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.

Under Defeat is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that has an interesting history. Developed by Japanese shoot ’em up experts G.Rev, the game originally showed up in Japanese arcades, running on the Sega NAOMI hardware. This made it a perfect candidate for a Dreamcast port in 2006, one of the last […]

Under Defeat – PS5 Review

March 12, 2025 in PS5 tagged coin-op / dreamcast / g-rev / helicopter / under defeat / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Build Lands is a casual building game from Brazilian-based Yaw Studios and after a 2022 PC release, it’s now out on console. Now, “casual building game” doesn’t tell you much and we’ll get onto that in a bit but this is genuinely a hard game to classify as it’s not […]

Build Lands – PS5 Review

March 5, 2025 in PS5 tagged build lands / building / Casual / minecraft / relax / task by Richie

Shootvaders: The Beginning is, as the title suggests, a variation on the one-screen shoot ’em up style most obviously associated with games like Space Invaders and it comes to us by way of Thailand’s own 7 Raven Studios. Released in 2023, this one was a bit of a surprise when it showed […]

Shootvaders: The Beginning – PS4 Review

February 27, 2025 in PS4 tagged retro / shoot em up / shootvaders / space invaders by Richie

X-Out (pronounced ‘Cross Out’ apparently) Resurfaced is a remaster of an old horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up which originally began life on the Commodore 64 before being ported to better computers such as the ZX Spectrum and the Amiga. Indeed, it is the Amiga version that seems to be the source for […]

X-Out Resurfaced – PS5 Review

February 21, 2025 in PS5 tagged remake / retro / shoot em up / x-out by Richie

Super Jagger Bomb 2: Go East is an arcade-style action platformer from uninspiringly-named Spanish soloist studio CheapeeSoft Games and has been published by eastasiasoft. A sequel to the 2022 original this game very much continues in the same vein as the previous title. As we said in our original Super Jagger […]

Super Jagger Bomb 2: Go East – PS5 Review

February 18, 2025 in PS5 tagged bomb jack / eastasiasoft / go east / platformer / retro / super jagger bomb by Richie

MACROSS – Shooting Insight – is a shoot ’em up based on the popular Japanese anime franchise, Macross (AKA Robotech in the West) and it’s been developed by Kaminari Games (otherwise known for Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Burst Forth!! Chorogon*Breath just in case you didn’t realise they were from Japan). There’s a […]

MACROSS Shooting Insight – PS5 Review

February 10, 2025 in PS5 tagged anime / insight / macross / shoot em up / shooting by Richie

Vampire Hunters is a rogue-lite first-person shooter from Brazil-based crew Gamecraft Studios which, as the name suggests, shares quite a few similarities to the king of rogue-lite games, Vampire Survivors. Indeed, a lot of elements are present. The huge number of enemies, the outrageous firepower the player gets to possess, the choice […]

Vampire Hunters – PS5 Review

February 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged gamecraft / rogue-lite / survivors / vampire hunter by Richie

Abyssal Terrors is a DLC package for the sensational auto-shooter Brotato, a game that we reviewed last year but have genuinely not stopped playing since. Originally released on Steam in 2022 (as part of the wave of auto-shooters that Vampire Survivors popularised), we spent over 230 hours fully completing the Switch version and […]

Brotato: Abyssal Terrors DLC – PS5 Review

January 21, 2025 in PS5 tagged auto-shooter / brotato / dlc by Richie

It’s been a while since we fired up Pinball FX, the confusingly-named fourth version of Zen Studio’s long-running pinball hub series (and that’s not including the various other standalone ones they’ve made including the horror-themed Pinball M). Indeed, Pinball FX released in 2023 to mixed reviews. Indeed, we had mixed feelings about it […]

Pinball FX – Williams Pinball Volume 8 – PS5 Review

January 21, 2025 in PS4 tagged pinball fx / williams by Richie

The Thing Remastered is a third-person shooter/horror title that began life in 2002. Originally developed by Computer Artworks, the game received some okay reviews back in the day. It wasn’t the most technically accomplished game of the PS2/Xbox era but fans of the John Carpenter movie that the game is based […]

The Thing Remastered – PS5 Review

December 13, 2024 in PS5 tagged john carpenter / nightdive studio / remake / Remastered / the thing by Richie

Good lord, this is clever. On the face of it, Among Ashes is a survival-horror game that takes the genre right back to it’s Resident Evil-era roots. Crafted by Rat Cliff Games, a Spanish Studio that’s mostly led by Daniel Ferrer, this horror game took us on a far more interesting journey than […]

Among Ashes – PS5 Review

December 9, 2024 in PS5 tagged among ashes / rat cliff games / resident evil / survival horror by Richie

Pretty Girls Pop Match is the latest puzzle game in eastasiasoft’s Pretty Girls series, a series that has had takes on pretty much every puzzle game format you can think of. From Mahjong to 2048, there isn’t any sub-genre that developers, Zoo Corporation, won’t put some Anime girl portraits on. Strangely though, they’ve […]

Pretty Girls Pop Match – PS5 Review

December 1, 2024 in PS5 tagged anime / anime is weird frankly / Casual / match-three / pretty girls pop match / puzzle by Richie