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.

The Legend of Cyber Cowboy from Eastasiasoft is a Westworld-style twin stick shooter with a similar feel to The Binding Of Isaac in terms of the randomly generated aspect and the going from room to room part. Only unlike Edward McMillen’s effort, there no map. Unlike Isaac, the enemies you […]

The Legend of Cyber Cowboy – PS5 Review

January 8, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyber cowboy / darn tootin / eastasiasoft by Ian

From Malmö based dev Simogo and published by Annapurna Interactive comes the intriguingly titled Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. Set in the recent past in and around the Hotel Letzes Jahr, that being Hotel Last Year, the black and white graphical style with occasional flashes of colour gives it an […]

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes – PS5 Review

December 17, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged annapurna / lorelei / puzzle / simogo / splt. by Ian

You’re the lucky new proprietor of the titular Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop on the planet of Little Mesa. In effect, a space garage where spaceships land in varying levels of decrepitude or disrepair. Though your tenure is wholly dependent on being able to make your rent after three days of […]

Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop – PS5 Review

December 14, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged beard envy / job simulator / roguelike / space garage / uncle chops by Ian

Mindcop from German dev Andre Gareis, originally released on Steam in 2020 and ported to console by Pixel Ratio and published by Little Villagers is something we’d heard about by virtue of it being advertised on a YouTube channel we frequent. Mindcop is a whodunit set over five days where […]

Mindcop – PS5 Review

November 28, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged mindcop / mindreading / open your mind by Ian

From Kraków-based developer 7Levels comes an official Monsterverse tie-in, in this case Kong: Survivor Instinct. Were it not for the fact that Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire had released in March this year, we’d suspect that it was attempting to hype up a forthcoming film. It does feature several […]

Kong: Survivor Instinct – PS5 Review

November 15, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged alan jonah / fay wray / monsterverse / neil armstrong he had balls bigger than king kong first big suit on the moon and he's off to play golf hole in one by Ian

Squirrel with a Gun by Deedee Creations and published by Maximum Entertainment is pretty much what you might expect from the title. Quite literally a squirrel with a gun. In effect, it’s an Unreal Engine 5 physics sandbox with you running around making a nuisance of yourself. Think Untitled Goose […]

Squirrel with a Gun – PS5 Review

November 5, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged gunplay / hello mr anderson / open world sandbox / physics-based / ue5 by Ian

From Belfast based developer Billy Goat and publisher Secret Mode comes Parcel Corps, best described as an amalgam of two classic Sega games of the Dreamcast era. The games being Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio. You play as a bicycle courier in a cel shaded world with a similar […]

Parcel Corps – PS5 Review

October 27, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged billy goat / crazy taxi / jet set radio / parcel corps / secret mode / spiffing / the rep grows bigger by Ian

Melobot – A Last Song is, as the name might suggest, something of a musical odyssey across multiple planets and biomes. You play as the titular Melobot departing from a rocket that acts as your headquarters that you head out from, a little like the Trailblazer in one of our […]

Melobot : A Last Song – PS5 Review

October 5, 2024 in Reviews tagged a last song / melobot / rhythm by Ian

We have a confession. Until we started playing Aero The Acro-Bat 2, we’d not twigged the pun in the title. You see he’s a bat and an acrobat. Never mind the first game came out more than thirty years ago. The gag entirely passed us by. In the case of […]

Aero The Acro-Bat 2 – PS5 Review

September 25, 2024 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged acro bat / adobe / aero / iguana / ratalaika / shinyuden by Ian

From Swedish dev Angry Demon Studio and publisher Wired Productions comes action hack and slash platformer Gori: Cuddly Carnage, Gori being a cute orange cat that brought to mind original Xbox game Blinx: The Time Sweeper. Only Gori isn’t the one doing the wisecracks, it’s your talking hoverboard F.R.A.N.K. That’d […]

Gori: Cuddly Carnage – PS5 Review

September 16, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cats / grind / i can't get no sleep / unicorns by Ian

Star Wars Outlaws then. It comes to us from Swedish Ubisoft subsidiary Massive Entertainment, they of the Division games and more recently, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora; representing the first Star Wars game from Ubi since 2006’s Star Wars: Lethal Alliance for PSP and DS. For nerds like us for who […]

Star Wars Outlaws – PS5 Review

September 10, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged born slippy / criminal underworld / empire / kay vess / nix / open world / outlaws / reputation that's what you need / rest in peace james earl jones / star wars / the names's olo; hans olo by Ian

From Warsaw-based developer Gruby Entertainment and publisher Crunching Koalas comes cyberpunk themed FPS Deadlink. As has become vogue, or de rigeur if you will, it has roguelite elements. The schtick is that you’re the blunt instrument sent by the Corporate Security Agency to keep the megacorps by cracking open a […]

Deadlink – PS5 Review

August 20, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arena shooter / deadlink / fps / rng / roguelite by Ian