#recompile

[alpha-beta-gamer]

Recompile is a very stylish cyber-metroidvania where an AI strives for sentience while facing deletion by the mainframe.

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[thecodinglove]

Recompiling a Java app after 6 months spent on PHP

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[bitrise-co-in]

Hacking is one of those things that I think many of us would secretly like to try. The problem with this is that hacking is also a fairly illegal past time and thus probably not a great candidate for a career change. That being said there have be... netgainers.org

[wack-ashimself]

I'm playing a game called recompile. It's about an AI that was tasked with keeping a space base alive while also growing and learning that goes haywire. This is a picture of the Poem in response to a poem its' user recited to it. It was supposed to hit certain themes....

Chat gpt, anyone?

[k3ro]

#recompile #xboxseriesx #xboxscreenshot https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbd54HTFBka/?utm_medium=tumblr

[k3ro]

#recompile #xboxseriesx #xboxscreenshot https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbd5vTvFCFK/?utm_medium=tumblr

[robertomakoto]

TET Anti-virus trying to roast my digital ass

[npfehr]

Photo Credit: Me

Recently Completed: Recompile (Xbox Series X)

This is a 3rd-person Metroidvania set inside a badly damaged computer system. Think Hollow Knight meets Tron, and you're in the neighbourhood. You play as a piece of injected code on a mission to repair the various areas of the computer, while finding upgrades, and recovering text-based logfiles that explain what happened to the original system owners.

For my thoughts this time I want to try something I learned a long time ago: assigning Stars for the things you like, and Wishes for things you wish were different.

Stars:

Lovely aesthetic, sounds, and soundtrack.

The ASCII menus and animations are awesome, and completely sell the "hackery" vibe.

The story logfiles are well-written and it's genuinely interesting to discover the fate of the system administrators.

Wishes:

From the first area onward, platforming is fiddly and I missed many, many jumps, or just slid off the side of something. The game doesn't help by being quite hazy and/or dark in places.

You're often forced to fight on extremely small ledges as well, and will probably just slip off before the enemies get you.

I felt pretty bad at combat so the optional "slow-mo" upgrade, that slows the game world to a crawl, was a godsend. I used it everywhere.

The map looks cool but isn't terribly helpful; at least it could remove icons for upgrades you've already found, which it does not do.

This is sort of a big one, but the game is widely noted for giving very little overt instruction to the player. That doesn't have to be a bad thing! Unfortunately, I made it to the end of the game with various sections of the computer in different states of "repair" (there are meters that show progress) but I actually have no idea what I did other than explore them.

There are even different endings based on your repair levels! But what do you even do to change that? I don't know!!

Anyway, this game is good and worth playing if you like the Metroidvania genre or Tronish things. Just get ready to take a few Frustration Breaks ;)