ReCore Reviews
Despite a surprisingly promising start, ReCore is its own worst enemy with its horrendous loading times, tiresome progression system and poor design choices hindering its full potential
ReCore isn't weighed down with baggage but that might leave it feeling a little thin around the edges. Lasers and robot friends!
ReCore features adorable robot companions and snappy platforming, but a chore of an end-game, bugs, and terrible load times make it a hard sell.
If it wasn't for the extreme bugs and flaws that shroud ReCore this would be one of the best games I've played so far this generation. The good outweighs the bad. I hope for its success because this new IP deserves to be an ongoing franchise for everything new it brought to the table.
With some polish and better character and story development ReCore could have easily passed as a $60
A charming, fun old-school-style action-platformer that's about twice as long as it should have been.
Smart, simple, but doesn't play to its own strengths
While the story may not be as fleshed out as older adventure games, it definitely has the right spirit in mind.
No amount of extra quality assurance testing would fix the basic issues at the heart of ReCore.
Nonetheless, persist and you'll bear witness to a sound narrative pay-off, a rarity in the world of gaming these days. Recore's story isn't particularly original, but it's paced well enough to keep you playing, and in our case, power through its more glaring problems. As it stands, Recore is a flawed, albeit fun, game that could have benefitted by a longer development cycle. You could do worse, you could do better, and for now with Recore the overall experience is rather middling.
For better and worse, they just don't make them like ReCore anymore
Recore may not be a perfect game, but it's much more extensive than you'd think by presentations. It's not an easy straightforward action, it's a sandboxED RPG combined with a jumpsuit where you spend tens of hours.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
ReCore is a title that you must play if you have Xbox One or Windows 10. It is a fun and interesting experience and one that is different. A game to explore and admire a desert of ruins in which we do not know what happened. A very fast gameplay that hooks you and makes you want to improve to advance in the main plot. In short, a jewel in the Microsoft catalog that you should not miss.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
ReCore could've been much better if it had more time in development, as it still doesn't feel stable nor polished. But on the other hand, it mastered the basic elements of a platforming games. Anyway, the game is relatively cheap, so that might incentivise you to buy it if you like platformers.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
ReCore's immersive gameplay puts you in the face of danger, adventure, and a heart-warming narrative that bonds you with a charismatic human and her Corebots. I'd recommend this game to anybody looking for a new action-adventure game, yet also craving the gameplay and nostalgia of pre-PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 second generation games.
'ReCore' can be very fun at times, and it can also be very tedious. It has good video game conventions, like the awesome jumping-dashing-grappling bits, but also has some bad ones, like bosses that are made difficult only by virtue of having massive health bars. It isn't helped by the weak technical presentation. It's probably best for only the most ardent of platforming fans, the players who can put up with all of its hangups.
ReCore isn't perfect - but that doesn't mean it's not an enjoyable experience.
There are other odd issues to be found where ReCore keeps tripping over itself despite earnest efforts to aid the player, like a targeting reticle that appears below Joule whenever she takes big jumps — except the camera always prevents you from truly seeing it, so you end up witnessing Joule fall into chemicals or into a pit of death. I could go on, but I'll stop. Perhaps one day, I'll have Joule raid an easy dungeon with Mack just to see how they move and interact. That way, I won't die and have more than enough time to think about how disappointed I was.
Despite the issues, I do still recommend people pick up ReCore. With a lower price, fun gameplay and an original IP, this could be the start of a trend for a revived mid-tier level of gaming, once found prominently on the N64 and early PlayStation consoles.