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Sometimes, when it comes to reviewing games, you encounter one that has such little going on, that it is just difficult to find the words to write down for it. Often, this boils down to your typical retro arcade titles or throwback platformer, where simply listing the inspiration is enough […]

A Short Hike – PS4 Review

December 10, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged a / Hike / literally / ps4 / review / short by Grizz

A party game with a good hook can go a long way. We’ve seen plenty emerge that have hit the right note and the latest to step into the fray is Rubber Bandits. Coming from Flashbulb Games, this brawler centred around thievery is a quick, simple effort that seems to […]

Rubber Bandits – PS4 Review

December 9, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade mode / brawler / co-op / cops and robbers / flashbulb games / heist / online multiplayer / party game / rubber bandits / theft by Mike

Nuclear Corps is an arcade/puzzler which comes by way of the PlayStation Talents programme. It’s full title is actually Nuclear Corps: Veterans in Fukushima and it is inspired by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 where an earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown of a nuclear energy plant in Japan. That day a group […]

Nuclear Corps – PS4 Review

December 7, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / lost vikings / nuclear corps / PlayStation Talents / puzzle by Richie

Night Lights is described as a 2D puzzle platformer by its devs, Montreal-based Meridian4, and that’s kind of true but we’ve seen a lot of those from Ratalaika Games, the publisher here, and this one is a bit different. Indeed with its back-and-forth, linked-up levels, this is more of a […]

Night Lights – PS4 Review

December 1, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / metroidvania / night lights / platformer / ratalaika by Richie

Truth be told, I’ve not enjoyed much from the Playstation Talents initiative. Whilst these do seem to be primarily from student developers and small indie studios, there’s always been rough around the edges and fairly ramshackle in construction. To my surprise, Twogether: Project Indigos Chapter 1 manages to deliver some […]

Twogether: Project Indigos Chapter 1 – PS4 Review

November 30, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged big pharma / child farming / lab rat / puzzle platforming / sci fi / telekinesis / teleportation / twogether project indigos chapter 1 by Mike

Beneath a Steel Sky is a classic point and click adventure, but I’ve not played it. I do own it on Steam but when I saw Beyond a Steel Sky was made by Revolution Software as a big Broken Sword fan back in the day I had to check it […]

Beyond a Steel Sky – PS4 Review

November 30, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 3d / a steel sky / beneath / beyond / broken sword / point and click / revolution software / sci fi by Gareth

Space Elite Force 2 in 1 is a compilation of two shoot ’em ups by Moraes Studio, a small Brazilian-based studio headed up by Alysson Moraes. For your small sum of money you get ports of his 2018 shooter Space Elite Force and its 2020 sequel Space Elite Force II. Both games are […]

Space Elite Force 2 in 1 – PS4 Review

November 28, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / compilation / easy platinum / retro / shoot em up / space force elite by Richie

Bassmaster Fishing 2022 then. Coming to us from Dovetail Games, dev and publisher of the Train Simulator games, this is a competitive fishing game writ large as only America knows how. The back of a fag packet scribble for this is NASCAR and Sega Bass Fishing made a baby. Even […]

Bassmaster Fishing 2022 – PS5 Review

November 23, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged all about that bass / bass / bassmaster / dovetail / keep bitin' at the bait / peace out premier take me out with the fader by Ian

We reviewed Crysis Remastered just over a year ago giving it a fair 8, so we were intrigued to receive Crysis Remastered Trilogy. We thought that it might be some kind of unified affair like the Master Chief Collection from those noisy neighbours in Redmond. But no, it turned out […]

Crysis Trilogy Remastered – PS4 Review

November 18, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Cry if i want to / crying in the rain / crysis remastered / crytek / remaster / will it run crysis by Ian

Gynoug continues Ratalaika Games recent trend of porting obscure old shoot ’em ups to modern systems. As with their previous port, Gleylancer, this game is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up that was first released in 1991 on the Sega Megadrive (American readers will know it better as Wings of Wor). The game […]

Gynoug – PS5 Review

November 16, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / gynoug / horizontally-scrolling / Mega Drive / port / remaster / retro / shoot em up by Richie

Backbone from Vancouver-based developer Egg Nut and publisher Raw Fury is, to use their own words, a a pixel art cinematic adventure with stealth and action elements. That’s labouring the point a little bit perhaps as it’s more a walking and talking gumshoe-em-up. Think film noir scenes based on a […]

Backbone – PS5 Review

November 15, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged backbone / egg nut / howard lotor / raw fury by Ian

Insomnis is a first-person horror-themed walking simulator and puzzle game that comes to us by way of Barcelona-based coders Path Games and is the latest product of Spain’s ‘PlayStation Talents’ indie games programme. Despite its name sounding like a typo (try Googling it and see how much Google protests), we […]

Insomnis – PS4 Review

November 12, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 10p resi / first person / google it with quotation marks / horror / insomnis / puzzle / walking simulator by Richie