Mirror’s Edge is understood primarily for 2 issues as of late: being extraordinarily cool and never getting any new video games. It has that in widespread with loads of growing older sequence underneath the EA banner, however indie developer Viridian Issues has mentioned sufficient is sufficient and introduced a full-on Mirror’s Edge-like of their very own.
Referred to as Panline, the sport has a Steam retailer web page which exhibits off transient snippets and screenshots and, yeah, it certain appears the half. Granted, the streaks of colour splashed over every atmosphere lack Mirror’s Edge’s iconic crimson, as a substitute choosing hues of shiny blue, orange, algae inexperienced, and extra. It nonetheless takes place in a gleaming dystopia filled with spotless white skyscrapers, so it is laborious to mistake for a non secular successor to the rest.
It wears its love for the late aughts on its sleeve. The primary screenshot on that Steam web page options an in-game gadget that appears an terrible lot like one in all Sony’s gaming handhelds from the period, and the parkour proven off in short gifs of gameplay footage oozes enthusiasm for DICE’s platformer. You possibly can wall-run, construct up velocity, crash by doorways, and so forth, however there appears to be extra to it than course-clear platforming.
Article continues under
For one, the sport’s “non-linear, open metropolis” is navigated by jobs that present up “dynamically.” As you unlock new motion talents and improve your not-a-PSP, you may entry new areas. The catch is, deadly falls wipe your progress for that job; “what you carry is what you danger, and progress solely counts when you make it again to base,” the shop web page reads.
It is slated to launch someday this yr, and though there’s valuable little footage, it is a tantalizing prospect. The developer’s solely different sport on Steam is one other parkour sport with a “Very Optimistic” assessment score, so hopefully its dedication to the bit will repay.
Preserve updated with a very powerful tales and the perfect offers, as picked by the PC Gamer workforce.
