Timewaster's Guide Archive
Games => Video Games => Topic started by: Wielder on December 05, 2008, 07:06:08 PM
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Has anyone gotten the new prince game? I got it on Wednesday, and it's so much freaking fun. I'd definitely recommend it for any platformer, action adventure, or Prince fan.
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Im goiong to have to pick it up. The prince games are always fun.
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I am playing through it. Enjoying it very much. Feels very cinematic. A lot of people are complaining that the Prince this time makes a bad main character, but he isn't the main character of the story, Elika is. It reminds me very much of Kurosawa in a way. Taking this epic story with these fantastical characters, and we see it all through the eyes of one of the side characters who just gets yanked along.
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I am playing through it. Enjoying it very much. Feels very cinematic. A lot of people are complaining that the Prince this time makes a bad main character, but he isn't the main character of the story, Elika is. It reminds me very much of Kurosawa in a way. Taking this epic story with these fantastical characters, and we see it all through the eyes of one of the side characters who just gets yanked along.
Yeah, I actually really like that fact. I haven't gotten very far yet, but I'm about to go and rock through a good chunk of it.
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I haven't played a Prince of Persia game since the original. Still have nightmares of looking through the instruction manual just to find some clue to allow me to advance in the stage. >:(
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Once Ubisoft took over everything got so much better. Just say yay for French-Canadians.
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Okay, so the gameplay and the story are amazingtastic (I think I stole a word from miyabi there), but the fetch questing is getting a little annoying. I am not sure if my insanity will fall deeper if I try to get all those dumb light seeds...all 1001 of them.
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I haven't played a Prince of Persia game since the original. Still have nightmares of looking through the instruction manual just to find some clue to allow me to advance in the stage. >:(
Hahaha. Like Mr Discount said, UBI Montreal is doing a great job this go around. I have only encountered a few difficult parts where I 'died' about seventy times in a row trying to do a long set of acrobatics. The game is no longer spam till your finger falls off. There is so much timing involved. It's awesome!
Okay, so the gameplay and the story are amazingtastic (I think I stole a word from miyabi there), but the fetch questing is getting a little annoying. I am not sure if my insanity will fall deeper if I try to get all those dumb light seeds...all 1001 of them.
I have about half of them now, and my head already hurts. :P
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Hmmm perhaps I may have to check it out. I'm sure someone I know has a copy.
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Haven't played the new one yet (in the mail currently) but Sands of Time for the PS2 is one of the best games I've ever played. The last time a game wowed me that much was the original Tomb Raider, which is a cheesy series now but when the first one came out in the mid 90's there had never been anything like it.
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I never played any of the Tomb Raider games all the way through. I tried to for a short time, but could never get into it. I guess my hormones never overrode my gaming senses =).
SoT was one of the best games I was able to play. Great gaming styles. And a story that actually weaved with the game. It was so sad that the sequels did not bring that same feeling along.
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The main reasons the sequals to SoT weren't up to snuff was the guy who owns the IP wrote the SoT script (as well as the new PoP and is the guy who coded the original game) and he didn't have any involvement in the sequals.
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*shakes his prune juice at the young whippersnappers*
Back in my day, we just had Prince of Persia on an Apple II, with a monochrome monitor, and we liked it!
Ah the memories.
I also played the sequel on the PC about 13 years ago. It's amazing where gaming has gone since then!
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The main reasons the sequals to SoT weren't up to snuff was the guy who owns the IP wrote the SoT script (as well as the new PoP and is the guy who coded the original game) and he didn't have any involvement in the sequals.
Ohh. Well, that's good news. Do you know if the original guy is writing the other two parts of this trilogy as well?
BTW, you gotten the game yet Sprig?
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I got my Platinum trophy last night =). Overall , I am really glad I picked up this game. It pushed itself back to the storytelling and engrossing world that SoT had. I also enjoyed the cell-shading. It gave it a nice touch to further distance itself from SoT and it fit with the world. I had a great time with the characters and the open-worldness. I only realized on my second play through that is was rather open and choice bound. The different bosses you face add obstacles that only appear after you face them. Each section has the potential for a lot of traps, making the difficulty of certain areas dependent on where you have been before.
I was a little miffed by the ending though. I saw some of it coming, but I think I was trying to blind myself because I was hoping they weren't going to do what they did. It felt a little trite. Maybe we are simply getting to what the rest of the tale he wanted to tell was and this is the only way to do it. Not sure where they are going, but I really hope they do something because I honestly enjoyed the entire game immensely, minus the last 3 minutes...
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I am playing through it now and enjoying it quite a bit. I have found myself frustrated a few times by certain puzzles where, as was said you can easily "die" dozens of times just because you miss a single button press or are trying to figure out what you need to do next at warp speed since the Prince never really stops moving. I seriously doubt that I will be going back to find all the light seeds I missed, I am sort of working under the assumption that some of them can't even be acquired until you gain more abilities and I have yet to double back and collect them.
All in all the game is an exciting experience and a ton of fun to play. Even the frustrating moments come with the great sense of accomplishment when you have the timing worked out.
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My brother got this game, and I've been watching him play it a bit. To be honest, I'm not very impressed. The graphics really turn me off, and I've seen better games where a major pull is the acrobatics. (Assassin's Creed, Ninja Gaiden 2) Also, while I haven't watched him play it a lot, I've seen no story.
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Finished it a couple of days ago and all in all I had a good time with it though I doubt I will bother with the rest of the series.
The game is story heavy at the begining and end, if you want more story then that it is optional. It comes out when you talk to Elika throughout the game.
I wasn't thrilled with the ending, it seemed pretty contrived to me and certainly not on par with the ending, or the level of story telling in SoT.
Final impression is that it is a fun game, but rent don't buy. It only takes about 6 hours to finish, I suppose their is more game to be had if you want to go back and hunt down every last light seed but frankly I don't see the point of redoing the same puzzles over and over to collect the orbs.
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I finished the game a few months ago. I wasn't such a huge fan of the ending, but man, it was fun to play. The entire game has a very relaxed atmosphere. Great controls, pretty graphics, but not frustratingly hard. It's not really "hard" at all. I like that about it.
Occasionally I boot it up to collect some light seeds, just for a change of pace. Quite relaxing.
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Prince of Persis is a very good video game.I love to play this game.Its really very enjoyable game.
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