bot uses the same naming convention to signal a similarly fresh start. Following a 2018 VR exclusive with obviously limited reach and a 2020 game that Team Asobi's studio head and creative director Nicolas Doucet considers a "tech demo," 2024's simply titled Astro Bot feels like it's ready to launch the...
The foundational elements of a Lego game have remained largely unchanged for 20+ years: Smash everything into bricks and studs, collect characters by the dozens, then use those characters to jump back into levels to solve puzzles that were previously gated off. Lego Horizon Adventures has a little bit of that DNA, and moving back to a fixed camera like the pre-Skywalker Saga games makes it look like a classic Lego game of yesteryear, but after playing 30 minutes in single-player and co-op, I...