>>714490312 (OP)
i thought it was the 4th or 5th best 3d platformer that year. really simple movement mechanics, mostly just setpieces and gimmicks. it basically plays itself, like a series of cutscenes. it required almost no input from the player.
if you play 3d platformers to have fun moving around and to explore and to enjoy mechanical complexity and freedom of expression, it was a pretty bad game. games from that year like yellow taxi vroom, penny breakaway, and big catch tacklebox all had real movement mechanics to offer the player, and were all pretty neat.
I can understand why astrobot was popular with the normie crowd though. Normies don't like videogames with mechanics, they just wanna watch cutscenes, and astrobot gave them that
