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.

Crash Drive 3 is a multiplayer party game from M2H, the Dutch developers who usually better known for their sombre WW1 FPS games Verdun and Tannenburg. Well, this is a markedly different kind of game which instead sees players facing off in multiplayer challenges based around driving. The fundamentals of […]

Crash Drive 3 – PS5 Review

July 12, 2021 in PS5 tagged crash drive 3 / driving / party / racing / stunts by Richie

Indigo 7: Quest For Love is a puzzle game by Spanish studio Dolores Entertainment but one that offers both a fairly unusual puzzle gameplay mechanic and also a fairly sizeable story about musicians and love triangles all done in a cartoony style. This gives the game two sides to its […]

Indigo 7: Quest For Love – PS4 Review

July 6, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged indigo 7 / music / puzzle game / puzzler / story / teen drama by Richie

Curved Space is a very polished shoot ’em up from Canadian coders Only By Midnight and it’s a little different to its peers on PSN and beyond. Instead of the usual 2D vertical/horizontal style or the absolute glut of seen-from-above twin-stick shooters out there, this one is seen from behind your […]

Curved Space – PS5 Review

July 1, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / curved space / geometry / power ups / shoot em up by Richie

If you’re a regular here, you’ll know all about Ratalaika, the Finnish publishers who put out at least one game a week and keep trophy whores across the world busy with a series of short but easy games with which to increase their Platinum tallies with. Well, Super Destronaut DX […]

Super Destronaut DX-2 – PS4/PS5 Review

July 1, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged ratalaika / shoot em up / space invaders / super destronaut dx 2 by Richie

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a co-op hack and slasher set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe and was developed by Canadian coders Tuque Games, who previously gave us Livelock, a co-op top-down shooter that I’ve somehow got no memory of despite getting the Platinum on it back in 2018. […]

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance – PS5 Review

June 28, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged brawler / d&d / dark alliance / dungeons and dragons / hack and slasher / not mortal kombat by Richie

This week’s offering from Ratalaika is Sun Wukong VS Robot, a bite-sized Metroidvania style game from the relatively unknown dev team, Bitca. Having just reviewed the brilliant Astalon, we were fully dialled in to this style of game and all the running, jumping, slashing and upgrading that it entails. So how […]

Sun Wukong VS Robot – PS4 Review

June 22, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged hack and slash / jump / metroidvania / platformer / sun wukong vs robot by Richie

Hood: Outlaws & Legends is a 4v4 multiplayer mix of stealth, melee and archery from the very well-established Sumo Digital and is their next game after the PlayStation 5 launch title Sackboy: A Big Adventure. The game is a PvPvE kind of affair which is to say that you and your […]

Hood: Outlaws & Legends – PS5 Review

June 8, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged heist / hood / multiplayer / online-only / pvevp by Richie

We reviewed Wreckfest back in 2019, giving the game a very respectable 8/10. Well now, the game has been given a bit of an upgrade and shipped out on PS5. It initially came out as one of the PlayStation Plus free games but by the time you’re reading this, it’s now no […]

Wreckfest – PS5 Review

June 6, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cars / destruction / driving / ps5 remaster / racing / wreckfest by Richie

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is a 2D roguelike hack and slash platformer from Canadian coders LABS Works which is run by Matt Kap, the developer of Castle in the Darkness. Set in a dying, post-apocalyptic world the game comes with its fair share of lore. Three explorers are wandering […]

Astalon: Tears of the Earth – PS4 Review

June 4, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / astalon / metroidvania / retro / rogue legacy / roguelite / tears of the earth / the lost vikings by Richie

Much like Namco, Capcom have never been afraid to dip into their rich arcade history for a cheeky compilation. They’ve put out coin-op ports and collections on every console generation and now it’s the turn for the previous generation to get theirs (or current if you’re still struggling to source […]

Capcom Arcade Stadium – PS4 Review

May 28, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / capcom / capcom arcade stadium / coin-op / retro by Richie

WarDogs: Red’s Return is an old-school 2D beat ’em up in the tradition of games like Renegade, Double Dragon and, most notably, Final Fight. It comes to us from QUByte Interactive and Brazilian coders Mito Games. In it you play as Red, an anthropomorphic fighter (human body, dog’s head) as he returns home […]

WarDogs: Red’s Return – PS4 Review

May 13, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / arcade / Beat em up / final fight / too much story / wardogs by Richie

Infestor is a 2D puzzle platformer which comes to us via the ever-prolific publishers Ratalaika and developers Woblyware who previously released a few games that we’ve reviewed such as Devious Dungeon, Omega Strike and League of Evil. Much like those games this is a 16-bit looking, retro-styled affair but it has a relatively interesting […]

Infestor – PS5 Review

May 11, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews by Richie