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.

Akai Katana Shin is a collection of three versions of Akai Katana, a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up that debuted in arcades back in 2010 before receiving pretty much this port on the Xbox 360 in 2011. Akai Katana is one of four horizontal shooters from the legendary developer Cave, best known for their […]

Akai Katana Shin – PS4 Review

August 3, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged akai katana shin / cave / horizontally-scrolling / retro / shoot em up by Richie

Remedium: Sentinels is a top-down auto-shooter from Sobaka Studio and is set in the same universe as their upcoming twin-stick shooter Remedium. ‘But what is an auto-shooter?’ you ask. It’s a game where you run around while hordes of enemies chase you down and you shoot, automatically, at which ever enemy is […]

Remedium: Sentinels – PS5 Review

August 1, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged auto-shooter / mechs / remedium / sentinels / vampire survivors by Richie

Twisted Metal: World Tour is the second game in Sony’s long-running vehicular combat series which stretches back from 1995’s original and was last seen in 2012 with the PS3 exclusive reboot also called Twisted Metal. The games always enjoyed some degree of popularity, enough so that there’s actually a TV […]

Twisted Metal: World Tour – PS5 Review

July 26, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged destruction derby / port / ps1 / retro / sony / twisted metal / vehicle combat by Richie

If there’s one thing we’d change about this generation of gaming, it’s the influences on game design that have come from F2P and mobile games. The sort of baffling complexity that got introduced during the PS4-era that creates such bad first impressions whenever we fire up a new game. Now, […]

Killsquad – PS4 Review

July 24, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged co-op / killsquad / loot / top down / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Ed-O: Zombie Uprising invokes memories of a better time. No, not the Edo-era of Feudal Japan from which the game gets its stylised name but rather the seventh generation of home video game consoles which included the Wii, the PS3 and most notably for us, the Xbox 360. The 360-era […]

Ed-0: Zombie Uprising – PS5 Review

July 24, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ed-0 zombie uprising / hack and slash / japan / loot / rogue-lite / souls-like by Richie

Ray’z Arcade Chronology is a compilation of three Taito arcade shoot ’em ups, 1994’s Rayforce, 1996’s RayStorm and the 1998 prequel RayCrisis. All three of them are vertically-scrolling shoot ’em ups that borrow heavily from the classics of the genre, in particular Namco’s Xevious games, and while each of the games has been re-released over […]

Ray’z Arcade Chronology – PS4 Review

July 15, 2023 in PS4 tagged compilation / m2 / raycrisis / rayforce / raystorm / raywilkins / shoot 'em ups by Richie

Feeble Light is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that comes to us by way of prolific publishers Eastasiasoft and is the latest of a series of shooters from Panda Indie Studio who previously brought us Project Starship, Red Death, Void Gore andZ-Warp. These were all similar games to this one in […]

Feeble Light – PS5 Review

July 5, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / panda indie studio / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Aliens: Dark Descent is a real-time strategy game which comes to us from French devs Tindalos Interactive, otherwise known for their Battlefleet Gothic: Armada games (not, us neither). It is, of course, based on famous series of horror/sci-fi films in the radpidly declining Alien series. Not many fanbases have had it as rough […]

Aliens: Dark Descent – PS5 Review

July 4, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged aliens / an aliens game review with no quotes from the movie / dark descent / RTS / sci fi by Richie

Rogue Legacy 2 is a rogue-lite 2D platform/slasher from Canadian coders Cellar Door. It’s the follow-up to the beloved 2013 original and while it’s been around on Steam since 2020, it’s finally landed on PSN this month as a surprising PS Extra freebie. We’re not sure why it’s taken so long […]

Rogue Legacy 2 – PS5 Review

June 26, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / hack and slash / platformer / rogue legacy 2 / rogue-lite by Richie

Orbital Bullet is a run and gun shooter/platformer that comes to us from German games dev SmokeStab. And while we get plenty of run and gunners to review here at PlayStation Country, this one has a very cool mechanic that elevates it above many of its contemporaries. The gimmick here is […]

Orbital Bullet – PS4 Review

June 19, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged loop / orbital bullet / rogue-lite / run and gun / shooter by Richie

Danmaku Unlimited 3 is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from one-man Canadian coder, Doragon Entertainment. The previous two games never made it over to PSN, and seem to just be mobile phone efforts, but this game landed on the Switch back in 2019 and has now finally made it to […]

Danmaku Unlimited 3 – PS4 Review

June 15, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged bullet-hell / danmaku unlimited 3 / retro / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

We’re not exactly sure why MOSS and NIS America insist on releasing their Raiden games in such a bizarre order, but following on from Raiden 5: Director’s Cut and Raiden 4 x MIKADO, here is their last updated port and this time it’s Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX. Dating back to 2005, Raiden III is […]

Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX – PS5 Review

June 12, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade port / mikado / raiden III / remaster / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie