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’re huge fans of Hopoo Games’ previous PSN entry, Risk of Rain, and so we were pretty excited about getting our hands on the latest effort from the small American dev studio. The games have little in common beyond being 2D titles with pixel art stylings, the previous title being […]

Deadbolt – PS4 Review

February 25, 2018 in PS4 tagged 2d / crossbuy / deadbolt / difficult / Pixel art / ps4 by Richie

Schacht is a third-person time-trial platformer that comes to us by way of German developers GuriGroup and for an indie effort it’s unusually slick, especially given that this was essentially a student project and comes from a small team. There’s no plot to speak of and the title doesn’t hint […]

Schacht – PS4 Review

February 17, 2018 in PS4 tagged parkour / platformer / racing / schacht / space by Richie

Marooners is a party game from Dutch coders M2H Games who previously brought us the gritty World War 1 shooter, Verdun. Thankfully they’ve left the blood and mud behind and have this time produced a cheery party game that offers on-and-offline matches where players get to compete in various minigames. […]

Marooners – PS4 Review

February 5, 2018 in PS4 tagged arena / marooners / online / party game by Richie

After the quarter that EA have just had, what better way to let off steam than with a game where you punch people in the face? That’s right, EA’s UFC series is back. And if you think EA had a rough 2017, the Ultimate Fighting Championship had a worse one. […]

EA Sports UFC 3 – PS4 Review

January 30, 2018 in PS4 tagged EA / fighting / mma / simulation / sports / ufc / UFC3 by Richie

As a slightly forgetful lover of arcade games and the PS Vita, StarDrone is a game that I often notice sat deep in my Vita library and think ‘ooh, is that a shoot ’em up’ before realising it’s not and forgetting all about it again. It was released in 2012 […]

StarDrone – PSVR Review

January 28, 2018 in PSVR tagged arcade / PSVR / puzzle / retro / stardrone by Richie

Plox Neon is the second game on PSN, as far as we know, that takes the classic Qix gameplay and injects it with some neo-retro presentation and comes to us by way of Desert Owl Games. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, Qix was an old arcade game that saw you cutting out […]

Plox Neon – PS4 Review

January 16, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / plox neon / puzzle / qix / xposed by Richie

Graceful Explosion Machine is a bi-directional 2D shooter that actually got released a few months ago and comes to us from Vertex Pop who previously dabbled with this genre with their game We Are Doomed and it offers 36 stages of score-chasing, multiplier-nursing shoot ‘em up action. There’s no real […]

Graceful Explosion Machine – PS4 Review

January 14, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / defender / graceful explosion machine / resogun / shoot em up by Richie

Shooty Fruity is yet another shooting gallery affair for the PSVR headset and usually that might be enough to send you to sleep immediately but this game is worth another look. While, yes, it’s another PSVR game that has you pointing your two Move controllers at things and pulling the […]

Shooty Fruity – PSVR Review

January 9, 2018 in PSVR tagged job simulator / PSVR / shooting gallery / shooty fruity / supermarket by Richie

Energy Invasion is a curious combination of two distinct arcade genres that previously haven’t shared gameplay space before and it comes to us by way of Evgeniy ‘Pinkerator’ Kolpakov, the Moscow-based developer who also brought us Energy Cycle and Energy Balance. On the face of it, the game looks like a Breakout clone (I prefer […]

Energy Invasion – PS4 Review

January 8, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / arkanoid / breakout / energy invasion / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Aaero is a rhythm action game from two-man English dev crew Mad Fellows. It was released elsewhere back in April but European gamers finally got the chance to pick it up earlier this month which led to it showing up on our radar and we’re glad it did. Like many […]

Aaero – PS4 Review

December 31, 2017 in PS4 tagged aaero / dubstep / music / rez / rhythm action by Richie

It’s not really fair to treat this one as a review as Rollercoaster Legends isn’t actually a game but rather a VR experience that offers you no actual control over what is happening. It comes to us from VR specialists Warducks, whose last PSVR project was the thin but very enjoyable Sneaky Bears […]

Rollercoaster Legends – PSVR

December 31, 2017 in PSVR by Richie

Super Hydorah is an authentically retro-flavoured horizontal shoot ’em up from Spanish one-man dev studio Locomalito and is out now for PS4 and Vita as a cross-buy title. It is very much a game that is aware of the history that preceded it. This extends to all aspects of the […]

Super Hydorah – PS4/Vita Review

December 16, 2017 in PS4 / PSVR tagged arcade / gradius / retro / shoot em up / super hydorah by Richie