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Speed Limit is a very varied arcade-style title from Croatian coding crew Gamechunk. It’s a game that draws heavily from several sources of inspiration. So much so that it’s central theme is variety. Sure, it’s a 2D run and gunner initially but the game takes you on some incredible twists […]

Speed Limit – PS4 Review

February 26, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / arcade / mixed / retro / shooter / speed limit / variety by Richie

Neptune and company are back with a new title, Neptunia Virtual Stars on PS4. Neptunia titles come in two flavours: JRPGs and spin offs which can be of any genre, from hack and slash to idol manager. This is a spin off, with the goddesses of Gamindustri now wielding guns […]

Neptunia Virtual Stars – PS4 Review

February 25, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged neptunia / shooter / virtual stars / vtuber / youtube by Gareth

It isn’t often that a series will fundamentally change from one game to the next but when Italian coding crew 34BigThings revisited Redout, their super-fast, futuristic racer, they decided to turn it into a space-based shoot ’em up. Redout: Space Assault is a third-person, into-the-screen shooter that has very little in common […]

Redout: Space Assault – PS4 Review

January 28, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / redout / shoot em up / shooter / space / space assault by Richie

I haven’t played Enter the Gungeon, Richie reviewed it for us. I’ve not played much anyway, I did play a tiny amount just to get a feel before this review but apart from the obvious change in perspective I can’t comment on differences. I have played quite a bit of […]

Exit the Gungeon – PS4 Review

December 7, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / enter / exit / roguelite / shooter / the gungeon / unlocks by Gareth

The source code for all three Panzer Dragoon titles is lost to time supposedly, but that hasn’t stopped the original Panzer Dragoon getting the remake treatment and now it’s landed on the PS4. There aren’t many Saturn games that get the credit they deserve nor do we generally see them […]

Panzer Dragoon: Remake – PS4 Review

October 10, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged on rails / Panzer Dragoon / remake / Saga / Sega Saturn / shooter / short / Zwei by Gareth

I’ve come around to the idea of rogue-likes, though I prefer a rogue-lite if I’m honest, I like to see some sort of progression. It’s taken some classics to convince me that losing your progress every time you fail isn’t always a bad thing but that means newcomers have a […]

Fury Unleashed – PS4 Review

May 6, 2020 in PS4 tagged 2d platforming / comic / fury unleashed / rogue-lite / shooter / upgrades by Gareth

Gun Crazy is a run and gun, side scrolling shooter that comes our way from Ratalaika Games, cheap and easy platinum trophy specialists. Gun Crazy ticks all those boxes but there is no Vita version, at least for now although there seems to be one in the works, so you […]

Gun Crazy – PS4 Review

April 29, 2020 in PS4 tagged bleed / bosses / easy platinum / ratalaika / run and gun / shooter / short / side scrolling by Gareth

In this job you see games of all sizes and origins. As well as the big hitters, you get smaller efforts that have sometimes seen a prior Steam or mobile release. Some even find their way on to web browsers before an eventual console release. Random Heroes: Gold Edition is […]

Random Heroes: Gold Edition – PS4 Review

April 9, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d platforming / random heroes gold edition / ratalaika / shooter / somepx / weapons / woblyware / zombies by Mike

A PS4 and Vita review, that must mean it’s Ratalaika time! Thunder Paw is this week’s release and as usual it’s cross buy with both versions having their own, easily obtainable, platinum trophy. What genre is it this week? A quick look at the images in this review will tip […]

Thunder Paw – PS4/Vita Review

March 21, 2020 in PS4 / Vita tagged 2d / knock back / platformer / ratalaika / shooter / thunder paw by Gareth

Shoot ’em up fans are well-catered for on Sony’s store and Iro Hero, a vertically scrolling shooter from Spanish devs Artax Games, is the latest addition to the genre. It sets up the story with some screens that explain that humanity is being exploited by aliens who want to us as […]

Iro Hero – PS4 Review

December 22, 2019 in PS4 tagged easy trophies / ikaruga / shoot em up / shooter / space / vertically scrolling by Richie

We’re a little late to the Ghost Recon Breakpoint party but we’re here with our review of Ubisoft’s latest open-world ’em up and we do have a long history with this series that we owe, in some part, to this website even existing (thanks to the peerless Xbox 360 titles […]

Ghost Recon Breakpoint – PS4 Review

November 10, 2019 in PS4 tagged breakpoint / co-op / ghost recon / military / shooter / squad / still not GRAW / warfare by Richie

Retro-inspired run and gun shooters seem to hit the PSN schedule pretty regularly and Finnish publishers Ratalaika Games have been responsible for a few of them but here we are again reviewing another one, Deep Space Rush. As ever with Ratalaika this is a cross-buy with two very easy platinum […]

Deep Space Rush – PS4 Review

October 26, 2019 in PS4 / Vita tagged 16-bit / deep space rush / retro / run and gun / shooter / traps by Richie

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