Allie<p>May 21, 2023 - Day 141 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 157</p><p>Game: ReCore: Definitive Edition</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Sep 15, 2018<br>Library Date: Mar 20, 2023<br>Unplayed: 62d (2m1d)<br>Playtime: 36m</p><p>ReCore is a third-person action-adventure platformer with a female protagonist and robots.</p><p>The game opens in medias res with Joule and her "corebot" dog Mack, trying to find out what's gone wrong in the post-apocalyptic desert where they're located.</p><p>Joule is on the trail of an unusual energy source reading, and as you go, the game introduces you to the core gameplay mechanics, which was pretty well done.</p><p>One of the unusual mechanics is that the corebots that attack you all have energy cores that can be extracted mid-fight, once you've done enough damage, by essentially entering a tug-of-war after firing your extraction device.</p><p>Occasionally, there's an "instant extract" option, but I'm not sure what triggers that. Fight through to the end-of-mission boss, defeat, extract core, return to your "crawler" home base, repair, upgrade, next mission.</p><p>I quite enjoyed it, and am interested to see how the underlying storyline of "New Eden" and what's gone wrong there develops.</p><p>I would have kept playing, but sleep is coming on fast. Again. Will be glad to be over this virus.</p><p>ReCore: Definitive Edition seems fun so far, so it's:</p><p>4: Good</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/ReCore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReCore</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ActionAdventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActionAdventure</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThirdPerson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThirdPerson</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Platformer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Platformer</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>