Aaron Riccio's Reviews
In single-player or multiplayer, Hidden Agenda is a game in which winning almost always feels like losing.
Knack 2 falters when it stops reinventing elements from other games and starts cannibalizing itself.
When the game settles into straightforward action, it comes across as a retread of past Uncharted entries.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice‘s strongest sequences mirror specific physical symptoms or psychological fears.
Whether or not you suffer from simulator sickness, Bloober Team's latest, Observer, will make you queasy.
Almost every element ties into the game's overarching theme, which calls into question rules and tradition.
Without a way to fail, Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles just soldiers on like its fishing minigame.
It fares best when it escapes the environs of your oasis and delves into its all-too-rare puzzled-filled dungeons.
It wants to be more of a three-dimensional museum, one that carefully categorizes emotions, than a game.
At its best, the game is a perfect marriage between the telling of a story and one's first-hand engagement with it.
The game is beautiful to look at from a distance but disappointing up close and ultimately functionless.
It benefits nobody to see heroes so emotionally minimized in their single-minded pursuit of a powerful artifact.
Thimbleweed Park ends up feeling like a flashback to the good old days of LucasArts adventure games.
The game isn’t interested in coasting on nostalgia, but in establishing brand-new memories for the next generation.
Instead of boldly striking out into the unknown, Mass Effect: Andromeda merely imposes its most predictable habits onto it.
The overwhelming size of Wildlands‘s open world is often used to disguise the game’s lack of real freedom within it.
Tales of Berseria, the 17th entry in the Tales series, is always pushing through to bigger and better things.
Much like an actual modern-day factory, Splash Team's Splasher abides by an assembly-line philosophy.
This port of the 2015 Wii U title Yoshi's Wooly World doesn't try to break the mold, though it's certainly cuter.
Although Rise & Shine may sometimes look like a more cartoonish version of Contra, it doesn't play like one...and the majority of battles ultimately play out as fast-paced puzzles that test how well a player can prioritize targets.