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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
Just looked. I bought it on Steam in a sale in 2014, played it for 32 minutes and hated it so much I never played it again. I almost never do that (not finish I game I started).
Now I don't remember what I didn't like but I definitely didn't like it. May have to try it again at some point.
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Please say you played it with a controller. (Funny side note, my phone wanted to autocorrect "controller" to "condom"...)
Two reasons I can think of to not like the original were difficult/finicky controls and timing, and relatively 1-dimensional levels. I thought the story was pretty good once you got used to the gameplay. It's one of those things that you have to pay attention to the background chatter to know what is going on, but that's hard when you are trying to bounce up two walls to get to that crossbeam so you can swing to the ledge over there. The levels themselves can also get frustrating if you can't figure out a puzzle or do something in time. They aren't easy.
Anyway, in Catalyst you can explore the open world city more as you unlock sections, though the main missions are mostly a single line and/or puzzles. You are still limited to rooftops for the most part but it's fun just getting from a to b in new and interesting ways. Plus, I think they backed off the precision needed in the controls, probably due to better predictions of what the player means to do.