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.

We confess, we only played the original Oh…Sir! The Insult Simulator for an easy completion. It helped it was cheap too. Unexpectedly though, we enjoyed ourselves for the most part. It was while browsing new releases on our generally neglected Xbox One that we spotted a sequel had slipped out […]

Oh…Sir! The Hollywood Roast – PS4 Review

July 20, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged hollywood / insult / roast by Ian

Atomine from Broken Arms Games is a twin stick shooter. Something that we’re quite used to seeing on PSN these days. Especially as it also has procedurally generated levels with rogue-lite mechanics. However, there is also a storyline of sorts, which is about the real-life Stuxnet internet worm. This is largely […]

Atomine – PS4 Review

July 7, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged shooter / twinstick / virus by Ian

Lego Star Wars back on the PS2 has a lot to answer for. Back in 2005, Traveller’s Tales’ eureka moment was a genuinely fresh spin on the licenced film adaptation. It certainly helped that it was a Star Wars game for sure, but it started the ball rolling on the […]

LEGO® The Incredibles – PS4 Review

June 27, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged facepalm / incredibles / lego / Superhero by Ian

Shape of the World is a difficult game to review given its meditative qualities. On the one hand, it sets out to do exactly what the developer Stu Maxwell (AKA Hollow Tree Games) had in mind. That is to evoke his local park in videogame form and the relaxing qualities […]

Shape of the World – PS4 Review

June 14, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged isitart / serenity / shapeoftheworld / walking simulator by Ian

Milanoir from Italian developer Italo Games based in, yup, Milan is a gritty homage to classic 1970s crime films. The press release namechecks the cult crime films Caliber 9 and Almost Human as references. We guess they were bigger in their homeland than outside Italy though as we hadn’t heard […]

Milanoir – PS4 Review

June 8, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged #milanoir / #ultraviolence / challenging / mafia by Ian

Coming a couple of months after episode one, the second episode of Big Bad Wolf’s Gallic tinged historical adventure The Council is upon us. Hide and Seek carries on immediately after the events of The Mad Ones with your first task being to investigate the events that led to episode […]

The Council – Episode 2: Hide and Seek – PS4 ...

May 22, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged episodic / french / the council by Ian

Forgotton Anne is an anime inspired puzzle platformer from Danish developer ThroughLine Games published under Square Enix’s Collective banner, development being significantly helped by the state-funded Danish Film Institute. You’ll be immediately struck by its beautiful graphical style as it brings to mind the artistic style of Studio Ghibli’s output, […]

Forgotton Anne – PS4 Review

May 11, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / anime / platformer / puzzle by Ian

Death Road To Canada had us interested from the outset. Retro-styled, zombies and rogue-like mechanics? Sold! The game is presented in a cute pixel art style which initially seems rather at odds with the subject matter at hand. After a while though it makes no odds and you’ll be cleaving undead […]

Death Road To Canada – PS4 Review

May 8, 2018 in PS4 tagged #ohcanada / #roadtrip / roguelike / zombies by Ian

League of Evil is a port of a 2011 iOS game that for some reason has only just made the leap to home consoles. Its obvious inspiration is a super meaty game featuring a boy. Given they’re almost contemporaries it’s hardly surprising. There, glad we got that out of the […]

League of Evil – PS4 Review

April 25, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged #retro #mobileport #notsupermeatboy #honest by Ian

Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs is an unashamed love letter to the golden age of JRPGs, bringing to mind the Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden games to name a few, especially in terms of character and world design. After a successful crowdfunding campaign and an encouraging debut on Steam, Regalia […]

Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs (Royal Edition) – PS4 Review

April 17, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged #regalia #jprg #challenging by Ian

The Council is the debut game from Bordeaux based developer Big Bad Wolf Studio, who are by no means novices as this game shows. This being the first episode of a five part narrative based series, you’d be forgiven for writing it off and assuming it continued in the same […]

The Council – Episode 1: The Mad Ones – PS4 ...

March 22, 2018 in PS4 tagged episodic / story / the council by Ian

On the face of it, Way Of The Passive Fist is a short lived novelty that should outstay its welcome quicker than the smirk disappears from your face as you possibly laugh at the reference to the classic ’80s game Way Of The Exploding Fist. Thankfully that turns out not […]

Way of the Passive Fist – PS4 Review

March 15, 2018 in PS4 tagged frustration / joypadkiller / parry / retro / sidescroller by Ian