Ian

About Ian

Ian likes his games weird. He loves his Vita even if Sony don't anymore. He joined the PS4 party relatively late, but has been in since day one on PS5.

Ape Tribe Games released Disjunction a few weeks back via publisher Sold Out. It’s set in a dystopian nightmare version of New York in the near future. Graphically we’re reminded of Beneath A Steel Sky, which is no bad thing. It’s cyberpunk we guess, but we’re wary of pigeonholing it, […]

Disjunction – PS4 Review

March 23, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / disjunction / Noir / sold out by Ian

We reviewed Hunting Simulator 2 on PS4 a little while back and came away generally unimpressed. As a result, it was with no small level of trepidation that this reviewer revisited it on PS5. Does it warrant a re-release on the console of choice of the discerning scalper? Well, yes […]

Hunting Simulator 2 – PS5 Review

March 18, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hunting simulator / nacon / neopica by Ian

From developer and publisher rBorn Games comes The Five Covens. Created by final year university students and promoted under the Spanish PlayStation Talents banner, this is from the 2020 Games Camp haul. First off, things don’t start too well as the default language is Spanish when you first load up […]

The Five Covens – PS4 Review

March 9, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Blaverage / brenda arud / PlayStation Talents / this sucks / witch by Ian

Kill It With Fire from developer Casey Donnellan Games and publisher TinyBuild is a port of the PC game released on Steam last August. And it’s really rather good. This reviewer lives in a house with three others, one is my small child who thinks spiders are cute. Then there’s […]

Kill It With Fire – PS4 Review

March 4, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged casey donellan / overkill / spiders / tinybuild by Ian

Moose Life is the latest from Llamasoft AKA Jeff Minter, ungulate obsessed coder par excellence. This reviewer first got into Jeff’s work with the amazing Tempest 2000 on Jaguar, though no doubt some of PSC’s editorial guys of similar vintage hark back even further. The PS4 Llamasoft games have been […]

Moose Life – PS4 Review

March 4, 2021 in PS4 / PSVR / Reviews tagged basingstoke / elk / giraffe / kieran trippier / llamasoft / minter / moose life / voxel by Ian

As luck would have it, we were clamouring for a PS5 redux of The Sinking City as previously reviewed by our man Mike in 2019. OK, perhaps we weren’t, but this is a welcome addition to the burgeoning indie catalogue on Sony’s newest console. The opening splash screens indicate that […]

The Sinking City – PS5 Review

March 2, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cthulhu / frogwares / Massachusetts / more than a woman / stayin' alive by Ian

Pumpkin Jack has been out since October 2020 on Xbox One and Switch, only just releasing on PS4 which is why we’re reviewing it now. Obvious timing for Halloween there, but we got blessed with Costume Kingdom instead. Yeah. The less said of that the better. Developed by solo developer […]

Pumpkin Jack – PS4 Review

February 23, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged classic platformer / halloween / indie / pumpkin by Ian

UltraGoodness 2 is the latest from Ratalaika, the first UltraGoodness still remaining a Steam only joint. It shares the same developer in Rasul Mono with music from Sergey Mozharovskiy. Whereas UltraGoodness was resolutely pixel art, Rasul has uprated the graphical style in the sequel to be a bit more console […]

UltraGoodness 2 – PS4 Review

February 17, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged rasul mono / ratalaika / rinse / ultragoodness 2 by Ian

The Pedestrian from Skookum Arts could well be a GBA game given its resolutely 2D puzzle set and stickman protagonist. But it’s not and we’re happy to report that it’s out on PS5. As you can no doubt tell from the screenshots here, on the face of it, The Pedestrian […]

The Pedestrian – PS5 Review

February 13, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / pretty pretty good / puzzle by Ian

Helheim Hassle from developer and publisher Perfectly Paranormal is another tale of macabre humour from the same guys that brought us Manual Samuel. You control limbs here too, only rather than having to manually breathe or keep your posture as you did before, each limb can be individually controlled. Bjørn […]

Helheim Hassle – PS4 Review

January 27, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged detachable limbs / helheim / norse mythology / perfectly paranormal / vikings by Ian

Every so often an indie game comes along which happens to be utterly fantastic, we wish we could report that Balancelot was one of them. Unfortunately the latest from Ratalaika isn’t even close to good. The title Balancelot is a great little pun, given the setting. The tagline is ‘medieval […]

Balancelot – PS4 Review

January 26, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged easy trophies / Medieval / physics / ratalaika / unicycle by Ian

From veteran Italian developer and publisher Milestone comes MXGP 2020 – The Official Motocross Videogame, based on the planned 2020 FIM MXGP race series. The seventeen unique tracks on offer here represent the series as it was supposed to have been in 2020, before, you know, 2020 happened. In reality, […]

MXGP 2020 : The Official Motocross Game – PS5 Review

January 19, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2020 / Apart from on commentary where else on earth can you hear the word 'aplomb' being used? / hello moto / i'll stomp a mudhole in your ass / milestone / mxgp / shortened season by Ian