Astro Bot unsurprisingly features a cameo from Crash Bandicoot, but he's not the only Xbox-owned character to show up as one of the game's VIP Bots.
Although most of Astro Bot's charm comes from it being a colourful platformer in a generation full of hyper-realistic triple-A games, it also manages to be so much more than that thanks to how it actively celebrates PlayStation's history. Astro's Playroom paid tribute to a lot of PlayStation characters and games, but Astro Bot goes even further and has a total of 169 VIP Bots for players to collect.
Few games are as meta as the Astro Bot games, and that's something to be celebrated!
These cameos range from obvious first-party picks like Joel, Ellie, Jin, and Ratchet to more surprising deep cuts like The Puppeteer's Kutaro and Arc from Arc the Lad. Although most of the VIP Bots in Astro Bot are PlayStation characters, there are a few third-party guests to discover, including two that are owned by Xbox.
The first Xbox cameo in Astro Bot is one that won't come as much of a surprise - Crash Bandicoot. Crash is an essential part of PlayStation's history and...
