Gareth

About Gareth

Gareth's our go to guy for anything difficult to review. And all the weird Japanese stuff that we can't figure out.

The PlayStation Talents initiative is a great idea. Helping Spanish creatives get off the ground is a worthy cause in theory, but in practise the prices given to them do not match the quality or amount of game you’re getting. Wukong, which is influenced by the ever popular Journey to […]

Wukong – PS4 Review

December 12, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 3d / collectibles / crash bandicoot / monkey magic / platformer / PlayStation Talents / spin attack / wukong by Gareth

Beneath a Steel Sky is a classic point and click adventure, but I’ve not played it. I do own it on Steam but when I saw Beyond a Steel Sky was made by Revolution Software as a big Broken Sword fan back in the day I had to check it […]

Beyond a Steel Sky – PS4 Review

November 30, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 3d / a steel sky / beneath / beyond / broken sword / point and click / revolution software / sci fi by Gareth

Project Zero (aka Fatal Frame) is one of the forgotten survival horror games. Coming a little after Resident Evil and Silent Hill there were three titles on the PS2 and then it kind of just disappeared. It didn’t actually cease to exist, with a Japan only title on Wii and […]

Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water – PS5 Review

November 23, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Camera / fatal frame / ghosts / japanese / levels / maiden of black water / project zero / survival horror by Gareth

Sherlock Holmes has a long legacy of video games, some of which are fondly thought of. It’s a very suitable license for a video game, with a strong, already established character who is highly skilled at what he does. Putting him into the correct genre, like a point and click […]

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One – PS5 Review

November 15, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged accusation / chapter one / combat arena / elementary / investigation / open world / sherlock holmes by Gareth

The rather clumsily named QUByte Classics – The Immortal by PIKO has released on PS4. It’s a port of two versions of the same game, The Immortal. In the package they are labelled as 8-bit and 16-bit but more specifically they’re ports of the NES and Mega Drive/Genesis versions. You […]

QUByte Classics – The Immortal by PIKO – PS4 Review

November 6, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / death / genesis / Mega Drive / NES / password / save states / the immortal by Gareth

I’ve been aware of Corpse Party for many years now. It’s a pretty famous series in Japanese horror visual novels but I’ve never played it. I’m not a fan of visual novels in general but I have played games like Danganronpa and Virtue’s Last Reward in my own time. Is […]

Corpse Party (2021) – PS4 Review

October 28, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / 2d / adventure / corpse party / gory / horror / japanese / school / visual novel by Gareth

I’ve got a taste for roguelite games right now and I also enjoy turn based games. So when Evertried dropped into the PlayStation Country inbox I gladly accepted reviewing duties. Although it has similarities to something like Into the Breach it’s very different to anything I’ve played before. You play […]

Evertried – PS4 Review

October 22, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged evertried / GRID / into the breach / modifiers / rogue-lite / skills / strategy / turn-based by Gareth

It’s October. That means Halloween. That means you’d expect some spooky games to be hitting the digital and physical stores for your platform of choice. The larger publishers don’t seem too bothered but, as usual, that’s where the indies step up. Out now on PS5 is In Sound Mind, a […]

In Sound Mind – PS5 Review

October 18, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged first person / half-life / horror / in sound mind / psychological / puzzle by Gareth

Some games are complicated to explain, others are very simple. Some games are stupidly long whilst others are incredibly short. Underland is both simple and short but that doesn’t necessarily make it a bad game. I’ll run you through the situation and you can see if it holds any interest […]

Underland – PS4 Review

October 13, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / astronauts / fluid / one screen / puzzle / terrain / underground / underland by Gareth

I’m a big fan of the modern XCOM games. They mix the right amount of difficulty and strategy whilst ‘dumbing it down’ to a point where you lose a lot of the faff and it works well on a controller. Phoenix Point comes from the creator of the original XCOM, […]

Phoenix Point – PS4 Review

October 8, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged civilization / factions / julian gollop / phoenix point / recruits / strategy / tactical / turn-based / xcom by Gareth

This week’s Ratalaika comes in the form of a first person puzzler. Don’t Touch This Button! is a light hearted take on the genre, with each room giving you clues how to complete it. You just have to take each clue with a pinch of salt. There are 65 rooms […]

Don’t Touch This Button! – PS5/PS4 Review

September 28, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged cheap / clues / don't touch this button / easy platinum / first person / opposite / puzzle / ratalaika / short by Gareth

Deathloop has the weird distinction of being published by Bethesda, recently bought by Microsoft, but is a timed console exclusive on the PS5. Made by Arkane Lyon it has a lot in common, gameplay-wise, with the Dishonored series but is very much its own thing. You play as Colt, who […]

Deathloop – PS5 Review

September 25, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged deathloop / fps / groundhog day / invasion / powers / stealth by Gareth