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.

The venerable old Puzzle Bobble series came back in 2021 thanks to a PSVR-enabled outing and this game here is the non-PSVR PS5 port of the same game. But without its virtual reality gimmick have State-side software specialists Survios, got enough here for the game to standalone? Let’s find out. For the […]

Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey – PS5 Review

September 15, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bubble bobble / bust a move / not psvr / puzzle / puzzle bobble 3d by Richie

Disney Dreamlight Valley is a chilled-out life-sim/adventure game from veteran French publishers Gameloft which looks to take the well-loved gameplay mechanics of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley but with an abundance of Disney characters and lore. The concept of the game is quite straightforward. All your favourite Disney characters live in the titular valley […]

Disney Dreamlight Valley – PS5 Review

September 8, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged animal crossing / chilled out / disney / dreamlight valley / farming / life simulator by Richie

Neon Abyss is a rogue-like plaformer-shooter from Chinese coding crew, Veewo Games. It actually released in 2020 but we’ve ended up with a review key for it and so let’s take a look at this already well-regarded game. In Neon Abyss you play as part of the Grim Squad, a team of […]

Neon Abyss – PS4 Review

September 1, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged neon abyss / platformer / rogue-lite / run and gun / twin stick by Richie

Originally released on PC in 2019, Rick Henderson is the latest porting effort from EastAsiaSoft. Described as an ‘endless horizontal-scrolling shoot ’em up’ the game combines 16-bit visuals and classic shoot ’em up gameplay in a package that is kind of traditional but not entirely lacking in its own ideas. You […]

Rick Henderson – PS5 Review

August 31, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged horizontally-scrolling / retro / rick henderson / shoot em up by Richie

It’s fair to say that we absolutely loved The Ascent when it dropped earlier this year. We were so impressed with Swedish software specialists Neon Giant and their debut title. Part Diablo-with-guns, part Cyberpunk 2077-but-good, The Ascent mixed strong storytelling, unbelievably gorgeous settings and some truly excellent gunplay and we’ve barely shut up about it […]

The Ascent: Cyber Heist DLC – PS5 Review

August 27, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyber heist / dlc / the ascent by Richie

In a deleted scene in Pulp Fiction, Mia Wallace says that there are two types of people: Beatles fans and Elvis fans. You can like both, but you like one more than the other. We didn’t like either but the point kind of works for FIFA and PES. Back in the day we […]

eFootball 2023 – PS5 Review

August 27, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged efootball / football / iss / pes by Richie

Yars: Recharged is the latest in a series of classic Atari title remasters that has already seen Gravitar, Asteroids and Breakout getting the ‘Recharged’ treatment. This one is, of course, an update to Atari’s quirky shoot ’em Yar’s Revenge, the famously odd Atari 2600 classic. Here’s the thing, we’re not American and therefore we never much […]

Yars: Recharged – PS5 Review

August 22, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged atari / recharged / twin stick shoot em up / yar's revenge / yars: recharged by Richie

GigaBash is a multiplayer-focused action brawler from Malaysian studio, Passion Republic. Mainly melee-focused (albeit not exclusively), this crazy party game feels like a mix of Smash Bros. and Powerstone but with a satisfying cast of Kaiju and Kyodai archetypes stomping around creating chaos in deliciously crumbly environments. With the influence clearly […]

GigaBash – PS5 Review

August 17, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged brawler / couch multiplayer / gigabash / kaiju / party game by Richie

Following on from Turrican Anthology Vol 1 (well, actually coming at exactly the same time), Turrican Anthology Vol 2 is, as you’d expect, a compilation of more Turrican games and if you’ve not read our previous review, the Turrican games are some classic 16-bit run and gun titles with plenty of shooting, platforming and exploration. The […]

Turrican Anthology Vol 2 – PS4 Review

August 12, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 90s / compilation / run and gun / shoot em up / turrican by Richie

Hang on! Didn’t we already do this? Back in 2021 our friend and resident Turrican expert, Mark Newton (RIP, brother) reviewed Turrican Flashback which was a compilation of four games from Factor 5’s famous 16-bit run and gun series. Now, we’re not quite as qualified as Mark when it comes to this series […]

Turrican Anthology Vol 1 – PS4 Review

August 9, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews by Richie

Now, this is a tricky one. Thunderbolt Collection is another retro-collection from QuByte. They previously brought us the Humans Collection and have now dug even further into the archives to pull out this collection of two little-known shoot ’em ups. What you get with this collection are Thunderbolt Fighting Plane and Thunderbolt II. Now you’d […]

Thunderbolt Collection – PS4 Review

August 5, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged console / megadrive / NES / retro / shoot em up / thunderbolt collection / vertically scrolling by Richie

Aniquilation is a twin-stick shooter from Colombian coders R-Next that offers over thirty levels of 3D shooting action with a similar viewpoint to Nano Assault and Super Stardust Ultra in that each level is a small sphere, essentially a mini-planet. As you traverse the level, your ship appears to stay in place as […]

Aniquilation – PS5 Review

August 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged aniquilation / or 'annihilation' according to every auto-corrector out there / planetoid / shoot em up / twin stick by Richie