Astro Bot Is Pure Joy, Concord Is a Total Disaster - Beyond 861

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Astro Bot is finally here, and surprise! It’s awesome! Simon Cardy joins us to discuss his review of Team Asobi’s full-sized follow-up to Astro’s Playroom, which is a rock-solid 3D platformer jam-packed with references, easter eggs and playful nods to thirty years of PlayStation history. We do our best to avoid spoiling any of the fun surprises, but really, it’s impossible to spoil the best part of this game, which is just the unadulterated joy of playing it for yourself. Anyway, if that was all that was going on, it’d be a good week for Sony, but we just got word that Concord had such an underwhelming launch that Sony is pulling the plug indefinitely, taking the game offline, and offering full refunds to the people who did actually buy it. This is part of the ongoing issue across the industry of live-service games not being able to sustain themselves. What’s next for Concord, a free-to-play relaunch, or is it just gone for good? We’ll have to wait and see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:04.2	Immerse yourself in the world of June's journey.
0:07.2	A free-to-play hidden object game set in the roaring 20s.
0:11.0	Solve the mystery of the devious gossip spreader and celebrate our seventh anniversary
0:16.2	with exclusive events, never before seen decorations, thrilling mysteries and exciting giveaways.
0:22.4	The adventure and the
0:23.4	the gossip awaits.
0:25.1	Are you ready for the journey?
0:26.8	Download June's journey today for free on Android or iOS.
0:30.1	Hey, it's May Whitman and I play Frankie in the new realm podcast, The Sisters.
0:36.7	The Sisters is about a museum curator of medical oddities, who investigates the origins of a mutated skeleton with two layers of bones.
0:45.0	Soon, she uncovers an extraordinary mystery that connects her present with
0:51.0	one family's tragic past in hauntingly dangerous ways.
0:55.0	Listen to The Sisters, wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to I. G. N's weekly
1:18.5	PlayStation show I'm your host Max Scoville and joining me once again are my
1:22.2	good friends Akema Wantsen, Jana Griffin and all the way across the pond Simon Cardi.
1:27.4	How's it going everybody? Yeah. Hey!
1:29.7	Yeah, yeah, nice to see you Max. Yeah, thanks for joining me.
1:33.0	So for those of you listening or watching at home,
1:35.0	this episode went up a tidbit late because we were trying to hit the
1:38.0	embargo for the review of Astrobot.
1:40.0	Simon, you reviewed it.
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