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.

Pinball M is a horror-themed pinball simulator from genre leaders Zen Studios, best known for their Pinball FX series. As with the FX series, M (which we’re told stands for ‘mature’) is a hub that allows you to purchase new tables as DLC as and when they’re released and with Zen’s reputation taking something of […]

Pinball M – PS5 Review

December 11, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged horror / pinball / pinball m / zen by Richie

Battle Stations Blockade is a 3D rail shooter developed by New Jersey-based studio Mission Critical that sees you controlling a pair of gun turrets on a battleship in voxel-style hostile waters. Set across eleven stages, the game sees you taking out aircraft, paratroopers, boats, gun emplacements and even giant enemy crabs […]

Battle Stations Blockade – PS5 Review

December 6, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged battle stations blockade / operation wolf / point and shoot / sea combat / voxel by Richie

The Perplexing Orb: Bounce N’ Roll is a platforming game indie from TreeFall games. It shares a sub-genre with other rolling ball platformers like Trailblazer, Bouncer, Spindizzy and, if you want an example that isn’t from the ’80s, Super Monkey Ball. It’s the third entry in a series of Perplexing Orb games […]

The Perplexing Orb: Bounce N’ Roll – PS5 Review

December 1, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Ball / bounce n' roll / perplexing orb / platformer / treefall studios by Richie

When we reviewed Remnant II back in August, we really enjoyed and appreciated its superb gunplay and gorgeous environments, so Gunfire Games announced their first bit of DLC for it, we were always going to be interested. Of course, the original Remnant: Form the Ashes had plenty of DLC too but with […]

Remnant II: The Awakened King DLC – PS5 Review

November 23, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dlc / gunfire games / remnant II / souls-like / the awakened king by Richie

Alina of the Arena is a deck-building, roguelike strategy game from Taiwanese indie studio, PINIX. It’s been out for a while on Steam and the Switch but has now found its way over to PSN and it should be of interest to fans of games such as Slay the Spire and Into […]

Alina of the Arena – PS4 Review

November 23, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged alina of the arena / pinix / roguelite / strategy / turn-based by Richie

Air Twister is a lock-on rail shooter and it comes to us from famed Sega Producer Yu Suzuki, the man behind such classics as Out Run, After Burner, Power Drift, Shenmue and, most relevantly to this game, Space Harrier. His softography stands up to any producer/programmer in the industry and so when a […]

Air Twister – PS5 Review

November 17, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged air twister / lock on shooter / queen / rez / yu suzuki by Richie

Spells & Secrets is a rogue-lite title from German games devs Alchemist Interactive. Set in a wizard academy called Greifenstein, you have to create and play as a first-year student as they attempt to save the school from evil forces. So, yes, if you’re thinking Hogwarts Legacy, then you’re probably in […]

Spells & Secrets – PS5 Review

November 13, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged alchemist interactive / isometric / magic / rogue-lite / spells & secrets by Richie

Excessive Trim is the latest effort from Panda Indie Studio best known for their long line of vertically-scrolling shoot ’em ups published by eastasiasoft. We’ve reviewed quite a lot of their games and while their last one, Feeble Light, was awful, we generally like what they do. This game is a […]

Excessive Trim – PS5 Review

November 5, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / easy platinum / panda indie studio / retro / vertically scrolling by Richie

Robocop: Rogue City is a first-person shooter/adventure title from Polish coders Teyon who are best known for doing a pretty good job with Terminator: Resistance and so now are taking on another iconic character from ’80s movies with cybernetic and human bits and a penchant for shooting people. And the omens […]

Robocop: Rogue City – PS5 Review

October 31, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged film / fps / robocop / rogue city / Teyon by Richie

VISCO Collection is a compilation of Neo Geo games originally coded by the ’90s developer Visco Corporation. The majority of their output either came out in the arcades or on the Neo Geo, a sort of hybrid home/arcade system that only the rich kids could afford games for given that these […]

VISCO Collection – PS5 Review

October 30, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 90s / arcade / compilation / emulation / neo geo / retro / visco corporation by Richie

Alive Paint is an art utility/game from the mysteriously named solo developer KhudO and it comes to us by way of the ever-prolific publisher eastasiasoft. It was released initially on PC back in March but is now available on consoles. Essentially this is a colouring book. At the start of each […]

Alive Paint – PS5 Review

October 27, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged alive paint / art / eastasiasoft / painting / utility by Richie

Hero Survival is a top-down auto-shooter from indie studio PigeonDev which combines the dodging/shooting action genre made popular by Vampire Survivors with simple 16-bit visuals. This genre is exploding on mobile platforms but is just getting started on PSN. We previously reviewed Remedium: Sentinels which had a go at this sort of […]

Hero Survival – PS5 Review

October 18, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / auto-shooter / hero survival / Pixel art / rogue-like / top down by Richie