You can run from the lowest slums to the billionaire’s penthouses without ever touching the ground. That is the game’s greatest miracle. If you only play Catalyst for an hour, you will likely be frustrated. The combat is floaty, the story is forgettable, and Faith trips over curbs with alarming frequency.
This is where Catalyst stumbles hardest. The original game had a lean, paranoid thriller plot. Catalyst tries to reboot the universe into a young adult dystopia. We meet a younger, angrier Faith (now voiced by Faye Kingslee, replacing the iconic Jules de Jongh). She gets out of prison. She reunites with her old crew. She fights the evil corporation. Mirrors Edge Catalyst
But if you stick with it, something clicks. You can run from the lowest slums to
But the original was a game of two halves: a transcendent movement system trapped inside a series of frustrating trial-and-error corridors. The combat is floaty, the story is forgettable,