Yearly Archives: 2020

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

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

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? The protagonist of Nickelodeon’s multimedia behemoth, Spongebob Squarepants, that’s who. In this case, this is the latest of THQ Nordic’s rereleases of previous generation games. Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom originally came out in 2003 for PS2, Gamecube & Xbox, garnering […]

Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated – PS4 Review

June 23, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged krabby patty / remaster / spatula / spongebob squarepants / thq by Ian

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

June 22, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews 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

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

You have to feel sorry for Pong to some small degree. As one of the first and most recognisably important game franchises to grace and kickstart video game history, It’s lasting legacy seems to be forever relegated to being that monochrome low-fi tennis game that is instantly recognisable yes, but […]

Pong Quest – PS4 Review

June 19, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged atari / pong / Quest / repetitious / review by Grizz

From Hamburg based developer and publisher Daedelic Entertainment comes Edna and Harvey – The Breakout: Anniversary Edition. The anniversary part refers to the fact that this is a re-release of the original game released back in 2008 on PC. In a similar fashion to the Halo Anniversary on Xbox, you […]

Edna and Harvey – The Breakout : Anniversary Edition – ...

June 17, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged asylum / daedalic / point and click / rascally rabbit / remaster by Ian

The last Shantae game, Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, was my first experience with the series and was a delight. Now the previously iOS only Shantae and the Seven Sirens has hit PS4 bringing more light-hearted, Metroidvania-style platforming action. Shantae and her friends start the game on holiday. They’ve been invited to […]

Shantae and the Seven Sirens – PS4 Review

June 15, 2020 in PS4 tagged 2d / and the seven sirens / dancing / Half-Genie Hero / metroidvania / platforming / Shantae / transformation by Gareth

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

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

Two years ago we reviewed Riddled Corpses EX, an enjoyable twin-stick shooter with very strong upgrading mechanics by COWCAT games and Demon’s Tier+ is their latest take on the genre but moves it from a post-apocalyptic zombie setting to a more typical dungeon-crawling RPG one. The game throws quite an unnecessarily large […]

Demon’s Tier+ – PS4 Review

June 12, 2020 in PS4 tagged dungeon crawler / retro / riddled corpses / rogue-like / twin-stick shooter by Richie

I really enjoyed Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun back when I reviewed it three years ago. I haven’t played the first two Desperados games (or the third expansion-esque one) but quickly found myself at home with Desperados III as it very much feels like a sequel to Shadow Tactics […]

Desperados III – PS4 Review

June 12, 2020 in PS4 tagged blades of the shogun / cowboy / desperados / old west / shadow tactics / stealth / strategy / tactical / voodoo by Gareth

The classic FPS train keeps rolling. It wasn’t long ago that we were talking about Doom Eternal and Ion Fury, both of which led the charge for retro flavoured FPS gameplay, utilising either a time honoured franchise name and carrying things forward or by digging up old technology and making […]

Project Warlock – PS4 Review

June 10, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Buckshot software / Classic / doom / fps / Hexen / Project Warlock by Grizz

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling from Moonsprout Games by way of publisher Dangen Entertainment is an action RPG that came out on PC last winter. Now out on all current consoles including the PS4, we get to enjoy it too. We’ve seen endless comparisons to the Paper Mario series from […]

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling – PS4 Review

June 9, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arpg / bugs / insects / moonsprout by Ian