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.

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

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

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

Reviewing a game like Zen Studios’ Pinball FX is a little like reviewing the latest FIFA. Taken in isolation, it does about as perfect a job of simulating its target subject as you can realistically expect from a videogame. From the core elements of the physics of the ball, the feel of […]

Pinball FX – PS5 Review

February 21, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fx / monetisation / pinball / simulator / zen by Richie

You have to hand it to Atari at the moment. They’re celebrating 50 years in the industry and they’re doing a really good job of it. Aside from revisiting a load of their back catalogue classics with their Recharged series, they also recently put out their Atari 50 compilation which […]

Akka Arrh – PS5 Review

February 20, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged akka arrh / arcade / atari / coin-op / jeff minter / remaster / shoot em up by Richie

Helvetii is a 2D flip-screen brawler/roguelike that comes to us from Swiss software specialists, Team KwaKwa. It’s set in a world of Gallic Celtic Mythology and sees you controlling three playable characters who are trying to battle a mysterious evil that is causing the world to rot and physics to […]

Helvetii – PS4 Review

February 6, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged hack and slash / helvetii / not vanillaware but similar / roguelike by Richie

Raiden IV x Mikado Remix is a vertically-scrolling shoot-’em-up from famed Japanese arcade developer MOSS. As with most series from Japan, there’s a degree of… non-linearity to their releases and that’s definitely the case here as Raiden V already exists (we reviewed it five years ago). But a lot of people […]

Raiden IV x Mikado Remix – PS5 Review

January 27, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / japan / raiden / shooter / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Despite getting three lots of DLC last year, the Far Cry 6 expansions keep coming with the latest, Lost Between Worlds, now available on PSN. Unlike those previous DLCs though, this one gives the player back control of Dani Rojas, the protagonist from the main game. A short, slightly glitchy cutscene sets […]

Far Cry 6: Lost Between Worlds DLC – PS5 Review

January 17, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dlc / far cry 6 / lost between worlds / rogue-like / ubisoft by Richie

Breakers Collection is a compilation of two Neo Geo fighting games, namely Breakers from 1996 and its follow-up Breakers Revenge in 1998. Excitingly, these games were never released outside of Japan so this is probably your first chance to get a hold of them (well, assuming you’ve not been dabbling with emulation for the last […]

Breakers Collection – PS5 Review

January 10, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 90s / breakers / breakers revenge / fighting game / neo geo by Richie

Wings of Bluestar is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from prolific publishers EastAsiaSoft who’ve put together quite the stable of games from this genre. Now, most of these have been quite unusual with games like Red Death and Project Starship but, on the face of it at least, Wings of Bluestar is a bit more traditional. […]

Wings of Bluestar – PS5 Review

January 9, 2023 in PS5 tagged eastasiasoft / horizontally-scrolling / shoot em up / wings of bluestar by Richie

Pinball Heroes is a pinball simulation game that launched on PSP back in 2010. How is this relevant to you? Well, Sony have decided to add it to the neglected ‘Classics’ section of PS Premium. That means that subscribers to PSN’s top tier now have access to the game. As […]

Pinball Heroes – PS5 Review

December 28, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged first party / pinball heroes / ps premium / psp by Richie

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