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.

FROGUE is a rogue-like platformer from Brazilian-based Wired Dreams where you play as a sword-wielding frog as it clears room after room of enemies. The pixel-art visuals might suggest something a little generic, the usual indie fodder but this game genuinely brings something new to the genre. If you ever saw […]

FROGUE – PS5 Review

July 16, 2024 in PS5 tagged Frog / frogue / platformer / rogue-like / turn-based by Richie

Retaliate is a twist on the classic wave-based vertically-scrolling shooter and it comes from Austin Sojka, otherwise known as Romans I XVI Gaming. In researching the game we found an older version for the Roku TV platform and even a Commodore 64 (*spit!*) demake, so the idea for this game has […]

Retaliate – PS5 Review

July 10, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged retaliate / shoot em up by Richie

Bouncy Chicken is a physics puzzler, of sorts, and it comes from Austrian coders YeTa Games. It’s published by eastasiasoft too so you can expect two versions of the game (PS4 and PS5) and a couple of reasonably easy Platinum trophies. We don’t usually mention the trophy situation that early on but, […]

Bouncy Chicken – PS5 Review

July 5, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bouncy chicken / easy platinum / physics / puzzle by Richie

Parasol Stars is a port of a 1991 platforming game that many younger readers will not have heard of. But, older readers may not have either. It was a sequel to a game in a beloved arcade series but it wasn’t an arcade game. Instead it was initially developed for […]

Parasol Stars – PS5 Review

July 5, 2024 in PS5 tagged Classic / parasol stars / platformer / port / retro / taito by Richie

Hot Blood is a 3rd person brawler from a developer called DEKLAZON and it comes to us from the ever-prolific eastasiasoft. And, as a bit of surprise, this isn’t a 2D effort either. Instead it taps into a low-poly PS1 sort of aesthetic but with a smooth, not jagged look. […]

Hot Blood – PS5 Review

July 3, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dead rising / eastasiasoft / hot blood / lollipop chainsaw / zombies by Richie

Backpack Hero is a rogue-like mix of turn-based tactical RPG and inventory management sim genres and it comes to us by way of developer Jaspel. It’s been around on Steam for half a year now but has finally landed on PSN. In Backpack Hero, you play as Purse, a rat from the town […]

Backpack Hero – PS5 Review

July 1, 2024 in PS5 tagged backpack hero / inventory management / rogue-like by Richie

NeoSprint is a top-down/isometric racing game from Costa Rican coders Headless Chicken Games and is one that can trace its lineage back to 1976 with Atari’s grandaddy of the racing genre, Sprint 2 (the confusingly-named prequel to Sprint 1, 4 and 8 – each of which indicates the number of players supported rather than their […]

NeoSprint – PS5 Review

June 27, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged atari / driving / neosprint / racing / retro / super sprint by Richie

Magical Drop VI is the latest in a series of arcade puzzlers which date back to 1995 when the legendary arcade publisher Data East first released it in arcades. This latest instalment comes by way of French coders Highball Games and while it’s their first crack at the series, it sticks […]

Magical Drop VI – PS5 Review

June 23, 2024 in PS5 tagged anime / arcade / Casual / magical drop / puzzler by Richie

Twin-stick shooters with a bit of a Vampire Survivors theme has become a bit of a niche genre for Brazilian-based studio Afil Games. Unfortunately, the two efforts we’ve reviewed so far – Stickman’s Arena and Mighty Mage – were both absolutely terrible. But here is Afil Games, specifically Antonio Filipe, with […]

Primal Survivors – PS5 Review

June 22, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged afil games / primal survivors / survivors-like / top down / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Roxy Raccoon’s Pinball Panic, a game developed by the Canadian indie studio Sinomod Studios, is a unique blend of storytelling and traditional pinball gameplay. Building on the main character from Sinomod’s platformer series, this game puts Roxy in an unexpected role as a pinball in a series of tables. While […]

Roxy Raccoon’s Pinball Panic – PS5 Review

June 13, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / pinball / roxy raccoon by Richie

Horizon Chase 2, developed by the Brazilian-based Aquiris Game Studio, is a follow-up to 2018’s Horizon Chase Turbo. This arcade-style racing game celebrates the exuberant spirit of ’80s and ’90s “blue sky” racers, taking players on a globe-trotting adventure where the tarmac is your playground and the cops are mercifully […]

Horizon Chase 2 – PS5 Review

June 5, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / driving / horizon chase 2 / racing by Richie

Nuclear Blaze is a 2D fire-fighting puzzle-platformer that is notable for being the new project from Sébastien Bénard, the lead designer behind the critically-acclaimed Dead Cells and the game has an interesting history. In its earliest form, Nuclear Blaze was coded in just two days as part of a ‘game […]

Nuclear Blaze – PS5 Review

June 1, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / dead cells / fire fighting / nuclear blaze / platformer / retro by Richie