Was It Good? - Mirror's Edge
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Get some air in your lungs and run, Faith.
In 2008 DICE stepped away from the Battlefield franchise and made a game all about movement, a parkour, free running adventure game, with one of the smoothest and most satisfying movement systems the gaming world had seen.
But does it still hold up today, and if you did replay it, would it actually be any good?
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I remember reading a comment about the textures in Mirrors Edge. That "clean whiteness look" you see everywhere all over the city was actually supposed to be more darker and gritty look. The devs plastered on the white color first before moving onto the the darker shade until they realized that it actually looked really good with how it already was. A clean city with a dark story.
It's one of those cities that just screams "this city is *too* clean and perfect... that's fishy"
I've heard the term "grim light" to describe it
It's the same dissonance that Portal does. Things look perfect on the surface, but the cracks in the story make that clean look give you a sense of foreboding.
An artist on DeviantArt called the look of the city "like living inside an iPod". He meant it in the best way and I can't disagree with the assessment.
@@michaelrussell3890oooh I like that name
You should play sequels and call it "Did it get better?"
What a depressing series it's gonna be
We already kno what the result is with catalyst LOL. still a fun little game but nothing close to the original
@@FishyNiden Baldur's gate, heroes of might and magic, diablo (quite a tone jump from 1 to 2, and no need to talk about what happened later), civilisation, spellforce, age of empire. On top of my mind, from the games I've played. There are quite a number of sequels that do live up to their legacy and beyond.
I get your feeling though, there are far too many sequels poluted by greedy monetisation & other idiotic "formula to success"
A lot of games don't even reach their peak until the 3rd entry, so this would be a very interesting series.
Beautifully said.
Im so happy that people are still talking about this game years late. For me this game is something special, it will be forever in my heart, such a nice and unique concept for a game
No
but yes@@Eunos_FD3S
Absolutely, this game is ageless and unique. When people say that games are art, this immediately comes to mind.
@@echodelta2172 Yes
Pro tip: you can coil after a jump to break through glass without losing momentum. Furthermore, you can sprint into glass and brace before impact to break through. You lose a tad bit of momentum with this move but it’s barely noticeable plus it looks really cool
This game will be forever carved into my brain as one of the best games I have ever played. Just the soundtrack sends me back on such a nostalgia trip.
seriously. Still alive from ME has been in my playlists for over a decade
@@RTristanBanks me too! I replay both these games over and over and they're one of my favourite things to play when listening to podcasts and stuff
Yeah its a great game, ive never had such feeling for having a body in a game before or since. And Lisa Miskovsky, the singer in Still Alive, is a Swedish national treasure
Whereas for me, it's one of the games I own but have never got further than the tutorial. Yes, I suck at it, but it also completely fails to grab my attention - I have no desire to put in the time to get better.
Be a boring world if we all liked the same things.
On my overall favourites.
It's damn near a flawless game IMO.
Fun facts about the game: Jacknife is "foreshadowed" to work for the big guys by wearing blue, which is the color of the cops, and Cel working for PK security is also foreshadowed by her personal stats being all confidential in the cutscene where Faith finds out about project Icarus while everyone else's stats are available for the cops to see.
Also "Celeste" is a light shade or blue in Spanish
@@kokorochacarero8003 Also, when Jacknife was born his mom wrapped him in a BLUE blanket...
I didnt get the story, who was behind all of that?
@@Nako3 The mayor in the city, Callaghan, owns the big construction firm that's rebuilding the city after the riots, so he's essentially paying himself to build a new city however he wants. Meanwhile, certain people are trying to expose that corruption, namely Robert Pope (the man who is killed near the beginning of the game). So mayor Callaghan has him killed by Celeste and frames Kate, Faith's cop sister as a way to cast doubt on the city's police force as a way to shift public trust away from the police. Combined with the new Runner Cops who are trained to arrest/kill the runners who are, I'll remind you, being shown as a sort of terrorist force to the entire city, trying to completely dismantle the police and replace them entirely with Pirandello-Kruger security as a way to completely take control of the city in every single way.
@@UnderTheSkin13 Thanks!
To this day, the sound of "Still alive" gives me goosebumps.
One of my favourite games to this day and has meant a lot to me over the years. Even managed to learn speedrunning for it to finish it just under the hour mark.
