There are more than 150 cameos in Team Asobi’s game, but the concept art also features guest appearances that didn’t end up in the PlayStation 5 exclusive released yesterday.

VGC’s embedded video below shows how the studio made the sequel to Astro’s Playroom, the game that came standard on all PlayStation 5 units, a reality. In the video, Team Asobi also showed concept art of at least two characters that, for whatever reason, didn’t make it into Astro’s Bot. One of them was very popular in the early days of PlayStation, while the other one is hard to imagine why he was chosen in the first place…

One looks like Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal and the other looks like Fat Princess from the franchise of the same name. Twisted Metal was one of the core franchises on PS1, and there were a few appearances of the vehicular combat on PS2, then there was an episode on PS3, but after that Sweet Tooth only made guest appearances. And the fat princess… suddenly we can’t remember when she was popular. Was it the PS3 era? A quick search reveals that Fat Princess (an action/RTS mix developed by Titan Studios for PS3 and PSP; released for PS3 in 2009 and PSP in 2010 under the title Fistful of Cake) was released in 2009, with two sequels in 2015. Fat Princess Adventures was released for PlayStation 4 in late 2015 (dungeon crawler action-RPG), and a mobile puzzle game, Fat Princess: Piece of Cake, was released for iOS, Android, and PlayStation Vita in early 2015.

Perhaps both will make their way to Astro Bot in the form of DLC at a later date. We recently wrote about the extras that Team Asobi’s game will get in this way. Since both IPs are owned by Sony, there is no legal barrier to their inclusion in Astro Bot.

But why did the studio leave them out?

Source: VGC