![]() ![]() Don’t tackle this area first and you’re a constant sitting duck and the game’s bosses are all but impossible. ![]() For instance, the red “TET” area contains almost all the game’s weapon upgrades, as well as slow motion and dodge abilities, which combine to make combat tolerable. The game offers a certain amount of open-endedness, as the game allows you to choose between several areas to explore first, although there’s definitely a preferred order you should do things in. In terms of gameplay, Recompile sticks closely to the traditional Metroidvania format – you explore, solve the occasional puzzle, and collect abilities to open new paths forward. Recompile is an interesting study of how even noble endeavors can easily go wrong and how dangerous sentient AI can be, even in the “right hands.” This is one of the rare adventure games where collecting all the text files is actually worth your time. Hypervisor isn’t warped by any malicious villain, but by the everyday laziness, carelessness, and ego of the scientists working with it. ![]() The idea of AI run amok isn’t exactly a new one, but it is well-handled here. Slowly you’ll begin to piece together the true purpose of the computer you inhabit… and how everything went wrong. The computer is run by an advanced, seemingly sentient artificial intelligence known as Hypervisor, and as you explore this digital world, you’ll uncover a revealing series of chat logs between various scientists and the AI. Recompile casts players as a plucky program tasked with infiltrating and repairing an ancient mainframe represented as a colorful Tron-like 3D world. ![]()
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