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.

Dino Land is a port of a pinball game originally developed by Japanese developers Wolf Team and released on the Megadrive/Genesis (and also the Sharp X68000) way back in 1991. And it’s really a strange choice of game to port. The original never led to any sequels, the developers eventually […]

Dino Land – PS5 Review

December 15, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 1991 / dino land / megadrive / pinball by Richie

Ultimate Zombie Defense is a top-down twin-stick shooter, with some tower defense elements, from Belfast-based studio Terror Dog. And this is a really strange game. Not so much because of the mechanics of it, this sort of thing has been done before in games like #killallzombies, but more because of basically […]

Ultimate Zombie Defense – PS5 Review

December 11, 2025 in PS5 tagged tower defence / twin-stick (sort of) shooter / ultimate zombie defence / zombies by Richie

Skate Story is a skateboarding/adventure game from New York native Sam Eng which has been creating quite a stir on social media for a couple of reasons. The first is that it looks a bit like SKATE, which is important because EA’s new free-to-play update to that franchise is a load of […]

Skate Story – PS5 Review

December 8, 2025 in PS5 tagged adventure / sam eng / skate story / skateboarding by Richie

Despite being one of the few classic coin-ops that still plays well today, you don’t really get many games that riff on the old Pac-Man formula. Sure, Namco will drag Pac’s carcass out of the cupboard and beat a few more pennies out of it every chance they can but for […]

Dungeons and Ducklings – PS5 Review

December 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged beer belly games / dungeons and ducklings / pac-man / retro / rogue-lite by Richie

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion is an arcade-style beat ’em up from Quebec-based studio Tribute Games who were behind other coin-op/retro-inspired titles like Mercenary Kings and Scott Pilgrim. But more recently the were behind the brilliant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge which, like this game, was very much a love letter to the […]

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion – PS5 Review

December 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged arcade / Beat em up / cosmic invasion / fighting / marvel / retro by Richie

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