So much fun
Sometimes I find myself putting it on loop and just dissolving in the song. It's ethereal!
lmaooo for me aswell. Even thinking about still alive gives me goosebumps.
Same here with the song.
It just makes me tear up if it plays out of the blue. Probably just nostalgia, but it's a beautiful song
go on a night joy ride whilst blasting that song..... windows down keep in mind
The plot of Mirror's Edge really starts making sense when you read in the behind the scenes that Rhianna Prachett was brought on when all but a couple levels of the game were done and completely made. There was only so much even a really good writer can do in that short a time frame when most everything is already locked in.
So they took the Miyamoto approach to design
NO
I think she did well. And, just like how combat isn't the main focus of ME, nor should writing be the main focus of games. I think Rhianna told an excellent story that did its job - it didn't get in the way of the gameplay, and the dialogue-level writing was awesome.
@@napoleonfeanor or, miyamoto took mirrors edge approach to writing ;)
I also resist the idea that Rhianna Pratchett is a "really good writer". Her dad was a generational talent, and she is not her dad. Her credits list is a bunch of gun-for-hire stuff with nothing that actually is remembered for its story. I really do not think she would have had the same opportunities if she didn't have her surname.
Quick correction for 54:02 Portal 1's end song was Still Alive, Portal 2's was Want You Gone.
I was confused by this for a second, but I think the line was intended to be read as "portal, too, had an end song called Still Alive" rather than "portal two had an..."
@@Erin-beansno because Portal came out before Mirror's Edge and Portal 2 came out 3 years after as he says in the video
@@Erin-beansthe English language, everybody! 😂
@@Erin-beans But he also said "3 years later" Portal 1 was released in 2007, Mirror's Edge released in 2008.
Want you gone is fine. wouldnt expect anything less from Jonathan Coulton. Still alive though takes the real cake. And Mirrors edge version of still alive has such a great melody to it I listen to it here and there on youtube/spotify out of nostalgia for all these years.
I played this so often, I started speedrunning it and doing repeated runs.
God the movement was so strong when the timing was precise.
Literal speed run in this game
mirrors edge is retro? oh no, i'm old
I Feel für same, i was 16 when this Game released, ans i didnt have the Money for it but the Demo. I got my first part-time job just to be able to buy this.... Good Memorys...
Dude. I felt that.
Welcome to the club. Have a drink, _you're old enough._ 😉
Same. My first thought on clicking this video was "I can't believe Mirror's Edge is old enough that I'm feeling nostalgia for it." It just turned 15 a few days ago... yikes.
So retro............
The fact that this game came out 15 years ago and is still the best movement based games is crazy. Also, it hasn’t aged a day, because the art style is just that good.
When the art style is designed to work with the graphical limitations of the time, it doesn't age.
Best movement based game is Ghostrunner by a huge mile. But without ME, as flawed as it can be, first person parkour would've never been a thing. It says lots when their own sequel sucked so bad.
@@CockatooDudeThe art style matches the futuristic theme of the world, not a limitation at the time. Assassin’s Creed, Infamous and Crackdown all began releasing around the late 2000’s and they’re not only parkour heavy, but open world, far more detailed settings, and tons of NPCs walking around. Mirror’s Edge’s is a very linear game, a color scheme limited to mostly white, silver and red, and the most enemies ever present at a time is maybe a dozen, but even that’s only during the larger set pieces.
considering that later other games based on parkour were created and all of them did it better, you arecompletely wrong. Dying light does it better in every possible aspect.
Check Titanfall 2.
Mirror's Edge was the first xbox game I ever got...Honestly, it was my first console game that wasn't on the gamecube. I put hours and hours into this game, and then I sat by my dad and watched him play through it. It was the first game we really shared together. Hearing that title screen music again threw me way back and honestly made me tear up a bit. Thank you for making this video! So many good memories.
The art direction of this game was phenomenal
For years ,I wanted to live there. Such a vibe.
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Disagree. It is stark and dystopian and purely functional. It works, but was hardly worthy being called phenomenal art.
@@edge1247In a stark, white, minimalist, glass, steel and concrete dystopian hellhole of a city?
For the love of God, why?
And the shitty cheap corpo animation bits in there were even worse. And were already bad when it came out.
this was one of my first loves as a gamer, it enthralled me as a kid and it still has that effect now
Same. It’s one I revisit every couple of years. Such a great game.
