Aaron Riccio
Game Critic at Freelance
Half-critic, half-cynic, full-papa: he reviews games @ Slant, pzzls at https://t.co/0qftXx55Tl; & cryptics at https://t.co/Y53ZtPK7T1.
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1 week ago |
slantmagazine.com | Aaron Riccio
Have you played Control? If you haven’t, don’t expect co-operative first-person shooter FBC: Firebreak to tell you that the Federal Bureau of Control uses the Oldest House, the setting of this game, to contain and experiment on paranatural objects. Or that the Hiss are resonant forces that have breached the building and threaten to spill out into the outside world.
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1 month ago |
slantmagazine.com | Aaron Riccio
Yoyos are well-known for going up and down, but Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo only goes in one direction: up. From the moment the young prodigal bat Pippit first arrives at his aunt’s spooky manor, every colorful, jam-packed screen adds to the character of the game’s corporate-run city. Every room also presents an interesting puzzle or battle, sometimes both, which is impressive given that there are hundreds of rooms.
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2 months ago |
slantmagazine.com | Aaron Riccio
As befits a chaotic physics-based action-adventure game, Bionic Bay begins with a big bang. What follows hews to that scale, with your playable scientist character generally appearing as a tiny cluster of pixels amid the massive pipes, lasers, conveyors, and machinery of an alien laboratory torn asunder.
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2 months ago |
slantmagazine.com | Aaron Riccio
In the original Monaco, players assemble one-to-four-person teams and navigate a series of heist scenarios, revealing each area’s floor plan as they go. In the game’s more colorful, more expansive sequel, Monaco 2, your team is given the blueprints from the start, and you can pore over the various means of ingress and escape via gloriously detailed 3D models. Don’t be deceived, though, into thinking that the developers at Pocketwatch Games are going easy on you with this sequel.
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2 months ago |
slantmagazine.com | Aaron Riccio
I’d tell you the specific date on which Blue Prince begins, but there’s a reason that indie developer Dogubomb’s game simply labels the start of your journey as Day 1.
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