![]() Being able to go wherever you want is great in theory, and there were times when I figured out a puzzle or took down a section where I really felt a sense of accomplishment. The lack of direction in Recompile is a big part of its appeal, and I do like how much the game trusts the player to make their own choices. Restore points are generously placed about, but losing a small amount of progress can mean repeating frustrating platforming sections. They can fire from incredible distances, allowing enemies you can’t even see to sometimes become serious threats. Bosses in particular leave you feeling very underpowered early on, but even regular enemies can often kill you before you even start to engage them. You also have a slow single-shot pistol that doesn’t provide you with adequate defense against the game’s inconsistent AI. This can take a strangely long time, simply waiting for the death that everyone except the game has already realized is inevitable. Despite this, your character won’t actually die until you reach the ground. Your character can only survive so much of a drop and there’s often nothing to land on anyway. Moving across pipes often felt like a nightmare, leaving me convinced I would fall to my doom at any second.ĭeath from a fall can be especially annoying because so many areas here are set high in the sky. This could work with tight controls but far too often I felt more lucky than skilled when I finally made it through an area. The developers seem to be in love with nontraditional platforms, curved edges, and jagged pieces you need to reach. You have a single jump that feels a bit too floaty and makes some of Recompile’s tougher platforming sections a nightmare to proceed through. Your initial tool kit is lacking, to say the least. Some areas really require upgrades found in other parts of the game, but there’s nothing to tell you that until you arrive and find yourself unable to proceed. You’re supposed to repair the computer’s various cores, but the order you tackle them is mostly up to you. After an opening section which is fairly linear and meant to teach you the basics, you’ll find yourself in an open-world Metroidvania with little direction. You control an AI installed into a damaged computer to repair it. Time and again, though, I ended up frustrated by design choices that work against it and visual design that looks great in screenshots but in practice makes Recompile difficult to enjoy. Despite its flaws, I found myself pulled back to it again and again, desperate to see what came next. With a great look and an original outlook, there’s definitely something interesting about Recompile. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Recompile Review: A Great Look But Not Much More Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. ![]() ![]() Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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