By the way, Parkour was a very popular phenomenon at the time Mirror’s Edge was released. Which is fine with me.įaith is a wanted outlaw and so avoids the streets and traverses the rooftops instead, Parkour-style. Also, she works pretty much on her own, there are next to no interactions with the few supporting characters that you might classify as friendly. Faith will never freak out, not even when confronted with betrayal and death. It’s just what needs doing because it is the right thing. While she’s emotionally invested in saving her sister and, later, her fellow Runners or, more specific, her handler Merc, she does not come across as a very emotional person. When engaging in combat she’ll go down fast if she doesn’t keep moving and attacking guerilla style, which means striking quickly and hard and retreating behind cover again just as quickly. (BTW the cut scenes are all cartoon-style and the way Faith walks through deep shadows in parking garages to meet up with informants, the only thing missing are a fedora and a trenchcoat and she could be any (male) noir-hero).įaith can use her agility to outrun guards and the police, but she’s also versed in hand-to-hand combat and may use guns dropped by downed enemies or wrenched from them in a cool disarming move she’s got. I also like her aloof, no-nonsense manner. I like that the game’s hero is a woman who can take care of herself, very much so. While the city where Mirror’s Edge takes place seems like a crowded, busy and chaotic place, the city of Glass is tidy and neat. While the vehemence with which they hound her seems extreme at first, she soon discovers the authorities’ plan, called project Icarus, to put the Runners out of business and terminate every single one of them. Since she is also suspected as a possible perpetrator, whereever she shows her face the Blues, as she and the other Runners call the police, are never far behind. Faith, who herself narrowly escapes the police as they storm the place, is seemingly the only one interested in exonerating her sister. When a popular politician is murdered, Kate is the first on the scene and ends up being framed for killing him. Faith and her sister, Kate, are orphans – their parents were killed during a riot-, but where Faith as turned her back on the law, Kate has embraced it and become a police officer. The Runners are part of that city and the only way to communicate without the knowledge of the authorities. Mirror’s Edge is set in a not so distant future in a city, a loud and chaotic place, where at day the glare of the sun is ever present and all communication is being monitored by the government. Parkour was a big thing when Mirror’s Edge was released, and I can’t shake the feeling it’s no coincidence that Noah Kekai from Mirror’s Edge Catalst is a veritable David Belle-lookalike.
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But once I had gotten my hands on the original – I guess you can tell by my wanting to get more of the Mirror’s Edge experience that I really liked Mirror’s Edge Catalyst – my opinion changed.īeware of spoilers for both Mirror’s Edge and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. It’s a little more complicated with Mirror’s Edge, though, the reason being that I played the reboot without any knowledge of there being an original. For my part, I find that, most of the time, the reboot sucks in comparison to the original. Whether reboots are a good thing depends, in my experience, on whether or not you know the original before watching or playing the reboot. Today’s reboots in the entertainment industry are also adapted to a different audience, this one being a new generation of viewers. Usually, reboots serve one specific purpose: to cater to an audience with a different cultural background and, usually, a different set of stars. Now, while the reboot of TV-franchises and movies over in Hollywood may suggest otherwise, reboots are not a new phenomenon. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, which was published in 2016, is the first reboot I have played where I have also played the original, Mirror’s Edge (2008).