Yearly Archives: 2023

Meet Your Maker is a first-person raiding/building/shooting affair from Quebec natives Behaviour Interactive who are best known these days for Dead By Daylight, itself being one of those asymmetrical multiplayer games that is played obsessively, often by shrieking idiots on Twitch. However, Dead By Daylight showed that Behaviour know a thing or two […]

Meet Your Maker – PS5 Review

April 4, 2023 in PS5 tagged building / co-op / first-person shooter / meet your maker / raiding / traps by Richie

It’ll be no surprise to you that Guns N’ Runs is a run and gun shooter/platformer and it comes to us from Brazilian coders Statera Studio following its initial PC release back in May 2021 that was seemingly missed by most gamers and reviewers out there. But it’s here on PSN […]

Guns N’ Runs – PS4 Review

March 27, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / 2d / platformer / retro / run and gun / runs n' guns by Richie

FATAL FRAME : Mask of the Lunar Eclipse had us genuinely excited that we were being blessed by Koei Tecmo with a brand-new instalment, the first since 2014’s Maiden Of Black Water in fact. No, in fact Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is a remake of the previously Japan-only 2008 […]

FATAL FRAME: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse – PS5 ...

March 23, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged aztec camera obscura / fatal frame / Mask of the Lunar Eclipse / now just plain zero / project zero / spirit in the sky / weeb / wiimaster by Ian

I do enjoy some side-scrolling platforming and a dystopian future of science gone amok is fantastic trope to mine. Combining the two is Titanium Hound from Red Spot Sylphina. With a visual style very much within the 16-bit era, this indie effort starts to stumble with controls and pacing. There […]

Titanium Hound – PS4 Review

March 21, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d sidescroller / cops / crafting / dystopia / future bacteria / mech plot / platforming / red spot sylphina / shooter / titanium hound by Mike

When you really stop and think about it, translating wrestling into a fighting game framework can be an impossible task. The sport itself is a collaborative effort whereas most gaming is a solo experience with explicit win conditions. Wrestling games have been many things over the years but I struggle […]

WWE 2K23 – PS5 Review

March 20, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fighting / john cena / sports entertainment / then now forever / vince mcmahon / visual concepts / wrasslin / wrestling / wwe 2k23 by Mike

Fight’N Rage is a side-scrolling beat ’em up from Uruguayan developer, and fighting game enthusiast, Seba Games Dev and it is very much inspired by the classics of the genre, a genre which arguably had its heyday back in the late ’80s and early ’90s but repeatedly gets dipped back […]

Fight’N Rage – PS5 Review

March 19, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 90s / Beat em up / fight'n rage / final fight / retro by Richie

From developer 9Finger Games and publisher Jandusoft Games comes Zapling Bygone. Self-described as a “twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls.” That’s true to a certain extent, more you have to beat bosses in some cases, others you find the skulls after […]

Zapling Bygone – PS5 Review

March 16, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged infection / metroidvania / sewers / skulls / vermin by Ian

Catan is an adaptation of the excellent board game of the same name which has been around since 1995 and has maintained a good level of popularity over the years thanks to its simple enough rule set. It comes to us by way of UK-based simulation specialists Dovetail Games, who […]

Catan: Console Edition – PS5 Review

March 15, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged board game / catan / dice roll / multiplayer / strategy by Richie

The fiftieth anniversary celebrations continue for Atari with Caverns of Mars: Recharged, a remake of their 1981 vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up (ish) of the same name (minus the Recharged bit, of course). The original game which was one of their home-only titles, rather than a coin-op, saw you making your way […]

Caverns of Mars: Recharged – PS4 Review

March 8, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 1980s / atari / caverns of mars / recharged / remake / shoot em up by Richie

Imitation breeds innovation, right? There’s been a lot of attempts to twist and add some spice to From Software’s recent efforts. Team Ninja’s no stranger to it with Nioh, a series I genuinely enjoy. Their next move is to take the parry-heavy combat of Sekiro and marry it with the […]

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – PS5 Review

March 7, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged chinese history / elixir / han / Romance of the Three Kingdoms / soulslike / supernatural / team ninja / wo long fallen dynasty by Mike

Blood Bowl III comes to us from Cyanide Studio and is published by parent company Nacon. Despite that, this is very much a work-for-hire project for Nottingham based Games Workshop aka Warhammer. The first Blood Bowl was released in 2009 with the sequel, the imaginatively named Blood Bowl 2 coming […]

Blood Bowl III – PS5 Review

March 2, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged blood bowl / cyanide studio / dice roll / Games workshop / nacon / no fun league / turn-based / Warhammer by Ian

It’s been a busy time around here with releases starting to drop. February used to be a bit of a dumping ground but now, as games are delayed and release windows are hard to nail down, games feel like they can arrive at any time of year. Step forth, Scars […]

Scars Above – PS5 Review

February 28, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged first contact / investigations / mad head games / metahedron / scars above / science / soulslike / space / third-person shooter by Mike