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Awesome Pea – PS4 | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 27th February 2019
| PS4, Review
| 0

If Super Meat Boy, had been redesigned and released for the original Game Boy, you’d have Awesome Pea. An ambitious attempt at capturing the enjoyable frustration that the platformer genre can offer. Does Awesome Pea have what it takes to stand tall amongst the other platforming greats? I think so.…read more >

Evoland: Legendary Edition – PS4 | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 9th February 2019
| PS4, Review
| 0

Evoland is a game that has very much remained on my radar since it first came out in 2013. I can vividly remember being excited as I watched other players venture through the first few stages of the game, evolving as they went and I was eager to try it…read more >

Kingdom Hearts 3 – PS4 | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 1st February 2019
| PS4, Review
| 0

Reviewing Kingdom Hearts 3 is one behemoth of a task. In part, because it’s the first mainline game released since 2005, but also because of what the series means to me, personally. Gleefully running around Destiny Islands attempting to build a raft to other worlds is safely among my first…read more >

Song of Memories – PS4 | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 25th January 2019
| PS4, Review
| 0

One of the most important aspects of any video game, in my opinion, lies in its ability to create a unique universe and fill it with interesting characters. A game can be an absolute slog and grind, but if the world you inhabit is captivating enough, the gameplay oddly enough…read more >

Hello Neighbour: Hide and Seek – PS4 | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 16th December 2018
| PS4, Review
| 0

The idea behind the Hello Neighbour series of games is ingenious. A stealth horror game that actually learns from you, making each attempt progressively harder? It’s a game concept that is so blindingly obvious, and yet few had attempted it prior Dynamic Pixels; 2017 hit ‘Hello Neighbour’ – fast forward…read more >

Nairi: The Tower of Shiri – Nintendo Switch | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 29th November 2018
| Review, Switch
| 0

I’m going to hold my hands up and say: Point-and-click adventure puzzle games have never really been my thing. I’ve owned games like Day Of The Tentacle and Grim Fandango but honestly found those games hard to truly get into – I found them slow and was just generally uninterested…read more >

The Long Journey Home – PS4 | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 18th November 2018
| PS4, Review
| 0

Space: The final frontier. In The Long Journey Home, it’s your mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to go boldly where no one has gone before…or at least attempt to, in-between some questionable minigames and an eclectic mix of alien species. The…read more >

Transistor – Nintendo Switch | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 8th November 2018
| Review, Switch
| 0

At this point, I own Transistor on at least three different platforms – I’d pick it up on sale, part of a bundle or just on a whim, but never got around to playing it. But now that I have played it, I truly understand what I’ve missed out on…read more >

Overload – PS4 | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 4th November 2018
| PS4, Review
| 0

As gamers we’ve been treated to some downright incredible revival in recent years – Doom (2016), A Hat In Time and Timespinner are all games that have taken a genre and reinvented it for 2018, giving us updated and streamlined gameplay and providing a new spin on genres that had…read more >

Timespinner – PS4 | Review

By Owain Thresher
| 29th September 2018
| PS4, Review
| 0

Timespinner has been a bit of a slow burner for me. I’d first heard about the game a couple years ago when its Kickstarter campaign was launched and instantly fell in love with the idea of it – but time passed, and I soon completely forgot about the game… that…read more >