Mirror's Edge First Impressions

Chapter 6 I think. Big orange store rooom in that level where you first meet the Icarus ninjas or whatever they are. There's 4 or 5 guards and no way to sneak past them. Eventually I just had to kill them all and spend a few minutes looking around the room. But that was after I'd died about 10 times trying to run past them and find the way out.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

Chapter 6 I think. Big orange store rooom in that level where you first meet the Icarus ninjas or whatever they are. There's 4 or 5 guards and no way to sneak past them. Eventually I just had to kill them all and spend a few minutes looking around the room. But that was after I'd died about 10 times trying to run past them and find the way out.

If your talking about the bit where you just fall down some weird platform windocleaner type thing (its in a stairwell) the bit where the shutter moves up you can easily get past all the guards without them doing anything, if you run in a straightline you can run off the wall jump backwards adn you get on the top floor.

Which is great if you know that's where you have to go.

Fighting that assassin or whoever was atrocious.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

Fighting that assassin or whoever was atrocious.

The first time i found easy the second time i got owned.

The most deaths in the game for me was tht guy who hits you with a plank off the roof.

It wasn't hard either time. Just slide kick to go under her kick and then punch. It was just atrocious because fighting in this game is atrocious. I don't understand why they make you do it so much.

The story is balls as well. There's some super secret agency being set up to catch some couriers? Secret enough that a politician had to be assassinated because he found out about it? Why? At the start of the game they were acting like the police didn't really bother with them much.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

It wasn't hard either time. Just slide kick to go under her kick and then punch. It was just atrocious because fighting in this game is atrocious. I don't understand why they make you do it so much.

The story is balls as well. There's some super secret agency being set up to catch some couriers? Secret enough that a politician had to be assassinated because he found out about it? Why? At the start of the game they were acting like the police didn't really bother with them much.

Uh i think the plot makes sense by the end with excessive amounts of overkill, but overall yes it is definitely BS.

Yeah the forced fighting sections are annoying, its why i tried to go for OHKO or just shooting people occasionally. The disarm technique makes the game really easy though as does the wall flying kick. I just hated the fight bits as she's really not very tough, i guess its to encourage evasion as you need to not engage in fights to do successful speed runs.

And it just froze on me after I climbed that big yellow scaffold. This game is really becoming a chore.

persevere and enjoy the world of free running, remember there's the free DLC pure time trials if the main story bores you, those levels look awesome.

Just got this for $2.50, I'll probably play it in a year or so.

the girl is fugly

BasementEvil wrote:

the girl is fugly

Good thing the rest of the game looks fucking amazing. Everything is so crisp and clean, the use of colour is minimalist in the best possible way and the PC physx additions really top it off with (mostly) realistic shattering glass, tearing fabric and smoke billowing around you as you run through the grittier, more industrial, behind the scenes parts of the world.

This was totally worth the $2.50 just for the visuals. The fact that DICE took the worst gimmick first person games often add, platforming, and made it fun anyway says a lot about them as a studio, I think.

I mean look at these screenshots holy shit. Didn't embed them because they're all very high resolution.
https://app.dumptruck.goldenfrog.com/p/jVv0bLWiYy

This game is amazing and i hope you play it like me and not like moose. That way you'll be able to enjoy it.