the creators of this game thought that a good way to return to the simplistic yet charming style of Mirror's Edge was to turn it into a pseudo-open world with an expansion to combat mechanics (while relegating parkour mechanics to an uninteresting skill tree) and milking those few things for all they have while still only being roughly as long as the first game, and finally throwing out any semblance of story and worldbuilding by making the world itself "more futuristic" while also making Faith younger. and i think they were pretty wrong for all of these choices.