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.

I’ve never been a huge fan of dual controls in games but some games are able to overcome the control method to produce good gameplay. Brothers in particular was great, even if trying to control the two brothers at the same time with different analog sticks was something of a […]

Semispheres – PS4 Review

February 17, 2017 in PS4 tagged dual controls / puzzle game / semispheres / stealth by Richie

Dexed is an on-rails shooter that makes use of the PSVR hardware and comes to us from Ninja Theory (DmC, Heavenly Sword) and, simplifying it a little, is a cross between the locking on, floaty charms of Rez and colour-switching intricacy of Ikaruga. The game tasks you with floating […]

Dexed – PSVR Review

February 4, 2017 in PSVR tagged dexed / ikaruga / PSVR / rez by Richie

Supermagical is a match three puzzler for the Vita (and PS3/PS4 but those aren’t showing up on PSN yet) and features a young witch called Nina who has accidentally freed her seven evil sisters from the underworld and is now tasked with recapturing them all across seventy or so stages. […]

Supermagical – Vita Review

January 29, 2017 in Vita tagged bust a move / puzzle / puzzle bobble / supermagical by Richie

Following up from our review of Atari Flashback Classics: Volume 1, this second volume continues where the first left off. Once again it offers nine arcade titles and 41 console titles of variable quality and value all from Atari’s profilic Eighties period. As we previously mentioned, you don’t review this […]

Atari Flashback Classics: Volume 2 – PS4 Review

January 29, 2017 in PS4 tagged arcade / atari / classics / flashback / retro by Richie

When reviewing a compilation like Atari Flashback Classics, you don’t base your score on the games included as such but rather how the compilation treats them. This isn’t the first time that Atari have compiled a selection of their old arcade and console titles by any means and they’ve not […]

Atari Flashback Classics: Volume 1 – PS4 Review

January 25, 2017 in PS4 tagged arcade / atari / compilation / flashback / retro by Richie

I won’t give you a history lesson about football games. Everyone knows that the days before the FIFA/PES stranglehold was established, football games were presented in a top down fashion and were simple affairs. There were a few games vying for the top spot back then but Sensible Soccer ended […]

Active Soccer 2 DX – PS4/Vita Review

January 1, 2017 in PS4 / Vita tagged active soccer dx 2 / football / kick off revival / soccer by Richie

Starship Disco is a rhythm action title from Richard Stenson of one-man development studio Solus Games and it is, in many ways, a very typical PSVR game. Behind the simple hit the fire button on time gameplay, what you get here is an into-the-screen VR title that sees you destroying […]

Starship Disco – PSVR Review

December 31, 2016 in PSVR tagged PSVR / rhythm action / space / starship disco / vr by Richie

XPOSED may be a terrible name (made worse by it being all caps) but taking away the stylised nature of it, it actually speaks to what the game is all about. Based very closely on the old arcade game Qix, the game requires you to fill up screens by venturing […]

XPOSED – PS4 Review

December 20, 2016 in PS4 tagged arcade / indie / qix / xposed by Richie

Bridge Constructor. That’s a strong name. Straight to the point, no messing around. These days games have gone the same way as straight-to-DVD movies by having terrible colon-separated names. Bridge Constructor tells you what’s up. You build bridges. Each level is a gap. On each side of the gap is […]

Bridge Constructor – PS4/Vita Review

December 15, 2016 in PS4 / PSVR tagged bridge constructor / cross buy / physics / ps vita / ps4 / puzzler by Richie

How We Soar is one of those games. Just like half of the PSVR catalogue, 90% of indie games and 100% of walking simulators, this isn’t a game where the gameplay is the star. The experience, if you want to call it that, is what is being highlighted here and […]

How We Soar – PSVR Review

December 8, 2016 in PSVR tagged art / how we soar / PSVR / whimsy / writing by Richie

For a while there back in 2010, it seemed like everyone was playing Pinball FX 2. The first game was a pretty decent pinball simulator but the sequel seemed bigger and better in every way, despite not being any kind of pinball expert, I found myself addicted to the […]

Pinball FX 2 VR – PSVR Review

December 6, 2016 in PSVR tagged pinball / pinball fx 2 / PSVR / vr by Richie

One of my major pet hates in gaming is when a mobile phone shooter gets ported to a console but the gameplay isn’t updated to suit a joypad. One example was the dreadful Aces of the Luftwaffe, which was a shoot ’em up that had you autofiring, a necessity on […]

Battalion Commander – PS4/Vita Review

December 1, 2016 in PS4 / Vita tagged autofiring / battalion commander / commando / shoot em up / vertical by Richie