Let's Play Mirror's Edge | Chapter 8: The Boat | Assassin | Confrontation | Chase | Revelation
2Welcome back to Mirror's Edge, a 3D platformer that focuses on momentum, flow, and parkour where you play as Faith Connors. The world has changed in the future and cities are now protected and run by private corporations instead of Governments. In such cities, there exist runners who live on the edge between the illusion created by the companies and the harsh reality of life and transport sensitive material across rooftops while avoiding law enforcement. One such runner, Faith, has a sister, Kate, who is a cop. One day, she gets framed for the murder of a mayoral candidate. Now, Faith must get to the bottom of the matter and dig out all the dirt that she can find so that her sister does not get wrongfully convicted of a crime that she did not commit. The game also features elements of combat, but running is more encouraged as combat is quite difficult.
After seeing Pope's assassin on camera in Pirandello/Kreuger, Faith decides to make a run for the harbour and grab the Sniper before Kate is tried and convicted for a crime that she did not commit. Desperate for evidence, she makes a mad dash to the pier in hopes of apprehending the assassin in time.
Upon reaching the harbour, she realises that the area is heavily patrolled, being Pirandello/Kreuger territory. So she concocts a plan to stow away into a delivery van so that she can find her way into the boat and find the true criminal herself.
She manages to successfully complete the first step of her plan without getting detected. But as soon as she tries to sneak out of her van, she comes face to face with a whole bunch of SWAT operators. So she disarms one of them and guns the rest down before trying to find a way deeper into the ship. She manages to climb past the car park and all the way up to the top dock of the ship only to find a sniper with a laser scanning for targets.
Faith then moves from cover to cover to cover while the sniper tries to take shots at her when she's exposed and even tries blowing up barrels to either force exposure or simply engulf her in the explosion. She finally manages to get close enough to the sniper to where she stops using her rifle and switches to her secondary pistol. It is at this point that Faith knows she's got the Assassin. She closes the distance and engages the Shooter in unarmed combat wherein Faith gets the better of the sniper and almost disarms her. But the shooter manages to break free and run away while Faith gives chase.
With nowhere else to run, the sniper finds herself cornered atop shipping containers where she and Faith have their final duel. Rising victorious this time, it is all but certain that the Sniper's true identity shall be revealed.
That is when the alarm starts ringing and the police start arriving on the scene, giving the shooter yet another chance to run away. But Faith manages to cut her off and finally take off her mask to reveal that the shooter was none other than Cel. That's when the SWAT makes their entry and Faith uses Celeste's gun to eliminate them.
Once the dust settles, the Cel is nowhere to be seen and Faith learns that Kate has just been tried. With her objectives rather straightforward, Faith now knows what she must do.
Here is how Faith navigated the Boat:
00:00 Introduction
01:20 Race to the Harbour
01:43 Infiltration
05:04 Thinning the SWAT Herd
09:24 Climbing to the Deck
16:45 Closing distance to the Sniper
25:12 Fighting the Shooter
26:21 Chasing the Assassin
29:18 The Deciding Fight
30:19 Revelations
Stay tuned to find out what happens next on Mirror's Edge!