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.

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

Terror of Hemasaurus is a game from Finnish one-man studio Loren Lemcke and can be described as a 2D destroy ’em up in the same vein as Midways ’80s coin-op Rampage in so far as that you play as a big monster that tears through cities smashing buildings, flinging cars and eating people. […]

Terror of Hemasaurus – PS4 Review

December 12, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged indie / Monster / rampage / terror of hemasaurus by Richie

Evil West is a third-person brawler-shooter from Polish studio Flying Wild Hog (best known for Trek To Yomi and the Shadow Warrior games) which sees you playing as a gnarly vampire hunter in a Wild West setting which, you have to admit, sounds absolutely awesome on paper. The story here is actually pretty decent. […]

Evil West – PS5 Review

December 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged country / cowboys / evil west / flying wild hog / third-person / this one's for my pa / vampires by Richie

Update: since reviewing Gungrave G.O.R.E the devs have put out a patch that does a couple of very cool things. There is no an option to play with cel-shaded visuals. Rather than being overtly cel-shaded like Jet Set Radio, this really just adds a subtle outline to the visuals but does […]

Gungrave G.O.R.E – PS5 Review

November 25, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged double-A / gore / gungrave / linear / third-person shooter by Richie

Heidelberg 1693 is a 2D action platformer from Andrade Games who we became aware of when we reviewed Sturmfront: The Mutant War which was a wild top-down shooter in the vein of Total Carnage (itself a successor of sorts to Smash TV). It was a good looking game that was absolutely stuffed with […]

Heidelberg 1693 – PS5 Review

November 21, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / ghosts 'n goblins / hack and slash / heidelberg 1693 / retro / run and sort of gun / sturmfront / undead germans by Richie

Inertial Drift is a racing game that was released in 2020 on PS4. Our guy Ian reviewed it back then and kind of liked it but wasn’t overly sold thanks to the erratic difficulty balance and a lack of cohesion in terms of what type of game it wanted to be. […]

Inertial Drift: Twilight Rivals – PS5 Review

November 20, 2022 in PS5 tagged dlc / drifting / driving / i have no idea what initial d is / inertial drift / racing / twilight rivals by Richie

Finding the Flowzone is the second, and final, DLC for Roll7’s OlliOlli World, itself the third game in the OlliOlli series. We reviewed that back in February, giving it a score of 8 and praising the gameplay and track layout improvements that the series badly needed. For those of you new to the series, […]

OlliOlli World: Finding the Flowzone – PS5 Review

November 20, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / dlc / finding the flowzone / olliolli world / skateboarding by Richie

Game Type DX is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Nathan Fouts, the solo-ish developer behind Mommy’s Best Games. We’ve covered his work before, reviewing the sensational Shoot1UP DX as well as Weapon of Choice DX and Explosionade DX. If you’re not familiar with Fouts’ work, he tends to specialise in […]

Game Type DX – PS5 Review

November 20, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged game type dx / mommy's best games / nathan fouts / shoot em up by Richie

Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration is a compilation of retro titles spanning most of the life of famed software publisher Atari and has been put together by Canadian coders Digital Eclipse. Aside from such keywords as Atari and 50, the one that rings truest about this collection is ‘celebration’ as […]

Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration – PS5 Review

November 11, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged atari 50 / compilation / retro by Richie

Tanuki Sunset is a skateboarding game from Canadian coders Rewind Games. However, that description doesn’t really do this game justice at all. The game combines downhill skateboarding with a glorious ’80s aesthetic and it does it all to great effect. You play as the titular Tanuki, who is a rather radical […]

Tanuki Sunset – PS5 Review

November 2, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 80's / drift / racing / skateboarding / tanuki sunset by Richie