Indie games can be mental; they can cover ground big budget releases wouldn’t touch, tackle topics which make you think and move you to tears or just provide a very different artistic vision.  Lichtspeer is a game about throwing spears of light at an endless horde of quasi futuristic Germanic […]

Lichtspeer – PS4 Review

Whenever a game is a tad difficult these days, it is usually compared to Dark Souls. Well, if ever a game deserved the whole ‘it’s the 2D Dark Souls‘ description, Slain: Back From Hell might be it. It certainly has to the two main qualifying criteria. A dark, gothic look […]

Slain: Back From Hell – PS4 Review

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Let’s get the obvious out the way. Mount & Blade is an old game. Originally released on the PC back in 2007 to middling to positive reviews owing to an intriguing combat system and somewhat shaky production values. Warband was an expansion pack to the original game and included a […]

Mount & Blade: Warband – PS4 Review

Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors is a new Nippon Ichi Software title on the Vita and the sequel to Criminal Girls: Invite Only which was itself a remake of Criminal Girls on the PSP. I never got around to playing the original and was only aware of it for its […]

Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors – Vita Review

What do you mean you’ve never heard of the Lastman comics?  The cult French comic which throws together boxers, gangsters, drugs and the supernatural.  LASTFIGHT is a 3D brawler based on this licence with a strong callback to Powerstone this is a four player affair with bags of cartoon character. LASTFIGHT has a couple […]

LASTFIGHT – PS4 Review

Originally a Half-Life 2 mod, Dear Esther became a commercial product in 2012. Four years later, an expanded and repackaged version of The Chinese Room’s breakout hit has arrived on the current generation of consoles. Its arguably one of the founding moments of the walking simulator phenomenon and I’m curious […]

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition – PS4 Review

MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death is a new dungeon crawling RPG from Compile Heart and published by Idea Factory. There are actually a surprising number of these on the Vita already so how does this new one stack up? The world has stopped turning which is obviously a bad thing but […]

MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death – Vita Review

Reviewing visual novels is a tough thing to do. I review games, that involves looking at the story and the presentation but most importantly the gameplay. Visual novels don’t have gameplay, at least not in the traditional sense, so what am I reviewing exactly? I’m just going to give you […]

Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness – PS4 Review

Once again, football returns and with it comes the traditional battleground of Konami vs EA. Pro Evolution Soccer‘s been taking some big strides in recent memory and Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 is hoping to lace up its boots and push on. The big changes touted this season relate to the […]

Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 – PS4 Review

Namco sure do love digging up Pac-Man every chance they get but they’ve actually got a good track record with the yellow fellow.  From the classic arcade original all the way up to now, there have been so many good games.  None more so than Pac-Man Championship Edition and Pac-Man […]

Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 – PS4 Review

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RIVE is a 360 degree shooter/platformer hybrid from Two Tribes. You play as Roughshot, a space scavenger who gets trapped on a mysterious starship. It doesn’t take long to realise what sort of game RIVE is, from its personality to its gameplay, it wears its heart on its sleeve. You […]

RIVE – PS4 Review

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Around eight years ago, a game called Wartech: Senko no Ronde was released in arcades and on the Xbox 360 and offered gamers a very strange mix of genres.  Essentially a bullet hell shoot ’em up but in a very arcadey one-on-one fighting game format, the game had its fans, […]

Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet – PS4 Review