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.

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

From developer Coal Supper (aka James Carbutt and Will Todd) and publisher Panic, comes game of the moment, Thank Goodness You’re Here! deliberately released on 1st August 2024, to coincide with Yorkshire Day. Superficially similar to Panic’s 2019 hit Untitled Goose Game in terms of the being a miscreant to […]

Thank Goodness You’re Here! – PS5 Review

August 15, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged barnsworth / coal supper / everything's ten bob / matt berry / on ilkla moor baht 'at / panic / the marrow song / this is yorkshire people are sensible by Ian

From Adelaide-based developer Exbleative aka Jay Weston and publisher Future Friends comes interplanetary exploration game Exo One. If we were lazy reviewers we’d say that it was Journey crossed with mid-80’s film Flight of the Navigator, only without the pseudo-mysticism of the former and Pee Wee Herman voicing the ship […]

Exo One – PS5 Review

August 4, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged buck rogers / interplanetary / jupiter / my god it's full of stars by Ian

From Spanish solo developer ViJuDa and publisher Eastasiasoft comes Super Woden GP II, the follow-up to 2022’s Super Woden GP that our man Richie reviewed. If you played that, this is more of the same and that’s no bad thing if we’re honest. Quite why it’s Super Woden, we’re not […]

Super Woden GP II – PS5 Review

August 1, 2024 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged isometric / not gran turismo / rally / super woden gp by Ian

Busway Islands – Puzzle from Brazilian developer Rising Moon Games, AKA Moraes Game Studio, via publisher QUByte Interactive is a bit of a throwback to review games of yore for us here at PSC. Unusually, it’s PS4 only, we could well have seen this working on our beloved Vita as […]

Busway Islands – Puzzle : PS4 Review

July 16, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged brasil / busway islands puzzle / moraes game studio / rising moon games by Ian

From developer Texel Raptor and publisher Blitworks Games comes a throwback of sorts in Parkitect: Deluxe Edition. Very much in the tradition of Theme Park and other parkbuilders such as Rollercoaster Tycoon, Parkitect started out as a Kickstarter over ten years ago, with a lengthy two year early access period […]

Parkitect: Deluxe Edition – PS5 Review

July 10, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hitler bad vandals good / parkitect / rollercoaster / theme park by Ian

The Land Beneath Us from Bangkok-based developer Fairplay Studios and French publisher Dear Villagers (aka Plug In Digital), is a bit different from their prior release Fallen Knight as reviewed by Richie almost three years ago. It’s another roguelike/lite/whatever. We’ve stopped caring what the actual definition is, more whether a […]

The Land Beneath Us – PS5 Review

July 3, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dear villagers / fairplay / rogue-like / the land beneath us by Ian