This "as a kid" made me feel way too old rn xD
this and perfect dark zero
Grown man with a sexualized anime child pfp? Cringe. No way your parents respect you
Easily entertained I see
50:10 millers animation is INCREDIBLE for a 2009 game
Seems standard for 2009.
2007 has CoD4 which had a lot of very convincing movement animations.
@@element1111 if you say so
Solar Fields did the soundtrack to this and their music is phenomenal, I love their music so much and this game introduced me to them. This game holds a special place in my heart.
Just listened to them. Awesome! You should try Carbon Based Lifeforms. You might like them if you're into Solar fields.
agreed, i found them through the official sound track and honestly with out their music this game would not be what it is.
@neonether3466 haha I love world of Sleepers already man! Been listening to them for years too
i always remember this song, its so special for me too
And he did a phenomenal job in the sequel. Both soundtracks were incredible ❤
Goosebumps, just hearing the titlescreen melody. Me and my friend would race ourselves through this game. Trying to be faster then the other one... This game will forever have a special place in my heart.
it was my first game on the PS3, I played through it so many times and loved every moment
The composer, Solar Fields, is a bloody master as well. The score really carries this game, in my opinion. Absolutely look up his other work if you enjoyed it at all, one of the kings of ambient.
That OST has been on my running playlist for over a decade.
Yeah I think he composed a few songs for Catalyst because I remember hearing some bangers on there as well.
I basically played through the "sequel" with the OST constantly blasting on TH-cam to maximize the experience.
Loved Mirror's Edge, even did the "no shots fired" challenge. Addictive game, the way they made platforming work in first person is amazing
That was the last one I needed to do to get the platinum trophy, took me a while lmao
I did my Hard clear and "Nobody shot" run at the same time and man, what a difficult run. Immensely satisfying though. A little correction though; you ARE allowed to fire guns, you're just not allowed to hit anyone. It doesn't usually make much of a difference but shooting out the glass in RB's office doesn't invalidate the challenge.
I remember my friend got this in game in college and it was incredibly difficult and making alot of the jumps were nearly impossible. Few years later I found out about the anti-piracy system for this game....
You mean he played on Harcoure mode?
Deadcore is a game that plays like Mirror's Edge but has a lot better gunplay. Might be worth trying.
@@TheExileFox What if the gun play part of Mirror's Edge you absolutely hated to point ruined the game for me, how would Deadcore be? I don't hate shooters, quite few I enjoy a lot, I just hated the whole shooting and being shot at in Mirrors Edge, it just felt so out of place way they did it and hated way it controlled.
Imagine actually falling for anti-piracy measures, jesus fucking christ dude
a lot
This still is my most satisfying Platinum trophy on PS and one of my top ten games. Having to speedrun each chapter for a set time broke the game in ideas on where to go for me, but I enjoyed it immensely. I really wish this series would make a comeback. I'd be there day one.
Hail to you, my proudest Platinum also!
Really demanding for both short term memory and rhythm.
I can already imagine what would happen if Dice decided to make a Animal Crossing like game:
Dice: "We're going to make a game about socializing with other people and making friends."
Executives: "I don't think people would like that. Lets add guns just to make sure it could sell."
So basically Longvinter.
"Animal Crossing: Murder and Guns" Or Animal Crossing that looks normal but it slowly turns into a horror game with guns in it.
Animal crossing but you hunt the animals after becoming friends
The guns really ruined Mirror's Edge, I remember a number of people who just burnt out on the Boat level because it was just gunfight, some boring parkour, then more guns.
That works just call it USA simulator 2023
@54:02 Small correction, Still Alive was the ending song of the first Portal, which released before Mirror's Edge. Which makes it even more confusing, since it was only one year between the releases.
Exactly what i was gonna say, good on you
_"three years later Portal _*_too_*_ would have an ending song called..."_
Wanting to give im the benefit of the doubt.*
*Also can't help being _that guy._
@@CorkyMcButterpants I get what you're saying, but that makes even less sense imo.
It's either:
1) He got mixed up and said Still Alive was the ending song of Portal 2 when it was Portal 1.
2) He got mixed up and said Portal 1 came out three years after ME with Still Alive as the ending song, which is what your correction suggests.
I think it's more likely that he got mixed up in the first way, not the second. Either way, it's a very minor mixup and doesn't really matter since it's just a throwaway joke anyway.
lol @@Highonwater3X
I was just tryna be a smartarse with wordplay.
