Prince of Persia

Buyer beware, the games ending is a cliffhanger that only gets resolved from DLC that is only available on console which means that unless you dig up a copy and can still find and purchase this story DLC, you won't be able to complete the games plot.

Maybe the game is good, but I see no reason to buy a game without the true ending. According to Ubisoft's community manager, the Epilogue DLC was only released on consoles and not on PC for "commercial reasons". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the whole this is a reasonably good game which unfortunately was prevented from being a true classic by some rather stupid design decisions. Why do you have to press the E key repeatedly to get Elika to heal the Fertile grounds? There's no challenge at that point, why should I have to wear out the keys on keyboard instead of just pressing it once? Why does the section where you have to carry Elika literally consist of about a minute of the player only pressing the W key? Why did no one point out that having combat that almost entirely consists of quicktime events is boring but that in cases where you have a very small platform to fight on, you'll trigger them every few hits? These are minor complaints that sum up the whole game for me. Throughout the game I was left wondering who thought this decision was a good idea. The gameplay feels unpolished, which is a pity because it seems like a lot of time was spent on everything else.

This game is quite fun. At the core, it's a series of movement puzzles. The basic moves are jumps, wall runs, vaults and bar swings. The magic buttons you unlock later add a variety of impressive traversal sections: flying, leaping, running on the walls and ceilings like a spider. The graphic style is bright and unique, it aged gracefully and stands out among the drabness of that era of games. The game doesn't have a fail state, you just try over and over - a brave move, in my opinion. This might seem like a total deal breaker. But you still have to do acrobatic sections over and over until you nail them. Where it fails is the combat part. You get the same 5 or 6 enemies over and over, fight them one-on-one, in boring and unfairly restricted arenas. The combat heavily relies on quick-time-events and especially on mashing buttons quickly. This didn't age well, even if this was normal at the time, it feels borderline dumb today. You also get to do combos, but they are trivial. In addition, I think they went a bit overboard with the flying sections of the game. The flying buttons send you flying on convoluted trajectories, you have little of control to avoid obstacles, and it's unclear half of the time which way you are supposed to go. Another complaint is the way the game is structured, you have to beat a level - an open arena map, and then you activate the light seeds - collectable "coins" - that you have to gather around the map. This forces you to explore the map over and over. It gets boring pretty fast to go back and forth trying to scrape enough seeds to unlock new maps. This version of the game is a bit frustrating: the intro, movies and in-game dialogue scenes are unskippable (tip: delete the movie files to skip the intro). The button labels are a bit confusing, whether you have an Xbox or Playstation controller, it takes a bit of time to get used to it. It took me a bit of googling to get it to work properly.

Man muss solche Art von Spiele mögen, aber wenn man sie letztendlich kauft sollte es so sein. Das Spiel ist sehr liebevoll gemacht und ist von der Grafik obwohl schon älter Top. Was mir aber garnicht gefällt ist das GOG das Spiel in Deutscher Sprache anbietet, dieses aber nach der Installation immer auf Englische Sprache eingestellt ist. Das zweite Manko ist das das Spiel angeblich auf Windows 7 und 8 laufen soll, auch dies ist unter bestimmten Aspekten nicht der Fall ! Ich habe das Spiel übrigens unter Windows 10 64 Bit einwandfrei am laufen, nur bis ich das soweit hatte ist einige Zeit vergangen. Ich lade mir meine Spiele immer von GOG als Offline-Version herunter und dann werden Sie installiert. PoP meldet nach der Neu-Installation beim ersten Start ein Side by Side Fehler. Dieser Fehler kommt bei allen Windows-Versionen. Dies liegt daran das die Visual-Basic Runtime 2005 fehlen, zu mindestens bei einem neu installierten Windows. Installiert man unter Windows 7 die VB-2005 32 Bit läuft anschliessend das Spiel. Leider funktioniert das nicht bei Windows 10, dort lässt sich VB-2005 nicht mehr installieren. Man muss das Spiel anders starten nämlich nicht mit dem Icon des Launcher das das Spiel installiert hat sondern mit der "PrinceOfPersia_Launcher.exe" das im Verzeichniss von "Prince of Persia" liegt. Nun hat man aber das Problem das die einstellungen wie Bildschirm-Auflösung, Grafikqualität und zuletzt die Sprache nicht Stimmen. Diese muss man einmalig in der Windows-Registry ändern. Dabei ist zu beachten das der User der es spielt der selbige ist wie eingeloggt. Der Key ist "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ubisoft\Prince of Persia\1.0\Engine" Wenn ihr dort veränderungen macht wie z.b die Bildschirm-Auflösung immer daran denken auf Dezimal umzustellen, da die Einträge meist als DWORD vorhanden sind. Dann läuft alles bestens auch unter Windows 10