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.

Football Game, despite what its name might suggest, doesn’t have much to do with either round or oval shaped variants. The titular football game is your ultimate goal anyway. Football Game is a one-shot story released by Ratalaika, so barring a couple of missable trophies you’ll be done within an […]

Football Game – PS4 Review

November 11, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged only got three bullets / ratalaika / retro by Ian

From Valencia-based two man indie Eskema Games by way of Ratalaika comes Delta Squad. They have previous form in terms of FullBlast, also released by Ratalaika. Unlike that game from last year, Delta Squad is a PS4 only joint. It’s a top-down twin stick shooter with four player local multiplayer […]

Delta Squad – PS4 Review

November 4, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged delta squad / ratalaika / valencia by Ian

Street Outlaws: The List is a show on the Discovery Channel apparently. Not that we’d ever heard of it prior to this game. From what we can gather, never having watched it, it’s a hotrod car modding kinda thing. Sorta like Wheeler Dealers crossed with Duck Dynasty if we had […]

Street Outlaws: The List – PS4 Review

October 29, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 405 / lets do it like on the discovery channel / okc / street outlaws by Ian

From Mobius Digital by way of Annapurna Interactive comes Outer Wilds. Released on Xbox & PC as a timed exclusive back in May, Outer Wilds (as opposed to the very similarly named Outer Worlds also on current release) is set upon a wonderfully rustic alien planetoid named Timber Hearth. Said […]

Outer Wilds – PS4 Review

October 23, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged annapurna / mobius / outer wilds / sci fi by Ian

Monkey King: Hero is Back is the latest in a line of games based on the classic Journey to the West saga. Following on from the PS1 Monkey Hero and PS3 era Enslaved, those two being a couple we can remember. Only this time there’s no gurning Andy Serkis motion […]

Monkey King: Hero is Back – PS4 Review

October 16, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dasheng / journey to the west / monkey magic / no magic cloud here / sun wukong by Ian

We reviewed another lightUP game a couple of months ago in Super Wiloo Demake. Also published by Ratalaika we have Super Box Land Demake. In this instance what we have here is a Sokoban-like with a retro look and a rewind mechanic. To stop you pushing a block prematurely you […]

Super Box Land Demake – PS4 Review

October 14, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged lightup / ratalaika / sokoban by Ian

In hindsight we should have politely declined One Night Stand rather than what we actually did in saying we’d do it. When it showed up on the PlayStation blog we didn’t like the look of it then. Though being published by Ratalaika we figured it’d be a quick review. Sadly […]

One Night Stand – PS4 Review

October 10, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged almost visual novel / Dull / one night stand / ratalaika by Ian

Trine 4 then. Hmm, where to start? It’s from Helsinki-based developer Frozenbyte by way of publisher Nobilis for a start. And we’ve had it for two weeks before release. We were dimly aware of the first couple of games, even having bought the second on the 360 but never having […]

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince – PS4 Review

October 9, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged finland / frozenbyte / magic / myohmy / trine / wizbit by Ian

From developer Entertainment Forge by way of publisher Ratalaika comes dialogue-rich point and click adventure Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning. Opening with friends Hank and Larry settling down for a relaxing evening as civilisation burns outside, the Zombie Apocalypse informs their movie choice in terms of Shaun of […]

Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning – PS4 Review

September 30, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged point and click / ratalaika / zombies by Ian

From publisher Aquaplus and developer Tamsoft comes a game we’d usually have left for our resident visual novel expert, Gareth. We liked the look of it though, so took a punt. In this case the ZAN subtitle is Japanese for ‘slash’, denoting that this is a departure of sorts from […]

Utawarerumono: ZAN – PS4 Review

September 19, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged hybrid / musou / tamsoft / utawarerumono / visual novel adaptation by Ian

We didn’t really know much about Himno before starting it. And after having unlocked platinum trophies on both PS4 and Vita, we’re not much better off in that regard. The double platinum being your first clue that this is published by Ratalaika, developed on PC by Madrid based solo developer […]

Himno – PS4 Review

September 10, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged lofi / procedural / roguelike / y viva espana by Ian

This reviewer loved Tearaway on Vita and subsequently Tearaway Unfolded on PS4. The creative lead for both of those is a gentleman called Rex Crowle. As well as Atoi’s two adventures, he worked on Little Big Planet and several Lionhead games including Fable and Black & White. Along with fellow Media […]

Knights and Bikes – PS4 Review

September 6, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged bikes / co-op / kernow / knights / penfurzy by Ian