Mirror’S Edge Catalyst: Video Game Overview

Original Mirror’s Edge offered us Parkour from the first person in the scenery of anti-nightopia. Over the past seven more years, various developers borrowed some ideas from her, developing them and making Parkour only one of the elements of their games. The brightest example is Dying Light, where the clever hero quickly climbs on the walls and runs on zombie heads. And here Mirror’s Edge Catalyst boast such evolution can not.Due to the fact that the player sees the hands and legs of the heroine, the speed is felt even better.
Run without light

For some reason EA And DICE decided not to continue the story of the main character of Faith, but made a restart of the series consisting of one game. Faith comes out of prison and should be a job for fourteen days so as not to get back behind the grille. It consists in an illegal organization of a kind of couriers who deliver parcels and information, moving along the roofs of houses in the city of Mirrors. This place is carefully visible by the Mysterious Corporation “Conglomerate” controlling everything around. Faith with her and will fight.

Even in description, the plot does not seem to be something outstanding, and during the game I will not be able to surprise anything. Unexpected turns are not, and the characters are so clisited as possible. To take at least a Girl Hacker: She constantly sits on the floor, answering questions sharply, swears with his unfinished robot … where we have already seen it? Yes everywhere.

The problem lies not only in the plot, but also in its submission. The developers tried to create a whole universe, but in the end they did not explain anything and did not answer many questions. The player constantly hears something about “gray lands”, where they are sent from the city expensive from the city, but they will not know any details about them, and in the plot it does not play. The same can be said about the past of some heroes: the characters are repeated more than once that someone had worked a lot of bad things and trust him can not be trusted, but what exactly this man was guilty – a mystery.

If the storyline is boring and stupid, then Parkour in Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Run to Slava. This is a big step forward compared to the original, and as the faith missions pass will unlock more and more new opportunities. Completing Side Tasks and Tests, the heroine receives experience points, spending which is allowed to improve the characteristics and the study of new tricks. Yes, sometimes such a system looks strange (for example, the girl learns about the fall after the fall, only after studying it – what kind of “parkist” is not trained?), but the presence of “pumping” does not interfere. And if at first Faith only runs, jumps and rolled up, then over time it gets the opportunity to cling to the hook for objects and swinging, which significantly reduces the path to some locations.The scale of “lives” of opponents is always hanging over their heads.
Experience glasses can be spent on the skills associated with the combat system. Unfortunately fighting in Catalyst will have to be quite often, as well as run away from pursuers. Faith does not take into the hands of the weapon and relies only for the power of his hands and legs, and therefore to expect diversity in battles (especially considering the first person’s appearance). In most cases, the girl either runs in circles in search of objects that can be climbed to jump on the enemy from above, or jumps around the enemy and hits it in the side or back. More boring occupation is difficult to imagine, so seeing the detachment of four guards ahead, better or quick to run past them, or find a workaround.

Opponents do not cause irritation only in cases where Faith runs without stopping and swells everyone on his path. If a great music sounds against the background (and it sounds most often), Catalyst begins to shine new paints. Jump from one building to another, make a squirrel, run on the wall, drive up, push the guard, flush on another wall, turn around and clinging for the construction forests … If at this time somewhere there is a helicopter, and the glass is scattered under enemy bullets, emotionsget many times more. Getting from “Firear”, by the way, Faith is not wounded if the heroine runs without pauses and accumulates the concentration.

Like a bird in heaven

Events are taking place Mirror’s Edge in the open world, while in the original developers adhered to linear structure. And parkour in the case of Catalyst perfectly combined with a large city accessible for research without any restrictions. After completing one mission, most often you need to run a few kilometers to the next, stumbled upon the path to the many side tasks. Also on the roofs are often the people who need to deliver the parcel to the recipient within a few seconds. What such a hurry is not explained, so such instructions are looking ridiculous, but Parkour is good, and there is no time to delve into the essence.In the city of Mirch, you can see my reflection at every step.
Not without obvious tests in which it is necessary to reach as soon as possible from one point to another, using the prompts. “Running vision” shows one of the possible ways, but the game more than once hints that the highlighted road is not always optimal. And this is true – in some cases following the red line and without making mistakes, I rapidly losing glasses. Not knowing the city and not paying enough time to each test, climb the records of the records high will not succeed.

The last thing that can offer an open world is collective objects. If the plot is weak, then some kind of hidden notes and audio recordings are interesting, because it would be logical! The developers scattered around the city of mirrors several hundred things: electronic parts in terminals, secret bags, stupid documents, – and nothing of this adds to a tired story at least a little interesting. Amateurs to earn achievements and trophies will spend several evenings for collecting objects, and wishing to learn something about Conglomerate and residents of the city will have to be content with missions, rollers and dialogues.

But the gameplay is largely overlapping flaws. Yes, the city is beautiful and at the same time absolutely lifeless, but it offers almost limitless freedom and many secrets and bypass routes. To fight insanely sadly, however, the game rarely forces beating opponents, forcing it only in some plot missions. The “pumping” system is not quite appropriate, but the sense of progress pushes the trials that it would be interesting to pass even without additional awards.As before, you can interact basically with red objects.***
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst – absolutely not what the fans of the original were waiting for the second part of the series. On the background Dying Light the game looks a little blunt, but it does not make her very hopeless. Despite the banal plot and disadvantages of the gameplay, this is the best simulator of the tracer, where to run around the walls and jump from one pipe to another fun even after a few hours. And at least he seems to be inappropriate, it can offer a few extra hours of gameplay, regret whom it is not necessary. But after Catalyst The series is unlikely to receive a continuation, and the players will probably not see the perfect Mirror’s Edge.