Gareth

About Gareth

Gareth's our go to guy for anything difficult to review. And all the weird Japanese stuff that we can't figure out.

Solo: Islands of the Heart is described by the developer as a puzzle game that explores the theme of love. This intrigued me, but what does it actually mean? The visuals are cutesy and yet it it rated 12 due to sexual content. Having now played through it twice let […]

Solo: Islands of the Heart – PS4 Review

August 2, 2019 in PS4 tagged blocks / bright / love / magic wand / questionnaire / solo: islands of the heart by Gareth

Just under eight months after the main game came out the second paid DLC has released for Darksiders III (read our original review here). Keepers of the Void introduces a puzzle heavy area of the game, providing new enemies, bosses, four new sub-weapons and the reward of a unique looking […]

Darksiders III – Keepers of the Void DLC – PS4 ...

July 18, 2019 in PS4 tagged abyssal armor / darksiders / dlc / filler episode / keepers of the void / puzzles / stone everywhere by Gareth

Ratalaika Games are back again this week with Paradox Soul on PS4 and Vita. As usual that means a quick and easy platinum trophy for each system, but this time the genre is Metroidvania. A quick google search will find a browser version of this game to play for free, […]

Paradox Soul – PS4/Vita Review

July 5, 2019 in PS4 / Vita tagged 2d / easy platinum / metroidvania / paradox soul / ratalaika / retro by Gareth

The Neptunia games have been going on for almost a decade now. They’re primarily JRPG games but Neptune and co. have dabbled with multiple genres over the years with the characters that people know and maybe love being the one constant. Super Neptunia RPG is, as the name suggests, an […]

Super Neptunia RPG – PS4 Review

June 26, 2019 in PS4 tagged 2d / hyperdimension / nep nep / Neptune / neptunia / rpg / Super / superdimention by Gareth

If you’re a PS4 owner then you’ll be hard pushed to have not noticed the Yakuza games over the past couple of years. From remasters to new releases the entries have come thick and fast with multiple titles a year and they’ve been trickling onto the PC as well. Luckily […]

Judgment – PS4 Review

June 21, 2019 in PS4 tagged fantasy zone / fighting vipers / japanese / judgment / mini games / open world / private detective / virtua fighter 5 / yakuza by Gareth

Konami has been celebrating their 50th year recently with the release of Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection, Castlevania Anniversary Collection and now we have Contra Anniversary Collection on PS4. I have some experience with the Contra series, primarily through the arcade releases on the Xbox 360, but I have a lot […]

Contra Anniversary Collection – PS4 Review

June 11, 2019 in PS4 tagged alien wars / contra / contra anniversary collection / gunstar heroes / hard corps / operation c / run and gun / Super by Gareth

Slay the Spire has been around for a long time on PC, working through early access to balance and improve the gameplay, but now the full version has hit PS4 and fans of challenging roguelikes and turn based card battling are in for a treat. There is no story really, […]

Slay the Spire – PS4 Review

May 30, 2019 in PS4 tagged card battler / difficult / rewarding / rng / roguelike / slay the spire by Gareth

Back in 1995 bucks the trend of indie games by not using 8 or 16 bit 2D graphics to tickle your nostalgia bone but 32 bit 3D graphics. The birth of home 3D graphics ushered in some truly timeless classics and gave us survival horror. It is specifically this genre […]

Back in 1995 – PS4 Review

May 23, 2019 in PS4 tagged 3d / alone in the dark / back in 1995 / resident evil / retro / silent hill / survival horror by Gareth

From developer No Code comes Observation, a science fiction thriller. It has an interesting concept in that you play as an AI watching the plot unfold through cameras rather than being the focus yourself. The artificial intelligence you embody is called Sam, short for SAMOS. You are the AI on […]

Observation – PS4 Review

May 21, 2019 in PS4 tagged artificial intelligence / observation / sci fi / science fiction / space / station / walking simulator by Gareth

From Arcade Distillery comes War Theatre, a turn based strategy game on PS4 and Vita. With the option of multiple campaigns or skirmishes there’s plenty of battles to be had in this fantasy, steampunk world. There are seven hero units, each with their own story set across six levels. Before […]

War Theatre – PS4 Review

April 27, 2019 in PS4 tagged 2d / strategy / tactical / turn-based / war theatre by Gareth

Sword and Fairy 6 is a PS4 port of a nearly four year old PC game and I believe it is the first title in the series to make it to the West. It’s effectively a JRPG but it originates from China. The game plays how you expect but with […]

Sword and Fairy 6 – PS4 Review

April 20, 2019 in PS4 tagged broken / chinese / Final fantasy xiii / ps2 / rpg / sword and fairy 6 by Gareth

From Software are back with another game in the Souls mould. Much like Bloodborne before it Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice makes some major changes to how the game plays whilst keeping the the atmosphere and exploration that makes the likes of Dark Souls 3 so popular. What are those changes […]

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice – PS4 Review

April 8, 2019 in PS4 tagged bloodborne / dark souls / difficult / japan / ninja / sekiro / shadows die twice / shinobi by Gareth