When comparing Grow Home vs Mirror's Edge, the Slant community recommends Mirror's Edge for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D Platformers on Steam?” Mirror's Edge is ranked 2nd while Grow Home is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Mirror's Edge is:
The game's core mechanic is about traversing levels using wall-jumps, rolls and slides without losing momentum. It does a great job of creating a fluid sense of motion that you have complete control over.
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Pros
Pro Rocket pack and parachute flowers let you do huge jumps across the landscape
As you progress through the game you get skills that allow you to travel and explore much faster by jumping through the air. Because of the incredibly vertical nature of the world, you can do awesomely perilous jumps from one part of the level to another.
Pro Flower growing mechanic leads to interesting terrain
The areas you explore in the game are floating islands, and to get to them, you grow stems off giant space flowers in any direction you choose, making the landscape of the game unique to every play through.
Pro Cool climbing mechanic
In Grow Home B.U.D. can grab onto and climb on any surface allowing you to be able to explore anywhere in the world.
Pro Procedural walking makes navigating rough terrain more interesting
Walking takes the terrain you're on and your momentum into consideration, so the walk physics are more interesting than simply checking if you're on top of land.
Pro Innovative, parkour-inspired, first-person platforming with excellent sense of motion
The game's core mechanic is about traversing levels using wall-jumps, rolls and slides without losing momentum. It does a great job of creating a fluid sense of motion that you have complete control over.
Pro Time trials
There are time trial bonus levels that are free of platforming sections and combat, just pure timed running missions.
Pro Unique, minimalistic art-style
Mirror's Edge is set in a world where a totalitarian government runs a city and tries to eliminate anything that stands out, such as the free-running protagonist. The levels are created minimalistic, mostly white with aggressively contrasting primary colors, to represent the oppressive nature and sterility of the world.
Pro Great soundtrack
The soundtrack's spacious ambient texture coupled with electronic beats and synthetic sounds supplement the game's otherworldly, contrasting setting. The complete soundtrack is available with the purchase of the game.
Pro Keyboard controls work quite well
Surprisingly (for an EA game especially) the keyboard controls are actually designed to work quite well.
Cons
Con Hard to see where you're going to land
There's no shadow or indicator below you to help you gauge landings.
Con Gameplay gets repetitive
The world is expansive, but pretty shallow leading to repetitive gameplay.
Con Constant screen tearing and sub 60fps
The game is not optimized as it has no vsync, which for such a simple graphic game, there should be no reason to turn off vsync for performance unless it was poorly programmed. On top of this the lack of vsync doesn't even afford the game a 60fps framerate.
Con Frustrating camera
The camera zooms to the furthest distance it can and stops at any object it hits making it zoom in even when the object is tiny.
Con Poor combat sytem
The combat system often feels out of place and definitely interferes with the flow of the gameplay.
Con Some people may experience motion sickness
In order to maintain its immersive nature, Mirrors Edge has virtually no UI, other than a small dot at the center of the screen. This should ward off motion sickness for most people, but be aware that if you're queasy, you might not feel too well after playing.