Reviews

I often wonder with gaming narratives how to truly judge them. There are entirely story-driven games where the focus shifts from gameplay which ultimately diminishes the interactive element of the medium. Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories by Froach Club is another one of these games. With the gameplay reduced, I often […]

Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories – PS5 Review

April 15, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged animal town / corporate espionage / crime story / froach club / gameboy aesthetic / melon journey bittersweet memories / narratively-driven / puns by Mike

Murderous Muses is another FMV infused game from D’Avekki Studio after their previous release two years ago, Dark Nights with Poe and Monroe. This isn’t quite as FMV heavy as their previous game, the video mainly cropping up in the form of interview footage with the six suspects of the […]

Murderous Muses – PS5 Review

April 14, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged d'avekki / fmv / gallery / murderous muses / nightwatchman / not cluedo / there's been a murderrr by Ian

Atari Mania is the latest game to show up as part of the ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations of legendary software publishers, Atari. We’ve recently seen Atari 50, a huge compilation spanning Atari’s time in the industry, and a whole heap of remastered games in their Recharged range, Atari Mania is something else altogether. Essentially, this […]

Atari Mania – PS4 Review

April 13, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged atari mania / mini games / retro / warioware by Richie

Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story (not to be confused with Dogfight) is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from casual North Carolina coders, Katsu Games that, unusually for the genre, supports up to four players in local co-op and sees you, and your buddies, taking up the roles of bomber pilots who are […]

Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story – PS4 Review

April 13, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dogfight / horizontally-scrolling / sausage bomber / shoot em up by Richie

From first party Sony dev San Diego Studio and published by Sony themselves, we have MLB The Show 23, just in time for the opening day of the Major League Baseball season on 30th March. Somewhat unusually, we notice this is included on Xbox Game Pass on day one, but […]

MLB The Show 23 – PS5 Review

April 12, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged baseball / beisbol / los marineros / mitch garver is from new mexico / mlb the show 23 / negro leagues / rawr rawr like a dungeon dragon / san diego studio / SeaUsRise / the di-dawg is first up to bat by Ian

Hyper-5 is a side-scrolling shoot ’em up which comes to us from the mysterious Hyper Productions (well, mysterious in that they don’t seem to have a website) and prolific publishers eastasiasoft (their lack of capitalisation, not ours). In terms of getting us down to a sub-genre, this is very much a […]

Hyper-5 – PS5 Review

April 12, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / 90s / horizontally-scrolling / hyper-5 / shoot em up by Richie

Curse of the Sea Rats is a metroidvania type game and it comes to us by way of Barcelona-based coders, Petoons Studio, the team behind Petoons Party and part of Sony’s Spanish initiative PlayStation Talents. The story focuses on a crew of British sailors who are raided by pirates under […]

Curse of the Sea Rats – PS5 Review

April 7, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged curse of the sea rats / metroidvania / petoon studio / pqube by Richie

Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 6 is a mouthful. The long-running Supercross franchise certainly feels like it’s in the land of diminishing returns. The second iteration on current consoles, the features on show give me a great sense of deja vu and, whilst the racing remains tight and competitive, […]

Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 6 – Playstation ...

April 7, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bikes / jumps / milestone / monster energy supercross - the official videogame 6 / motorcycles / motorsport / mud / racing / stadiums by Mike

From Shenzen-based developer Fabled Game Studio & publisher Blitworks Games we have card battler Pirates Outlaws. Best described as a pirate themed take on Slay The Spire it’s hard not to draw parallels to MegaCrit’s 2019 masterpiece. One thing that immediately becomes apparent is the sheer scope of Pirates Outlaws compared […]

Pirates Outlaws – PS4 Review

April 6, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged blitworks / card battler / Derivative / not slay the spire / pirates / pirates outlaws / R by Ian

Meet Your Maker is a first-person raiding/building/shooting affair from Quebec natives Behaviour Interactive who are best known these days for Dead By Daylight, itself being one of those asymmetrical multiplayer games that is played obsessively, often by shrieking idiots on Twitch. However, Dead By Daylight showed that Behaviour know a thing or two […]

Meet Your Maker – PS5 Review

April 4, 2023 in PS5 tagged building / co-op / first-person shooter / meet your maker / raiding / traps by Richie

It’ll be no surprise to you that Guns N’ Runs is a run and gun shooter/platformer and it comes to us from Brazilian coders Statera Studio following its initial PC release back in May 2021 that was seemingly missed by most gamers and reviewers out there. But it’s here on PSN […]

Guns N’ Runs – PS4 Review

March 27, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / 2d / platformer / retro / run and gun / runs n' guns by Richie

FATAL FRAME : Mask of the Lunar Eclipse had us genuinely excited that we were being blessed by Koei Tecmo with a brand-new instalment, the first since 2014’s Maiden Of Black Water in fact. No, in fact Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is a remake of the previously Japan-only 2008 […]

FATAL FRAME: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse – PS5 ...

March 23, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged aztec camera obscura / fatal frame / Mask of the Lunar Eclipse / now just plain zero / project zero / spirit in the sky / weeb / wiimaster by Ian