I don’t care what anyone says teenage me was so emotionally invested in this games everything. I remember crying so hard after seeing the credits knowing I made it through something so unique. The immense loneliness in the parkour running really made my introvert holler
Me too man. Easily one of my favourite things I ever did as a teenager was learn to play Taioo's version of the main theme on piano.
Same. Both Mirror's Edge "Still Alive" and Halo soundtracks stuck to my teenage years.
the visuals on this never age, it could have been released this year
The character models are really the only thing that betrays the game’s age.
Yeah I would defo buy a remaster with newer character models etc
@@stevenesbitt3528 To be honest, they could remove the 62 FPS cap, add a FOV slider (both possible with a mod), fix the 4K UI scaling and call it a day. Some lightly brushed-up character models would make the game look impeccable.
There was also a french film in 2004 called "district 13" (Banlieue 13 in French) that helped get parkour and free-running into the public eye. Still love that film.
I remember watching the big chase scene leading to the rooftop leap on youtube and then desperately trying to find the film for me to watch because at the time I was obsessed with parkour.
He invented parkour: the lead actor.
Then they remade it with Paul Walker and the same dude from the original (David Belle) and called it “Brick Mansions”
District 13 is THE parkour movie I think of first. Crazy it wasn't mentioned! There's a move where he goes through a tiny gap over a door and it's like he flows against the ceiling to do it and it's stuck in my brain forever. Love it!
Impressed other people have knowledge of this
- first major complaint is the gunplay
in Mirror's Edge
WHAT?
I'm pretty sure there is an achievement for literally never firing a shot. Every time I played I would disarm someone and immediately drop the gun. Faith is a freerunner, not a soldier. The "best option" was not to shoot, it was to RUN.
Man i remember playing this game on my laptop in 2014. I was playing this nonstop, i think i replayed this game 10x in a row starting a new game immediately after completing the story. It’s so good, so nostalgic and it’s badass. So many good memories. I could go on forever.
Mirror's Edge is one of the most satisfying games to play, ever. It also has such an incredible aesthetic and sound design. It just flows, you get immersed with that graceful mix of simplicity and complexity
I remember seeing parkour for the first time in Yamakasi 2001 and being really impressed by the parkour. Later discovering this game was a treat. Haven't seen the movie in more than a decade, but judging by my memories it still should hold up for anyone interested. Might actually rewatch it myself.
The one bit about the story I found really badly written was when Celeste was revealed to be a traitor and Faith & Merc first reaction wasn't: "We need to abandon our HQ because they definitely know where it is!" No, Merc stays put and Faith even sends her rescued sister there. To no surprise later the HQ gets raided and destroyed, Kate re-captured and Merc is dead. Hellooooo! Why did they not abandon an obvious compromised hiding place!!?
I was like WTF back then
Well it really is not badly written when you take into the account WHAT KIND of equipment was inside their hideout, and the massive logistics that would require for relocation. To top it all, what Merc did inside that was his primary source of income, so even if he were to abandon the equipment alongside the hideout, it would be near borderline impossible to get back to the position they were in before, not to mention that police would have a massive stash of data seized regardless.
@@MaksFaks-kl1zj he's not running a legit business. These runners are outlaws in a dystopian world. When compromised, you smash all the equipment and run. That's resistance 101.
Building up a new hidden base is a far secondary concern when running for your life. If they managed to build a base the first time, then they are resourceful enough to do so again elsewhere at a later time.
@@mystman7722 No one here said they were running a LEGIT BUSINESS. You would know if you'd read the comics or had paid attention to the story in detail in the first level is that these runners are no mere outlaws that are out for themselves only, but are a criminal network that earns money through selling of illegal information and data. Now combine this with the fact that Merc practically had a supercomputer with borderline sci-fi specs that occupies good portion of the hideout, from which he was even able to earn all of that money through years and years of criminal activity, you get yourself into situation where it is practically impossible to move out unless external help is involved.
And you are telling me that he should have smashed all of that, without worrying or at least considering an option to save all of the important data on a portable device? Cool story bro, next thing I am gonna hear is that you don't need no food to survive, just sheer determination and will.
I never even knew Celeste died until now
i use it as my desktop backgroud. i have a Faith's eye-tattoo-shaped tattoo on my left arm. and i got into rock climbing and bouldering as a hobby going on 12 years now. i related to this game on a spiritual level as someone who grew up in an authoritarian country.
