Monthly Archives: June 2019

THQ Nordic do love their dirty driving games and their latest effort, Monster Jam: Steel Titans, reunites them with Rainbow Studios, the longstanding custodians of the MX vs ATV series. Much like that series, this one has been around for a while but has bounced around between publishers, with different dev teams […]

Monster Jam: Steel Titans – PS4 Review

June 27, 2019 in PS4 tagged dirt / monster jam / mud / murica / racing / stunts / trucks by Richie

The Neptunia games have been going on for almost a decade now. They’re primarily JRPG games but Neptune and co. have dabbled with multiple genres over the years with the characters that people know and maybe love being the one constant. Super Neptunia RPG is, as the name suggests, an […]

Super Neptunia RPG – PS4 Review

June 26, 2019 in PS4 tagged 2d / hyperdimension / nep nep / Neptune / neptunia / rpg / Super / superdimention by Gareth

From London based indie duo, Ritual Games, comes Cybarian: The Time Travelling Warrior. Published by Rinsemeisters to HM The Queen, Ratalaika, it plays it fast with the trophies as per. The unlocking template is alarmingly close to another recent Ratalaika game we reviewed recently in fact. We’ll go into that […]

Cybarian: The Time Traveling Warrior – PS4 Review

June 24, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged not conan / ratalaika / scrolling brawler by Ian

As if the title didn’t give it away, Lapis X Labyrinth is a Japanese title and comes to us from Nippon Ichi Software who are regular purveyors of JRPGs and adventure games. This one is a little different to the usual though as while it does the usual looting thing that […]

Lapis X Labyrinth – PS4 Review

June 23, 2019 in PS4 tagged adventure / hack and slash / lapis x labyrinth / nis software / puzzle game by Richie

Aping on the 8-bit aesthetic can feel old hat now but, expanded out to the third dimension, voxels still hold a cheeky appeal. Cococucumber are hoping Riverbond can hit similar nerves with a dungeon-crawling hack and slash looking to charm its way into Playstation 4 owners’ libraries. The voxel art […]

Riverbond – PS4 Review

June 23, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged cococucumber / dungeon crawler / hack and slash / local co-op / mission-based / riverbond by Mike

If you’re a PS4 owner then you’ll be hard pushed to have not noticed the Yakuza games over the past couple of years. From remasters to new releases the entries have come thick and fast with multiple titles a year and they’ve been trickling onto the PC as well. Luckily […]

Judgment – PS4 Review

June 21, 2019 in PS4 tagged fantasy zone / fighting vipers / japanese / judgment / mini games / open world / private detective / virtua fighter 5 / yakuza by Gareth

Not that you need to care about it but I’ve said before that Space Invaders is a game that I never liked but have liked many games inspired by it and that trend is continuing with Horizon Shift ’81, a clever take on the original that brings in elements of games such […]

Horizon Shift ’81 – PS4 Review

June 12, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / horizon shift '81 / retro / shoot em up / space invaders by Richie

From Finland; land of bonkers racing drivers (Heikki), excellent goalkeepers (Antti), rugged central defenders (Sami) & salt liquorice (Salmiakki); comes Super Blood Hockey (Kiekko), clearly a labour of love from Oulu based solo developer Loren Lemcke. This port of a game originally released on itch.io has been carried out by […]

Super Blood Hockey – PS4 Review

June 11, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged #ultraviolence / arcade / ice hockey / retro by Ian

Konami has been celebrating their 50th year recently with the release of Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection, Castlevania Anniversary Collection and now we have Contra Anniversary Collection on PS4. I have some experience with the Contra series, primarily through the arcade releases on the Xbox 360, but I have a lot […]

Contra Anniversary Collection – PS4 Review

June 11, 2019 in PS4 tagged alien wars / contra / contra anniversary collection / gunstar heroes / hard corps / operation c / run and gun / Super by Gareth

Another week, another Ratalaika release. For the most part, Neon Junctions by developer Nine Tentacles is a great experience. Embracing the synthwave retro aesthetic so beloved of Far Cry: Blood Dragon et al, Neon Junctions is a great puzzle game with a simple concept well executed. My father-in-law nailed it […]

Neon Junctions – PS4 Review

June 11, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews / Vita tagged ratalaika / retro aesthetic / synthwave by Ian

There’s a wonderful sense of timing with Big Ant Studios’ latest cricket release. Cricket 19 arrives whilst the Cricket World Cup is well underway and ahead of this summer’s Ashes series. With potentially more eyes on the sport, this cricket sim might find more favour amongst fair-weather and die hard […]

Cricket 19 – PS4 Review

June 9, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged ashes cricket / bat / big ant studios / bowl / club / cricket 19 / field / international / online multiplayer / sport by Mike

Super Cane Magic Zero is an action RPG which has come as the result of a successful crowd funding campaign. The game comes from the mind of Simone ‘Sio’ Albrigi, an Italian comic creator and YouTuber, in collaboration with Studio Evil. If you are not a fluent Italian speaker then […]

Super Cane Magic ZERO – PS4

June 6, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged comic / Italian / ps4 / SIO / Super Cane Magic ZERO by Grizz