Glimpses

 [Originally written on 27th Sep 2019] Mirror’s Edge is a free-running, parkour-based, action adventure game developed by EA Dice. Since the day I discovered Parkour, I was in desperate need of a game that was primarily based on parkour, instead of just having elements inspired from it (like Prince of Persia or Assassin’s Creed). I got such a game in the form of Vector for Android. That is another gem of a game with its silhouettes performing fluidic parkour tricks to escape a policeman of a dystopian world. But as good as it is, it’s a 2D game. What if I could actually experience how it felt to scale rooftops, jump daredevil distances and run on walls from a first-person perspective? The first search result that was returned for a “3D PC parkour game” was Mirror’s Edge. Some screenshots and gameplay videos later, I was already a fan. I wanted this game. Badly. Now that I’ve finished it, I can say that the parkour lover in me is satisfied. The game does best what it’s made ...