Monthly Archives: September 2021

It’s the year 3174, and your reviewer is celebrating their twelve hundredth birthday. Woo. Meanwhile Age and his robot pal Helvis are tearing it up on an planet killing the mutated fauna and multiple robots of varying hardness while also trying to unravel the mystery of what happened to the […]

Ultra Age – PS4 Review

September 17, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged drapoel / free / helvis helvis let me be / janky / prick bosses / ultra age by Ian

Napoleon tried it in 1812, just as the massed German forces tried similar a hundred and thirty years later. On both occasions they embarked on the grand folly of a land war in Asia. Extended supply lines being their undoing. We had a similar feeling when playing Greak: Memories of […]

Greak: Memories of Azur – PS5 Review

September 15, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged azur / courine / get in the sea / greak by Ian

Rogue-likes/lites come in many different flavours, some will let arcade skills balance out the randomness if you’re good enough for example. Crown Trick on PS4 does not, you only have your own tactical nuance to help battle the RNG. if you want to make the game go faster you should […]

Crown Trick – PS4 Review

September 15, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged crown trick / grid based / luck / rng / rogue-lite / rpg / turn-based / upgrades by Gareth

I must admit it’s nice to see sport get back to some kind of normality in 2021. The calendar is mostly full these days and the mass cancellations of last year have been curtailed somewhat. With that in mind, it’s time to check out WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship. […]

WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship – PS5 Review

September 8, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged group b / historical / kylotonn / motorsport / off road / racing / rallying / time trial / wrc 10 fia world rally championship by Mike

Virtuous Western is a 2D puzzle game that’s dressed up like a run and gun shooter but is far from being one of those. It comes to us from Nibb Games via the ever-prolific publishers, Ratalaika Games. As such you should know what to expect from this one in terms […]

Virtuous Western – PS4 Review

September 7, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / cowboys / easy platinum / puzzle / ratalaika / retro / shooter by Richie

Weapon of Choice DX is a run and gun shooter from one-man studio Mommy’s Best Games. As with the recently-released Shoot 1UP DX, from the same developer, the game started life a long time ago on the now-defunct Xbox Indie Games service back on the Xbox 360 in 2008. This […]

Weapon of Choice DX – PS4 Review

September 6, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / humour / indie / run and gun / weapon of choice dx / xbox indie by Richie

We’ve been reviewing games on this site a fair few years now, yet we’ve never reviewed a Madden series game on PlayStation Country. Heck, this reviewer has been playing the series since the 2003 iteration on Gamecube. After playing pretty much every 360 version, it’s fair to say we’ve lapsed […]

Madden NFL 22 – PS5 Review

September 6, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ea sports / how about dem bengals / it's in the game / madden by Ian

NASA will probably tell you golf and space go hand in hand. Ever since they hoofed balls on the Moon, there’s been a fascination with sport where the gravity simply isn’t there. Golf video games tend to play a lot more with reality and Golf Club: Wasteland is opting for […]

Golf Club: Wasteland – PS5 Review

September 4, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged apocalypse / golf club wasteland / mars colonist / narratively-driven / radio talk show / ruins / space / sport by Mike

Q-YO Blaster is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from South American developers Team Robot Black Hat. As a shoot ’em up in the classic arcade style, that means it needs to fall into one of the major archetypes and ultimately this one aligns itself to the Parodius way of doing things. Here […]

Q-YO Blaster – PS4 Review

September 3, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged animation / horizontally-scrolling / indie / Pixel art / q-yo blaster / shoot em up by Richie

It’s the most spookiest time of the year. That’s right, September! We just had the rather excellent Tormented Souls and now The Medium lands on PS5 after spending some time over on the Xbox and PC. It was pretty hyped up on its initial release, but unless you followed it […]

The Medium – PS5 Review

September 2, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged akira yamaoka / dualsense / horror / linear / silent hill / spirit world / the medium by Gareth