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.

Ravenswatch is a top-down roguelike action game from French crew Passtech Games and while we’re probably all a bit over the roguelike wave now, this is one that, to Passtech’s credit, does offer up some pretty interesting ideas. For a game that doesn’t really offer much of a story (there’s an […]

Ravenswatch – PS5 Review

November 28, 2024 in PS5 tagged passtech games / ravenswatch / roguelike by Richie

Rage of the Dragons NEO is a tag-team fighting game port of an original 2002 SNK coin-op originally coded by Japanese devs Noise Factory who also put out other SNK hits such as Sengoku 3, King of Fighters: Maximum Impact and a couple of the later Metal Slug games. Originally intended as a sequel to Double […]

Rage of the Dragons NEO – PS5 Review

November 25, 2024 in PSVR tagged arcade / fighting game / neo geo / port / rage of the dragons / SNK by Richie

Spellagis is an auto-shooter/survivors game from Shokin-dev/Nipobox and it’s published by eastasiasoft. If you’re not familiar with the genre, this is a homage of the now very popular Vampire Survivors or, if you’re a real connoisseur, Brotato (arguably this reviewer’s favourite game). As with other examples of the genre, you basically have to defend yourself […]

Spellagis – PS5 Review

November 18, 2024 in PS5 tagged auto-shooter / eastasiasoft / spellagis / survivors / top down by Richie

Tetris Forever is a digital documentary, a compilation of various Tetris and Tetris-inspired games that tells the history of one of the most important titles in gaming history. It comes to us by way of Digital Eclipse who have been carving a niche in this sort of gaming history area with what they […]

Tetris Forever – PS5 Review

November 14, 2024 in PS5 tagged documentary / forever / museum / retro / slava ukraini / tetris / timewarp by Richie

Irem Collection Volume 2 is a compilation of arcade games from legendary coin-op company Irem who have a history dating back to the ’70s. This, of course, follows up from Volume 1 which featured three shoot ’em ups (two vertical, one horizontal) but this volume now has a bit of a run-and-gun […]

Irem Collection Volume 2 – PS5 Review

November 14, 2024 in PS5 tagged air duel / arcade / compilation / gunforce / irem / retro by Richie

Empire of the Ants is a real-time strategy game from French studio Tower Five and it’s very different to the usual RTS games we get generally. As the game suggests, you’ll be controlling an army of ants but there’s a lot more going on here. You play as a lone […]

Empire of the Ants – PS5 Review

November 6, 2024 in PS5 tagged empire of the ants / open world / RTS / tower five by Richie

SlavicPunk: Oldtimer is an action-shooter adventure game from Polish developers Red Square Games and it’s based on a series of books by Michał Gołkowski. It released on PC back in the Summer of 2023 but now its time for us PSN folk to see what we’ve been missing out on. […]

SlavicPunk: Oldtimer – PS5 Review

November 6, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dystopian / oldtimer / polish / red square games / slavicpunk / the ascent / twin-stick shooter by Richie

AK-xolotl: Together is a new DLC for the original top-town shooter/rogue-like, a game that came out in 2023 and somehow evaded our attention. It was put together by Brazilian-based coders 2Awesome Studio and came out to a reasonably positive reception. But now, as the DLC’s title suggests, they’ve added some […]

AK-xolotl: Together – PS5 Review

October 28, 2024 in PS5 by Richie

Super XYX is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that comes from indie dev Team Grybanser Fox and is published by eastasiasoft, as so many modern indie shoot ’em ups are. And it feels very much in keeping with a lot of other eastasiasoft shooters, even if this is the first partnership […]

Super XYX – PS5 Review

October 23, 2024 in PS5 tagged arcade / eastasiasoft / shoot em up / super xyx / vertically scrolling by Richie

Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 is a follow-up to 2020’s EDF spin-off and, as before, is developed by the EDF b-team Yuke’s who were previously better known for making lots and lots of wrestling games. This one continues the previous game’s light-hearted approach to the entire destruction of Earth by […]

Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 – PS5 Review

October 7, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged aliens / earth defense force / edf / shooter / yuke's by Richie

Night Slashers: Remake is an update of the well-regarded 1993 beat ’em up from Data East and is brought to us by the safe pair of hands that is Forever Entertainment who are behind a lot of remakes such as 2020’s Panzer Dragoon: Remake and 2022’s House of the Dead one. The original arcade […]

Night Slashers: Remake – PS5 Review

September 30, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / Beat em up / coin-op / night stalkers / port / remake / renegade 3 is the worst game of all time by Richie

Cosmic Paradox: Noire is a shoot ’em up from solo dev Aldo Slavic that appears to be the first in a series of games based around a storyline of two dimensions colliding and splintering time. Details are scant at the moment though but at least we’ve got this game to be […]

Cosmic Paradox: Noire – PS5 Review

September 26, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged auto slavic / cosmic paradox / noire / shoot em up by Richie