{"id":844,"date":"2013-03-16T17:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T23:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baconstripempire.wordpress.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2013-07-17T08:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T14:19:49","slug":"phantastic-game-reviews-mirrors-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/phantastic-game-reviews-mirrors-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"[Ph!GR] Mirror’s Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Parkour\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0look that hard. You just gotta do perilous jumps across rooftops above thirty story drops down to a street where some old lady is walking and if you fall, you\u2019re probably going to splatter yourself across the pavement in front of her, scarring her for the rest of her life. Albeit a very short one, she is an old lady after all. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Mirrors edge is a game where you do such acts. Except instead of old ladies you\u2019ll just fall to your death. Your extremely cringe-causing death. Mirrors Edge was developed by Dice, you know, the guys that make Battlefield. Unfortunately, they\u2019re the guys that make Battlefield and don\u2019t make Mirrors Edge.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the story behind Mirrors Edge, it was hyped up to be dis awesome game with first person free running elements in a beautiful city where you take down The Man. It was also hyped up to be free roam and have like this multiplayer aspect. Fortunately only the last two promises didn\u2019t pan out. But we did get a beautiful city and awesome free running elements. And some lack-luster combat\u2026 But hey, it\u2019s still a super good game.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the story. In the future, the government is super oppressive and cracks down on everything from drugs to letters\u2026? Apparently, communication is severely regulated by The Man and there\u2019s this group of freedom fighters called \u201cRunners\u201d that run all over the city to deliver messages from one paying customer to the other. To deliver their letters they tend to use roof tops and to do so they require skills, like being able to swallow entire hot dogs.<\/p>\n

You play as a runner named \u201cFaith\u201d (Get it? Like, \u201cLeap of Faith\u201d?) Faith is really bad at her job because before the game even starts she\u2019s incapacitated from a fall and requires a convenient tutorial to regain all her skills. Luckily, she can skip the tutorial because she never really needed to remember how to grab onto the ledge of a skyscraper. We begin our journey in Faith\u2019s weird looking shoes (Seriously, they\u2019re weird) by delivering a parcel across a city block, simple enough. Oh noooooo\u2026 Some bad guys are here. What ever are we going to do? Faith runs past them, or shoots them, or falls off the nearest ledge. Whichever play style you prefer. Once she escapes from the bad guys or \u201cBlues\u201d as they\u2019re creatively called, you know, cause they wear blue. She figures out this whole crazy conspiracy that involves her sister and this whole inner circle of the government and some guy with really yellow teeth and this douchebag that wears a really cool jacket that\u2019s coincidentally blue. But he won\u2019t betray you in the end\u2026 Right? Right, he was never on your side.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the biggest draw of the game. The appearance. (Well, maybe actually the gameplay maybe actually. But I\u2019m talking about the way the game looks right now, okay? This is my review and I\u2019ll do what I want. Get off my back.) The game is all about the lack of colour. There\u2019s plenty of colour but the majority of the buildings are white with bright coloured details. Like green and red and a couple other colours. Like blue and yellow. But that\u2019s it. No more, no less. Something about the way the colours are set up just works, and it makes the game look beautiful. I remember I had turned my Xbox on and was preparing to play Mirrors Edge and then just kind of left it at the main menu, not like I was putting it off, I just kind of got stuck there in some kind of trance. I\u2019ve never taken any recreational drugs (not because I\u2019m a square or narc but because I\u2019m a real cool dude who read Archie comics and Archie tells me I don\u2019t need to take drugs to have a good time) but I assume that my experience with the main menu was akin to taking a lot of drugs that make you feel really peaceful, like the meth crack cocaine marijuana. (My moms makes that) Basically I pressed start and kind of sat there for at least ten minutes staring at the screen in a total trance, then my Xbox got the Red Ring of Death.<\/p>\n

The gameplay is pretty solid. I can\u2019t really compare the controls to any other game because if anyone has played a first person parkour game then they\u2019ve probably played Mirrors Edge, because to my knowledge it\u2019s the only one of its kind. So, you know, it\u2019s pretty good.<\/p>\n

Are there negatives? Well, every game has its drawbacks. I got stuck on this one part\u2026 that kind of sucked\u2026 But, there\u2019s a big problem. The game is at its best on the rooftops where you can see the sky and it\u2019s all open, which is awesome by the way. The problem is that the game forces you into buildings and underground and something which just doesn\u2019t work as well. It feels cramped and linear, unlike on the rooftops where you feel free, which is the whole point of the game. So, it kind of derives from the experience after the fifth time you\u2019re shoved in some kind of sewer or something. Also, the game isn\u2019t free-roam, and the city looks so awesome, I see some building off in the distance that I really want to climb, oh wait. I can\u2019t!<\/p>\n

\u2026 Gets a rating on a rating scale. There, that\u2019s what you get, you ingrates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parkour\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0look that hard. You just gotta do perilous jumps across rooftops above thirty story drops down to a street where some old lady is walking and if you fall, you\u2019re probably going to splatter yourself across the pavement in front of her, scarring her for the rest of her life. Albeit a very short one,…<\/p>\n

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