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.

Royal Frontier is a strategy game from prolific Canadian coders Woblyware and it comes to us by way of Ratalaika Games. Now, we tend to review the vast majority of games from Ratalaika and so we knew we could most likely request a review code for this one but with half […]

Royal Frontier – PS5 Review

March 21, 2022 in PS5 tagged king's bounty / ratalaika / royal frontier / tactical / turn based strategy by Richie

Valley of the Dead: MalnaZidos is a third-person survival horror game which comes to us by way of Gammera Nest and the Spanish PlayStation Talents program. That initiative is a way to get lesser-known talent into the PSN marketplace and so far it’s not made for many good games but […]

Valley of the Dead: MalnaZidos – PS4 Review

March 20, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged malnazidos / PlayStation Talents / resident evil poor / spanish / valley of the dead / zombies by Richie

Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 5 is the latest installment of Italian motorsports sim specialists, Milestone srl’s surprisingly new motorbiking series. We say surprisingly because despite their being five of these now, this series only started in 2018 and has had a new installment each year. It seems somewhat […]

Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 5 – PS5 Review

March 16, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged monster energy supercross 5 / motocross / motorbikes / racing / sport / supercross by Richie

Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure is the latest DLC for Zen Studio’s genre-leader pinball simulation suite Pinball FX 3. As with many of their more recent tables, this one is based on an original Williams table, this time from 1993. As you’d expect it’s full of references, mini-games and sound samples based on […]

Pinball FX3: Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure – PS4 Review

March 10, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged indiana jones / pinball / pinball fx3 / zen by Richie

Pretty Girls Breakers! is a bat and ball Arkanoid style game that comes to us by way of Zoo Corporation as part of their on-going Pretty Girls series. It’s published by Eastasiasoft who are known for their cheap and cheerful, easy to Platinum ports. While we’ve seen this style of game a lot […]

Pretty Girls Breakers! – PS5 Review

March 8, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged arkanoid / bat and ball / eastasiasoft / easy platinum / manga / pretty girls breakers by Richie

Shadow Warrior 3 is the latest episode of the series that began life in 1997 as a PC FPS but was then rebooted in 2016 by Polish programmers Flying Wild Hog. Since then they’ve continued the series and, indeed, the story which focuses on an assassin called Lo Wang and […]

Shadow Warrior 3 – PS4 Review

March 7, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 90s / doom / fps / gore / shadow warrior 3 by Richie

A Musical Story is a rhythm-action game from French coders, Glee Cheese. With its focus on firmly on its emotive story, this isn’t like other games in the genre although you could make parallels with Parappa The Rapper but only if Parappa was an acid-fueled Jimi Hendrix clone and the music was less about […]

A Musical Story – PS5 Review

March 2, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 70s / a musical story / indie / music / rhythm action by Richie

Despite the ‘cover’ art and name suggesting this might be a Bomberman/Dynablaster clone, Dyna Bomb isn’t quite what we expect. This one comes to us from 7 Raven Studios and is a 2D arcade-action puzzler that doesn’t have any strong comparisons with other games and there might be a reason for that but […]

Dyna Bomb – PS4 Review

February 23, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged action / arcade / dyna bomb / platformer / puzzler by Richie

Moto Roader continues the recent trend of obscure old console games getting ported to modern consoles and certainly this is pretty damned obscure. The original Moto Roader was a top-down futuristic racer which came out for the PC Engine in 1989 and, aside from a Wii Virtual Console appearance, it’s never had […]

Moto Roader – PS5 Review

February 21, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged moto roader / pc engine / racer / retro / super sprint / top down by Richie

The clumsily-named QUByte Classics – The Humans by Piko, is a port of a handful of versions of The Humans, a retro-puzzle game from the ’90s that feels a bit like Lemmings but plays a little more like The Lost Vikings but if you’re not familiar, don’t worry. We’ll tell you all about it. In any […]

The Humans by Piko – PS4 Review

February 19, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / amiga / Collection / lemmings / megadrive / PC / port / puzzle / retro / the humans by Richie

We shouldn’t need to tell you what Breakout: Recharged is. Aside from the screenshots which give it all away immediately, the original Breakout is really one of the cornerstones of classic gaming. Space Invaders had the shooting covered, Pac-Man was the mazey collect ’em up and Breakout was the classic bat and ball versus wall game. The natural […]

Breakout: Recharged – PS5 Review

February 12, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arkanoid / atari / bat and ball / breakout recharged / remaster / retro by Richie

OlliOlli World is the third game in Roll7’s famed skateboarding series, one that is known for cool visuals, cooler music and intricate skating gameplay. Arriving some seven years after the previous title, this game arrives with a mixture of familar gameplay concepts but married to a very different looking game. For […]

OlliOlli World – PS5 Review

February 9, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / olliolli / olliolli world / skateboard / skating by Richie