As a love letter to the history of Playstation or a digital museum, Astro's Playroom is very impressive and a lot of fun. Everywhere you look there are references to various games and other pieces of playstation history, and recognising them is a lot more satisfying than it should be. The lovingly modeled bits of Playstation hardware are also beautiful, with amazing materials quality and general attention to detail.

As a game, the experience is quite generic. It's supposed to be a showpiece for the DualSense controller? The adaptive triggers are cool, but everything else is just tired gimmicks. Blowing into a microphone? Touch, waggle controls and a speaker? This stuff has been in controllers for decades at this point. The parts that leaned heavily on controller gimmicks were the weakest for me, as I constantly found myself thinking how much more intuitive this would feel if I could just use a normal control scheme. Also not really an indictment of the game but my controller was almost dead within only a few hours of playing it, I guess all that tech comes at a cost.