History YMMV / MirrorsEdge

* PortingDisaster: The PC port suffers from some severe performance issues whenever broken glass is involved. Go to the shootout at the server room and watch the framerate drop to one frame every 2 seconds even on modern rigs unless you crank the graphics down to the lowest possible settings.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The PC version comes with Nvidia's proprietary PhysX technology as an optional add on. While it's not really necessary to improving the experience, the environmental physics that it adds still look great more than a whopping ten years later. Special note goes to the cloth tearing tech, which averts NoFlowInCGI very hard.

* VindicatedByHistory: When the game initially came out, reviews were mixed and lukewarm. Sales weren't of EA's liking. Now the game is developing into a CultClassic and the second game was eagerly anticipated.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Every time [[spoiler:Faith and Kate hug one another, specially in the Ending's one.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: With {{Portal}}, not that that's a bad thing though. Short game with complaints about said shortness, modernist white spaces, high velocity first person movement, themes of control and rebellion, female non-white protagonist, a song called "Still Alive".

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Yay, Faith rescued her sister! Nevermind that Callaghan still has an iron grip on the city, her only major political opponent is still dead, PK has effectively taken over the police force, and while you ''did'' wreck a server room that apparently has something to do with mass surveillance in the city, there's no real expounding on how lasting of an impact you actually made. Oh, and those anti-Runner PKs are still out there to make your life hell later. In fact, how exactly are Faith and Kate going to escape from the Shard, since Kate is handcuffed and assumedly doesn't have Faith's LeParkour skills, and there's no indication that security has stopped combing the building looking for them? Who cares, time for hugs and credits!]]

-->But inside my head so loud and clear\\

* UncannyValley: Faith's animations look fine from a first-person perspective. But if you install a mod to play it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3VnWYt9flM third-person]]...[[SarcasmMode It's almost as if the game wasn't supposed to be seen outside of first person. Strange how that works...]]

* HellIsThatNoise: The weird, distorted wind followed by hideous bone-crunching sounds whenever Faith falls off a skyscraper, as well as the sound of any oncoming train right before it hits her.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The Runners. Are they freedom fighters, as they believe, or small-scale terrorists? The story would be the same either way, [[spoiler: and would even have a happier ending if the latter were true. Not for Faith, but for the city.]]

** The lobby shootout at the end of Chapter 8 is fairly tough even with a gun. Doing it with your bare hands will make you scream.

** First-Person SheFu is '''''hard,''''' and unwanted.

* ThatOneBoss: [[Spoiler: Celeste]], the "white runner" at the end of Chapter 7. Disarming her before she can headbutt you away is a major hassle that will likely take a few tries. Many consider it one of the most annoying points in the game.

* BrokenBase: The animated cutscenes. Some like the distinct style and think it adds to the atmosphere, others think it's a waste whent he game's engine looks so good and that it's a jarring shift in art style.
** According to the developers, Catalyst will (most likely, since they haven't made a final decision) reboot the entire franchise, meaning that the first game will be considered non-canon. The lack of a final decision still hasn't stopped fans from debating whether a reboot will make the entire original game pointless, while others believe that the plot was weak and should be forgotten.

* UncannyValley: Faith's animations look fine from a first-person perspective. But if you install a mod to play it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3VnWYt9flM third-person]]...
** It's almost as if the game wasn't supposed to be seen outside of first person. Strange how that works...
* VindicatedByHistory: When the game initially came out, reviews were mixed and lukewarm. Sales weren't of EA's liking. Now the game is developing into a CultClassic and fans are eagerly anticipating the sequel.

* NightmareFuel: When Faith falls to her death. It's accompanied by ''very'' realistic sounds and cinematics, to the point of inducing vertigo. Made even worse if the player is wearing the OculusRift, as they would literally see themselves falling to their death as opposed to just watching the monitor.

** Minor villain Ropeburn is [[CutsceneBoss even less climactic]], although he makes up for it in [[PressXToNotDie sheer frustration potential]]. To elaborate, Ropeburn charges at you with a metal pipe, and you are supposed to press the disarm button as it turns red (due to Runner Vision). The problem is that you need to actually press the disarm button quite early (just as the pipe starts to turn red). However, the frustration potential is totally subverted when you realize that the game doesn't punish you for pressing disarm before you're supposed to, so you can get through this scene 100% of the time by simply mashing the disarm button.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: With {{Portal}}, not that that's a bad thing though. Short game with complaints about said shortness, modernist white spaces, high velocity first person movement, themes of control and rebellion, female non-white protagonist, a song called "Still Alive".

* TheScrappy: [[spoiler: Jacknife for being a pretty generic, cocky villain.]]

** According to the developers, Catalyst will (most likely, since they haven't made a final decision) reboot the entire franchise, meaning that the first game will be considered non-canon. Some fans feel that the the reboot turns the entire original game pointless, while others believe that the plot was weak and should be forgotten.

* BrokenBase:
** The animated cutscenes. Some like the distinct style and think it adds to the atmosphere, others think it's a waste whent he game's engine looks so good and that it's a jarring shift in art style.
** There's some controversy over the Mirrors Edge prequel [[http://gamerant.com/mirrors-edge-2-writer-rhianna-pratchett/ not having the original game's writer]].
** When word began spreading that [[FeministFrequency Anita Sarkeesian]] may be involved in some fashion with the development of the upcoming prequel, not many fans were pleased, mostly due to Sarkeesian being seen as a very controversial figure, and that EA and DICE may be attempting to pander to a demographic (feminists with mindsets similar to Sarkeesian's) that were not even fans of the first game.

* ViewersAreMorons: The image that revealed the reboot's subtitle as ''Catalyst'' came with a definition of the word, in case anyone was unfamiliar.

* BrokenBase: There's some controversy over the Mirrors Edge prequel [[http://gamerant.com/mirrors-edge-2-writer-rhianna-pratchett/ not having the original game's writer]].

* DemonicSpiders: The "[[SuperpoweredMooks Pursuit Cops]]" (almost) always avoidable, but the battle rifle-wielding bad guys aren't and can be nearly as frustrating to kill. They actually wear... [[GroinAttack protection]].

** When word began spreading that [[FeministFrequency Anita Sarkeesian]] may be involved in some fashion with the development of the upcoming prequel, not many fans were pleased, mostly due to Sarkeesian being seen as a very controversial figure, and that EA and DICE may be attempting to pander to a demographic (feminists with mindsets similar to Sarkeesian's) that were not even fans of the first game. In particular word began to spread that the controls would be "simplified for women," which some feel carries rather UnfortunateImplications towards suggesting that women in general are incapable of comprehending a complex control scheme, something female fans of the first game argue against. However, EA commented in 2014 that Anita wasn't working on the game at all.