Monthly Archives: April 2021

Pocoyo Party is the first game based on the endearing Spanish kids show from Zinkia Entertainment. At least that’s what the text on the PS4 dashboard says. It’s educational, fun for all the family and MULTIPLAYER! That’s verbatim in case you were wondering. However, firstly this is in fact the […]

Pocoyo Party – PS4 Review

April 29, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard / pato / pocoyo by Ian

Terra Trilogy is a compilation of three games: Terra Lander DX, Terra Lander II: Rock Slide Rescue and Terra Bomber. This is a series of old-school, arcade-inspired shoot ’em ups that share a minimalist design, a penchant for classical music and an uncompromising level of difficulty and all three games […]

Terra Trilogy – PS4 Review

April 27, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / lunar lander / physics / shoot em up / terra bomber / terra lander / terra trilogy / thrust by Richie

Ah, Super Meat Boy, an Xbox Live Arcade classic if ever there was one. It was such a finely crafted game with tight controls and excellent level design which was incredibly tough but fantastically rewarding. And the music! So here we have Super Meat Boy Forever on the PS4, which […]

Super Meat Boy Forever – PS4 Review

April 27, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / autorunner / difficult / forever / super meat boy / xbox live indie games by Gareth

Papa’s Quiz is, as you can probably guess, a quiz game that supports 1-8 players and comes to us from Swedish developers, Old Apes. It uses web-based technology much like the very popular Jackbox Party Pack titles so essentially you’ll have one player one their joypad and the others joining on […]

Papa’s Quiz – PS4 Review

April 25, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged jackbox / mobile / papa's quiz / quiz / quiz show / tv by Richie

Fantasy Friends is a child-friendly title from Spanish developer Xaloc Studios which is best described as a mobile-esque Viva Piñata-lite kind of affair. It’s bright, colourful, easy to get into and very much aimed at younger children (if you can pry them off their iPads, Minecraft or Fortnite). The premise behind the game […]

Fantasy Friends – PS4 Review

April 25, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged children / fantasy friends / kids / simple / viva pinata by Richie

Heal is a 2D puzzle game from Jesse Makkonen, the solo developer behind our two favourite Ratalaika Games titles, Distraint 1&2. His distinctive characteristics are fully on display here too with Heal being immediately recognisable as his work. That means you get a slow-paced, thoughtful puzzle game laced with hidden meaning, dark atmospherics and a […]

Heal: Console Edition – PS4 Review

April 23, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged atmospheric / distraint / heal / indie / jesse makkonen / moody / ratalaika by Richie

Are you a fan of challenging 2D platformers? Maybe you have a fondness for ActRaiser? Smelter, just released on PS4, hopes you are and does a pretty good job across the board of providing for both. The game opens with Adam and Eve. An apple drops from a tree and […]

Smelter – PS4 Review

April 22, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / actraiser / bosses / difficult / mega man x / platformer / smelter / trials by Gareth

There’s something to be said about how indie games of today and how diverse and unexpected games are, compared to the AAA efforts of recent years. I like to think of Indie efforts as a direct comparison to the bedroom coders of years past. The type that introduced impoverished gamers […]

World Splitter – PS4 Review

April 21, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dimensions / hovva bovva / neo bird / platformer / puzzle / World Splitter by Grizz

Of all the worlds that can be conveyed in the medium of video games, the realm of dreams is by far one of the most interesting and varied that comes to mind. We all have them, some are whimsically fun, some are downright horrifying and that’s what makes them such […]

Darq: Complete Edition – PS5 Review

April 18, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Complete edition / Darq / horror / PS5 / puzzle / Tim Burton by Grizz

It seems like anything will find its way into the Playstation store. I’m not complaining but I did not expect to review a re-release of a game that first saw daylight in 2012 on mobile platforms. Ravensword: Shadowlands is now on consoles and it seems Crescent Moon Games have opted […]

Ravensword: Shadowlands – PS4 Review

April 18, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged crescent moon games / dark elves / giants / mages / ravensword shadowlands / role-playing game / shield / sword / trolls by Mike

We reviewed Stellatum back in October 2019. This mix of the vertical-scrolling and twin-stick shooting sub-genres was a stylish and addictive shoot ’em up which felt different to the usual arcade-inspired titles on PSN. The developer, Sometimes You, went on to make I, AI a year later but now Stellatum is back sporting a […]

Stellatum – PS5 Review

April 14, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / shoot em up / stellatum / twin-stick shooter / vertically scrolling by Richie

Poison Control had us a bit baffled at the outset. At first, the sheer audiovisual bombardment and hyperactive radio hosts had us thinking we’d made an error of judgement in saying we’d review this, the latest from Nippon Ichi. Poison Control originally came out in Japan in June last year, […]

Poison Control – PS4 Review

April 13, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged belles' hells / dood / nippon ichi / poison control / prinny by Ian