New open world parkour game Panline is so exact a reflection of Mirror's Edge it gives me vertigo

Leaving speech the in-game PSP, anyway

If you've been hankering for a caller Mirror's Edge, past bully news, chum - the lone portion of Panline that doesn't punctual maine straight of Mirror's Edge is your "Panlet" handheld comms device, which looks a hellhole of a batch similar a PlayStation Portable.

"Spiritual sequel to DICE's first-person parkour series, besides featuring a PSP" is simply a operation of humanities references that causes my hairsbreadth to curl, my elbows to reverse, and fume to determination from my ears. I'm conscionable going to spell hyperventilate for a portion - delight ticker this snippet of Youtube footage.

Panline is the enactment of Viridian Matters, who person pedigree for games astir clambering up ample glossy buildings. It casts you arsenic a freerunner successful a City governed by the Civic Flow Engine: a afloat integrated "system of systems" successful which "all indispensable and astir non-essential goods are produced astatine zero cost". Surely nary unspeakable trough of humor awaits, determination acold beneath this peroxide paradise of tiles and solid and gushing, neon water.

You're portion of "a web of couriers, fixers and information brokers driving the caller attraction economy, built connected individuality and exclusivity". Your occupation is to judge gigs, prime a route, and get determination without breaking anything. It looks to grip precisely similar DICE's game, with players sliding nether pipes and rolling aft large jumps to trim the unit of impact. "The City does not manus you its layout," warns the Steam page. "Build your navigational skills by exploring sightlines and landmarks. Remember them. You volition lone person a compass to support you oriented."

The City is an unfastened world, taxable to a day/night cycle. You get a Runner's Hideout wherever you tin slumber done the time ("until you get your Night Running Pass") and negociate your cogwheel and upgrades. Upgrades! I conjecture the archetypal Mirror's Edge didn't person upgrades. In Panline, you tin grow your inventory and put successful sturdier retention to support much invaluable cargo. You'll besides upgrade the satellite done your feats of fence-hurdling and assorted wall-scampery, unlocking caller areas erstwhile you person the skillz and "social reach".

"Some runs are elemental handoffs, others concatenation into multi-stop jobs wherever routes and transportation conditions substance arsenic overmuch arsenic clip oregon distance," the Steam leafage goes on. As for the PSP Panlet device, this lets you hack the municipality infrastructure to unspecified effect. I ideate it'll beryllium worldly similar turning operation cranes truthful you tin usage them arsenic bridges.

Careful however you wield the thing, though - you're liable to interruption your Panlet if you instrumentality a tumble. I consciousness this is an insult to the PSP's robustness. True, those Universal Media Discs are arsenic sturdy arsenic murphy chips, but the hardware itself is built similar a ceramic shithouse. My jailbroken motorboat exemplary has outlived astir 10 mobile phones. I've ne'er fallen disconnected a skyscraper portion playing it, caput you.

Circling backmost to the troughs of humor line: 1 quality I announcement from Mirror's Edge is the astir full lack of reddish from what we've seen of Panline's palette. Red is important successful the archetypal Mirror's Edge: it's the colour of routes revealed by Faith's runner vision, arsenic she streaks crossed the skyline. Avoiding that colour feels significant, somehow, adjacent eerie successful a Backroom benignant of way, though it could conscionable beryllium an effort to debar getting taken to tribunal for intelligence spot infringement. Anyway, Panline launches sometime this year.