You never actually have to engage with the gun mechanics. It is quite literally a skill issue in that regard. That's why there's an achievement for playing on hard and never firing a gun.
You also had the portal 2 song mixed up. Still Alive is from the first Portal game. Portal 2's ending song is "Want You Gone"
Whenever i played mirror's edge i always throw away the gun when they give me one. Feels a lot better doing fist and kick combat than shooting. I think the reason they made the gun play so bad in this game is because they want the player to throw away the gun.
Yeah, it definitely feels like you're just not meant to use a gun except as a last resort...and it sells that idea very well. If I'm remember correctly, Catalyst leaned into that concept as well but gave more combat options - more counters, traversal options like running off walls into kicks, throws, etc...while preventing you from using a gun at all. Better combat encounter gameplay as a result...bit of a loss on the thematic side, since the player wasn't making the choice.
No, it's because the person using the gun isn't an experienced shooter, so it feels clunky and akward in her hands. But i'd still rather have a gun when going up against tanky enemies. It doesn't make sense that a tiny 100 pound female can beat a juggernaut into submission with her bare hands
@@ChaotiX1but it is possible given proper technique and form irl
@@TR-qf2gt it is not possible irl, it is ONLY possible in the game.
@@ChaotiX1sure thing
I loved the combat, and you know what the key was? I ignored the disarm. Took down all the enemies with slides and jumpkicks, using movement to divide and confuse enemies. Feels more like how Faith would actually fight than grabbing an AK and drilling some fools. You can take out every enemy in the game that way, even the ones you're supposed to run past. Good times!
this game doesn't have fun combat tho, no matter how you fight
I mean, giving someone a flying kick is always fun
On all my playthroughs I'd use disarms but straight away drop a gun, this way you neutralize enemies fast but don't get to shoot
I remember constantly dying on a level because i was disarming and trying to shoot everyone. Until my uncle was like "just ignore the disarming and just run pass." And it worked. The gun play and combat just felt like another puzzle. Do you really need to do it here? Or can you just run pass? Maybe a little both?
seeing the game play and hearing the soundtrack, got me so nostalgic, mirrors edge will always be the first game that made me fall in love with videogames. Even while watching this video when you showed the ending sequence and when the full song of 'still alive' started playing I got emocional cuz this game will forever be my childhood. I wont say its amazing but it was an amazing core memory (I rarely see peopled talking about it, I appreciate this video a lot)
"Still Alive" from the Mirror's Edge soundtrack is still on a couple of my playlists. Will never stop loving that song.
your run through the beginning of the game has me feeling some POWERFUL nostalgia. damn.
I remember when this game most famous for causing motion sickness! The reticle is a massive help there but god help anyone who ever plays it in VR.
The fps character animations in this game were incredible. I started opening push doors with the back of my forearm in real life after playing this, and was disappointed that that was cut from Catalyst.
Ha that’s so funny, I still sometimes close fist hit elevator buttons just how Faith does in this game too.
Catalyst didn't cut the bashing through doors with your arm, if you right click on approach that's how faith goes through em. Or at least, if it was cut, it was added again cuz when I played it was the best way to go through doors while maintaining focus.
I remember watching so many free running or parkour videos that came out of uk back then. Was so cool. Especially before youtube was really monetized.
I think you missed one thing story wise. Cel is also the runner training the cops. There's too many hints she gives off that she's the bad guy through the game, so I hope there were few people surprised, especially after she knows your moves in the roof battle. Project Icarus wouldn't have worked unless a runner turned, so she sold out long ago. This improves the story overall, instead of the thinking that the cops have caught up to the times and learned parkour.
Heh, I never played at all and watched this video, and I was like “another ‘runner’ huh? Obviously a hidden turncoat”. Funny to see that trope guess immediately confirmed!
i thought it was Jacknife
Both, technically, but not sure which turned first@@raziel7148
I remember getting this and the cell shaded prince of Persia game back in the day
Two movement focused games with their own unique and beautifully realised worlds and environments
They seemed like companion pieces and that’s not just because I got them on the same day
I loved Prince of Persia 08. I was sad it didn't get a 3d sequel.
Mirror's Edge did one thing exceptionally well: Movement.
Mirror's Edge did one thing exceptionally bad: Saving glass fragments.
