could have been better

Feels unfinished. You do side missions to earn 'credits', but there is no shop or dealer or anyway to spend said 'credits'. The combat is boring and repetitive. The parkour is tons of fun though. The open world feels wasted.

The parkour in Catalyst is better than the first one, feeling smoother and more fleshed out, so in that way Catalyst is a resounding success. It's never been more fun to run, jump, slide and grappling hook your way across a city. I can't stress just how much fun the moment to moment action is. But it shoehorns in an open world that kills momentum and puts way too much emphasis on fighting people, which the original Mirror's Edge was never about. In fact, the original discouraged it.