Monthly Archives: January 2023

I’m never really sure what to do with kids games. I can’t review them from a child’s perspective and it’s not like I can fetch some kids to play it for me. Even so, I wouldn’t trust a kid’s opinion on anything. Kids have no sense of taste, no sense […]

Spongebob Squarepants: The Cosmic Shake – PS4 Review

January 30, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bubbles / cartoon / combat / jellyfish / nickelodeon / platforming / purple lamp / seahorses / spongebob squarepants the cosmic shake by Mike

Raiden IV x Mikado Remix is a vertically-scrolling shoot-’em-up from famed Japanese arcade developer MOSS. As with most series from Japan, there’s a degree of… non-linearity to their releases and that’s definitely the case here as Raiden V already exists (we reviewed it five years ago). But a lot of people […]

Raiden IV x Mikado Remix – PS5 Review

January 27, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / japan / raiden / shooter / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion could well have been a Ratalaika effort for the almost generic title. Though we’re glad we didn’t dismiss it out of hand as it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Coming from Massachusetts-based dev Snoozy Kazoo and publisher Graffiti Games, as increasingly seems to […]

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion – PS4 Review

January 27, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged rip it up / rutabaga / snooty kazoo / steckrübe / tax evasion / turnip boy / wee papa girl rapa / you little ripper / カブ by Ian

The Legend of Tianding comes to us from Creative Games & Computer Graphics Corp in conjuction with Taiwan Tech (aka National Taiwan University of Science and Technology) and Taiwanese publisher Neon Doctrine. So far so Taiwanese! According to Wikipedia, this is a fleshed out version of a 2004 Flash game which […]

The Legend of Tianding – PS5 Review

January 22, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged chives / les / liao tianding / period piece / taiwan / you wouldn't let it lie by Ian

Despite getting three lots of DLC last year, the Far Cry 6 expansions keep coming with the latest, Lost Between Worlds, now available on PSN. Unlike those previous DLCs though, this one gives the player back control of Dani Rojas, the protagonist from the main game. A short, slightly glitchy cutscene sets […]

Far Cry 6: Lost Between Worlds DLC – PS5 Review

January 17, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dlc / far cry 6 / lost between worlds / rogue-like / ubisoft by Richie

Breakers Collection is a compilation of two Neo Geo fighting games, namely Breakers from 1996 and its follow-up Breakers Revenge in 1998. Excitingly, these games were never released outside of Japan so this is probably your first chance to get a hold of them (well, assuming you’ve not been dabbling with emulation for the last […]

Breakers Collection – PS5 Review

January 10, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 90s / breakers / breakers revenge / fighting game / neo geo by Richie

Wings of Bluestar is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from prolific publishers EastAsiaSoft who’ve put together quite the stable of games from this genre. Now, most of these have been quite unusual with games like Red Death and Project Starship but, on the face of it at least, Wings of Bluestar is a bit more traditional. […]

Wings of Bluestar – PS5 Review

January 9, 2023 in PS5 tagged eastasiasoft / horizontally-scrolling / shoot em up / wings of bluestar by Richie