Posted on: May 4, 2019

Hanglyman
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A Joyless Slog
I loved Sands of Time, but when this game originally came out it had such bad reviews that I skipped it and went straight for the third installment. I decided to give it a fair try after all these years, and... ugh. I don't mind the grimmer tone so much. The environments are actually pretty good-looking and would even be beautiful if they weren't so monochrome, and while I miss the charming Prince, my problem is less with the grimdark Prince and more with the sheer laziness and stupidity of the plot, which, like the female characters' clothing, is barely even there. I have no reason to care about anything happening, because nothing is explained much, and when it is it's incredibly stupid, bland and childish. I want to destroy the Sands of Time! Nuh-uh, you can't! And that's about the extent of the discussion or character building. The platforming is still pretty good, but the game discourages exploring to find secrets just by the sheer volume of danger- going back to an area to find something you missed involves facing a half-hour gauntlet of traps and enemies a second time. The combat is much improved from the previous game, but still incredibly dull, frustrating and tedious. Defeating even the simplest of enemies is a chore, most of the combos don't work 75 percent of the time, and the Prince is very hard to control when dodging. With the awkward keyboard controls, this makes the game nearly unplayable. I finally gave up during the fight with the Empress. It wasn't impossible, I probably could have beat her eventually, but the game is so unrewarding that it just didn't feel worth it any more. As for positives, the environments you navigate are well-designed, the time-travel was done well, with a cool contrast between areas in the past and present, and the enemies have some real personality... way more than the main characters, weirdly enough. But you can easily skip this game entirely and be better off for it.
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