Astro Burn turns a cat, a jetpack and a stack of snacks into a cute-em-up
A space cat, a robot sidekick and a weapon system made of food, in a side-scrolling bullet hell that wears Parodius on its sleeve.
By Kai Okonkwo, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
A purple raccoon sits in the middle of a stage four screenshot of Astro Burn, knitting. A mallard the size of a bus is mounted on a slab of floating earth behind it, penguins stream in from the right, and a pink cat trails a rainbow along the bottom of the frame. Astro, the space cat in a white helmet, is off on the left with a jetpack and a robot companion bobbing above her shoulder. That is the tone Beyond the pixels is going for, and the studio says so plainly: it calls this a love letter to early nineties cute-em-ups like Parodius and Pop'n TwinBee. Snacks are the weapon system The HUD...