Yearly Archives: 2021

Preventive Strike is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up, from Moldovan one-man developer TocanaDev, which first landed on Steam three years ago but has just been brought to PSN by Polish porters SimFabric. You play as an un-named helicopter pilot who has to get through four levels of surprisingly intense aerial […]

Preventive Strike – PS4 Review

December 11, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / helicopter / preventive strike / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

Sometimes, when it comes to reviewing games, you encounter one that has such little going on, that it is just difficult to find the words to write down for it. Often, this boils down to your typical retro arcade titles or throwback platformer, where simply listing the inspiration is enough […]

A Short Hike – PS4 Review

December 10, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged a / Hike / literally / ps4 / review / short by Grizz

A party game with a good hook can go a long way. We’ve seen plenty emerge that have hit the right note and the latest to step into the fray is Rubber Bandits. Coming from Flashbulb Games, this brawler centred around thievery is a quick, simple effort that seems to […]

Rubber Bandits – PS4 Review

December 9, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade mode / brawler / co-op / cops and robbers / flashbulb games / heist / online multiplayer / party game / rubber bandits / theft by Mike

Nuclear Corps is an arcade/puzzler which comes by way of the PlayStation Talents programme. It’s full title is actually Nuclear Corps: Veterans in Fukushima and it is inspired by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 where an earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown of a nuclear energy plant in Japan. That day a group […]

Nuclear Corps – PS4 Review

December 7, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / lost vikings / nuclear corps / PlayStation Talents / puzzle by Richie

Night Lights is described as a 2D puzzle platformer by its devs, Montreal-based Meridian4, and that’s kind of true but we’ve seen a lot of those from Ratalaika Games, the publisher here, and this one is a bit different. Indeed with its back-and-forth, linked-up levels, this is more of a […]

Night Lights – PS4 Review

December 1, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / metroidvania / night lights / platformer / ratalaika by Richie

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