After a slight recovery from being sucked into WoW again I decided to finish this game once and for all.
A friend of mine said, quote,
“I’m to fat to do Parkour
Mirrors Edge lets me do Parkour
I love video games.” -J1n
This basically summed up my thoughts on it as well. At first I was appalled when reviewers gave it a “mediocre” score instead of a “great” score. Then I encountered a lot of frustrating moments (including the portions that require the frustrating combat), especially because I really wanted to achieve the “no kills” achievement. If I had only known what was ahead of me.
I’ve read a lot of reviews on various games that talked about glitches in games and how frustrating it was to encounter them. To this day, I have not encountered any glitches in games, and this game made me realize just how lucky I was in that aspect.
It happened during the most frustrating stage, stage 9. I can’t believe I glitched TWICE in the same stage.
There is one portion of the stage that requires you to figure out a way to climb up scaffolding, and the runner’s vision that highlights objects you can climb in red did not help at all at this point. So, after a LOT of trial and error I finally managed to climb my way to the top vent. As I turned the corner to pick up an item—it froze. No warning, no nothing. Just froze. I sat in disbelief at how it could just freeze the entire PS3 on me. Of course, I ended up resetting the game, and guess where I started? At the BOTTOM of the SCAFFOLDING I just spent AN HOUR trying to climb up. Frustration is too small a word to describe my feelings at that point.
A few moments later I found myself running an ordinary rooftop course, with 3 snipers shooting at me. As I ran to the other rooftop, I did a “safe roll” to prevent myself from slowing down and getting hurt. Get this—the screen just went completely black. I was playing like a blind man, only with sounds. I thought maybe if I intentionally walked myself over a rooftop and fell to my crushing death, the game would let me respawn and my vision would return.
This did not happen.
I respawned, and the screen was still black. Needless to say, I had to reset my PS3 AGAIN. Though, ironically, in my (literally) blind rage with this new found glitch, I ended up jumping off the roof and flipping someone off, earning the subsequent achievement for doing so.
After I got to the last part to finish this god-forsaken game, the game had the nerve of taking away my “no kill” achievement. I just basically went through the entire game without shooting anyone with a gun, and they robbed that achievement from me??? They didn’t even give me the achievement I’ve been working so hard for even through the nearly impossible sections where I had to FIGHT in a game where you’re meant to RUN AWAY.
It’s really a shame that this game disappointed me so greatly in the end. I really had a lot of fun with this one, too.
