Yearly Archives: 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

Remote Life is a 2D horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Italian one-man studio Next Game Level. Now, we’re on quite a run of shoot ’em up reviews at the moment but this one is probably the most unique of the bunch. Taking its cues from R-Type, this game sees you battling a […]

Remote Life – PS5 Review

May 30, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged horror / ratalaika games / remote life / sci fi / shoot em up by Richie

Of all the hobbies I’ve latched on to over the years, gaming’s probably the one that’s stuck with me throughout life. I’m not going to crowbar some sentimental nonsense into this review but I’ve not seen the time I’ve spent in front of a computer or console as wasted. That […]

Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers – PS5 Review

May 29, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade spirits the new challengers / dating simulator / esports / gaming / relationships / ren'py / romance / visual novel by Mike

I know I have said this only recently, but I really do feel sorry for most games that have to follow Elden Ring this year. That utter behemoth of a release, whether intended or not has waged a war on fantasy RPG’s and particularly, the imitators of Dark Souls, a […]

Dolmen – PS5 Review

May 27, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bloodborne / dark / Dolmen / Elden Ring / like / Massive Work Games / PS5 / review / Souls / soulslike by Grizz

Amazing Princess Sarah came out quite a long time ago on other platforms and has now landed on PS4. It’s a retro style 2D platformer with a few interesting ideas. You play as Princess Sarah, who must save the King after he is kidnapped by Lilith. This involves platforming through […]

Amazing Princess Sarah – PS4 Review

May 24, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / amazing princess sarah / bosses / cast of the seven godsends / new game+ / platformer / throwing by Gareth

Rolling Gunner is a horizontally-scrolling bullet-hell shoot ’em up from Japanese developers Mebius. Originally a 2018 Windows release, this version combines a port of the game along with its Overpower DLC that came out a year or so later. It’s also out for the Switch and there are physical editions […]

Rolling Gunner + Overpower – PS4 Review

May 22, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / arcade / bullet-hell / rolling gunner / shoot em up by Richie

Cotton Fantasy is a shoot ’em up that is part of the celebrated Cotton series which is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary. We’ve already seen a few ports of some of the other games with Cotton Reboot!, Panorama Cotton and various others all making it to PSN in the last year or so. This […]

Cotton Fantasy – PS4 Review

May 19, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / cotton fantasy / japanese / rainbow cotton / shoot em up by Richie