Richie

About Richie

Rich is the editor of PlayStation Country. He likes his games lemony and low-budget with a lot of charm. This isn't his photo. That'll be Rik Mayall.

Schildmaid MX is the latest shoot ’em up from our prolific publishing pals Eastasiasoft and it comes to PSN a couple of years after its initial PC release. And this is quite an unusual take on the genre as while it does look like your standard low-budget horizontally-scrolling shooter, there are […]

Schildmaid MX – PS5 Review

November 26, 2025 in PS5 tagged eastasiasoft / horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up / schildmaiden mx by Richie

Sektori is a twin-stick shoot ’em up which comes to us from solo developer Kimmo Lahtinen. That name might not be familiar to everyone but if we tell you that Kimmo was one of the original founders of Housemarque, best known for Returnal but also responsible for the PS4’s best game, Returnal, […]

Sektori – PS5 Review

November 24, 2025 in PS5 by Richie

When it comes to shoot ’em series, there are few as legendary as R-Type. Sure, Space Invaders was the OG (but as a series, most of the games are pretty dull – although we’d kill for a PSN remake of Infinity Gene) and the Galaga, 194x and Gradius franchises took the genre to new heights but, if […]

R-Type Delta HD Boosted – PS5 Review

November 20, 2025 in PS5 tagged 1998 / horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up / port / r-type delta by Richie

We’ve been playing Halls of Torment pretty solidly since we reviewed it last month and those German devs, Chasing Carrots, certainly did deliver an enjoyment and addictive game but one that’s quite the time sink. We’ve put in countless hours already and so we’re not all that convinced there needs to be […]

Halls of Torment: Boglands DLC – PS5 Review

November 10, 2025 in PS5 tagged auto / auto-battler / boglands / chasing carrots / dlc / halls of torment / rogue-lite / survivors-like by Richie

Painkiller is a co-op focused first-person shooter and is a reboot of a 2004 game that bears the same name (always fun when you’re trying to find tips and tricks for the new one but whatever). The original game’s devs, People Can Fly (responsible for Outriders and the brilliant Bulletstorm but now seemingly stuck in […]

Painkiller – PS5 Review

October 29, 2025 in PS5 tagged co-op / fps / painkiller / squad by Richie

Halls of Torment is an auto-battling/rogue-lite/survivors-style game from German games devs Chasing Carrots. It originally came out on PC in 2024 and also got a pretty nifty Android port too (which we’ve played the arse off on the Retroid Pocket 5). It’s now out on PS5 though but will it be […]

Halls of Torment – PS5 Review

October 28, 2025 in PS5 tagged auto-battler / halls of torment / rogue-lite / vampire survivors by Richie

Xenotilt, or to give its full name, XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION, is an arcade-style pinball title from LA-based studio FLARB LLC (Flarb?!) which somehow manages to both modernise the genre while also taking it back to its earliest videogame roots. The pinball scene, in videogaming, has been ruled for years now by […]

XENOTILT – PS5 Review

October 28, 2025 in PS5 tagged pinball / retro / xenotilt by Richie

Platypus Reclayed is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em from UK-based studio Claymatic Games. Why all the references to clay already? Well, this game, itself a remake of the 2002 PC shoot ’em up Platypus, sports a rather unique look. Everything in the game has been modelled in clay, captured and animated. It’s […]

Platypus Reclayed – PS5 Review

October 23, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged claymation / horizontally-scrolling / platypus / reclayed / shoot em up by Richie

Super Mining Mechs is a follow up to last year’s Mining Mechs, an exploration/mining game that we liked, even if it didn’t particularly wow us. We thought of it more like a podcast game, something to chill out with while listening to something else. This game follows on from the […]

Super Mining Mechs – PS5 Review

October 20, 2025 in PS5 by Richie

We normally open our reviews by saying what genre the falls under and that’s usually pretty straightforward. With BALL x PIT, the latest game by Brooklyn’s own Kenny Sun, it’s just not as clear how to classify it. The problem is that the game is three different genres but in […]

BALL x PIT – PS5 Review

October 15, 2025 in PS5 tagged arcade / arkanoid / ball x pit / dopeness / roguelike / town building by Richie

Sonic Wings Reunion is a sequel to the original Sonic Wings (Aero Fighters in Western markets), a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Tecmo that was originally released in arcades back in 1992 (with a popular conversion hitting the SNES a year later). Several sequels followed, with Aero Fighters 2 and 3 being released on the Neo […]

Sonic Wings Reunion – PS5 Review

October 11, 2025 in PS5 tagged sonic wings reunion / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

King of Meat is a co-op focused mix of platforming, puzzling and hack and slash action from Guildford-based games developers Glowmade. But have Surrey’s squad of software specialists been able to combine those genres into a cohesive game? Let’s find out. The first thing that you’ll see when firing up […]

King of Meat – PS5 Review

October 10, 2025 in PS5 tagged co-op / king of meat / platform / puzzle / pve by Richie