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PS4-to-PS5 game updates chewed on

This month the torrent of games upgrading from PS4 to PS5 has slowed a little as we await some big releases (Metro Exodus Enhanced just misses this issue). But that doesn’t mean you should sleep on those below, as PS5 is the console of second chances.

While some PS5 upgrades simply spruce up the visuals Maid Of Sker developer Wales Interactive is using the opportunity to include some features intended for the original release. New challenge modes (The Long Night, Axe Of Kindness, Nightmare At The Hotel, and In Darkness) bring combat to the game, each offering different settings, limitations, and goals. Alongside these new ways to experience the horrors of Hotel Sker, this PS5 version offers Performance and Fidelity modes (play in 4K at 30fps or 1440p at 60fps), faster loading times, and improved textures. DualSense support is comprehensive, with haptic feedback implemented to enable you to feel footsteps, environment interaction, and healing; adaptive triggers are used to implement the new combat features. You can feel the difference between weapons now.

Toriko now has new diseases! You can almost feel how proud the developer is of its PS5 upgrade for Void tRrLM();++ //Void Terrarium++. This is a strange little game from NIS America that we’re sure you never played on PS4. Controlling a small robot, you need to venture into a post-apocalyptic world to search items to heal Toriko – possibly the last human alive. Or is she? Alongside those new diseases this upgrade features more outfits and actions (play hide-and-seek with Toriko) as well as a visual makeover, though it’s still no looker.

More visually arresting is the upgraded edition of puzzler Manifold Garden. The PS5 edition of the game, which is free if you own the PS4 version, runs at native 4K at 60fps, and its geometric puzzle worlds load incredibly quickly. This even makes use of PS5’s Activity Card system to enable you to jump into puzzles and resume where you left off. Similarly, if you’re a PS Plus subscriber you can access tips and solutions using the Official Game Help feature – Manifold Garden’s currently one of the few games to offer this option. The DualSense controller is used in some interesting ways too, enabling you to feel how you interact with the world and sense objects moving from one side of the screen to the other.