RETURNAL PS5 REVIEW FULL
The mind boggles as to how we got here with Returnal, a full priced, AAA third person shooter with Housemarque’s brand proudly stamped on the box. The point being made by all of this is not that Housemarque just makes for a great PlayStation partner, but they are also notably experienced with smaller, PSN only titles that don’t break the bank. Before Resogun, you had the top-down delights of Matterfall, before that was the nation series ( Dead Nation, Alienation) and long before that you had the game that started the glorious partnership, Super Stardust HD. However, this partnership opened an identity for Housemarque, they quickly made a name for themselves as the go-to studio for arcade shmup thrills.
As a company, Housemarque feels somewhat intrinsically linked with the PlayStation brand, with most of their games being published exclusively, despite being smaller titles in general that could have done with multiplatform exposure. It’s at this time in the last generation that fledgling PS4 owners were treated to the first PS Plus freebie in the form of Resogun, a 2D planed Defender-like game from Swedish developers Housemarque, a studio outfit renowned for excellent, arcade-like shmups that revel in filling your screen with sparkling, deadly bullets.
You know the ones your Killzone: Shadowfalls, Order 1886s and the Ryse: Son of Romes of this world. This is usually the time when you see those shots in the dark, the one-offs that exist primarily as technical showcases or ideas that are purposed into being a launch window title, that would be the cheapest game on the shelf in two years’ time. There is a palpable weight of expectation that comes with being one of the first exclusives out for a new PlayStation generation. In PS5 / Reviews tagged exclusive / housemarque / PS5 / resogun / Returnal / review by Grizz
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