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.

When a game comes in from Finnish publishers Ratalaika Games, we usually know what to expect. And that is a platinum trophy within thirty minutes. But Thy Sword is that rarest of unicorns, a Rata joint where you have to put some time in. Obstensibly, this is a rogue-lite platformer/hack and slasher […]

Thy Sword – PS4 Review

May 15, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / hack and slash / platformer / ratalaika / thy sword by Richie

We’re not sure where Eastasiasoft are finding all these games but they’ve managed to continue their recent run of quirky shoot ’em ups. Task Force Kampas is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up which has plenty in common with those recent Eastasiasoft releases (Null Drifter, Red Death and Rainbows, Toilets and […]

Task Force Kampas – PS4 Review

May 6, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / eastasiasoft / easy platinum / retro / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

As Ripley once said to the crew of the Sulaco, I’ll tell you what I know. Spuds Unearthed is a PSVR, Move-mandatory title that is best described as a mix of turret shooter, tower defence and MOBA. Each stage is a battleground with your base at one end and the enemy’s base […]

Spuds Unearthed – PSVR Review

May 4, 2020 in PSVR tagged MOBA / move controllers / PSVR / strategy by Richie

This co-op focused arcade action game with a degree of physics and a lot of chaos. You play as a Furniture Arrangement and Relocation Technician, or a removal man/woman if you will. Throughout the game’s thirty levels you are tasked with moving furniture from various houses and businesses and onto […]

Moving Out – PS4 Review

May 3, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / co-op / party / puzzle / team 17 by Richie

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo is a retro-inspired shoot ’em up by Manchester-based dev partnership Bare Knuckle Games. There’s been something of a glut of shoot ’em ups released on PSN recently with a lot of sub-genres and graphical styles in evidence but this game manages to bring something […]

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo – PS4 Review

April 18, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / retro / shoot em up / twin stick / upgrading by Richie

Rush Rover is a top-down, twin-stick shoot ’em up from Radio, the studio of one-man developer Chengjin Wu. The coding, graphics and music were all done by him via Game Maker Studio. This might make it all sound a little bit unexciting, especially as we’re awash with twin-stick shooters on […]

Rush Rover – PS4 Review

April 14, 2020 in PS4 / Vita tagged easy platinum / indie / rush rover / shoot em up / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Having recently published two shoot ’ems up with very odd visual styles, Eastasiasoft are at it again. Red Death looked like a really old PC game from the ’80s with its four colour palette and Rainbows, Toilets and Unicorns looked like someone had eaten a bucket of Skittles and thrown […]

Null Drifter – PS4 Review

April 11, 2020 in PS4 tagged 1bit / eastasiasoft / retro / shoot em up / twin-stick shooter by Richie

HyperParasite is a roguelike twin-stick shooter/brawler from Spanish dev crew Troglobyte Games and while it is the latest of a long line of twin-stick shooters to hit PSN after a debut on PC, this one is a little different to the rest. You see, HyperParasite combines an interesting gameplay mechanic with a […]

HyperParasite – PS4 Review

April 7, 2020 in PS4 tagged 80's / hyperparasite / Pixel art / retro / roguelike / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Jedi Academy is a straight forward port of the 2003 sequel to Jedi Outcast. We reviewed that game’s port last year and gave it a respectable 7 out of 10 but were always bigger fans of Jedi Academy and so we were looking forward to this release, even if the almost twenty year […]

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy – PS4 Review

April 1, 2020 in PS4 tagged hack and slash / jedi academy / port / rerelease / space / star wars by Richie

This is not the review I was expecting to write when I saw the cover art for Freedom Finger, a side-scrolling shoot ’em up from Wide Right Interactive, and specifically the mind of Jim Dirschberger. The cover art at first glance was pretty simplistic, something we’re used to seeing from indie […]

Freedom Finger – PS4 Review

March 27, 2020 in PS4 tagged awesome / cartoon / freedom finger / shoot em up / swearing by Richie

There’s something going on with the shoot ’em up genre at the moment. We’ve recently reviewed Project Starship and Red Death. Two vertically scrolling shoot ’em ups with ‘interesting’ visual styles and the longevity of a mayfly. Well, now we’ve got Rainbows, Toilets and Unicorns which shares those traits. So, yes, it’s a vertically-scrolling […]

Rainbows, Toilets and Unicorns – PS4 Review

March 25, 2020 in PS4 tagged easy / meme culture / shoot em up / short / vertically scrolling by Richie

We recently reviewed Project Starship, an entertaining vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Panda Indie Studio. It was visually quite unique, enjoyable and a little too easy. That could definitely all be said for Red Death, the next game from the same studio. Indeed, we could tell that this was from the […]

Red Death – PS4 Review

March 20, 2020 in PS4 tagged easy / project starship / red death / retro / shoot em up by Richie