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.

Neonwall is an arcade puzzle game from four-man Spanish indie coders Norain Games. That term is usually used for anything from Tetris to Lemmings but it makes sense here as this game definitely has that arcade feel but it will also give your brain a workout too. The premise of the game, one […]

Neonwall – PS4/PSVR Review

September 16, 2018 in PS4 / PSVR tagged neonwall / puzzle / tricky / vr by Richie

Another week, another game from Finnish publishers Ratalaika Games and fresh from porting across games from all sorts of genres in the last year, they’re now bringing us FullBlast, a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up which first showed up on iOS and Android before making its console debut on the WiiU in 2014. […]

FullBlast – PS4/Vita Review

September 9, 2018 in PS4 / Vita tagged easy platinum / easy trophies / fullblast / ratalaika / shoot em up by Richie

It’s not everyday that you get a bullet hell shoot ’em up inspired by Korean mythology but Shikhondo – Soul Eater is one such game thanks to it coming to us from Korean developers DeerFarm. They recently introduced the game on the official PlayStation blog which really set up it up as […]

Shikhondo: Soul Eater – PS4 Review

August 27, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / bullet-hell / shikhondo / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

Hungarian dev squad Neocore aren’t exactly strangers to the ARPG (action role-playing game) and have already put out a bunch of them as part of their Van Helsing series. Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is their latest effort and, for a reviewer like me at least, the good news is that there […]

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr – PS4 Review

August 22, 2018 in PS4 tagged arpg / diablo / looting / shooting / Warhammer by Richie

This sequel to 2015’s Guns, Gore & Cannoli is four man Belgian dev crew Crazy Monkey Studios’ latest PSN release and follows on from its predecessor by offering up some fun and frantic run and gun shooting action. Mobster Vinnie Cannoli returns once again as the lone survivor of the […]

Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2 – PS4 Review

August 22, 2018 in PS4 tagged forgeddaboutit / gangsters / guns gore cannoli / run and gun / shooter by Richie

Games publishers love to take a wildly successful game and copy it. Just look at the current Battle Royale craze that has swept gaming. Well, in 1995 Worms was a huge hit but for whatever reason that old artillery-shooter/party game sub-genre never really caught on. Well, Seattle-based coders Topstitch are doing […]

Treadnauts – PS4 Review

August 17, 2018 in PS4 tagged artillery / couch multiplayer / party / treadnauts / worms by Richie

TETRA ‘s Escape is the latest offering from Finnish easy platinum specialists Ratalaika Games. They’ve put out a golf game (of sorts), a hack and slash rogue-like and a Space Invaders clone and this game is another new genre for them. What you get here is a 2D puzzle game that […]

TETRA’s Escape – PS4 Review

August 17, 2018 in PS4 / Vita tagged easy trophies / puzzle / ratalaika / tetra's escape / tetris by Richie

Survios have shown a lot of support to PSVR with Raw Data and Sprint Vector, games that have shown a willingness from the California devs to play with different genres. Electronauts keeps the tradition going and is entirely different to what they’ve produced before and, one example aside, is pretty different to everything else that’s out […]

Electronauts – PSVR Review

August 5, 2018 in PSVR tagged electronauts / music / PSVR / tool by Richie

Of the myriad of shoot ’em ups to grace PSN over the last few years, the original Aces of the Luftwaffe was in our bottom three. That was due to it being very obviously a mobile phone game with autofiring and a hell of a lot of grinding. It was […]

Aces of the Luftwaffe: Squadron – PS4 Review

July 31, 2018 in PS4 tagged aces of the luftwaffe / arcade / shoot em up / squadron by Richie

If you’ve followed the illustrious career of Jeff Minter, you’ll know what to expect from any game that the veteran coder releases and Tempest 4000 is exactly that. The original Tempest was a 1981 arcade shoot ’em up which placed you on the rim of a cylinder. You could circle […]

Tempest 4000 – PS4 Review

July 23, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / jeff minter / retro / shoot em up / tempest 4000 by Richie

Race Arcade is something of a throwback. Sure, it’s not unusual for games to hark back to the days of 2D retrogaming, if anything it’s unusual when an indie game doesn’t, but this title really aims to capture that bygone era. It is the latest release from Iceflake Games (a little […]

Race Arcade – PS4 Review

July 20, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / mantis burn racing / racing / super sprint by Richie

For a PS+ freebie, 2015’s Tower of Guns was a reasonably good game. It was a rogue-like FPS that had you playing as a lone soldier who had to make his way up the titular tower while facing off against mechanised gun turrets looking to blast you into smithereens. It […]

Mothergunship – PS4 Review

July 17, 2018 in PS4 tagged fps / mothergunship / rogue-lite / tower of guns by Richie