Monthly Archives: July 2016

Awww. The poor old match-three puzzler. Once a source of harrowing levels of addiction before having its heart ripped out and replaced with in-app purchases. I used to enjoy these games a lot but greedy developers made them all a bit ‘pay to win’ and I was out. So, it’s […]

Castles – PS4 Review

July 17, 2016 in PS4 tagged castles / match-three / puzzler by Richie

During my teens my friends and I liked to mess around with Games Factory, a program for making 2D games. I made a 2D ‘game’ based on Jet Set Radio called Super Duper Skating and a more violent Crazy Taxi called DeCabitation. If I was into Deus Ex at the […]

Dex – PS4 Review

July 17, 2016 in PS4 tagged 2d / action rpg / deus ex / dex / hacking / super jump by Gareth

There are certain things that I think I was meant to get an appreciation of as I got older. Coffee, brussell sprouts, the music of Coldplay and golf. However, these things are all uncategorically shit. Until now there had only been one good golf game, PGA Golf on the Mega […]

Dangerous Golf – PS4

July 17, 2016 in PS4 tagged burnout crash / dangerous golf / neil armstrong he had balls bigger than king kong first big suit on the moon and he's off to play golf hole in one / ps4 / three fields by Richie

I’m enough of a space geek to understand how hard it is to build a rocket that works. I’m constantly amazed that as a species we’ve been able to launch probes to far flung planets and get scientific information back. However give me an infinite pot of cash and willing […]

Kerbal Space Program -PS4 Review

July 16, 2016 in PS4 tagged fiddly controls / Kerbal / physics / simple graphics / tiny text by Steven

About seven months ago I reviewed The Banner Saga on its PS4 release. The PC version was released a couple of years prior to that but this sequel was only released on PC in April and PS4 owners have got it now within a few months. The original was a […]

The Banner Saga 2 – PS4 Review

July 13, 2016 in PS4 tagged 2d / animation / caravan / decisions / tactical rpg / the banner saga by Gareth

Back in the way back, in the long long ago when you could consider the PS2 and Gamecube the newest kids on the block it was fair to assume that all superhero based games were steaming piles of poorly thought out ideas and phoned in gameplay which barely reflected the […]

Energy Hook – PS4 Review

July 10, 2016 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Energy Hook / ps4 / review / Spiderman 2 / Swinger by Grizz

Dark Souls was such a successful game that it’s not only spawned sequels, but has also spawned a genre of itself defined by difficult combat and deaths where you leave your experience behind. Pharaonic is a 2d game set in ancient Egypt, and the latest game to take inspiration from […]

Pharaonic – PS4 Review

July 7, 2016 in PS4 tagged 2d / combat / egypt / not dark souls / pharaonic by Steven

Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is a remaster of the PS2 original that was released nearly ten years ago. You could argue it’s more of a remake than a remaster with all the changes which I’ll get onto. If you were a fan of the original you’ll be surprised at how different […]

Odin Sphere Leifthrasir – Vita Review

July 5, 2016 in Vita tagged 2d / hack and slash / Odin Sphere / remaster / rpg / vanillaware by Gareth

There are more LEGO games than you can shake a stick at, and although the brand has now grown to encompass the likes of Jurassic World it all started with Lego Star Wars: The Videogame back in 2005. LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens sees the series return to its […]

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens – PS4 Review

July 3, 2016 in PS4 tagged bricks / build / he killed han / lego / star wars by Steven