vertically-scrolling shoot em up

Tiny Pixels Vol 1 – Ninpo Blast is a ninja-themed vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from the ever-prolific budget publisher eastasiasoft. As with the vast majority of their shoot ’em ups, this utilises a 16-bit style of presentation to offer up a retro-styled experience. That’s well within eastasiasoft’s wheelhouse. We’ve reviewed […]

Tiny Pixels Vol 1 – Ninpo Blast

August 13, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / Ninpo Blast / Tiny Pixels Vol 1 / vertically-scrolling shoot em up 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

RPM – Road Punk Mayhem is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Panda Indie Studio who, along with publisher eastasiasoft, have been responsible for a few shoot ’em ups in recent times. They’ve had mixed results though with Z-Warp and the Project Starship games being okay but with Feeble Light and Excessive […]

RPM – Road Punk Mayhem – PS5 Review

July 21, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged road punk mayhem / RPM / shoot em up / vehicle / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Dead End City is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up by Dublin-based dev Thomas Schreiber otherwise known as Pixel Licker LLC and has been published by the ever-prolific eastasiasoft. However, unlike the usual military/space settings that these games tend to use, this game has a post-apocalyptic Mad Max vibe to it […]

Dead End City – PS5 Review

February 29, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dead end city / eastasiasoft / fury road was rubbish though right? / mad max / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Nephenthesys is a vertically-scrolling, but wide-screen, shoot ’em up from budget kings eastasiasoft and it’s all been put together by enigmatic coders Let’s Dev Studios (we say enigmatic because these guys have no website and no social media presence). A credits screen reveals them to be a small studio with […]

Nephenthesys – PS5 Review

January 17, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / nephenthesys / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

RedRaptor is a traditional vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from publisher eastasiasoft and is the debut effort from Novax Games. As with most of the shoot ’em ups from this publisher, this one is short, reasonably basic and with an initially tricky difficulty level that soon settles down and gives you that […]

RedRaptor – PS5 Review

October 9, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / redraptor / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Feeble Light is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that comes to us by way of prolific publishers Eastasiasoft and is the latest of a series of shooters from Panda Indie Studio who previously brought us Project Starship, Red Death, Void Gore andZ-Warp. These were all similar games to this one in […]

Feeble Light – PS5 Review

July 5, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / panda indie studio / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Danmaku Unlimited 3 is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from one-man Canadian coder, Doragon Entertainment. The previous two games never made it over to PSN, and seem to just be mobile phone efforts, but this game landed on the Switch back in 2019 and has now finally made it to […]

Danmaku Unlimited 3 – PS4 Review

June 15, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged bullet-hell / danmaku unlimited 3 / retro / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

We’re not exactly sure why MOSS and NIS America insist on releasing their Raiden games in such a bizarre order, but following on from Raiden 5: Director’s Cut and Raiden 4 x MIKADO, here is their last updated port and this time it’s Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX. Dating back to 2005, Raiden III is […]

Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX – PS5 Review

June 12, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade port / mikado / raiden III / remaster / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Raiden IV x Mikado Remix is a vertically-scrolling shoot-’em-up from famed Japanese arcade developer MOSS. As with most series from Japan, there’s a degree of… non-linearity to their releases and that’s definitely the case here as Raiden V already exists (we reviewed it five years ago). But a lot of people […]

Raiden IV x Mikado Remix – PS5 Review

January 27, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / japan / raiden / shooter / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Crisis Wing is an old-school, arcade-style vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from one man coding crew Pieslice Productions and is published by Eastasiasoft who have been prolific in recent years when it comes to providing us with this type of shooter. Inspired by the likes of Toaplan, a now defunct Japanese coin-op […]

Crisis Wing – PS5 Review

September 27, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / coin-op / crisis wing / retro / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

While many of our contemporaries like to focus on the big triple-A titles, our roots here at PlayStation Country are in playing the indie stuff and it didn’t get more indie than the now-defunct Xbox Live Indie Games service on the Xbox 360. While that service was plagued with some […]

Shoot 1UP DX – PS4 Review

February 24, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged indie / remaster / rerelease / shoot 1up dx / shoot em up / vertically-scrolling shoot em up / xbox live indie games by Richie