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Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Japanese devs Illogic Games and is the latest release from the ever-prolific eastasiasoft. While the shooting is front and centre, as you’d expect, Illogic have also elevated the importance of the story which is something you generally don’t see […]

Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris – PS5 Review

April 6, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventures in venaris / eastasiasoft / flightpath / shoot up em / upgrades / vertically scrolling by Richie

Die After Sunset is a third-person shooter with rogue-like elements and it comes to us by way of Spanish studio Playstark. With its colourful palette, a host of crates to loot and a lot of verticality, the immediate comparison is with the insanely popular Fortnite and certainly this game does have […]

Die After Sunset – PS5 Review

September 1, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged die after sunset / fortnite / playstark / risk of rain 2 / rogue-like / upgrades by Richie

Nova Strike is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from French/Thai developers Sanuk Games. We last encountered their work when we reviewed their Tetris clone, Tetraminos, but now they’ve switched gears entirely with this rogue-like shooter. That said, they’ve dabbled in a lot of genres in the past since making Gameboy Advance games in 2006. This […]

Nova Strike – PS5 Review

August 5, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / horizontally-scrolling / nova strike / retro / shoot em up / upgrades by Richie

Rogue-likes/lites come in many different flavours, some will let arcade skills balance out the randomness if you’re good enough for example. Crown Trick on PS4 does not, you only have your own tactical nuance to help battle the RNG. if you want to make the game go faster you should […]

Crown Trick – PS4 Review

September 15, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged crown trick / grid based / luck / rng / rogue-lite / rpg / turn-based / upgrades by Gareth

We’re self-confessed fans of 10Tons Ltd and their range of twin-stick shoot ’em ups and have been covering their reappearance as PS5 titles happily. It started with Jydge which got a surprising re-release as a PS5 launch title and since then we’ve given positive reviews to Undead Horde and their new joint Tesla […]

Tesla vs Lovecraft – PS5 Review

December 30, 2020 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 10tonsltd. tesla vs lovecraft / action / arcade / retro / twin-stick shooter / upgrades by Richie

We reviewed the PS4 version of Jydge back in 2017 and it turned out to be a real hidden gem. It was a twin-stick shooter with an emphasis on weapon and character upgrades and it benefitted from some truly excellent level design. In going for the platinum trophy we really […]

Jydge – PS5 Review

November 24, 2020 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 10tonsltd / 2000 ad / dredd / hidden gem / jydge / neonchrome / roguelike / twin stick / upgrades by Richie

I’ve come around to the idea of rogue-likes, though I prefer a rogue-lite if I’m honest, I like to see some sort of progression. It’s taken some classics to convince me that losing your progress every time you fail isn’t always a bad thing but that means newcomers have a […]

Fury Unleashed – PS4 Review

May 6, 2020 in PS4 tagged 2d platforming / comic / fury unleashed / rogue-lite / shooter / upgrades by Gareth

It Came From Space and Ate Our Brains is a top down, twin stick shooter from Polish developers All In! Games. As you can probably guess, it has you facing off against hordes of aliens during an invasion of Earth. You, and up to three other players if you play in […]

It Came From Space And Ate Our Brains – PS4 ...

February 2, 2020 in PS4 tagged aliens / it came from space but used a weird lack of capitalisation / twin-stick shooter / upgrades / weapons by Richie

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

September 13, 2016 in PS4 tagged 2d / hacking / humour / platformer / rive / side-scrolling shooter / upgrades by Gareth

AeternoBlade was released over a year ago on 3DS and earlier this year on PS Vita. By little known Thailand based studio Corecell Technology, this Metroidvania style, time based adventure has just been released on the PS4. But is it worth your time? Ha, time. That’s good stuff. You play […]

AeternoBlade – PS4 Review

August 18, 2015 in PS4 tagged it's hip to press square / metroidvania / revenge / time / upgrades by Gareth