pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a/pspan style="font-style: italic;"font color="gray"Presenting a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/branching-dialogue"Branching Dialogue/a, a weekly, wordy and often worryingly pedantic discussion of video game genres, trends and err ... stuff I didn't think to put in this introductory line./font/spanbr / div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/me-mirrors_edge_01-022808-bd.jpg" /br //div In his thoughtful a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=285845"review/a of ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/mirrors-edge"Mirror's Edge/a/em, Eurogamer's Christian Donlan calls it a game "that's easier to love than like." He's quite right. DICE's first-person parkour platformer doesn't hold up to objective scrutiny, often coming apart under a reviewer's bit-by-bit examination. The a href="http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps3/mirrorsedge"discordant ratings/a are testament to that, if not to the claim that emMirror's Edge/em exudes a boldness and brilliance that's hard to capture in words, let alone numbers. br /br /You can certainly try lobbing several comparisons at the game's gestalt ("It's emSonic the Hedgehog/em meets a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma%27s_Return"emMontezuma's Return/em/a!"), but its evocative nature really comes through when you have the controller -- and the life of a runner -- in your hands. For as much as emMirror's Edge/em is about relentlessly pushing you through an urban obstacle course, it's also about capturing a gripping, breathless exhilaration. It's an unfortunate consequence of the mechanical and very deliberate design of games: doing exciting things with an on-screen proxy rarely feels as exciting as it should.pa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/branching-dialogue-display-of-e-motion/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emBranching Dialogue: Display of E-motion/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/branching-dialogue-display-of-e-motion/"Branching Dialogue: Display of E-motion/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/branching-dialogue-display-of-e-motion/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1376769/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/branching-dialogue-display-of-e-motion/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6Dxa67wXVB___esa6dMmHKRny4A/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6Dxa67wXVB___esa6dMmHKRny4A/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=agIbfkqP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=agIbfkqP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=JRI9LzoS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=JRI9LzoS" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/niNjWFDX3ew" height="1" width="1"/