Wondering why Final Fantasy 7's Cloud is oddly absent from Astro Bot? "It's difficult to comment on that" says Team Asobi's head

Astro Bot has more cameos than you probably realised there were PlayStation games, but there’s one game that feels conspicuously absent: Final Fantasy 7.

I feel like it probably isn’t hyperbole to say that Final Fantasy 7 is the quintessential PS1 game, right?

While speaking to Game File (paywalled, via GamesRadar), Doucet had hinted that the team was looking at a potential cameo for Cloud in Astro Bot, but never got approval from developer Square Enix.