Yearly Archives: 2024

It’s not every day I have to write something that feels like a public service announcement. Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is game developed by Slipgate Ironworks and KillPixel. It came out on PC in February after a long and protracted early access phase and has now found it’s way to […]

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin – PS4 Review

May 5, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged episodes / first-person shooter / key grabbing / killpixel / neo-retro / quake / slipgate ironworks / wrath aeon of ruin by Mike

A Tale of Paper: Reloaded, as the name suggests is a re-release of October 2020’s A Tale of Paper, only rather than PS4 as the original was, it’s on PS5 this time. We didn’t review it the first time round, but it garnered reasonable reviews. To further complicate matters, the […]

A Tale of Paper: Refolded – PS5 Review

May 4, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged a tale of paper / origami / platformer by Ian

Space Mercenary Defense Force is a survivors-like from UK dev, Tom Paradise, and is published by the super-prolific eastasiasoft. We’ve reviewed a ton of these recently, including eastasiasoft’s own Stickman’s Arena which, like most of them, was kind of garbage. So, what does this one bring to the party? Well, the […]

Space Mercenary Defense Force – PS5 Review

May 4, 2024 in PS5 tagged auto-shooter / eastasiasoft / space mercenary defense force / survivors-like by Richie

Contra: Operation Galuga is a run and gun shooter that continues the legacy of the long running Contra series, one that started in the arcades of Japan in 1987, and brings it to modern consoles. Not that the series has ever gone that many years without a new entry. But, anyway, […]

Contra: Operation Galuga – PS5 Review

April 30, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / contra: operation galuga / remake / retro / run and gun by Richie

Fans of zombies and aliens don’t tend to find much media that involves both of those things but Zombies, Aliens and Guns is here to change all that. It’s a top-down twin-stick shooter from Sergio Poverony that sees you playing as a lone soldier who needs to take on the alien threat […]

Zombies, Aliens and Guns – PS5 Review

April 27, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ratalaika / twin-stick shooter by Richie

From Gateshead based boutique developer Bunnyhug and co-located publisher Coatsink we have Moonglow Bay. Originally released on PC and Xbox in 2021, it’s made the leap to PlayStation. Was it worth the wait? For the most part yes, but with a few caveats. Incidentally, Bunnyhug is Sasketchawan slang for a […]

Moonglow Bay – PS5 Review

April 25, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged buggy / bunnyhug / coatsink / dave / fish / moonglow bay / octopus / squid by Ian

Going to arcades these days is a very weird experience. In my child brain I still think I’m going to find games I’ll recognise there. I’m very often mistaken and a little disappointed. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is, as luck would have it, a port […]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants – ...

April 25, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d sidescroller / belt action / brawler / cradle games / local multiplayer / new york city / pizza / raw thrills / sewers / teenage mutant ninja turtles wrath of the mutants by Mike

It’s funny how games centred around menial vocations can prove such a hit. Overcooked has spawned plenty of imitators in a genre that is all about too much to do. Ready, Steady, Ship! is the latest of these to come to console. Jollybit Games have taken the simple, repetitive art […]

Ready, Steady, Ship! – PS5 Review

April 23, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged boxes / job simulator / jollybit games / local co-op / logistics / puzzles / ready steady ship! / shipping / single-player / space / warehouse by Mike

From Seattle-based developer Moonless Formless and publisher Perp comes asylum-em-up Withering Rooms. Set in the Mostyn Private Asylum in Monmouth, perhaps modelled in part on the real-life Pen-y-Fal Psychiatric Hospital in nearby Abergavenny. Though given the fact the devs are from the Pacific North-West, perhaps not. There’s also a Mostyn […]

Withering Rooms – PS5 Review

April 23, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged here we go yo / SeaUsRise / two point five D / withering rooms by Ian

I took one look at the trailer for Loretta and thought it would be my bag. Hand me a good story and I’ll be happy. Coming from Yakov Batuzov, this 1940’s noir delivers a thriller full of secrets, lies and intertwined lives that successfully kept me engaged. Whilst it is […]

Loretta – PS5 Review

April 15, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / choices / film noir / hitchcock / loretta / mystery / narratively-driven / Pixel art / thriller / Yakov Batuzov by Mike

Outer Terror is an auto-shooter from Virginia-based studio Salt & Pixel LLC (actually solo developer Brandon Rodriguez) that follows the current trend of filling PSN with Vampire Survivors clones, something we don’t mind as we’re constantly banging on about the greatness of that game and Brotato. This one is quite different though. […]

Outer Terror – PS5 Review

April 12, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged auto-shooter / horror / outer terror / ps1 / retro / vampire survivors by Richie

Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Japanese devs Illogic Games and is the latest release from the ever-prolific eastasiasoft. While the shooting is front and centre, as you’d expect, Illogic have also elevated the importance of the story which is something you generally don’t see […]

Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris – PS5 Review

April 6, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventures in venaris / eastasiasoft / flightpath / shoot up em / upgrades / vertically scrolling by Richie