I recently played through the original Mirror's Edge and now I'm playing through Catalyst.

Two things have struck me: firstly, Catalyst feels so much better moment to moment.

But secondly: this game has a really weird relationship to gender.

With the side characters that you find in the runner safe houses and such, there are plenty of women.

But the characters who play an important role in the story? They're basically all men.

@lizardsquid So it's got a "The house is the woman's domain" thing going on?

@BatElite not at all - the women in the safe houses are doing combat training or practicing their parkour skills.

But none of them matter in terms of the plot, and that's the problem.