Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time

It wasn't a smooth gameplay as I initially tough. The game is unplayable in certain moments. When near the edge the character in thrown in random locations. Movable objects become unmovable in 2 directions. Sometimes these issues block your story progression. GOG team please keep in mind testing the game once more and then fix the bugs which transform the game from a pleasant experience to a continuous frustration.

The graphics are outdated, there is no widescreen support or controller support out the box, and the camera is a little annoying. But the atmosphere, charm, and gameplay still hold up. A short and sweet experience, definitely worth checking out on sale if you are interested in action-platformers, or want to experience a stone cold classic.

When I play a game, the story that the game is telling is very important to me. That's why I often play a game for the second time - to see again what I could have missed, and to take part in the story once more, more consciously this time, as I already know how it goes on. The story told in The Sands of Time is definitely the most beautiful I've ever played. It's about treachery, pride, tragedy, but probably most importantly - about falling in love. And the ending, neither happy nor sad, left me thinking about what happened and what did not, and telling the story again and again to myself, as a fairytale, I would say. Well, apart from the story, the gameplay is great, the graphic is very nice, the music is just brilliant. But still the story is the part, that makes this game most extraordinary.

One of the earlier examples of how to properly modernize a very, very old series. Sands of Time has wonderful storytelling and great presentation. at its core, it's a platformer with a clever "time rewind" feature to mitigate the frustration of the trial and error platforming. Unfortunately, it also has the worst combat ever put in a video game. The idea behind its fluid acrobatic swordsplay is great, but the game has no manual lock-on (making it finicky in battles against multiple enemies), the camera spazzes out all the time, there are no real iframes, you can get swarmed and stun locked easily and there's no real depth to the thing, it's just a matter of exploiting specific moves. To say that it hasn't aged well would be an understatement. Ironically, considering its theme, but Sands of Time has been obliterated by the passage of Time.

I was absolutely hooked playing through it. It's also the first game my missus liked watching. She had such a crush on the price. "No, that's not how it happened" :D