I am so glad you covered this Gem ❤ for me personally it's probably in my Top 5 of favourite games ever, especially for those calm sections you talked about. The soundtrack and the running was so satisfying. Also the Challenge-Runs and Parkours you could do were amazing. I spent hours on it trying to get the trophies😂
So cool of you to briefly go over the history of Parkour. I picked it up when Casino Royale came out. Followed Sebastian Foucan, David Belle, the whole gang. My friends and I were hooked. Mirror's Edge came out and I bought it day one. Played it forever. What a great game. I remained a free runner for about 10 years from 9-19 y/o.
i remember playing mirrors edge on my old 360. this video makes me want to pull it out of the dusty box and play it again.
The ending is kinda hilarious if you actually think about it. There are still two guys nearby, and now everyone knows where you are because of that helicopter explosion, and now you have to cart around your sister who I assume can't parkour. You better hope Miller can single-handedly drive them away because you're not getting out of there otherwise.
Also, not mentioning The Sands of Time when talking about parkour in video games feels really wrong.
It also didn't make sense that the men behind her prior to jumping on the helicopter didn't fill her with lead.
@@Ergeniz I'm assuming they went "Oh god a falling helicopter" and went inside. But then they'd just come back out afterwards
@@SuperLlama42 No. This is right as Faith turned around, noticed them standing there then boarded the copter. They had ample time to shoot her before she turned around and even afterwards took a few seconds before she got behind cover.
@@Ergeniz I think its because the bad guy told them not to shot if she stood there remember that whole bit one was supposed to be a big boss fight (not sure how faith would had been separated from the bad guys) before the fight stats the whole thing was cut off to just a run forward, jump, kick and end.
why they just teleport I have no clue. could been part of the scraped badguy want to fight (shooting gallery) sadly the devs never got that part finished.
because I think there was an ide somewhere where the grunts would when looking back a second time would been seen running down the stairs.
He did mention Prince of Persia, unless you mean a different Sands of Time?
This game got me into Ambient music, thanks to Solar Fields (the artist of the OST), before even playing the game. To this day, more than a decade later, he is still one of my favourite artists. Even today, I listened to the OST of this game whilst studying.
Love this immersion into such a fantastic game, thank you!
Even though I wasn't consistently good at the movement, when I was on a roll the feeling was amazing. To be almost invincible in running without the violence was a new kind of awesome immersion for me.
My 1.5yo daughter is sick and we watched this while in bed. She kept saying hello to you josh when you showed up haha 😂
Yes. I still play it today.
Stop, you shouldnt.
@@SimonasVitkus Thanks for telling me what to do. Your life that boring is it?
@@SimonasVitkus Why?
@@Lingerminator playing this ancient clunky game lol
@@SimonasVitkus
i still play fallout,bg,roller coaster tycoon 1-2 to this day
1:35 “The process of moving through the level was no longer a transition between gameplay moments, but the gameplay itself”
Death Stranding: Hold my beer
Josh, if I may recommend a subject for an other video, there was a game called "Remember Me" which seemingly everyone forgot about.
They didn't forget. No one played it because it sucked. Massively sucked.
Ironic, id say
i played it. and it was a really bad game. it looked pretty good with the memory altering and such. but its story didnt make sense and combat was quite boring
Capcom alone has soo many old games that deserve to he dusted off
A lot of people disliked it. Personally I really enjoyed it
Back in 2008, I was a massive fan of free running and parkour. I watched all the TH-cam videos I could find of it and practiced learning flips and stuff in my back yard. Even made a small group of friends at school who would all go do parkour together. I thought Mirror's edge was awesome and 100% the game, playing the time trials a ton to try to get some of the top spots. It did the "simple concept done well" thing perfectly.
i had my ps3 for a couple months back then
bought it with my own money from my first real job in my life
and the day this game was released i bought a new tv just for it because i was so hyped for mirrors edge sinc the first trailer
good old times and still one of my favorite games. nice video man i really enjoyed it.
Still Alive is one of my favourite soundtracks, that first note triggers some pavlovian memory of playing games with my best friends, before work, kids, adult stuff became the norm. I can clearly remember the feeling of the song starting at the ending sequence & how I was avoiding looking at my friend on the sofa next to me because I was getting choked up. The game was a beautiful and memorable experience for sure.
Love the feeling that Mirrors Edge give the player, from time to time I still just vibe to the OST on Spotify and imagine myself running around like that. It is amazing how they take the oppressive feeling of a big city and make you somehow feel like you have all the freedom in the world just running around.
