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.

Every so often you’ll happen upon a TV series that you find intriguing. Occasionally you’ll plough a few hours into it at the outset, but then for whatever reason you abandon it altogether. For us, the mid-season break in series two of The Walking Dead did for us. We never […]

9 Monkeys of Shaolin – PS4 Review

October 24, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged shaolin / side scroller / wu tang by Ian

Cake Bash comes to us from Gateshead-based dev High Tea Frog and publisher Coatsink. High Tea Frog is made up of ex-Ubisoft Reflections alumni who’ve worked on the likes of The Crew and The Division amongst others. So you might expect something of the same sensibility from this, their debut […]

Cake Bash – PS4 Review

October 17, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged cake / gateshead / high tea frog / howay man / party game by Ian

From Runner Duck of prior game Bomber Crew, comes Space Crew. Published by now-parent company Curve Digital you’d be forgiven for perhaps assuming it was the same game as before, but in space. We didn’t play Bomber Crew personally, nor did PSC review it back when, so we can only […]

Space Crew – PS4 Review

October 12, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged alien pricks / curve / phasmid / space crew by Ian

From Seattle based dev Aggro Crab by way of publisher Team 17, comes Going Under. Simply put, it’s an office based roguelike dungeon crawler. Your character Jackie is the newest intern to a hip startup subsidiary of the monolithic Cubicle company. Parallels to that Seattle based global retail behemoth aren’t […]

Going Under – PS4 Review

October 7, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged aggro crab / dungeon crawler / going under / roguelike / startup by Ian

Costume Kingdom from Irish developer Stratton Studio is at once familiar but also not. Hoping to perhaps capitalise on the similarly titled Costume Quest series from Double Fine. The similarities don’t end there, the setting is also a small town where your character trick or treats the inhabitants. Once again, […]

Costume Kingdom – PS4 Review

October 5, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged ireland / less than the sum of its parts / not costume quest either / not pokemon by Ian

From developer Bombservice and publisher Dangen Entertainment comes Minoria. It came out a couple of weeks back, but this reviewer struggled mightily with a couple of early bosses for reasons we’ll go into. It is a successor of sorts to the Momodora series, one of which was reviewed by our […]

Minoria – PS4 Review

October 1, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged bombservice / minoria / Momodora / witch by Ian

Crysis Remastered is a cross-platform remaster of the notoriously demanding 2007 PC original from Crytek. So demanding in fact, that until fairly recently the benchmark for PC perfomance was “will it run Crysis?” As a result, the game is very much a console experience with the main concession to the […]

Crysis Remastered – PS4 Review

September 28, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged cats maybe cats operating in gangs / Cry if i want to / crysis remastered / crytek / fps / will it run crysis by Ian

From Chameleon Games comes Tamarin. First announced at Gamescom 2017 and created in part by Rare & Frontier alumni. Tamarin is a 3D platformer with third person shooter elements you see. The titular simian is a cute monkey. A bit like those plastic Monchichi dolls that were popular in the […]

Tamarin – PS4 Review

September 24, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged gfg / Monkey / tamarin / tonz 'o' gunz by Ian

You’d think by now that the template for console tennis games would’ve been fairly well defined. For every semi-realistic Virtua Tennis there’s been a Sega Superstars Tennis or Mario Tennis Aces to offset it. Unfortunately, in the case of Tennis World Tour 2 from dev Big Ant Studios by way […]

Tennis World Tour 2 – PS4 Review

September 22, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged big ant studios / nacon / oh dear / tennis by Ian

From Belfast-based dev Level 91 and publisher PQube, comes Inertial Drift. A twin-stick driving game “set in a 90’s retro future.” So the future? Or the past? We’re confused. The influence of a particular manga / anime series with Japanese cars and drifting couldn’t be any clearer if we scrambled […]

Inertial Drift – PS4 Review

September 10, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged drift / inertial drift / norn iron / not initial d / twin stick by Ian

From Lucky Mountain Games (aka Trevor Ley) in conjunction with Sumo Nottingham, published by Curve Digital, comes Hotshot Racing. Formerly known as Racing Apex and some ten years in the making, initially being intended as an iOS release. For anyone as long in the tooth as we are, it’s pretty […]

Hotshot Racing – PS4 Review

September 9, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged am2 / arcade racer / blue skies in gaming / hotshot racing / racing apex by Ian

From Honey ∞ Parade Games, Shade Game Development and publisher Marvelous! comes the extremely Japanese Kandagawa Jet Girls. This is a licenced game of the anime of the same name in which the jetter is the pilot of the jetski and the shooter is, well, you work it out. The […]

Kandagawa Jet Girls – PS4 Review

September 4, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged japan / kandagawa / schoolgirls / sketchy / weeb by Ian