I bought Mirror’s Edge Catalyst in a GAME store (the UK equivalent of GameStop) a fair few years ago. It was for sale very cheaply — this preowned copy was around £5–10, and I liked what I saw on the back. I remember getting home, booting it up, barely having the dexterity to get past the tutorial, then giving up, ejecting the disc and consigning it within its case in a drawer.
Now, back from university in the summer, I found myself playing on our family PlayStation 4 in the evenings, a luxury I don’t experience at uni. After a few weeks, I grew tired of consistently dying to infants in Fortnite, so dug through the PS4 games that had been stashed away in the drawer. In there was Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. So I thought, hey: let’s give it another shot.