10 Video Game Sections You Didn't Know You Could Skip
3. The Boat - Mirror's Edge
Mirror's Edge's parkour traversal mechanics may be ludicrously entertaining, but they're also heavily exploitable, in large part because the original game was rushed to market without extensive QA testing.
EA's loss is players' gain in this case, though, as it gave speedrunners ample opportunity to skip sections of the game, perhaps most impressively a large chunk of the game's seventh chapter.
The boat sequence in this chapter can be skipped by making use of the infamous kick-glitch, where if you kick in the middle of a wallrun, you'll briefly land on an invisible platform from which you're fleetingly able to jump, in turn allowing you to reach areas you shouldn't be able to.
By using the kick-glitch just ahead of the boat, you're able to reach and trigger the post-boat checkpoint, shaving around five minutes off your play-time (or for speedrunners, about three).