Game Complete: Mirror's Edge.

[xyzzysqrl]

That was... interesting. A motion sickness simulator with game elements! Lots of running and jumping and platforming... which was oddly fun, to someone not much for platformers. Perhaps because it had more in common with Prince of Persia than most games do.

Excellent game ... and finished without shooting a single person. Yay nonviolen... well, there was a lot of groin-kicking. But it's okay if you do it to the police, right?

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

Groin kicking!

I didn't know you were playing Mirror's Edge. I heard it was super over-hyped, how did you find it?

How does it compare to this?

How about this?

Or, how about this?

[xyzzysqrl]

I liked it.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Good puppy. *pets*

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I give it an A for effort. The visual style, and the novelty of a first person shooter was interesting, I'm just not sure such a genre has anywhere to go. It seems almost as if it was entirely played out in that game alone. And frankly there are many times when you encounter situations that make you say, "hey, there is a reason that first person isn't a perspective that platformers use." Still it did keep those moments to more than a minimum than I would have expected. Then again maybe I just need to play it again and really get the controls into my head. It did have a sort of Portal aspect to it, in that it forced you to see terrain in a first person view in a way very different than you are used to.

[xyzzysqrl]

If you have an Xbox or 360, look into a game called Breakdown. If not, look into videos of it. That game was also all-first-person, all-the-time, and did a lot of very interesting and slightly sickness inducing things with the perspective.

I absolutely adore the -concept- of fighting, running, jumping, etc all in forced super-immersion. I just... mmm. Some of the execution threw me. In my uncharitable moments of anger, I referred to Faith as the "first FPS heroine with incurable cataracts blurring her vision and a severe atrophied-grip disorder".

I never had any real issue with the controls, as such. All my trouble was in things the interface didn't quite tell you, like that you jump further if you look upward before jumping instead of at your target.

On the whole, though, I am seriously right there for Mirror's Edge 2. And I like that I made it through without a single shot fired, except the plot-mandated ones. It made me almost feel let down when Faith started blazing away at exploding barrels in one cutscene. Oh, hon, you have no deaths on your record except maybe that guy you jumpkicked off a building. Don't start now.