Cinematic Platformers

StarmanXL

StarmanXL

Anyone else into cinematic platformers and know of any good ones? By cinematic platformers, I mean the genre of platformers where characters have their abilities limited to that of athletic humans--so no jumping 15 feet into the air--and sufficient falls kill the players. They tend to be rotoscoped, such as the original Prince of Persia or Another World, and tend to be balls hard.

So far, I've played Flashback (halfway through), Another World (can't get three screens into because I'm so bad), and just picked up Heart of Darkness the other day (although I couldn't save my progress since my memory card is full). Anyone else play them? Oh, and if anyone has any recommendations, especially for some lesser known ones, that'd be great.

For those of you that aren't familiar, here's an example from the game Flashback:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhywbzxW_aU
 
Mirror's Edge if you want a more modern platformer. It takes a few liberties, I don't think even the most accomplished freerunner or parkour artist would try what's done in this game, but yeah. There's a demo on 360, PS3, and I think even PC might have a demo. It can be found for $15 - $30 either way.
 
Yeah, I've been wanting to get that but I currently don't have the funds (but graduation presents are just around the corner so who knows!). I'll probably get it for 360 since I don't have a PS3 and my computer's a total piece of crap.
 
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