Yearly Archives: 2022

Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 5 is the latest installment of Italian motorsports sim specialists, Milestone srl’s surprisingly new motorbiking series. We say surprisingly because despite their being five of these now, this series only started in 2018 and has had a new installment each year. It seems somewhat […]

Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 5 – PS5 Review

March 16, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged monster energy supercross 5 / motocross / motorbikes / racing / sport / supercross by Richie

I haven’t play a WWE wrestling game since Smackdown 2 on the Playstation but I’d always heard in passing about Visual Concepts tribulations with the license. I’ve been aware of the animation glitches, the bugs and the general sentiment that the games became too complicated over time. This all […]

WWE 2K22 – PS5 Review

March 13, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fighting / rey mysterio / royal rumble / tag team / visual concepts / wrestlemania / wrestling / wwe 2k22 by Mike

What Lies in the Multiverse is a puzzle-based platformer from Santiago-based developer Iguanabee and Polish publisher Untold Tales. The prologue opens with the line “Multiple events, multiple possibilities, multiple consequences.” It’s a little more linear than that admittedly, but the storyline is occasionally intriguing. The gameplay on offer reminded us […]

What Lies in the Multiverse – PS4 Review

March 13, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged bill fucking murray / multiverse / platformer / quantum physics by Ian

Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure is the latest DLC for Zen Studio’s genre-leader pinball simulation suite Pinball FX 3. As with many of their more recent tables, this one is based on an original Williams table, this time from 1993. As you’d expect it’s full of references, mini-games and sound samples based on […]

Pinball FX3: Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure – PS4 Review

March 10, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged indiana jones / pinball / pinball fx3 / zen by Richie

It’s been a while since a proper one of these. Gran Turismo 7 is Polyphony’s Digital’s return to the mainline series and effectively celebrates the 25th anniversary of a very specific product. With that comes a lot of familiarity but a few new tweaks that do add some flavour to […]

Gran Turismo 7 – PS5 Review

March 9, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cars / digital polyphony / drifting / driving / gran turismo 7 / online multiplayer / racing / rallying / time trial by Mike

Pretty Girls Breakers! is a bat and ball Arkanoid style game that comes to us by way of Zoo Corporation as part of their on-going Pretty Girls series. It’s published by Eastasiasoft who are known for their cheap and cheerful, easy to Platinum ports. While we’ve seen this style of game a lot […]

Pretty Girls Breakers! – PS5 Review

March 8, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged arkanoid / bat and ball / eastasiasoft / easy platinum / manga / pretty girls breakers by Richie

There is an inevitability, that as soon as a new From Software title comes out with that trademark difficulty, there will always follow the discourse about adding easy modes, ‘gitting gud’ and preparing to die. A particular anecdote comes to mind, usually uttered by me when trying to explain to […]

Elden Ring – PS5 Review

March 7, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dark souls / Elden Ring / from software / Miyazaki / ps4 / PS5 / review by Grizz

Shadow Warrior 3 is the latest episode of the series that began life in 1997 as a PC FPS but was then rebooted in 2016 by Polish programmers Flying Wild Hog. Since then they’ve continued the series and, indeed, the story which focuses on an assassin called Lo Wang and […]

Shadow Warrior 3 – PS4 Review

March 7, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 90s / doom / fps / gore / shadow warrior 3 by Richie

A Musical Story is a rhythm-action game from French coders, Glee Cheese. With its focus on firmly on its emotive story, this isn’t like other games in the genre although you could make parallels with Parappa The Rapper but only if Parappa was an acid-fueled Jimi Hendrix clone and the music was less about […]

A Musical Story – PS5 Review

March 2, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 70s / a musical story / indie / music / rhythm action by Richie

A while back I reviewed Strawberry Vinegar and it was arguably the moment where I really, really started to sound alarm bells about the visual novel genre. It was probably one of my first introductions to the fiction that is, ostensibly for weirdos, by weirdos. I knew Ebi-Hime had written […]

Blackberry Honey – PS5 Review

March 1, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged blackberry honey / ebi-hime / love story / narratively-driven / victorian housemaids / visual novel by Mike

First off, we got mighty confused thinking this was a follow on to a prior game. No, that was Unravel and its sequel released under the EA Originals banner. K? K. Unbound: Worlds Apart is completely unrelated, coming from Bucharest-based developer Alien Pixel and publisher Digerati. On the face of […]

Unbound: Worlds Apart – PS5 Review

February 26, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged difficulty spike / hessian sack / kelvin mackenzie / metroidvania / not unravel / unbound by Ian

It’s been interesting to see puzzle games find their way into my rotation lately. A lot of them have been of an indie persuasion and they haven’t been especially enduring. A puzzler with a good hook or some interesting ideas will always grab me and In My Shadow manages to […]

In My Shadow – PS4 Review

February 25, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged house / in my shadow / jumping / narratively-driven / playbae / puzzle platformer / puzzles / rooms / saws / spikes by Mike