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.

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

Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition is a remake of the original Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. That game came out in 2007 and had success on quite a few formats (PSP, DS, PS2, Xbox 360) thanks to its clever mix of addictive match-three puzzling and RPG-style mechanics. It was smarter […]

Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition – PS5 Review

September 30, 2025 in PS5 tagged eternal edition / match-three / puzzle / puzzle quest / rpg by Richie

Mamorukun ReCurse! is a remaster of Mamorukun Curse! a shoot ’em up that was released in Japanese arcades only back in 2008. Developed by G.rev for Sega NAOMI hardware, it never really had much of a profile over here aside from a 2013 release on the PS3 in North America (us Europeans/ex-Europeans […]

Mamorukun ReCurse! – PS5 Review

September 25, 2025 in PS5 tagged arcade / mamorukun recursed / port / remaster / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Next up with their shot at the autoshooter/roguelite genre is Brazil’s own Studio Bravarda with Extremely Powerful Capybaras. It launched a couple of years ago on the PC back at the height of Vampire Survivors mania and offered its own cuter spin on the genre. You play as one of […]

Extremely Powerful Capybaras – PS5 Review

September 23, 2025 in PS5 tagged auto-battler / extremely powerful capybaras / roguel-ike by Richie

Void Crew is a co-op focused space management/combat/survival game that comes to us from Copenhagen-based coders Hutlihut Games after a successful stint on Steam two years ago. The game sees you battling against a mysterious alien force known as The Hollow through a series of missions in a rogue-like manner. […]

Void Crew – PS5 Review

September 22, 2025 in PS5 by Richie

Earthion is a 16-bit style horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up and it comes to us from Japan’s own Ancient Corp, a studio that has a history of, let’s say, unusual games that goes back to 1991. Founded by Yūzō Koshiro, the legendary video game composer behind soundtracks for games like Streets of […]

Earthion – PS5 Review

September 18, 2025 in PS5 tagged earthion / genesis / horizontally-scrolling / Mega Drive / shoot em up by Richie

ZOE Begone! is a shoot ’em up that’s about as far away from a traditional shooter as you can get. Forget your militaristic skirmishes or epic space battles, because this game comes from Retchy (Graeme Hawkins), a solo dev/animator from Scotland and he’s not looking to make the next R-Type or 1942. Instead, this […]

ZOE Begone! – PS5 Review

September 17, 2025 in PS5 by Richie

Otherwar is a tower defence game and it comes to use from Polish devs Kantal Collective. Originally released in 2023 on Steam, the game is now available on PSN and we were pretty excited to try out a tower defence game, a once dominant genre that has fallen out of […]

Otherwar – PS5 Review

September 12, 2025 in PS5 tagged bullet-hell / tower defence by Richie

In the same way that Mad Catz had the third-party controller market sewn up for in previous generations, when we think of audio headsets for gaming, we generally think of Turtle Beach. This US-based has been pushing out gaming hardware since 2005 but really came to prominence when the Xbox […]

Turtle Beach Atlas 200 Headset – Hardware Review

September 10, 2025 in Hardware / Reviews tagged atlas 200 / hardware / headset / turtle beach by Richie

9 Lives to Defend is the latest auto-shooting rogue-lite to hit PSN following its release on Steam over a year ago and it comes to us by way of solo developer Goldarait Games (Felipe Cecato). By now you’ll know the formula. You’re put in an arena, of sorts, and tasked with […]

9 Lives to Defend – PS5 Review

September 8, 2025 in PS5 tagged 9 lives to defend / auto-shooter / cats / rogue-lite / survivors by Richie

Overpowered 1 – Mars Infestation might be marketed as a ‘survival shooter’ and looks as though it’s the latest entry into PSN’s growing list of Vampire Survivors clones but this is actually a twin-stick shooter. You know, those things we used to get tons of before the auto-shooting rogue-likes took over the […]

Overpowered 1 – Mars Infestation

September 6, 2025 in PS5 by Richie