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In a similar vein to other metroidvanias like Hollow Knight, more of the Mainframe becomes accessible as you unlock movement abilities. While basic, I liked that they weren't too difficult to be major stumbling blocks. Puzzling boils down to hopping on buttons in the right order. One that stands out to me is this sunny sector where you're navigating platforms that resemble flower petals while squid-machines circle you ominously. All of these things are put together cleverly to make each area a fun problem to untangle. Platforms flicker to life as you approach, logic gates snake with light, and generators produce this eery hum. Each sector really does feel like you're rummaging around the guts of some broken code. One of them appears to be a huge Toblerone chunk that spews fire at you.īut no matter how dangerous your mission, the Mainframe is a stunning place to reawaken. One thing that links them all, though, is bringing them whirring back to life by beating a big baddie at the end. Some will require precision platforming, while another may feature a lot of puzzling. Think of these sectors as large dungeons, complete with their own themes. Early on you're dropped into a hub space that's split up into four colour-coded segments, each of which will jet you off to a different sector. It's largely up to you how you approach the installation process in Recompile. I love how codey everything is, from the maps to the menus. Not only is the key to your mission buried in their tales, they overlap in interesting ways as you explore the Mainframe's shattered world. Usually logbooks send me to sleep, but snooping on these human records is a real buzz. As you piece bits of info together, it becomes clear that life on the surface is far from dandy, and in fact they're all trapped in a claustrophobic dystopia. Expect to read lots of diaries penned by people outside the Mainframe who you'll become intimately familiar with, as they describe lives led under the gaze of an AI called Hypervisor.Įach sector of Recompile's Mainframe is home to a number of these logs, each with their own characters and purposes. Even when you've got loads of logbooks to read, which happens to be the game's primary storytelling device. Normally it's a chore watching a bar rise, but boy, controlling this orange fella behind the scenes is a thrill. To what end? Well, it depends how much you learn along the way.Īnd Recompile makes this journey to installation a real treat.

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Do this, and you'll be able to install yourself in the system. You must navigate this long-dormant network and bring its four sectors flickering back to life. Recompile is a 3D metroidvania by Phigames that has you guide an athletic program through the innards of a crippled system called the Mainframe.

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Turns out proper hacking actually involves weighty double jumps and shooting antivirus software and uncovering the mysteries of an all-seeing AI, all of which rules.

But action adventure game Recompile has transformed me. I always thought coding was basically magic and I wouldn't be cut out for it.

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From: Steam, GOG, Humble, Epic Games StoreĮver since I watched that gif of the bloke going around smashing keyboards in what looks like a PC World and pretending to hack things, I've thought how cool it would be to become a hacker person.

It could be clearer at times and combat's only fine, but this is a world you'll want to install regardless.

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A hacking action adventure that makes exploring code a platformy, puzzly treat.