Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time

Nice

I have no idea why this game is rated that high. First of all, the production value is quite high, good voice overs, good music, nice art style. Nothing to complain here. But that's about it. The gameplay mechanism is just boring. The whole game is one big sequence of loosely related puzzle rooms. There is almost always one and only one way to solve a puzzle. If the camera wasn't that bad positioned quite often, it would almost always be clear of what to do next, where to jump next etc. The whole story - let's just say you definitely don't play this game because of the story. The fighting system is one more weak point. There is a maximum of four concurrent enemies. The fights consist of very exciting right clicking and left clicking (block and attack). Oh, and I almost forgot about the clever tactics involved: there are some enemies which you cannot jump over (which is otherwise the easiest way to kill them)! Boring? Yep... If you had not your stupid female companion nearly all fights would be a piece of cake (oh, wait again: I forgot about the stupid camera - you need to see all of the enemies around you in order to block their attacks or to jump away. But not that seldom the view to some of them is just blocked). In the really big fights you will probably throw your mouse around your room because your companion died once more unbelievably stupidly. Other annoying points: - you cannot cancel all of the short cut scenes or animations (overview of a room, the prince putting away his sword after a fight, the prince jumping into a saving point etc.) - the bats - really, what is the point of these bats? Sometimes, when you climb around you are attacked by bats. And they are such a big challenge! Wait until they are around you, strike, wait, strike, wait, strike - do this until only three bats are left. Conclusion: Two stars to get the average rating of this game right :P The game is not bad! You can have fun with it if you are okay with simplistic gameplay and if you like to jump around an interesting looking environment..

We need a Spanish patch, at least for the text :/

The game storywise is totally alright and the tutorial part of the game is decent. The epilogue part give the player a good chunk of insight information of what the stages of gameplay will bring in front of you. The gameplay totally is giving all the odds and weird mechanics of what it is capable of. Firstly, there is basically absolute no logic in what the enemy will do and when you start attacking one enemy at a time might be already too late for you to prevent taking damage. Dodging mechanics is unsatisfying, but the reason you can turn back time to the point when you messed the game up is giving you a brief moment to learn from it and do something otherwise. The obstacle course and all the climbing journey what the prince has to do in the game is sometimes ridiculous, because some objects are not in the direction of your movement to properly interact with them or manage to avoid the hazards. Consider me a really patient one about that, because I kept trying it over and over till the time I finally succeed or realized something I didn't know about before. Port-wise it's poorly made on GoG, so I suggest to grab the game from another platform or as an emulated version on PC for free to prevent the loss of money. Overall, I feel like this game stations somewhere in the mediocre tier as a Prince of Persia game and in difficulty it's somewhere between Warriors Within and Two Thrones. Not fun, but at least neither boring nor nerv-wrecking in general.

Pros: 1. fun puzzel game 2. makes you feel like a parkor badass. Cons: 1. The camera controls are very annoying. 2. There is some nudity and implyed sex.