My biggest issues with Mirror's Edge all boil down to two things:
1. Sometimes I have to fight, why do I have to fight? This is a speed game, focusing on RUNNING! Why can't I simply outpace my enemies and make a daring escape? One particular place comes to mind in the end, when you need to destroy some servers to gain rooftop access. There is pretty much one gazillion guards in this room, and one of them stands smack in the middle of where you need to go and will NOT under any circumstances move. You HAVE to finish him off to proceed, which involves dealing with all the other guards first, or they will rape you as you take care of this rooted-in-place guard.
2. Why the hell is the "jump" button the same as the "wallrun" button? (Xbox 360, don't know if it is the same on PS3 or PC versions) I died literally HUNDREDS of times when I ran next to a wall, pushed down the wallrun/jump button and expected so slide along the wall to my escape, but instead took a fine hop into the abyss below and DIED TERRIBLY.
The worst part is probably the combination of these two, in a mall where you need to jump up to the roof through a duct, forcing you to jump over a glass... thing... waaaay above the rest of the mall, and there are six or seven guards below you shooting at you. And that glass is really bad at protecting you from bullets... And to get to this, you must wallrun and swing over a really tricky part. While under heavy fire. Unprotected.
My first fifty attempts: Run fast as possible, try to jump and dodge the bullets. Complete failure, I could make it about 90% of the way before constantly getting gunned down.
My 50th->100th attempt (eventually worked): Run around and lure up the guards one and one, beat them up and THEN do the tricky jump (which I still failed at like twenty times, despite no guards being around)
Sure, the story is pretty "meh", but this really doesn't make you want to fling your controller through the TV, like jumping over the same FUCKING chasm for the hundredth FUCKING time when the FUCKING game thought that wallrunning was for pussies and you should totally jump here instead of wallrunning.
1. Sometimes I have to fight, why do I have to fight? This is a speed game, focusing on RUNNING! Why can't I simply outpace my enemies and make a daring escape? One particular place comes to mind in the end, when you need to destroy some servers to gain rooftop access. There is pretty much one gazillion guards in this room, and one of them stands smack in the middle of where you need to go and will NOT under any circumstances move. You HAVE to finish him off to proceed, which involves dealing with all the other guards first, or they will rape you as you take care of this rooted-in-place guard.
2. Why the hell is the "jump" button the same as the "wallrun" button? (Xbox 360, don't know if it is the same on PS3 or PC versions) I died literally HUNDREDS of times when I ran next to a wall, pushed down the wallrun/jump button and expected so slide along the wall to my escape, but instead took a fine hop into the abyss below and DIED TERRIBLY.
The worst part is probably the combination of these two, in a mall where you need to jump up to the roof through a duct, forcing you to jump over a glass... thing... waaaay above the rest of the mall, and there are six or seven guards below you shooting at you. And that glass is really bad at protecting you from bullets... And to get to this, you must wallrun and swing over a really tricky part. While under heavy fire. Unprotected.
My first fifty attempts: Run fast as possible, try to jump and dodge the bullets. Complete failure, I could make it about 90% of the way before constantly getting gunned down.
My 50th->100th attempt (eventually worked): Run around and lure up the guards one and one, beat them up and THEN do the tricky jump (which I still failed at like twenty times, despite no guards being around)
Sure, the story is pretty "meh", but this really doesn't make you want to fling your controller through the TV, like jumping over the same FUCKING chasm for the hundredth FUCKING time when the FUCKING game thought that wallrunning was for pussies and you should totally jump here instead of wallrunning.