When I first watched the trailer for Windbound, I thought the same as many would have done when seeing a cartoonish cel-shaded title that bore a more than striking resemblance to that of the later Zelda games. It was only after diving into the game that I found that this […]

Windbound – PS4 Review

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Shing! is a side-scrolling hack and slasher very much in the grand tradition of games such as Golden Axe and, more recently, Castle Crashers.  This is a genre that doesn’t make as many appearances these days as others.  We’re forever reviewing top-down shooters and 2D platform games but, clearly, the golden […]

Shing! – PS4 Review

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Oh dear.   So, here’s the thing about us at PlayStation Country.  We do champion the indies a bit here.  If you want day one reviews of the latest triple-As, we’re not always your go-to site.  But if you look on Metacritic we’re often the only site who have reviewed certain […]

Road Bustle – PS4 Review

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From developer Playful via publisher PQube (in Europe at least) comes New Super Lucky’s Tale. Originally released as an Xbox One X launch title in November 2017 without the ‘New’ part, NSLT is an expanded version of the Xbox game that came out on Switch in November 2019. We’ve finally […]

New Super Lucky’s Tale – PS4 Review

Banner of the Maid is a strategy RPG in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics or Shining Force. It’s been developed in China rather than Japan but that makes little difference as it follows the template closely. The last Chinese developed RPG I reviewed was Sword and Fairy 6 and […]

Banner of the Maid – PS4 Review

I’ve played quite a few Souls clones in the past few years and I generally enjoy them. I played through Code Vein relatively recently and ended up not liking it very much, whilst The Surge 2 I find to be fantastic. Mortal Shell is an indie take on the formula. […]

Mortal Shell – PS4 Review

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Pawarumi is a stylish 3D top-down shooter with a colour-switching mechanic and it comes to us from the recently prolific publishers of shoot ’em ups, EastAsiaSoft.  They’ve been finding their niche with a series of short, arcadey shooters with ‘unique’ visual styles and super easy platinums but Pawarumi is set to […]

Pawarumi – PS4 Review

One thing I like about this job is the opportunity to be genuinely surprised by something. I’ll admit my expectations for Peaky Blinders: Mastermind, based on the BBC drama, were pretty low. Futurlab are at the helm who you might remember as the developers of Velocity2X. They’ve been prolific over […]

Peaky Blinders: Mastermind – PS4 Review

It goes without saying that if you want any new ideas in gaming, you’re best off looking to the indie scene but you do not expect much innovation from a game about cycling.  However, Descenders from Dutch devs, Ragesquid, offers a new spin on the genre.  At its heart, the game […]

Descenders – PS4 Review

Classic adventure games are a genre where I’ve enjoyed the wit an writing at the expense of enduring the puzzles. Epic Llama’s 2017 effort, Darkestville Castle has now arrived on consoles with a clear vision to pay homage to the old Lucas Arts formula. With that comes certain expectations but […]

Darkestville Castle – PS4 Review

PGA Tour 2K21 or to use the slightly shouty official nomenclature PGA TOUR 2K21, is, as the name suggests, published by Take-Two subsidiary 2K Games.  The cover golfer is some guy called Justin Thomas (no, us neither)  apparently ranked #4 in the world. There’s other golfers we have heard of […]

PGA TOUR 2K21 – PS4 Review

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Through the Darkest of Times, to give it what should probably be its true title; “Durch die dunkelste Zeit” is a rare thing. That being a videogame depiction of the Nazi regime from the viewpoint of anti-Nazi agitators. The fact that it comes from Berlin-based indie dev Paintbucket Games makes […]

Through the Darkest of Times – PS4 Review