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 reviewed Ratalaika’s Super Destronaut DX back in 2018. It was a Space Invaders clone with nice neo-retro visuals but was a bit lacking in terms of power-ups and any kind of meaningful challenge. This sequel however switches up the genre moving it from the standard one-screen 2D shoot ’em up to a standard […]

Super Destronaut: Land Wars – PS4 Review

March 16, 2020 in PS4 tagged basic / easy platinum / fps / ratalaika / retro / super destronaut by Richie

While Double Dragon and Kunio-kun (or even Renegade, Kunio‘s Western name) might not mean much to younger gamers, anyone who walked into an arcade in the ’80s or had one of the home computers of the era will be very familiar with them. They were beat ’em ups, fighting games where it wasn’t just a 1 […]

Double Dragon & Kunio-kun: Retro Brawler Bundle – PS4 Review

February 27, 2020 in PS4 tagged compilation / fighting / NES / retro by Richie

Knightin’+ is another retro-themed indie effort from the ever-prolific peeps over at Ratalaika Games, the publisher best known for singlehandedly keeping the Vita alive while also throwing around cheap platinum trophies like confetti. They’ve explored so many genres (mainly because their MO seems to be to publish pretty much anything that […]

Knightin’+ – PS4 Review

February 21, 2020 in PS4 / Vita tagged easy platinum / hack and slash / indie / knightin'+ / Pixel art / ratalaika / retro by Richie

Project Starship is a cheap and cheerful vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up by Panda Indie Studio and it is available now on PSN. It’s a game that gets a lot right but also a few things wrong. The premise of the game is pretty simple, you pick from one of two playable […]

Project Starship – PS4 Review

February 13, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / easy platinum / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

Sisters Royale is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up in the classic arcade style and it comes from Japanese coders Alfa System, their first shoot ’em up since 2005’s Castle of Shikigami 3. That means you can be sure of two things. Firstly, it’s going to be a pretty competent shoot ’em up […]

Sisters Royale – PS4 Review

February 11, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / japanese / shoot em up / sisters royale / vertically scrolling by Richie

It Came From Space and Ate Our Brains is a top down, twin stick shooter from Polish developers All In! Games. As you can probably guess, it has you facing off against hordes of aliens during an invasion of Earth. You, and up to three other players if you play in […]

It Came From Space And Ate Our Brains – PS4 ...

February 2, 2020 in PS4 tagged aliens / it came from space but used a weird lack of capitalisation / twin-stick shooter / upgrades / weapons by Richie

Football, Tactics and Glory is obviously a football game and that’s a risky proposition for developers and publishers in this FIFA dominated world. After all, EA’s footballing behemoth has it all now. The players, the teams, the tournaments, the stadiums which may require England football tickets. But look at that second […]

Football, Tactics and Glory

January 27, 2020 in PS4 tagged football / sport / strategy / tactics / turn-based by Richie

We’ve been fans of 10Tons for a while now thanks to their excellent line of roguelite twin-stick shooters. Neon Chrome, Tesla vs Lovecraft and the sensational Jydge were all excellent examples of the genre but now they’ve transposed their talent for roguelite mechanics into a hack and slash quest-driven adventure game. Undead Horde is the […]

Undead Horde – PS4 Review

January 14, 2020 in PS4 tagged 10tons / 10tonsltd / adventure / horde / loot / rogue-lite / RTS / undead by Richie

Shoot ’em up fans are well-catered for on Sony’s store and Iro Hero, a vertically scrolling shooter from Spanish devs Artax Games, is the latest addition to the genre. It sets up the story with some screens that explain that humanity is being exploited by aliens who want to us as […]

Iro Hero – PS4 Review

December 22, 2019 in PS4 tagged easy trophies / ikaruga / shoot em up / shooter / space / vertically scrolling by Richie

While Beat Saber continues to enjoy its considerable success Harmonix, the granddaddies of the modern rhythm action genre, have put out Audica which shares a fair bit of a DNA with its lightsaber inspired peer but comes at it from a more hardcore aspect. What does that all mean? Well, […]

Audica – PSVR Review

December 4, 2019 in PSVR tagged audica / harmonix / PSVR / rhythm action / shooting by Richie

While EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront titles have kept sociable gamers relatively happy this generation, we’ve all been crying out for a decent single player Star Wars game for years now. The recent re-release of Jedi Outcast reminded us of how much fun it was to run around a virtual world with a lightsaber, […]

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order – PS4 Review

November 24, 2019 in PS4 tagged dark souls / fallen order / jedi / lightsabers / star wars / third-person / uncharted by Richie

We rather enjoyed Need For Speed Payback, which apparently is a controversial opinion because everyone else didn’t enjoy Ghost Games’ last outing, but hardcore fans of the series can rejoice because Need For Speed Heat is a throwback to the series high points of Underground and Underground 2 which means that the […]

Need For Speed Heat – PS4 Review

November 15, 2019 in PS4 tagged driving / heat / need for speed / open world / racing by Richie