Monthly Archives: November 2021

Backbone from Vancouver-based developer Egg Nut and publisher Raw Fury is, to use their own words, a a pixel art cinematic adventure with stealth and action elements. That’s labouring the point a little bit perhaps as it’s more a walking and talking gumshoe-em-up. Think film noir scenes based on a […]

Backbone – PS5 Review

November 15, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged backbone / egg nut / howard lotor / raw fury by Ian

As I play for visual novels, I’m becoming well-versed in the genre tropes and what authors tend to favour. I think I’m through the fish out of water stage and well into these being about mystery and murder. Gosatsu Visual Novels have arrived with a Playstation 5 version of their […]

Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair – PS5 Review

November 12, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged detective / gosatsu visual novels / investigation / japanese / Murder mystery / narratively-driven / shinrai broken beyond despair / teenagers by Mike

Insomnis is a first-person horror-themed walking simulator and puzzle game that comes to us by way of Barcelona-based coders Path Games and is the latest product of Spain’s ‘PlayStation Talents’ indie games programme. Despite its name sounding like a typo (try Googling it and see how much Google protests), we […]

Insomnis – PS4 Review

November 12, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 10p resi / first person / google it with quotation marks / horror / insomnis / puzzle / walking simulator by Richie

I think losing my memory might be the one part of getting older that would terrify me. Reminiscence in the Night comes from Team Soletude and plays on those fears. What follows is a very brief narrative that maybe doesn’t quite hit the right notes about losing grip of the […]

Reminiscence in the Night – PS5 Review

November 9, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged amnesia / dementia / loneliness / narratively-driven / nightmare / point and click / reminiscence in the night / team soletude by Mike

Milli & Greg is the latest effort from Brazilian developers 2ndBoss and is best described as a 16-bit styled 2D retro platformer. Yes, we’ve had a lot of those recently, especially in the indie space, but can this one stand above the others or is it just another retro throwback? In […]

Milli & Greg – PS4 Review

November 7, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / 2d / milli & greg / platformer / retro by Richie

The rather clumsily named QUByte Classics – The Immortal by PIKO has released on PS4. It’s a port of two versions of the same game, The Immortal. In the package they are labelled as 8-bit and 16-bit but more specifically they’re ports of the NES and Mega Drive/Genesis versions. You […]

QUByte Classics – The Immortal by PIKO – PS4 Review

November 6, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / death / genesis / Mega Drive / NES / password / save states / the immortal by Gareth

Screeching onto the PlayStation like the result of a one night stand between Micro Machines and Burnout, Milestone’s Hot Wheels Unleashed is an adrenalin-fueled love letter to the brand and quirky racers in general. Viewed from a third-person perspective, Hot Wheels Unleashed tasks players with racing their perfectly created mini […]

Hot Wheels Unleashed – PS5 Review

November 5, 2021 in PS5 tagged arcade / creative / hot wheels / racing / toys by Richie

Panorama Cotton continues the recent series of Cotton ports that have been hitting the PS4. We’ve seen Cotton (as Cotton Reboot!) and, more recently, Cotton 100% get the port treatment but this game is a little different. Where most of the other Cotton games are 2D horizontally scrolling shoot ’em ups, this one is an […]

Panorama Cotton – PS4 Review

November 5, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged cotton / into the screen / megadrive / panorama cotton / port / retro / shoot em up / space harrier by Richie

Sometimes, while I’m playing games, I wonder about what could work if the developers took their vision in another direction. This can range from the likes of wondering what the Starfox series would be like as a racer or Parappa the Rapper becoming the platform game it deserved to be […]

BPM: Bullets Per Minute – PS4 Review

November 4, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged BPM / Bullets per minute / Hellsinger / of rain / rhythm action by Grizz

I’d have to look back to Farmville for the last time I took a farming game seriously. I’ve always seen them as games without concrete objectives and, whilst that is slightly true, there’s something to be said about their no-pressure approach. Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town can be […]

Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town – PS4 Review

November 2, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged alpaca / chickens / cockfighting / Cows / farming / fishing / home improvement / livestock / marriage / marvellous / mining / sheep / story of seasons friends of mineral town / time management by Mike

Carrion is a 2D Metroidvania style title with a fun reverse horror/sci-fi theme. It comes to us from Devolver Games and was coded by Polish developers Phobia Game Studio. Originally released for all the other systems in 2020, PS4 owners have had to wait over a year to get their […]

Carrion – PS4 Review

November 1, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / carrion / horror / Pixel art / retro / the thing by Richie