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.

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? The protagonist of Nickelodeon’s multimedia behemoth, Spongebob Squarepants, that’s who. In this case, this is the latest of THQ Nordic’s rereleases of previous generation games. Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom originally came out in 2003 for PS2, Gamecube & Xbox, garnering […]

Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated – PS4 Review

June 23, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged krabby patty / remaster / spatula / spongebob squarepants / thq by Ian

From Hamburg based developer and publisher Daedelic Entertainment comes Edna and Harvey – The Breakout: Anniversary Edition. The anniversary part refers to the fact that this is a re-release of the original game released back in 2008 on PC. In a similar fashion to the Halo Anniversary on Xbox, you […]

Edna and Harvey – The Breakout : Anniversary Edition – ...

June 17, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged asylum / daedalic / point and click / rascally rabbit / remaster by Ian

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling from Moonsprout Games by way of publisher Dangen Entertainment is an action RPG that came out on PC last winter. Now out on all current consoles including the PS4, we get to enjoy it too. We’ve seen endless comparisons to the Paper Mario series from […]

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling – PS4 Review

June 9, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arpg / bugs / insects / moonsprout by Ian

For all that Trailmakers doesn’t have Lego branding, you’d be forgiven for thinking it should have. Flashbulb Games are also based in Copenhagen, which although not that close to Billund (home of Lego) makes us wonder a little at what might have been. Trailmakers was an exclusive on Xbox One […]

Trailmakers – PS4 Review

June 5, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged flashbulb / not lego honest / open world / trailmakers by Ian

Castle Pals is the latest Ratalaika release, publishing on behalf of Toronto-based solo developer Brad Erkkila. The titular pals being a girl called Kylee and a boy called Owen. Kylee can punch enemies and jump without any complication. Owen has the ability to fly due to his little hat with […]

Castle Pals – PS4 Review

June 4, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged brad / castle pals / ratalaika / that's not how you spell kylie / toronto by Ian

For the past few years there’s only been one show in town when it comes to a licenced Major League Baseball game on consoles. Literally in this case, MLB The Show 2020 being the current iteration. So if you’re a developer who wants to produce a baseball game you have […]

Super Mega Baseball 3 – PS4 Review

May 24, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged baseball / caricature / metalhead by Ian

In Concept Destruction from Spanish indie dev Thinice by way of Ratalaika, we have a rare PS4 only release for this publisher. Though we didn’t try to download it on our Vita this time. Sadly it seems the developer had attempted to port this to Vita, but it simply wasn’t […]

Concept Destruction – PS4 Review

May 22, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged appetite for destruction / barcelona / cardboard / concept / ratalaika by Ian

Be careful what you wish for. Upon reviewing Reed Remastered from Pxlink we said we hoped that Ratalaika would bring us the sequel too. Here we are a few months later with Reed 2. At first we thought we’d made a terrible mistake. More accurately, once we hit level twelve […]

Reed 2 – PS4 Review

May 18, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews / Vita tagged pxlink / ratalaika / reed 2 by Ian

We have to confess being a little thrown by the 1.5Gb & 1.2Gb respective downloads for Guard Duty on Vita and PS4 respectively. A little more expensive than the typical Ratalaika fare at £7.99 too. You see, Guard Duty is a fully voiced point & click adventure where you have […]

Guard Duty – PS4 Review

May 1, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews / Vita tagged 320 * 240 / point and click / sick chicken by Ian

Dread Nautical comes to us from Zen Studios of Pinball FX fame. It’s a turn based strategy game on a cruise liner. Only as well as people on the ship, there are various monsters out to kill you. The ship is made up of twenty decks and your ultimate goal […]

Dread Nautical – PS4 Review

April 30, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged cthulhu / dread nautical / lovecraft / this is dread man / zen studios by Ian

We really liked Typhoon Studios’ Journey to the Savage Planet when we reviewed it back in January. So we were pleased to see the announcement for the first paid for DLC pack, Hot Garbage. Using the already well implemented teleport system, you can get right into the action with no […]

Journey to the Savage Planet: Hot Garbage – PS4 Review

April 29, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged boomerdale / dlc / savage planet / typhoon studios / whither canada by Ian

Disaster Report 4 – Summer Memories, so called because it includes the DLC epilogue, is something of a relic. This is down to the fact it was originally slated to be released on PS3 in 2011, but due to the actual earthquake in Japan, it was put on hold indefinitely. […]

Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories – PS4 Review

April 11, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged disaster report / earthquake / granzella / natural disaster / sos by Ian