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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

Music Racer Ultimate is a rehash of a prior 2020 PS4 release by Abstract Art, that port being down to publisher Sometimes You and Light Road Games. The idea is that you can play using your own music to generate your own unique levels. At least that’s the idea. Sorta […]

Music Racer Ultimate – PS5 Review

March 20, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged cy young / dave stieb / music racer ultimate / retro aesthetic / synthwave by Ian

FMV games are always a fun thing to dig around. There’s something about an interactive medium featuring physical actors which always brings about some interesting results. The latest of these to come my way is Who Pressed Mute On Uncle Marcus? Coming from Wales Interactive, this is a product that […]

Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? – PS4 Review

March 18, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / family quiz webchat / full motion video / Murder mystery / narratively-driven / poison / wales interactive / who pressed mute on uncle marcus by Mike

What Lies in the Multiverse is a puzzle-based platformer from Santiago-based developer Iguanabee and Polish publisher Untold Tales. The prologue opens with the line “Multiple events, multiple possibilities, multiple consequences.” It’s a little more linear than that admittedly, but the storyline is occasionally intriguing. The gameplay on offer reminded us […]

What Lies in the Multiverse – PS4 Review

March 13, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged bill fucking murray / multiverse / platformer / quantum physics by Ian

Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure is the latest DLC for Zen Studio’s genre-leader pinball simulation suite Pinball FX 3. As with many of their more recent tables, this one is based on an original Williams table, this time from 1993. As you’d expect it’s full of references, mini-games and sound samples based on […]

Pinball FX3: Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure – PS4 Review

March 10, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged indiana jones / pinball / pinball fx3 / zen by Richie

Pretty Girls Breakers! is a bat and ball Arkanoid style game that comes to us by way of Zoo Corporation as part of their on-going Pretty Girls series. It’s published by Eastasiasoft who are known for their cheap and cheerful, easy to Platinum ports. While we’ve seen this style of game a lot […]

Pretty Girls Breakers! – PS5 Review

March 8, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged arkanoid / bat and ball / eastasiasoft / easy platinum / manga / pretty girls breakers by Richie

Shadow Warrior 3 is the latest episode of the series that began life in 1997 as a PC FPS but was then rebooted in 2016 by Polish programmers Flying Wild Hog. Since then they’ve continued the series and, indeed, the story which focuses on an assassin called Lo Wang and […]

Shadow Warrior 3 – PS4 Review

March 7, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 90s / doom / fps / gore / shadow warrior 3 by Richie

A Musical Story is a rhythm-action game from French coders, Glee Cheese. With its focus on firmly on its emotive story, this isn’t like other games in the genre although you could make parallels with Parappa The Rapper but only if Parappa was an acid-fueled Jimi Hendrix clone and the music was less about […]

A Musical Story – PS5 Review

March 2, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 70s / a musical story / indie / music / rhythm action by Richie

It’s been interesting to see puzzle games find their way into my rotation lately. A lot of them have been of an indie persuasion and they haven’t been especially enduring. A puzzler with a good hook or some interesting ideas will always grab me and In My Shadow manages to […]

In My Shadow – PS4 Review

February 25, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged house / in my shadow / jumping / narratively-driven / playbae / puzzle platformer / puzzles / rooms / saws / spikes by Mike

I love a good rhythm-action game. Of all the genres of games I play, this is by far the one that keeps me coming back for more, such is the moreish nature of short-lived experiences that offer immense replay ability. After all, my formative gaming years would be nothing without […]

Beat Souls – PS5 Review

February 25, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged action / beat souls / game eastasiasoft / music / rhythm by Grizz

Mages and Treasures is a puzzle game from yer man lightUP and Ratalaika. It might look familiar to anyone playing the long game with Ratalaika games as we have been. It’s practically identical in terms of layout to another lightUP game that came out the other year on PS4 & […]

Mages and Treasures – PS4 Review

February 24, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged lightup / mages / one note / ratalaika / treasures by Ian

Despite the ‘cover’ art and name suggesting this might be a Bomberman/Dynablaster clone, Dyna Bomb isn’t quite what we expect. This one comes to us from 7 Raven Studios and is a 2D arcade-action puzzler that doesn’t have any strong comparisons with other games and there might be a reason for that but […]

Dyna Bomb – PS4 Review

February 23, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged action / arcade / dyna bomb / platformer / puzzler by Richie