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From boutique Brazilian dev Naoka Games and prolific publisher eastasiasoft, we have Rayland. It’s a very simple concept and we wish we could say it’s been fully fleshed out to a bigger game. You see, Rayland is another bite sized effort with just forty two levels from start to finish. […]

Rayland – PS5 Review

July 19, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / naoka games / ray of light / rayland yutani by Ian

We’ve seen this game before, back in 2018, but Riddled Corpses EX has just had a PS5 release. This game, from French devs Cowcat, is an isometric/top-down twin-stick shooter that places equal emphasis on blasting zombies and upgrading your firepower. Set just after some sort of demonic apocalypse, the game has […]

Riddled Corpses EX – PS5 Review

July 13, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Pixel art / riddled corpses ex / twin-stick shooter / zombies by Richie

From Lowtek Games and Ratalaika comes Parasite Pack. As the name might suggest, this is a couple of smaller games that being thematically similar, made sense to release together. The two games in question are Flea and Tapeworm Disco Puzzle. Flea was originally coded in the Nesmaker game engine with […]

Parasite Pack – PS5 Review

July 8, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged flea / lowtek games / nesmaker / not the rhcp bassist / pull the tapeworm out of your ass / ratalaika / tapeworm disco puzzle by Ian

From Brazilian based Pulsatrix Studios comes Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel. Heavily influenced by Resident Evil, this is a first person survival horror game with a larger emphasis on puzzles than combat. You play as Roberto, an up and coming journalist who has heard about strange goings on in Treze […]

Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel – PS5 Review

July 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bosses / collectibles / first person / Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel / puzzles / resident evil / survival horror by Gareth

Japan can be pretty odd. Some of the strangest games we’ve played have come from there and yet they still have a way of surprising us. However, Yurukill does it in an entirely different way. Instead of being just inherently weird, the developers, IzanagiGames, have squished together two genres that on paper […]

Yurukill: The Calumniation Games – PS5 Review

July 4, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Murder mystery / point and click / shoot em up / visual novel / yurukill by Richie

From longtime developer Rainbow Studios and publisher THQ Nordic, comes the latest iteration in the venerable MX vs ATV series that we first encountered back in the Xbox 360 days. We guess that they’re running out of suffixes as we’re greeted by MX vs ATV Legends this time. At least […]

MX vs ATV Legends – PS5 Review

July 2, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged bink video / buggy mess / mx vs atv legends / rainbow studios / thq nordic by Ian

Everybody has that one game. The one that calls to them periodically, begging to be played. No matter how many times it has been completed, there is still room for one or two more goes for good measure. These are the kind of games you play every year as a […]

Sonic Origins – PS5/PS4 Review

June 30, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / classics / Headgehog / hedgehog / Knuckles / Movie / sega / Sonic Origins by Grizz

Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny came out exclusively (in the West) on Switch a year ago, despite the close connection the series has with the PlayStation platform. That’s now been rectified with the release of Disgaea 6 Complete on PS4 and PS5. All the DLC that has come out over […]

Disgaea 6 Complete – PS5 Review

June 27, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 3d / anime / defiance of destiny / disgaea / dlc / grinding / rpg / strategy by Gareth

Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover is the latest bite-sized effort from our pals at eastasiasoft. As is becoming increasingly familiar, what we’ve got here is a seemingly slight effort, though with more polish than the itch.io stuff punted out by Ratalaika. It’s a sequel to Drunken Fist, oddly enough. That […]

Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover – PS5 Review

June 25, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged billy butcher / drunken fist 2 / eastasiasoft / why is it always zombies by Ian

Redout 2 is the sequel to 2017’s original and is, as expected, another futuristic anti-grav racer in the style of Wipeout. The original was well-received and the game’s Italian devs are claiming that this sequel is bigger, better and is the fastest racing game out there. So how does it stack up in […]

Redout 2 – PS5 Review

June 25, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged futuristic / racing / redout 2 / speed / wipeout by Richie

Thunder Kid II: Null Mission came out on PC a couple of years ago and now lands on PS4 and PS5 courtesy of eastasiasoft. Grizz reviewed the first game here not too long ago and this seems to very much follow in the footsteps of its predecessor. You play as […]

Thunder Kid II: Null Mission – PS4/PS5 Review

June 17, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / easy platinum / null mission / retro aesthetic / short / thunder kid by Gareth

From developer The Bworg (aka Paris Joachim-Farrow) and prolific indie publisher Ratalaika, comes Ten. Or to give it it’s full name, Ten Rooms, Ten Seconds. So you’ll excuse us if we stick with Ten. The title is pretty indicative of what to expect. You’ve ten seconds to survive ever more […]

Ten – PS5 Review

June 17, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged death gauntlet / ratalaika / ten / the bworg by Ian