Monthly Archives: November 2021

Truth be told, I’ve not enjoyed much from the Playstation Talents initiative. Whilst these do seem to be primarily from student developers and small indie studios, there’s always been rough around the edges and fairly ramshackle in construction. To my surprise, Twogether: Project Indigos Chapter 1 manages to deliver some […]

Twogether: Project Indigos Chapter 1 – PS4 Review

November 30, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged big pharma / child farming / lab rat / puzzle platforming / sci fi / telekinesis / teleportation / twogether project indigos chapter 1 by Mike

Beneath a Steel Sky is a classic point and click adventure, but I’ve not played it. I do own it on Steam but when I saw Beyond a Steel Sky was made by Revolution Software as a big Broken Sword fan back in the day I had to check it […]

Beyond a Steel Sky – PS4 Review

November 30, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 3d / a steel sky / beneath / beyond / broken sword / point and click / revolution software / sci fi by Gareth

From Swedish boutique dev ‘Something We Made’ we have Toem: A Photo Adventure. Stylised as T📷EM, it’s a black and white photography game. As you can see it’s quite lovely looking. We hoped that Toem was some kind of abstract Scandinavian concept like hygge or that smug feeling you get […]

TOEM – PS5 Review

November 29, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged lovely / photo / something we made / toem by Ian

Space Elite Force 2 in 1 is a compilation of two shoot ’em ups by Moraes Studio, a small Brazilian-based studio headed up by Alysson Moraes. For your small sum of money you get ports of his 2018 shooter Space Elite Force and its 2020 sequel Space Elite Force II. Both games are […]

Space Elite Force 2 in 1 – PS4 Review

November 28, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / compilation / easy platinum / retro / shoot em up / space force elite by Richie

Hindsight 20/20: The Wrath of the Raakshasa is a hack and slasher from Triple-I games, a studio founded by ex-Bioware and Sucker Punch devs. With that kind of pedigree, you’ll be expecting something a little better than the usual indie tat that we’ve been subjected to recently on PSN and in […]

Hindsight 20/20: Wrath of the Raakshasa – PS5 Review

November 25, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged choices / hack and slash / hindsight / morality by Richie

Project Zero (aka Fatal Frame) is one of the forgotten survival horror games. Coming a little after Resident Evil and Silent Hill there were three titles on the PS2 and then it kind of just disappeared. It didn’t actually cease to exist, with a Japan only title on Wii and […]

Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water – PS5 Review

November 23, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Camera / fatal frame / ghosts / japanese / levels / maiden of black water / project zero / survival horror by Gareth

Bassmaster Fishing 2022 then. Coming to us from Dovetail Games, dev and publisher of the Train Simulator games, this is a competitive fishing game writ large as only America knows how. The back of a fag packet scribble for this is NASCAR and Sega Bass Fishing made a baby. Even […]

Bassmaster Fishing 2022 – PS5 Review

November 23, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged all about that bass / bass / bassmaster / dovetail / keep bitin' at the bait / peace out premier take me out with the fader by Ian

The first DLC for Ubisoft’s Far Cry 6 has arrived hot on the heels of the main game. Vaas: Insanity follows everyone’s favourite Far Cry villain, Vaas Montenegro, as he takes a trip into his own psyche just after the game’s main protagonist, Jason Brody stabs him to death. At that point, […]

Far Cry 6 – Vaas: Insanity

November 22, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dlc / far cry 3 / far cry 6 / fps / rogue-lite / vaas montenegro by Richie

I can’t quite imagine living in a small rural setting. They always look kind of devoid of life and I tend to miss my home comforts. The Prince of Landis, developed by one-man team Lorestrome, is an adventure game with a small slice of that life. Landis feels like one […]

The Prince of Landis – PS5 Review

November 20, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Adventure game / aliens / bullying / narratively-driven / oregon / Pixel art / small town life / the prince of landis by Mike

We reviewed Crysis Remastered just over a year ago giving it a fair 8, so we were intrigued to receive Crysis Remastered Trilogy. We thought that it might be some kind of unified affair like the Master Chief Collection from those noisy neighbours in Redmond. But no, it turned out […]

Crysis Trilogy Remastered – PS4 Review

November 18, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Cry if i want to / crying in the rain / crysis remastered / crytek / remaster / will it run crysis by Ian

Gynoug continues Ratalaika Games recent trend of porting obscure old shoot ’em ups to modern systems. As with their previous port, Gleylancer, this game is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up that was first released in 1991 on the Sega Megadrive (American readers will know it better as Wings of Wor). The game […]

Gynoug – PS5 Review

November 16, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / gynoug / horizontally-scrolling / Mega Drive / port / remaster / retro / shoot em up by Richie

Sherlock Holmes has a long legacy of video games, some of which are fondly thought of. It’s a very suitable license for a video game, with a strong, already established character who is highly skilled at what he does. Putting him into the correct genre, like a point and click […]

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One – PS5 Review

November 15, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged accusation / chapter one / combat arena / elementary / investigation / open world / sherlock holmes by Gareth