Monthly Archives: June 2022

Very Very Valet is a co-op party game by LA-based coders Toyful Games that taps into a recent-ish sub-genre of party games where you take manual, task-based labour and turn it into a frantic co-op game. We’ve seen it with catering (Overcooked, Cannibal Cuisine) and house moving (Moving Out, Get Packed) […]

Very Very Valet – PS5 Review

June 12, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged co-op / couch / multiplayer / Overcooked / party / task em up / very very valet by Richie

I’m a sucker for a simplistic puzzle game and Tilting Tiles seems to fit the bill. Coming from TreeFall Studios, this top-down conundrum delivers dozens of tricky teasers to wrap your brain around. There’s very few frills on offer but the stripped down nature seems to give the game plenty […]

Tilting Tiles – PS4 Review

June 11, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged blocks / diamonds / puzzles / tilting tiles / treefall studios / worlds by Mike

It’s been out on PC for some time but Lost Ruins now lands on PS4. The pixel graphics and school girl protagonist might lead you to believe that this is a cutesy platformer but that is not the case. You play as a girl simply known as Heroine, who wakes […]

Lost Ruins – PS4 Review

June 8, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / boss battles / combat / difficult / dodge roll / loadout / lost ruins / map by Gareth

Spacewing War is a very old-school horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Spanish studio Pneuma Games (although essentially a one-man project). It’s very much modelled on the aesthetics and feel of the original Game Boy which means four colours, basic controls and some beepy sound. After a few static screens of plot, […]

Spacewing War – PS5 Review

June 8, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews by Richie

Gravitar: Recharged is the latest from a resurgent Atari after Kombinera the other month. Developed by Adamvision Studios in conjunction with Lithuanian codeshop Sneakybox, comes the latest, as the title might suggest, rehash of an old IP. Gravitar is a forty year old arcade game, with the 2600 version coming […]

Gravitar: Recharged – PS5 Review

June 4, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged atari / gravitar / thrust by Ian

As mentioned in my Wonder Boy Asha review from last year, the Wonder Boy franchise is one that had passed me by, despite being a self-professed Sega fanatic ever since the glory of the Mega Drive days. Despite owning original copies of Wonder Boy III on Master System and Monster World […]

Wonder Boy Collection – PS4 Review

June 2, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Asha / Collection / Land / Monster / retro / Wonder Boy / World by Grizz