2009-10-03, 04:56 AM
I'm just posting because I remembered Todd's lament about Demons's Soul[nobbc][s][/nobbc], and I just felt like adding that I've picked Mirror's Edge up again recently (I tend to enjoy my games in waves of interest not unlike music) ...and for me ME is my personal "spiritual successor" to King's Field. It even has the weird possessive innocuous name construction going for it.
If you're playing KF because you like to carry around swords it might not be your style, but if KF is your favorite game for the reasons it is mine, you should definitely give ME a shot. I gotta admit I really dig everything stylistically about KF (especially II) but there's a lot to dig in ME too. There are parts that will make you cringe, but the flaws are really minor stacked up against everything else that is there...
I'm thinking of a personal anecdote... I think it took me an hour to figure out how to finish the first stage, because you're being chased up a building by killer cops and an assault chopper has been called to hunt you on the top of the building... and you're supposed to somehow work out that you're supposed to run at the machine gun firing chopper and jump onto it!! In order to somehow get off the building??? Yeah, makes absolutely zero sense... and that's your only option. Maybe "Suicidal Tendencies" would've been a better name given the level design. But seriously it's a good game even in spite of that... so you know it must deserve some praise. The dystopic future is like the future that Google made. It seems like a no brainer that the cops should use non-lethal tactics, then the woozy/life-regen dynamic would've made perfect sense if you were getting hit by tranquilizer/tazer bullets, but no, has to be real bullets... but fortunately these cops can't shoot for shit (not on Easy at least)
If you're playing KF because you like to carry around swords it might not be your style, but if KF is your favorite game for the reasons it is mine, you should definitely give ME a shot. I gotta admit I really dig everything stylistically about KF (especially II) but there's a lot to dig in ME too. There are parts that will make you cringe, but the flaws are really minor stacked up against everything else that is there...
I'm thinking of a personal anecdote... I think it took me an hour to figure out how to finish the first stage, because you're being chased up a building by killer cops and an assault chopper has been called to hunt you on the top of the building... and you're supposed to somehow work out that you're supposed to run at the machine gun firing chopper and jump onto it!! In order to somehow get off the building??? Yeah, makes absolutely zero sense... and that's your only option. Maybe "Suicidal Tendencies" would've been a better name given the level design. But seriously it's a good game even in spite of that... so you know it must deserve some praise. The dystopic future is like the future that Google made. It seems like a no brainer that the cops should use non-lethal tactics, then the woozy/life-regen dynamic would've made perfect sense if you were getting hit by tranquilizer/tazer bullets, but no, has to be real bullets... but fortunately these cops can't shoot for shit (not on Easy at least)