The crunch of hitting the pavement from falling haunted me as a kid. And getting hit by that train…..Jesus 🥶I remember doing alil parkour around the base I was stationed at . A lot of pain, but when you succeeded it felt incredible.
You know I've been playing this game for over a decade and I never got the rat metaphor until now.
54:02 Portal 1's ending song was "Still Alive" and was a year before Mirror's Edge. Portal 2's ending song was "Want You Gone"
I had a fever dream once that a version of Mirror's Edge existed that gave you the ability to punch your way through the game, but if you ever shot someone with a gun, there was the sound of breaking glass, a hud with crosshairs and an ammo counter would appear, the music would get angry, you'd lose the flow state mechanic forever, and it would turn into a call of duty
Cels Betrayal is very obvious. the limited number of characters made this a problem. A "who is itß" mystery usually refers to people we already know. you dont get to unveil the mask and its a completely new person if that were the case the mask would be unnecessary. But the reveal needs to be a surprise, it needs to uncover something. That essentially limits the people that can be behind the mask to merc and Cel and the Only runner is Cel. If Faith had a runner group she knows then we had more options
46:42 one of the best level in the game, almost a 'final boss' of your mechanical skill.
If the game was more of this, it would've been a masterpiece.
I remember learning about the singer Lisa Misovski, the singer of the track Still Alive that they used in the commercial for this game.
That track really hooked me into the vibe the game was presenting. The track gives the feeling of flying almost, works so great with this game.
Fantastic song, that one.
Ea released 6 or 8 official mixes last year on YT but idk if they are still up. Most of em were pretty catchy.
@@marcing115 Those are on the CD you got with the game.
@@havtor007 I'm sure most people won't experience those anymore, sadly. Another L for digital only games
"merc you can stop pretending not to listen now" and "no idea faithy i just go there for the pretzels" are hilarious
The time trials of Mirror's edge were great when you had to learn how to execute the run perfectly. Jacknife is an infamously difficult level due to the starting section, but it becomes so much easier when you learn to do the wall climb, turn, sideways jump and curl trick over the spiked fence.
That strategy where you jump on the trash bin and then over the first fence took me like 100 tries. But ME is one of my favorite and most important platinums.
There's actually a ps2 game all about Free Running simply called "Free Running" that stars Sebastien Foucan as both the tutorial giver and interstitial boss races peppered throughout the game. The races also all take place in the first level, they just get harder and harder routes as you keep returning to it. It's very fun.
Fun fact regarding the easter egg giant rat.
The rat is actually normal size its the cars that are minature due to perspective.
Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
If only Freerunning / Parkour was a thing 10 years earlier 😭 that was a great part of my childhood, which got stopped after my forehead met a concrete curb. I did heal with no permanent physical damage, but my days of risky jumps, tree-climbing, wall-climbing, rooftop-climbing were left behind.
When I first heard about Parkour, my first thought was, "Oh like Jackie Chan".
Quick correction: the slow motion is actually there to make lining up moves easier, not to assist with disarming enemies. It's actually pretty well implemented, because if you need it as an assist feature you can almost always count on flow before a precise jump, whereas if you're able to do the main line of the level without it you'll have plenty to help with finding more efficient lines.
The game teaches you this because the opening cutscene of the first proper level shows Faith using it to line up a jump.
The daughter of one of my favorite authors wrote BioShock infinite??? wow. you really learn the weirdest of things in the most unexpected places
and she is bad. xDDDDD
Rhi's done some impressive story work over the years, her humour is a definite strongpoint for the Overlord games she worked on. But she was only an additional writer for BSI, working on the sidelines with the (from my recollection just mooks) minor AI voice over development.
infinite was terrible lmao
No, that's a mis-accreditation. It only takes a brief search to see she only did additional writing, Ken Levine was behind the main story.
For a terrible game I loved infinite.
I remember getting one of my first gaming magazines as a kid and seeing images of Mirrors Edge in it and almost having a sort of "abstinence" craving to play it! I got the game for my birthday after it released and it was literally the only game I played for about half a year and I still love it so, so much... I almost get goosebumps watching this video of all the nostalgia rushing back!
Solar Fields producing the music for this is the best thing that ever happened. I got thoroughly addicted to that type of music genre back in my teens, thanks to this game!
