Ian

About Ian

Ian likes his games weird. He loves his Vita even if Sony don't anymore. He joined the PS4 party relatively late, but has been in since day one on PS5.

The Oakland Athletics baseball team were founded in 1901 in Philadelphia, with a twelve-year stint from 1955 in Kansas City, moving to their current home at the Oakland Coliseum in 1968. Their current owner is a guy called John Fisher who has been running the team on a shoestring for […]

The Gap – PS5 Review

October 24, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged crunching koalas / label this / oh boy / sell the team / the gap by Ian

Harmony’s Odyssey is from Warsaw-based dev MythicOwl and published by fellow Poles WeDigGames. We got a similar feel to the work of Artifex Mundi, also based in Poland. We’d not be all that surprised if MythicOwl had some staff in common with that dev either either. Harmony’s Odyssey is a […]

Harmony’s Odyssey – PS4 Review

October 21, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged harmony's odyssey / mythology / puzzle by Ian

We didn’t quite know what to expect when it came to reviewing Touhou: New World, not least because it wasn’t Lies of P that we were expecting from our editor. The bag of the fag packet summary for this from Team Shanghai Alice and Ankake Spa is a bullet hell […]

Touhou: New World – PS5 Review

October 2, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged arpg / bullet-hell / touhou by Ian

From Korean devs Neowiz & Round8 we’ve got what we consider to potentially be the worst monickered game we’ve ever reviewed. Based on the original 1883 Adventures of Pinocchio novel by Italian novelist Carlo Collodi, Lies of P is set in the city of Krat. Automata run the city, only […]

Lies of P – PS5 Review

September 25, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged krat / pinocchio / soulsborne by Ian

Kentucky Route Zero – TV Edition to give its full name, is the console port of developer Cardboard Computer’s episodic adventure. First released in 2013 with five acts appearing sporadically with the final act coming in January 2020. As a lapsed Edge reader, this reviewer watched from afar with interest […]

Kentucky Route Zero : TV Edition – PS4 Review

September 8, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged cardboard computer / equus oils / kentucky route zero / point and click by Ian

It started with a message from our editor. “Review this” he said. “Review what?” we asked. We initially thought it was his sort of thing, until we realised it was erroneously labelled as a football game. Let’s be clear, Legend Bowl is an NFL game in all but name. The […]

Legend Bowl – PS5 Review

August 22, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged crap kicking / gridiron / Pixel art / wide right by Ian

Jeffrey Koch is a porcine crime lord. And he’s in deep trouble. Forced into his safe house by hostile forces tipped off by an informer within his own organisation, he has a week to root out the mole and somehow survive against the odds. Developed by Wooden Monkeys and published […]

Save Koch – PS4 Review

August 9, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged clip clop / death by a thousand stabbings / funky porcini / pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs / the light at the end of the tunnel is the light of an oncoming train by Ian

You might think Mr. Run and Jump is another rehash of an Atari 2600 game. You’d be partially right, barring the fact that it was made in 2021 by a chap at Graphite Lab rather than in 1981 as the graphics might suggest. In fact, it even got a limited […]

Mr. Run and Jump – PS5 Review

July 28, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2600 / atari / dude where's my dog / graphite studio / kombinera / realms of colour / vvvvvv by Ian

Oaken from Poznań-based dev Low Poly Dreams and Goblinz Publishing is a deceptive game. On the face of it, it’s an attractive looking hex strategy game with turn-based combat. However, almost from the start it manages to frustrate and obfuscate key mechanics that it never really explains. It doesn’t really […]

Oaken – PS4 Review

July 23, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged card battler / hex battler / mark oaken / poznan by Ian

We loved Van Halen. Eddie and Alex, the two eponymous brothers in the band were often overshadowed by flamboyant frontman David Lee Roth. We think he’s ace too, mainly for his daft solo shit like Just A Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody. Particularly the amazing video that accompanied it […]

Miasma Chronicles – PS5 Review

July 11, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged charasma / post apocalyptic / the bearded ladies / turn-based by Ian

Tin Can might well be a glimpse into the future for us. Not the spacefaring aspect, but the fact we felt a general sense of outright bewilderment for most of our time playing it. Is what slowly losing your faculties feels like? If so, it’s damn well unsettling. Best described […]

Tin Can – PS5 Review

July 7, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged death star plans / escape pod / it's a cry for survival / tin can by Ian

We have to confess being a little nervous about (deep breath) We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie. For whatever reason, its PS4 predecessor Katamari Damacy REROLL didn’t feel right. Perhaps it was the fact it didn’t particularly work for us with the Dualshock 4. At any rate, We Love Katamari […]

We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie – PS5 Review

June 17, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged bandai namco / katamari damacy / remaster / reroll / save the pandas by Ian