Comment on New open world parkour game Panline is so exact a reflection of Mirror's Edge it gives me vertigo
Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wasn’t the Mirror’s Edge sequel also open-world? That game failed pretty spectacularly, so how is this different? I see mention of upgrades, but the article really doesn’t go into much depth at all
I think the level design was very poor on the prequel. Adding a grappling hook on a parkour game also made no sense to me.
I see no problem on a parkour open world game, but things like the grappling hook and fast travels make no sense to me in a game where the objective is to climb stuff.
It is open world and thanks to the art style both Mirror’s Edge games still look fantastic. Also I would call it a reboot, neither prequel nor sequel.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As the other user said, it was a reboot. One that doubled down on the bad parts of the original and added some new poor ideas on top of it. Stuff like:
There’s probably more that I forgot at the moment but it was simply a bad sequel which didn’t know what made the first game good (in my opinion).
As for how this one is different? We’ll see when a public version becomes available. One thing that makes me hopeful is the complete lack of talk about combat on their store page. If they can focus on good movement mechanics and the actual delivery gameplay that in itself will be an improvement over Catalyst.