Mirror's Edge Catalyst

Got it yesterday, beat it today. All those bad reviews are pretty much accurate. It's short, the story is laughable with an ending that's just a setup for a sequel which may or may not ever happen, controls are fairly buggy/clunky, and the open world really detracts from what made the first game good. You can mitigate the last part somewhat at least; once I got fast travel unlocked, I pretty much never did any long stretches of running around unless it was part of a mission.

It's worth a rental if you don't mind a pretty major graphical downgrade on PS4 (and worse still on Xbone from what I've read) compared to the PC version. I definitely would not pay anywhere close to full price for it though. If you do play it I highly recommend you go into settings right away and turn Runner's Vision to Classic and set UGC to Bookmarks. There's also an FOV slider on PS4 (shocking) but anything past 70 degrees causes a nasty fisheye effect. Still better than the default of 60 though.

Yeah, I skipped almost all of that stuff. I only did side missions, destroyed all the towers, hacked the billboards, and maybe a third of the fragile deliveries before I just wanted to get it over. No interest at all in sitting through long-ish load times over and over to try to 3* dashes, and the diversions were fucked every time I tried (was basically a 50/50 chance that the next group of guards I'd run through would ignore me and the clock wouldn't go up).

As for the controls, I felt like I had the timing down for all her moves but every once in a while it would just be off. Not trying to string together a complex series either, just stuff like randomly doing a simple wall run and she jumps instead. Could have been a framerate issue I suppose; they do warn you that increasing the FOV at all can cause problems on PS4. I also got her stuck in geometry or on top of something that was impossible to get down from without dying, mostly while trying to find my way up to all the billboards. The clunky part was mostly the melee combat, which was awful. I just button mashed my way through all the fights and never came close to getting killed.