Monthly Archives: July 2023

You might think Mr. Run and Jump is another rehash of an Atari 2600 game. You’d be partially right, barring the fact that it was made in 2021 by a chap at Graphite Lab rather than in 1981 as the graphics might suggest. In fact, it even got a limited […]

Mr. Run and Jump – PS5 Review

July 28, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2600 / atari / dude where's my dog / graphite studio / kombinera / realms of colour / vvvvvv by Ian

The beat ’em up renaissance has been interesting to see. Whilst it does play on people’s nostalgia, the higher profile efforts have been of a pretty good quality. Next to return to the fray is Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of The Dragons. The series itself hasn’t always hit the right […]

Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons – PS5 Review

July 27, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2D brawler / Beat em up / crime / double dragon gaiden rise of the new dragons / jimmy and bimmy lee / kingpin / local co-op / melee combat / secret base / trash pyramid by Mike

Twisted Metal: World Tour is the second game in Sony’s long-running vehicular combat series which stretches back from 1995’s original and was last seen in 2012 with the PS3 exclusive reboot also called Twisted Metal. The games always enjoyed some degree of popularity, enough so that there’s actually a TV […]

Twisted Metal: World Tour – PS5 Review

July 26, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged destruction derby / port / ps1 / retro / sony / twisted metal / vehicle combat by Richie

If there’s one thing we’d change about this generation of gaming, it’s the influences on game design that have come from F2P and mobile games. The sort of baffling complexity that got introduced during the PS4-era that creates such bad first impressions whenever we fire up a new game. Now, […]

Killsquad – PS4 Review

July 24, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged co-op / killsquad / loot / top down / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Ed-O: Zombie Uprising invokes memories of a better time. No, not the Edo-era of Feudal Japan from which the game gets its stylised name but rather the seventh generation of home video game consoles which included the Wii, the PS3 and most notably for us, the Xbox 360. The 360-era […]

Ed-0: Zombie Uprising – PS5 Review

July 24, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ed-0 zombie uprising / hack and slash / japan / loot / rogue-lite / souls-like by Richie

Oaken from Poznań-based dev Low Poly Dreams and Goblinz Publishing is a deceptive game. On the face of it, it’s an attractive looking hex strategy game with turn-based combat. However, almost from the start it manages to frustrate and obfuscate key mechanics that it never really explains. It doesn’t really […]

Oaken – PS4 Review

July 23, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged card battler / hex battler / mark oaken / poznan by Ian

Real time strategy is a genre I’ve spent a long time away from. Being mostly a console gamer, I just don’t tend to cross paths with what tactical offerings they can bring. With a fresh set of controller bindings, The Valiant looks to transition onto the Playstation 5. Kite Games […]

The Valiant – PS5 Review

July 19, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged crusader knights / horde mode / kite games / real time strategy / siege warfare / skirmish / the tree of life / the valiant by Mike

Ray’z Arcade Chronology is a compilation of three Taito arcade shoot ’em ups, 1994’s Rayforce, 1996’s RayStorm and the 1998 prequel RayCrisis. All three of them are vertically-scrolling shoot ’em ups that borrow heavily from the classics of the genre, in particular Namco’s Xevious games, and while each of the games has been re-released over […]

Ray’z Arcade Chronology – PS4 Review

July 15, 2023 in PS4 tagged compilation / m2 / raycrisis / rayforce / raystorm / raywilkins / shoot 'em ups by Richie

We loved Van Halen. Eddie and Alex, the two eponymous brothers in the band were often overshadowed by flamboyant frontman David Lee Roth. We think he’s ace too, mainly for his daft solo shit like Just A Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody. Particularly the amazing video that accompanied it […]

Miasma Chronicles – PS5 Review

July 11, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged charasma / post apocalyptic / the bearded ladies / turn-based by Ian

I clearly wasn’t the only one puzzled to see Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed appear only on the Playstation 5 last year. After a tiny bit of uproar, the last generation version has finally got over the line. Limited to only the single player campaign, this cut-price Playstation 4 version […]

Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed – PS4 Review

July 9, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 3rd person action adventure / alien invasion / black forest games / cold war b movie / destroy all humans! 2 reprobed / jack nicholson / open world by Mike

Tin Can might well be a glimpse into the future for us. Not the spacefaring aspect, but the fact we felt a general sense of outright bewilderment for most of our time playing it. Is what slowly losing your faculties feels like? If so, it’s damn well unsettling. Best described […]

Tin Can – PS5 Review

July 7, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged death star plans / escape pod / it's a cry for survival / tin can by Ian

Feeble Light is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that comes to us by way of prolific publishers Eastasiasoft and is the latest of a series of shooters from Panda Indie Studio who previously brought us Project Starship, Red Death, Void Gore andZ-Warp. These were all similar games to this one in […]

Feeble Light – PS5 Review

July 5, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / panda indie studio / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie