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PS5 Review - Page 12

by Matt
November 12, 2025
Retro/Reviews/RPG/Sony PlayStation 5

Review: Sacred 2 Remaster (Sony PlayStation 5)

Sacred 2 Remaster is such a hot mess of a hot mess of a game. To be very clear: I love it so, so much. Sacred 2: Fallen Angel was released back in 2008. Remember those days? We all had PlayStation 3s and Xbox 360s. Physical retail for games was still a thing, and subscription services weren’t ruining everything. The…

Reviews/simulation/Sony PlayStation 5/Ubisoft

Review: Anno 117: Pax Romana (Sony PlayStation 5)

Of all the empires in all of history, the Roman Empire seems to have a unique ability to captivate.  Perhaps because it was the first large-scale European empire – the one that “tamed Europe” as such, and so people look to it as the genesis of “Western civilisation.” It’s certainly…

Review: Tormented Souls 2 (Sony PlayStation 5)

The best way to think of Tormented Souls 2 is as an…

Review: Painkiller (Sony PlayStation 5)

I’m not the world’s biggest fan of first-person shooters, but People Can…

Review: The Last Of Us Part 1 (Sony PlayStation 5)

September 1, 2022
PlayStation 5/Sony/The Last Of Us

Almost a decade ago, Sony published The Last Of Us on PlayStation 3. The sheer hyperbole that the game got was, in retrospect, silly. Empire even went as far as to say that the very cinematic game was comparable to Citizen Kane. Of course, since then, Sony alone has published…

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Review: Dusk Diver 2 (Sony PlayStation 5)

August 25, 2022
action RPG/Dusk Diver/JRPG/PlayStation 5/Reviews

ARGH! Argh, argh, argh, arghhhhhhhhhh! Dusk Diver 2 is so frustrating. So utterly, cruelly frustrating. Somehow this sequel is even more frustrating than its predecessor. I can see what the developer wanted to achieve with it, and I appreciate it on so many levels. It just doesn’t come together in…

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Review: Pac-Man World: Re-PAC (Sony PlayStation 5)

August 25, 2022
3D platformer/Bandai Namco/PlayStation 5/Reviews

I had no idea that the original Pac-Man World was so well regarded. I had never played it, nor any of its sequels (despite being a general fan of the yellow pizza-man), but in researching the original for this review I did see that it was sold and reviewed very…

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Review: Soul Hackers 2 (Sony PlayStation 5)

August 19, 2022
Atlus/JRPG/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 5

Soul Hackers 2 is a throwback to the glory days of Shin Megami Tensei. There was a point where Atlus’ premier property focused on ideas rather than sheer style, and some real classics came out of that approach. SMT 3: Nocturne and the Digital Devil Saga duo were my favourites…

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Review: Thymesia (Sony PlayStation 5)

August 16, 2022
Reviews/Sony PlayStation 5/Souls Clone/Team 17/Uncategorized

Releasing a “Soulslike” in the same year as Elden Ring is, I would argue, unwise. You’re never going to come off well in that comparison and it’s only going to result in your game being judged more harshly than it deserves to be. In that context, Thymesia really should have…

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Review: Stray (Sony PlayStation 5)

July 19, 2022
Annapurna Interactive/Indie/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 5

For the entire prelaunch hype cycle behing Stray, if you mentioned “the cat game”, people knew exactly what game you were talking about. It seemed like the perfect mix of cute & cuddly, since it was about a furrball, and a contrasting cyberpunk dystopian aesthetic, complete with funky (and also…

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Review: Matchpoint: Tennis Championships (Sony PlayStation 5)

July 8, 2022
PlayStation 5/Reviews/sports game

I’ve yet to lose a match in Matchpoint Tennis, and that’s the game’s one substantial flaw. Unfortunately, that one issue effectively ruins it. What’s the point of a sports game that is so lacking in difficulty that there’s no risk of a loss? The entire genre is meant to be…

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Review: Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel (Sony PlayStation 5)

June 28, 2022
Horror/Indie/Reviews

The biggest problem with Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel is that it lacks an identity of its own. The developers are clearly fans and students of the horror genre, stretching all the way back to Resident Evil, and have done a passable job of building a warm homage to it.…

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Review: Spellforce III Reforced (Sony PlayStation 5)

June 17, 2022
PlayStation 5/Reviews

Spellforce III is one of those games that, even a generation ago, would have been inconceivable as a console release. The game’s blend of RTS and RPG mechanics would have been deemed too complex for a controller to bother with, and the developers and publishers alike would have assumed that…

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Review: Vampire: The Masquerade Swansong (Sony PlayStation 5)

May 18, 2022
Reviews/Vampire the Masquerade

Big Bad Wolf, the developer behind 2018’s The Council, was the right developer to tackle Vampire: The Masquerade. The execution of Swansong isn’t perfect, but the effort to recreate the pen-and-paper experience is spot-on, and so, the team at Big Bad Wolf have achieved something that’s increasingly rare in video…

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