After the reveal of Astro Bot on PlayStation 5 at the recent State of Play, Astro’s Playroom received an update adding iconic Bloodborne boss Lady Maria and an associated trophy. That’s on top of Bloodborne costumes as a pre-order bonus for the new game.
Of course, this led to speculation from Bloodborne fans that something was afoot. Alas, it appears that’s not the case.
“There’s no secret meaning,” Team Asobi studio head and creative director Nicolas Doucet told Eurogamer. “It’s just a celebration of the whole PlayStation history.”
Doucet discussed further how in Astro Bot the team will focus on cameos from PlayStation characters, instead of the hardware references in Astro’s Playroom.
“Instead of the hardware we put our attention towards the characters,” he said. “And that’s why we push these cameos. Before they were quite primitive, but now they feel much richer looking. It’s over 150 [cameos], so it’s going to go really deep and everybody should have their favourite ones.”
The Astro’s Playroom update, then, appears to be simply hinting at what we can expect to see in Astro Bot.
Still, Bloodborne fans are desperate for a re-release of FromSoftware’s game, particularly on PC. And, it turns out, creator Hidetaka Miyazaki isn’t opposed to the idea either.
“I know for a fact these guys want a Bloodborne PC port,” Miyazaki told PC Gamer, referring to FromSoftware producer Yasuhiro Kitao and interpreter Bobby Simpson. “If I say I want one, I’ll get in trouble as well. But it’s nothing I’m opposed to.”