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Steel Seed is a third-person action/adventure game from Italian developers Storm in a Teacup and it tells the story of Zoe, a woman who finds her consciousness has been downloaded into a robot body by her father in his efforts to enable her to save the planet a millennia after […]

Steel Seed – PS5 Review

April 22, 2025 in PS5 tagged action / adventure / double-A / ninja / parkour / stealth / steel seed / storm in a teacup / third-person by Richie

CYGNI is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that comes to us by way of Scottish studio KeelWorks and famed publisher Konami who have surprised us somewhat by putting out an original IP. The game has had quite the media push over the last few months with it landing on the […]

CYGNI: All Guns Blazing – PS5 Review

August 6, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / arcade / cygni / keelworks / twin stick / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Super Jagger Bomb is an arcade action title from Spanish software soloist CheapeeSoft Games. However, anyone who ever frequented an arcade in the ’80s will definitely recognise where this game gets its inspiration from. With its jumping, floating and bomb-collecting action, this game is very much a clone of Tehkan’s […]

Super Jagger Bomb – PS5 Country

October 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / arcade / bomb jack / eastasiasoft / easy platinum / super jagger bomb by Richie

There’s a weird phenomenon that happens sometimes in the indie game scene, where one dev comes up with an idea and almost immediately, another game releases with an uncanny resemblance to that idea. Last November, I reviewed a game called BPM: Bullets Per Minute Which featured the novel concept of marrying […]

Metal Hellsinger – PS5 Review

October 2, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / arch enemy / doom / fps / matt heafy / Metal hellsinger / rhythm / serj tankian / trivium by Grizz

Spiders are a French developer most well known for action RPGs like the enjoyable Greedfall. They’re generally not the most polished titles but they’re reasonably ambitious. Steelrising is also an action RPG, but this time taking a far greater influence from From Software titles. That’s aiming very high, but how […]

Steelrising – PS5 Review

September 7, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / automaton / bloodborne / metroidvania / paris / rpg / Souls / steelrising by Gareth

A few years ago I reviewed Sword and Fairy 6 for PlayStation Country. I still hold it up to this day as the most technically broken game I’ve reviewed, even though the game itself was fairly competent. You can read the review to get the details (though testing it on […]

Sword and Fairy: Together Forever – PS5 Review

August 4, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / chinese / real time / rpg / sword and fairy / together forever by Gareth

I love a good rhythm-action game. Of all the genres of games I play, this is by far the one that keeps me coming back for more, such is the moreish nature of short-lived experiences that offer immense replay ability. After all, my formative gaming years would be nothing without […]

Beat Souls – PS5 Review

February 25, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged action / beat souls / game eastasiasoft / music / rhythm by Grizz

Despite the ‘cover’ art and name suggesting this might be a Bomberman/Dynablaster clone, Dyna Bomb isn’t quite what we expect. This one comes to us from 7 Raven Studios and is a 2D arcade-action puzzler that doesn’t have any strong comparisons with other games and there might be a reason for that but […]

Dyna Bomb – PS4 Review

February 23, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged action / arcade / dyna bomb / platformer / puzzler by Richie

I do sometimes quiver in fear whenever a visual novel comes my way. Thankfully, Eternal Radiance is perhaps more JRPG than visual novel with a focus seemingly split between the two. Visualnoveler successfully kickstarted a PC release in 2020 and they’ve billed it as an action RPG first and foremost. […]

Eternal Radiance – PS4 Review

January 25, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged action / combat / eternal radiance / jrpg / knights / quests / skill tree / visual novel / visualnoveler by Mike

When Vaas Montenegro, the charismatic psychopathic bad guy from Far Cry 3, talked about the definition of insanity, there was a certain irony that he was a creation of Ubisoft, the publishing behemoth behind such series as Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six. We’re all well-used to their tried and tested formula built […]

Far Cry 6 – PS5 Review

October 15, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / far cry / far cry 6 / fps / open world / sandbox by Richie

I recently reviewed the Mass Effect Legendary Edition and pointed out that minus a couple of features it was a collection done right. Now it’s the turn of the Ninja Gaiden Master Collection, also three games from the previous generation packed together. Things aren’t as straightforward here, which I’ll get […]

Ninja Gaiden Master Collection – PS4 Review

July 3, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2 / 3 / action / character action / difficult / hack and slash / master collection / metroidvania / ninja gaiden / razor's edge / sigma by Gareth

Capcom have been on a bit of roll with the Resident Evil franchise in recent years. After the excellent remake of Resident Evil 2, they followed it up a year later with a remake of Resident Evil 3. That was maybe too quick a turn around as it felt far […]

Resident Evil Village – PS5 Review

May 14, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / first person / horror / mercenaries / re:verse / resident evil / treasure / village by Gareth