Aaron Riccio
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New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Aaron:
'Octopath Traveler II' Review: Into the Great Wide Pixel Art Open
'Octopath Traveler II' is a great game to get lost in eight times over. → Read More
'Wanted: Dead' Review: Where Imagination Dies
Good luck finding redeeming value in 'Wanted: Dead.' → Read More
'The Knight Witch' Review: Firing on All Cylinders
The Knight Witch is a whip-smart, beautifully hand-drawn bullet-hell Metroidvania. → Read More
'Rocksmith+' Review: A Guitar-Teaching Service That Will Rock You
For a beginner guitarist, 'Rocksmith+' is a godsend. → Read More
Indie Roundup: Bonkies, Olija, and NUTS
Nuclear Jenga, anyone? → Read More
Darksiders III Game Review by Aaron Riccio
Though she wields a whip, Darksiders III‘s protagonist, Fury, is anything but whip-smart. In fact, as the various angels, demons, and humans on post-apocalypse Earth continue to tell her, she’s the stupidest of the Four Horsemen—alongside War, Death, and Strife—prone to violence and not much else. This is, sadly, mostly true of Darksiders III itself, which has a surfeit of dumb, mechanical… → Read More
Fe Game Review by Aaron Riccio
Players will spend much of Fe freeing wildlife from the humanoid Silent Ones and learning to speak the language of nature. A shame, then, that the game's flora and fauna have so little to say. The simplistic, polygonal aesthetic through which most of the landscape has been rendered only reinforces the game's resounding emptiness. The terrain changes, from river-run valley and oceanside swamp to… → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 11, “Great Again”
The finale of American Horror Story: Cult ends on an unmistakably cathartic note. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 10, “Charles (Manson) in Charge”
The latest episode of American Horror Story: Cult manages to get back to the inspired lunacy of the season's first few installments. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 9, “Drink the Kool-Aid”
The latest episode of American Horror Story is both immediate and specific and an overgeneralized metaphor for American politics. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 8, “Winter of Our Discontent”
The latest episode of American Horror Story makes clear how people selfishly enable maniacal individuals out of a profound sense of weakness. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 7, “Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag”
There's plenty of room here to send-up Trump's distraction politics, but Cult isn't landing the punch. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 6, “Mid-Western Assassin”
Almost everything in the latest episode of American Horror Story plays a bit too much like a thesis presentation. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 5, “Holes”
It takes less than 30 seconds for the latest episode of American Horror Story: Cult to reference its title. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 4, “11/9”
The latest Cult manages to imbue its eventual villains with a level of empathy that's new to American Horror Story. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 3, “Neighbors from Hell”
The latest episode of American Horror Story all too happily reminds us that strong emotions make people do crazy, often nonsensical things. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 2, “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark”
For better and worse, the horror on American Horror Story: Cult is all text and no subtext. → Read More
American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Episode 1, “Election Night”
American Horror Story: Cult's random acts of violence don't confront fear so much as exploit it. → Read More
Game of Thrones Recap: Season 7, Episode 7, “The Dragon and the Wolf”
Violence is tantalizingly withheld in the season finale of Game of Thrones. → Read More
Game of Thrones Recap: Season 7, Episode 5, “Eastwatch”
The latest episode of Game of Thrones is like watching speed chess played between grandmasters. → Read More