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.

Rogue-likes/lites come in many different flavours, some will let arcade skills balance out the randomness if you’re good enough for example. Crown Trick on PS4 does not, you only have your own tactical nuance to help battle the RNG. if you want to make the game go faster you should […]

Crown Trick – PS4 Review

September 15, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged crown trick / grid based / luck / rng / rogue-lite / rpg / turn-based / upgrades by Gareth

It’s the most spookiest time of the year. That’s right, September! We just had the rather excellent Tormented Souls and now The Medium lands on PS5 after spending some time over on the Xbox and PC. It was pretty hyped up on its initial release, but unless you followed it […]

The Medium – PS5 Review

September 2, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged akira yamaoka / dualsense / horror / linear / silent hill / spirit world / the medium by Gareth

Strange how life is at times. I can’t recall ever playing a game involving a major farming element before and yet after reviewing Graveyard Keeper (and its most recent DLC) I’m now reviewing Kitaria Fables. Not that they’re the same game by any stretch but both have a reliance on […]

Kitaria Fables – PS5 Review

August 30, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cute / farming / graveyard keeper / kitaria fables / materials / quests by Gareth

No, this isn’t another Dark Souls wannabe putting ‘Souls’ in their name to attract attention. Tormented Souls on PS5 gets its inspiration from elsewhere; namely old school, survival horror. We’re talking the big three: Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil and Silent Hill. As a fan of these titles I […]

Tormented Souls – PS5 Review

August 28, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged alone in the dark / fixed camera / puzzles / resident evil / silent hill / survival horror / tormented souls by Gareth

Ratalaika like to vary up the genres they publish. This week’s title, Orbibot, doesn’t fit neatly into a genre really. It’s a physics based puzzler, but the physics apply just as much to the character you are controlling as it does to the objects you’re manipulating. You control the titular […]

Orbibot – PS5/PS4 Review

August 24, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged orbibot / physics / platinum / puzzle / ratalaika / rolling / speedrunning / switchball by Gareth

I remember Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed quite fondly. I only gave it a 6/10 on both the Vita and PS4 but my overall memory of it is it just being a bit of silly fun. Now Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed has come to PS4. It’s not a sequel […]

Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed – PS4 Review

August 13, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged akiba's trip / collectibles / hellbound and debriefed / japanese / psp / strip / undead and undressed / vampire by Gareth

Cris Tales is an RPG from Colombian developers Dreams Uncorporated and Syck. Although it doesn’t originate from Japan it’s in the style of a JRPG, similar to how Sword and Fairy 6 is a JRPG but from China. Thankfully Cris Tales is a better game than that technical mess. You […]

Cris Tales – PS5 Review

August 4, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / colombian / cris tales / jrpg / random battles / stylised / talking frog / time mage by Gareth

Review of the base game can be found here. The third DLC for Graveyard Keeper has been released and it’s the most involved yet. It adds new quests, items, locations and story and is worth checking out. The first aspect you’ll probably see from the new content is that the […]

Graveyard Keeper – Game of Crone DLC – PS4 Review

July 20, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged breaking dead / daed bodies / dlc / game of crone / graveyard keeper / management / refugees / simulation / stranger sins / vampires by Gareth

Graveyard Keeper has been out on PS4 for a couple of years so why review it now? Well a new DLC has released, Game of Crone, and it just made sense to cover the game in its entirety and then tackle the DLC separately. All three DLC integrate into the […]

Graveyard Keeper – PS4 Review

July 20, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / breaking dead / construction / dead bodies / dlc / farming / game of crone / graveyard keeper / management / simulation / stardew valley / stranger sins by Gareth

I recently reviewed the Mass Effect Legendary Edition and pointed out that minus a couple of features it was a collection done right. Now it’s the turn of the Ninja Gaiden Master Collection, also three games from the previous generation packed together. Things aren’t as straightforward here, which I’ll get […]

Ninja Gaiden Master Collection – PS4 Review

July 3, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2 / 3 / action / character action / difficult / hack and slash / master collection / metroidvania / ninja gaiden / razor's edge / sigma by Gareth

Song of Horror was released episodically on PC over the past couple of years but has now come to PS4 in a complete package. Split into five chapters, it takes inspiration from survival horror of old and contains plenty of references too for those with a knowledge of all things […]

Song of Horror – PS4 Review

July 3, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged episodic / fixed camera / instant death / puzzles / resident evil / song of horror / survival horror by Gareth

Collections of games are a great way to rediscover classic games, at least when done right. Konami are the masters of doing it badly, with the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection having Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 and the Silent Hill HD Collection also only having Silent Hill 2 […]

Mass Effect Legendary Edition – PS4 Review

June 8, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged biotics / Collection / mass effect / rpg / sci fi / shepard / spectre / tali best girl / third-person shooter by Gareth