Astro Bot: Free Big Brother! Walkthrough (All Bots, and Puzzle Pieces) (2024)

Free Big Brother! is one of the six main stages in the Serpent Starway system and becomes available once players have completed the Slo-Mo Casino stage. It features seven Bots and three Puzzle Pieces for Astro Bot players to track down, as well as a secret exit that will unlock a new Lost Galaxy stage.

Thankfully, the Free Big Brother! warp portal is incredibly easy to find, with Astro Bot players able to reach it right from the get-go. Sadly, however, the same cannot be said for some of the stage's other collectibles, with players needing to jump through a few hoops in order to find everything and 100% complete the stage.

Free Big Brother! Portal / Secret Exit

If players take a right immediately after starting the stage, they'll eventually come to a large stone structure sticking out of the water with a few platforms in front of it. To get to the Free Big Brother!​​​​​​​ warp portal, they'll need to goad the electric enemy into shocking the two lightning pads on the left and right platforms, which they can do by standing on them and then moving as soon as it begins to prepare an attack. Once both pads have been powered, the doors will open, granting access to the stage's secret exit.

Free Big Brother! Bot #1

The first Free Big Brother Bot is on a stone platform near where players first land on the beach.

Free Big Brother! Puzzle Piece #1

The stage's first Puzzle Piece is in an enclosed area to the right of the first Bot.

Free Big Brother! Bot #2

The next Bot is a cameo Bot based on the boy from The Last Guardian and can be found on the platform directly above the first Puzzle Piece. To reach it, players will need to loop around and make use of a bird carrying a rope.

Free Big Brother! Puzzle Piece #2

Players will need to break through a blue wall on their way to remove one of the giant robot's restraints. Shortly after doing so, they'll come to a blue floor with an electric enemy on it. Using Astro's jets here will break the floor, taking players to a secret area with a cable in the ground, which, when pulled, will reveal the second Free Big Brother! Puzzle Piece.

Free Big Brother! Bot #3

​​​​​​​In addition to a Puzzle Piece, there's also a blue bounce pad hidden away beneath the blue flooring which players can use to reach another hidden area. Just to be clear, this isn't the same bounce pad that players use to escape the pit after collecting the Puzzle Piece, although it is just to the right of that one a little higher up in the pit. After reaching the next area, players will need to navigate another breakable blue floor to find a bounce pad hidden away on the left side of the ledge. This will take them up to a cameo Bot, which is based on Mono from Shadow of the Colossus.

Free Big Brother! Puzzle Piece #3

After breaking the giant robot's final shackle, the sun will come out and the stage's final Puzzle Piece will appear on top of a structure on the beach.

Free Big Brother! Bot #4

Next to the final Puzzle Piece is a circular sand pit with a blue X in the middle. If players perform a spinning punch here, they'll burrow into the sand, where the fourth Free Big Brother! Bot can be found. Like the previous Free Big Brother! collectible, this one can only be found after freeing the giant robot.

Free Big Brother! Bot #5

The fifth Free Big Brother! Bot is a cameo Bot based on Wander from Shadow of the Colossus and can be found hanging off the back of the giant robot's neck.

Free Big Brother! Bot #6

As they climb to the top of the giant robot, players will eventually come to a section with blue flooring that breaks when Astro uses his boosters above it. They should intentionally break this floor, which will allow them to drop down to a shell platform on which the stage's sixth Bot can be found.

Free Big Brother! Bot #7

The last Free Big Brother! Bot can be found sitting inside a shell at the very end of the stage.

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Developer(s)

Team Asobi

Publisher(s)

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Platform(s)

PlayStation 5

Released

September 6, 2024