Exclusive Insights: Why Square Enix Characters Are Missing from Astro Bot’s 30th Anniversary Celebration

Astro Bot is a very fun game, a celebration of the 30th anniversary of PlayStation, where the company has collaborated with several partners. However, among the big VIP bots, none of them belong to the Square Enix series.

Team Asobi Bots could not present any VIP from Square Enix, owner of series with close ties to PlayStation, such as Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, but they prefer not to share details about the matter.

In conversation by GameFile by Stephen TotiloNicolas Doucet, head of PlayStation’s Japanese studio, said Team Asobi had hoped to get half of the characters needed, but “most participants raised their hands and said ‘absolutely’.”

However, it seems that Square Enix is ​​not one of them, which leads Doucet to say that “it is difficult to comment on why Square Enix did not agree to any appearances.” We deeply respect each publisher’s decision.”

Doucet also said that they chose to bet on characters that would be familiar to most players, but did not implement lesser-known faces.