Mirrors edge 1 was so ahead of its time.
Used to play through the whole game every day when this came out. Beating it on the hardest difficulty without killing was brutal but very rewarding to achieve.
Mirror's Edge was one of the first games I beat when I was growing up, and this video took me back and cranked the nostalgia up to 11. Fantastic video.
Deadcore is a game that plays like Mirror's Edge but has a lot better gunplay. Might be worth trying.
i love the entire clean art style of everything
Ah, parkour, the good ol' French martial art of running away.
Honestly never expected to see this game on the channel but I’m happy to see it. Such a good childhood memory to revisit! I wonder if he’ll do Uncharted next???
When merc died i was so sad the fact that he isnt sad and remorseful at all is great i love how he tells faith to just keep going.
This is one of those games where its always just at the edge of your memory. You forget about it until you are reminded of it and then you remember everything that made you fall in love with it. One of the first games I ever recommended to everyone I knew who played games.
yes it was and still is, next question
For you maybe. I was a bit disappointed. Still looks good though
@@jackburton1455 skill issue
Negative, Ghost Rider
@@mikem0898You need skills for a QTE game?! You sad clown! 😂
@@mikem0898nah preference.. yah fckn dork 😂
I’ve been listening to the menu music of this game in my study/work playlist for 10 years and this is my first time ever seeing the actual game. It fits so perfectly
Having just played The Finals beta I can see Mirrors edge DNA in it. It really felt smooth to move around an arena shooter like that with all its verticality and movement options
Loved this when it came out, even brought the main theme, Still Alive. Only down side I had was that it easy to tell who one the villains was from the opening training level.
The love this game gets is unexplainable. Forever one of my favorites.
Is it me or does Josh looks and dresses in a way that doesn't make him seem a gamer or youtuber, but rather an up and coming author/detective who's about to embark on a mystery supernatural crime drama where he'll try to be the reluctant yet optimist protagonist through the series?
he reminds me more of a snooker player lol
i'm still waiting for a dirk gently esque type to take him on wacky adventures.
You mean Sherlock Holmes?
🙄
Damn, that's a long way of saying he's really hot
I think the narrative side of this game is quite underrated. I remember playing this in a time of my life when I was really lonely and I felt like the game is a perfect representation of my loneliness. Running around on the bright clean rooftops alone while all the people are like ants down below and whenever you actually meet someone, they will probably shoot you. I think it has a unique atmospehere that for some reason I could only compare to the Stalker games, which are also some of my favourites.
Wow that stadium jump was for sure a throwback, jumpstarted my whole interest in parkour when I was in elementary school! Amazing docu-video essay
I remember playing this when I was like 9 and it made me fall in love with gaming as a whole. Admittedly, I actually like Catalyst better, but I make a bi-decade pilgrimage to replay this one cause the atmosphere and vibe is just unbeatable. Still Alive brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear it as it reminds me in a melancholy way of how good we used to have it. Absolutely goated
The song and game have a similar effect on me. Remember around this time when we had tons of unique games and strong series going at the same time?
Learning about the police doing parkour warrants an assassination. Like learning the CIA has a pilates class and they put a bomb in your car
From the writer of Bioshock Infinite
one of my favorite games of that generation without question.
Those parkour videos with damien Walter's and Sebastián back in the day was so cool tbh. Especially before all this stuff and youtube was mainstream
The first contact with Parkour was Banlieue 13 starring David Belle. This was an awesome movie.
Same here - that movie was amazing! ^_^
came here to say the same thing, i used to freerun alot back then and that's what inspired me and my friends. that apartment scene was something else. Granted it's resulted in me having a knee replacement at 32 but damn I had a lot of fun
yamakasi also
One of my comfort games. I revisit this every few years to replay it. I always loved the color palette and the way the city looks, plus it feels so good to play
It was an amazing game... I remember having such a good time, and I can't wait to see what your experience was like.
How was it amazing? Even today, I fail to see its appeal.
Amazing I haven’t thought of this game for a while, thank you! I had a blast playing this back in the day!
I get home, feed the cat, take my boots off, grab a beer, boot up the PC and it's 5minutes before the video launches.
Sometimes time is exactly on our side.
holy shit i just did the same thing apart from grab a beer
And life also!
The feeling I got from this comment is beautiful.
The movie District 13 was an awesome mix of parkour and action.
Good film
The theme song still alive is a great song. So nice