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Ayo The Clown comes from apparently NY-based developer Cloud M1 and publisher EastAsiaSoft. Our hope of Ayo talking to his pals like he’s from the hood in hip-hop and gang patois wasn’t to be. Instead Ayo The Clown is a cutesy 2.5D platformer with the titular clown being the hero […]

Ayo The Clown – PS5 Review

April 26, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / bad cover version / clown / prerendered / yoshis island by Ian

If you look at the screenshots, you may already have an idea of how you feel about this one. The unfortunate side effect of reviewing games over an amount of time, is that you will inevitably encounter trends or tropes that just keep coming back and it becomes very difficult […]

Glam’s Incredible Run: Escape from Dukha – PS4 Review

April 21, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged challenging / Escape from Dukha / Formulaic / Glam's Incredible Run / platformer / retro by Grizz

The Playstation Talents initiative has managed to steer itself away from some dubious quality. Whilst I do appreciate student projects will have limitations, these are commercial products that are sold for money. The latest to cross my path is TAPE: Unveil the Memories. Coming from Madrid’s Black Chili Goat Studio, […]

TAPE: Unveil the Memories – PS4 Review

April 20, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged b-movie / black chili goat studio / horror / monster chase / PlayStation Talents / spanish / story-driven / tape unveil the memories / time trickery by Mike

Something strange is going in the world of Neo Geo games. Having just reviewed Andro Dunos 2, the sequel to a little known Neo Geo shoot ’em up from the ’90s, we now find ourselves reviewing another Neo Geo sequel. This time we’re returning to Ganryu, a 2D slash ’em up platformer. […]

Ganryu 2 Hakuma Kojiro – PS4 Review

April 20, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / arcade / ganryu 2 / neo geo / retro / shinobi by Richie

They might seem like a videogame staple now, but back in early 2005 there was no such thing as a Lego videogame. Lego Star Wars on PS2 was quite the revelation at the time and it seemed staggering that nobody had come up with it before. Of course, there’s since […]

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – PS5 Review

April 17, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged cold lampin with flavor / daft ada / lego / mc ren controls the automatic / skyyywalker himself / star wars / that's not how you spell kylie / traveller's tales by Ian

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has seen countless adaptations since it’s publication over 200 years ago. It’s fairly common fodder to discuss existentialism, what it is to be human and play God. Even when not being directly quoted, it has been the inspiration for many, many stories from many different people. Today, […]

The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature – PS4 Review

April 11, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged classic literature / existentialism / french / god / la belle games / mary shelley / narrativelty-driven / the wanderer frankenstein's creature by Mike

The Last Cube is the best kind of game we get in for review here at PSC. It literally came out of nowhere with no fanfare or hype yet we find it entirely took over our gaming for a good week or so. We meant to write this review sooner, […]

The Last Cube – PS5 Review

April 6, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged cubes / dion dublin's dube / don't go chasing waterfalls / improx / puzzle / stickers by Ian

Z-Warp is the latest shoot ’em up from Panda Indie Studio, the one-man shoot ’em up specialist behind most of Eastasiasoft’s impressive array of shooters. As ever, this is a vertically-scrolling, arcade style bullet-hell game and it has plenty of Panda Indie’s trademark characteristics. So, if you want to know […]

Z-Warp – PS5 Review

April 6, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews by Richie

If you’re unaware of the term ‘immersive sim’ then it’ll probably mean nothing to you. It’s a genre that let’s the player choose, whether that’s story options or how to play. It wants to immerse you in the experience by letting you play how you want and adapting around you. […]

Weird West – PS4 Review

March 31, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dark fantasy / immersive sim / occult / stealth / third-person / weird west / wild west by Gareth

I have always admired when game developers eschew convention in favour of sticking to their guns. Very few are willing to do this as sticking to one franchise, genre or art style can often wind up with those games becoming very stale, very quickly. The flipside of course, is that […]

Thunder Kid: Hunt for the Robot Emperor – PS4/PS5 Review

March 30, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged ps4 / PS5 / renegae sector / thunder kid by Grizz

Andro Dunos II is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Picorinne Soft and it really highlights what an usual time this is for the indie games market. You see, the original Andro Dunos, itself also a shoot ’em up, came out in 1992 as a Neo Geo game. It’s not particularly well-known and […]

Andro Dunos II – PS4 Review

March 30, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged andro dunos 2 / andros townsend though / arcade / coin-op / horizontally-scrolling / shoot em up by Richie

Valley of the Dead: MalnaZidos is a third-person survival horror game which comes to us by way of Gammera Nest and the Spanish PlayStation Talents program. That initiative is a way to get lesser-known talent into the PSN marketplace and so far it’s not made for many good games but […]

Valley of the Dead: MalnaZidos – PS4 Review

March 20, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged malnazidos / PlayStation Talents / resident evil poor / spanish / valley of the dead / zombies by Richie