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?

[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.