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Flat Kingdom is a 2D-ish puzzle platformer that comes to us by way of Mexican coders Fat Panda. It first emerged over in PC Country back in 2016 but has now found its way to PSN thanks to prolific porters Ratalaika Games. The game is set in the titular Flat […]

Flat Kingdom Paper’s Cut Edition – PS5 Review

April 6, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / flat kingdom / paper / puzzle platformer / ratalaika by Richie

I know games sometimes like to cover civil unrest, protest and it’s consequences but they largely don’t concern themselves too much with ethical quandaries behind the curtain. There’s always a greater good and the good guys usually win out. Vengeful Heart has a fairly obvious cause to fight for but […]

Vengeful Heart – PS5 Review

April 4, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / dystopia / eco-terrorists / insurgency / l / narratively-driven / salmon snake / vengeful heart / visual novel by Mike

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

The Ascent is a top-down, twin-stick action RPG from Swedish software house Neon Giant. It’s their first game but members of Neon Giant were involved in Gears of War, Doom, Wolfenstein and PSC favourite Bulletstorm. With its top-down perspective and ‘dungeon-crawling’ mission structure, a lot of people seem to think of The Ascent as […]

The Ascent – PS5 Review

March 28, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / the ascent / top down / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Royal Frontier is a strategy game from prolific Canadian coders Woblyware and it comes to us by way of Ratalaika Games. Now, we tend to review the vast majority of games from Ratalaika and so we knew we could most likely request a review code for this one but with half […]

Royal Frontier – PS5 Review

March 21, 2022 in PS5 tagged king's bounty / ratalaika / royal frontier / tactical / turn based strategy 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

The deck building Rogue-lite has some strong representatives. Slay the Spire is probably the best on PlayStation but there are other examples on other platforms and even something like Neoverse is a good time. Roguebook is in a similar vein but has enough twists to make it stand out. You […]

Roguebook – PS5 Review

March 16, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / cards / deck builder / Ink / neoverse / rogue-lite / roguebook / slay the spire / turn-based by Gareth

Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 5 is the latest installment of Italian motorsports sim specialists, Milestone srl’s surprisingly new motorbiking series. We say surprisingly because despite their being five of these now, this series only started in 2018 and has had a new installment each year. It seems somewhat […]

Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 5 – PS5 Review

March 16, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged monster energy supercross 5 / motocross / motorbikes / racing / sport / supercross by Richie

I haven’t play a WWE wrestling game since Smackdown 2 on the Playstation but I’d always heard in passing about Visual Concepts tribulations with the license. I’ve been aware of the animation glitches, the bugs and the general sentiment that the games became too complicated over time. This all […]

WWE 2K22 – PS5 Review

March 13, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fighting / rey mysterio / royal rumble / tag team / visual concepts / wrestlemania / wrestling / wwe 2k22 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

It’s been a while since a proper one of these. Gran Turismo 7 is Polyphony’s Digital’s return to the mainline series and effectively celebrates the 25th anniversary of a very specific product. With that comes a lot of familiarity but a few new tweaks that do add some flavour to […]

Gran Turismo 7 – PS5 Review

March 9, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cars / digital polyphony / drifting / driving / gran turismo 7 / online multiplayer / racing / rallying / time trial by Mike

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