Prince of Persia

The game is fun. I started playing and just kept on for almost 8 hours. I only stop now because I should REALLY go to sleep. It is a bit too easy, though. Everything - the jumps, the fights, the puzzles. It is way too easy, even for me who prefers easy games. It also seems really small. Every area so far seems tiny. The game just makes you replay every area two or three times to collect some orbs which makes it look longer than it really is. Anyway, I like the game, and not just because of the memory of the old thrilogy.

This game has horrrible combat, I still 4 star it. It has generic story (as a bit of a mythology/religion nerd I do find some fun in the theology and the architecture is stunningly beautiful, inspired by ancient babylon). This is not an open world game, it is one massive temple/dungeon. This is amazing. But don't belive you will go "exploring lands" or ride through a canyon, all you will be doing, is platforming, This is fine. In all ways I am super okay with this. You cannot die but instead rely on checkpoints on each platform basically so death just lets you try again. This will get harder since in the end the platforms can be far and few between. The temple/dungeon you play in can be traversed fully one side to the other, somewhat choosing the order you do things in. This game has a simple loop. Basically you climb, jump and eventually "fight" (push off a cliff) an enemy with a lackluster "combat system" that really only serves as a checkpoint and unlock for glowing orbs that you will collect. The orbs are the games core. This is a MASSIVE temple/dungeon platformer with no real combat or good enough story whatsoever. And I love every second of it, running up on 30hrs now. You collect the orbs and thus are forced to actually perform all the platforming in the game pretty much, if you cant you will have to move on to another enemy to unlock a new section of orbs that eventually, unlock a new section of the games map by giving access to a new "skill" (a plate that will push you into the sky pretty useless except as a mixup). I love this loop Artstyle, graphics and mechanics are excellent. Controller is easier but you get very quickly used to PC controls and I recommend using them if you prefer it. The game hasnt provided difficult puzzles or combat for me but it is as if I dont care about those things, cause thats how good the platforming is and how fun it is to play. Recommended without a doubt if you want a good "collection platformer"

The first thing you're going to notice is that control scheme is much more simple, and the combat and difficulty is much easier. Tempted to say "this isn't a true Prince of Persia game?" Keep playing and you might be won over because the platforming is so much fun. And the inability to die makes it so relaxing. And the pointer showing which direction you need to go to reach a given destination means that you are never too lost. And the combat is a fun timing game. And the main characters are cute and the ending is touching. This was a bite of such stress-free and zen platforming goodness that absolutely I'm going to replay it in the future. So what do you know. Straight 5/5.

Had potential. Liked first bit. Hoped there was new battle mechanics and exploring with this gauntlet, I thought that battles would be enjoyable. Elika came along, possibilities there. I realized there's no merit to platforming that takes skill, the few places you could do challenging stunts led nowhere. All paths are linear paths branched together. Not open world. Extremely easy. Timed button presses = lame. Boring platforming, constantly hitting the next button hoping he'd move faster. Combat was the same. All combos had similar results. Enemies got slightly stronger, making them drag on. All the more since you can't actually die. The idea of not dying, "being punished" is like rock paper scissors with only draws: PvsP=draw, RvsP = draw... etc. No losing. No winning. The only progression was story. And the story sucked. Characters feel fake, the backstory's lame. Everything's redundant. Elika's an annoying extra. You have full control over her. She's an extension of the player. She never enhanced gameplay. Gameplay being quicktime events with mindless button mashing combos thrown in. To finish there's a huge number of bugs and areas where things glitch out. Elika randomly disappears, you can fall through walls, camera suddenly sticks to walls, You can get stuck in conversation mode with Elika, the game nearly freezsz platforming... You can't explore. This game is meaningless. This isn't an experience you want. If you don't like losing, watch a movie.

I still have the disk for this game. This is one of the first games I played when I got my first personal PC as a poor college student, so I might be slightly biased, but I feel like this is a really solid game in terms of a platforming and story experience. The environment is part of the story, and you slowly seeing it change is something you will appreciate and find beauty in (or at least I did). The characters are likable and the small talk is also great fun while platforming. The game also has weaknesses - while the story progression is nonlinear in terms of what boss you want to take down first, that also means that beyond general small talk it really doesn't have any story progression (basically the story progression is that you make things green/beautiful, and then go fight the last boss). There's no actual story beyond: the setting, the ending and the character background (each big boss has its own story of why it was corrupted, which is really well written, but at the same time, that's all they are, they don't have their own goals when you fight them, they just wait for you and you go and beat them). The combat is bad, other than the lack of story depth in terms of 0 story progression, this is another reason why I'd consider giving it 3 stars instead of 4. Lots of QTE's, no actual challenge in terms of u can make as many mistakes as you want and you'll be able to slowly wear down whatever you're fighting (cuz there's no game-over in this game). In the end, it's a really good looking game, with lots of good points, it's an Ubisoft game but I got more Indie game vibes in terms of the story and how the game felt to play. If you like story-based games with platforming (and where you make things look beautiful), then I'd recommend this to you.