A disgrace to the original Mirror's Edge!
Most of those who liked the original game, actually did because of the parkour experience that it presented in a linear semi-cinematic gameplay.
In this installment, however, they tried to expand what Mirror's Edge could be, but those expansions just made it a messy game with no particular focus. They shoved in so many unnecessary elements to make it follow the 'newer' gaming standards like open-world and online multiplayer, these aren't bad things for sure, but for the original genre of the game, they were factors to make the experience less parkour-ish and more just random running and online-interactivity kind of game. In this installment, they also introduced an idea of weapon-free combat, which makes more sense than the original to be frank, but they added a new dilemma by making some fighting sequences in certain missions too annoyingly challenging, it felt like playing a first-person perspective Mortal Kombat game but with a mouse, that wasn't fun at all, that's not how a parkour game is supposed to be either.. I lost interest mid-way through and dropped the game, because even the story wasn't that enticing to keep me in.

Reviewed on Jan 07, 2023


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