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Tamiku is the latest Ratalaika title and is a familiar mix of retro visuals and gameplay and easy to achieve trophies. It comes by way of Josyan Games, the solo developer who also brought us Zeroptian Invasion which was a very basic Space Invaders clone that did its best to feel like an […]

Tamiku – PS4 Review

17 Sep, 2020 in PS4 tagged 2d / arcade / easy platinum / ratalaika / retro / tamiku by Richie

Pawarumi is a stylish 3D top-down shooter with a colour-switching mechanic and it comes to us from the recently prolific publishers of shoot ’em ups, EastAsiaSoft. They’ve been finding their niche with a series of short, arcadey shooters with ‘unique’ visual styles and super easy platinums but Pawarumi is set to […]

Pawarumi – PS4 Review

24 Aug, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / colour / pawarumi / shooting / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

While there are a lot of games that use twin-stick shooting mechanics on PSN, there aren’t that many pure shoot ’em ups in this sub-genre. By that I mean ones that don’t have rogue-lite/like mechanics attached or are sprawling dungeon crawlers. The best two so far have been Geometry Wars 3, which […]

#Funtime – PS4 Review

21 Jul, 2020 in PS4 tagged #funtime / arcade / geometry wars / retro / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Games of all shapes and sizes come to me in this job. Radio Squid comes from PixelTeriyaki and looks to deliver an experimental look at the twin-stick shooter. Whilst somewhat small in scope, there’s some interesting choices here that at least make the game plough its own furrow. The plot […]

Radio Squid – PS4 Review

23 Jun, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / money toad / Pixel art / radio squid pixelteriyaki / sealife / twin-stick shooter by Mike

We very recently reviewed Darius Cozmic Collection Console which is a compilation of home conversions of the various Darius arcade games. Now any kid of the ’80s and ’90s knows that home conversions of arcade games rarely lived up to the originals, although this did get better when the 16-bit consoles came in […]

Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade – PS4 Review

22 Jun, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / coin-op / darius / old school / retro / shoot em up by Richie

The ’80s was a golden age for arcade shoot ’em up games. Many will remember the likes of Nemesis, R-Type, Salamander and many other franchises that took advantage of the decade’s fondness for games where a single spacecraft pilot would take on the alien hordes. These games all had much in […]

Darius Cozmic Collection Console – PS4 Review

20 Jun, 2020 in PS4 tagged 90s / arcade / compilation / darius / horizontal / shoot em up by Richie

Super Soccer Blast is an arcade style football game and by that we mean that it leaves all of the fancy presentation, realism and licensing at the door and instead offers the kind of football action we were used to seeing twenty or so years ago. Having grown up playing Match […]

Super Soccer Blast – PS4 Review

14 Jun, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / football / soccer / sports / super soccer blast by Richie

When a game comes in from Finnish publishers Ratalaika Games, we usually know what to expect. And that is a platinum trophy within thirty minutes. But Thy Sword is that rarest of unicorns, a Rata joint where you have to put some time in. Obstensibly, this is a rogue-lite platformer/hack and slasher […]

Thy Sword – PS4 Review

15 May, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / hack and slash / platformer / ratalaika / thy sword by Richie

We’re not sure where Eastasiasoft are finding all these games but they’ve managed to continue their recent run of quirky shoot ’em ups. Task Force Kampas is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up which has plenty in common with those recent Eastasiasoft releases (Null Drifter, Red Death and Rainbows, Toilets and […]

Task Force Kampas – PS4 Review

6 May, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / eastasiasoft / easy platinum / retro / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

This co-op focused arcade action game with a degree of physics and a lot of chaos. You play as a Furniture Arrangement and Relocation Technician, or a removal man/woman if you will. Throughout the game’s thirty levels you are tasked with moving furniture from various houses and businesses and onto […]

Moving Out – PS4 Review

3 May, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / co-op / party / puzzle / team 17 by Richie

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo is a retro-inspired shoot ’em up by Manchester-based dev partnership Bare Knuckle Games. There’s been something of a glut of shoot ’em ups released on PSN recently with a lot of sub-genres and graphical styles in evidence but this game manages to bring something […]

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo – PS4 Review

18 Apr, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / retro / shoot em up / twin stick / upgrading by Richie

Project Starship is a cheap and cheerful vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up by Panda Indie Studio and it is available now on PSN. It’s a game that gets a lot right but also a few things wrong. The premise of the game is pretty simple, you pick from one of two playable […]

Project Starship – PS4 Review

13 Feb, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / easy platinum / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie