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.

We’ve reviewed Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype before. It came out in 2015 but was itself a port of the original 2010 PS3 release. As with the Vita version, this combines the original PS3 game and its DLC but, slightly protracted history aside, the game is a 2D shoot ’em up, very […]

Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype Definitive Edition – PS4 Review

November 8, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / arcade / eastasiasoft / shoot em up / Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype Definitive Edition by Richie

Well, this is different. We’re used to getting wildly varied games from Ratalaika but this one is definitely something entirely new. Essentially, Ord. is a text adventure. Those of you under 30 may have never played one of those before but back in the 8-bit days, it was a pretty popular genre […]

Ord. – PS4 Review

November 4, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged black and white / monochrome / ord / ratalaika / text adventure by Richie

Now that we’re conservatively half a century into videogaming, there aren’t too many original ideas left when it comes to core gameplay mechanics and so the easier option is to try to combine two disparate ones into something relatively new. In the indie gaming world, this usually means trying to […]

Galacide – PS4 Review

October 31, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / galacide / match-three / shoot em up. puzzle by Richie

Of all of the classic coin-ops, those legendary arcade games from the ’80s, one that doesn’t seem to get as much flattery, by way of imitation, is Scramble. Konami’s 1981 shoot ’em up was pretty unassuming and is almost forty years old, so that’s to be expected we guess but DM […]

Terra Bomber – PS4 Review

October 25, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / arcade / scramble / shoot em up / terra bomber by Richie

Some remakes make lots of sense. Resident Evil 2, Final Fantasy 7 and current PlayStation Country favourite Kingdoms of Amalur all deserved a new lease of life in this generation but who here remembers Neighbours From Hell? It was a 2003 puzzler that landed on PC, Gamecube and the original Xbox and came from […]

Neighbours Back From Hell – PS4 Review

October 25, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged comedy / neighbours back from hell / puzzle / remake / spy vs spy by Richie

This week’s Ratalaika joint comes by way of one-man dev Thinice Games and is quite the treat for puzzle game fans. Cross•Krush (to give it its full, oddly-punctuated name) is a wholly original take on the genre and brings with it some good game mechanics and a heap of charm. […]

CrossKrush – PS4 Review

October 21, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged crosskrush / easy platinum / puzzle / ratalaika / traffic by Richie

The Torchlight series has made a reasonable name for itself by offering its own budget take on the Diablo experience, growing while its inspiration does too. We reviewed Torchlight II back in September of last year and while we appreciated its solid gameplay mechanics, it was just a bit too staid, offering nothing […]

Torchlight III – PS4 Review

October 19, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arpg / diablo / hack and slash / loot / rpg / torchlight 3 by Richie

Back in the day over on the other side, gamers looking for something cheap and experimental could pick up all manner of curios from Xbox Live Indie Games, a real showcase of homemade gaming. Most of it was trash but there were gems and one of those was MotorHEAT, a game […]

Street Racer Underground

October 16, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged average / Blaverage / dodging / poor / street racer underground / traffic / weaving by Richie

Reflection of Mine is a puzzle game from those proprietors of easy platinums Ratalaika Games and one that continues the prolific publisher’s pattern of putting out incredibly varied titles. This stylish puzzler uses a similar idea to games like Brothers in that you control two characters at the same time as […]

Reflection of Mine – PS4 Review

October 11, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged difficult / puzzler / ratalaika / reflection of mine / twin controls by Richie

Skatemasta Tcheco is a follow-up to Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio which was a simple 2D platformer that never made it quite as far as the PS4. Where that game was a screen by screen platformer, Skatemasta Tcheco is an auto-scroller that sees you playing as the titular Tcheco, […]

Skatemasta Tcheco – PS4 Review

October 11, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / eastasiasoft / NES / retro / runner / skateboarding / skatemasta tcheco by Richie

Birthday of Midnight is a follow up to Petite Games’ previous title Midnight Deluxe and like that game this is a mix of Limbo-esque presentation and golf. You play as a square little fairy called Midnight and the aim of the game is to get them from each level’s start point to […]

Birthday of Midnight – PS4 Review

October 5, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 36 fragments of midnight / birthday of midnight / easy platinum / feelings / golf / indie / midnight deluxe / ratalaika by Richie

If you’re going to put ‘Jet Set’ at the start of your game’s title, you’d better come correct given the proud history of that prefix (we’re thinking Jet Set Radio and Jet Set Willy) but here we are with Jet Set Knights, the latest Ratalaika release. The game is a curious mix of hack and […]

Jet Set Knights – PS4 Review

September 28, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / easy platinum / jet set knights / one screen / platformer / ratalaika / retro by Richie