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I'm not the biggest fan of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The lack of puzzles, crappy combat coupled with seemingly endless waves of enemies, and the part where most of the game is spent protecting some of the most god awful (and mortal) companion AI I've ever seen provided for a somewhat frustrating experience.
The only new feature that I see in the trailer for Forgotten Sands is the ability to freeze and unfreeze water. And while I thought this sounded cool when hearing journalists' first impressions of the footage, after seeing it for myself, I'm left a bit underwhelmed. It appears all the freeze mechanic allows for is the creation of more objects for the Prince to climb on and jump off of; and his animations when climbing on these frozen walls and poles are even the exact same. I would have preferred a more dynamic approach to playing with the various states of water -- it just seems like wasted potential that would have been explored more fully in a less budgety non-movie tie-in game.
While I do think Forgotten Sands has a pretty cheap look to it, if it fixes the core problems I had with Sands of Time, I'm more than willing to give this game a chance.
Really though, we should all rest easy that it will be literally impossible for this game to be any worse than Prince of Persia 2008.
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14 years, 8 months ago
1:48 REWIND MECHANICCCCCCCC. YES. Augh. I forgot how much I missed that little bastard of a mechanic. Honestly I was going to brush this title off, but it's starting to look like a cleaner, prettier expansion upon Sands of Time. That's okay in my book.
"Really though, we should all rest easy that it will be literally impossible for this game to be any worse than Prince of Persia 2008."
Quoted for emphasis. And truth.
14 years, 8 months ago
"The lack of puzzles, crappy combat coupled with seemingly endless waves of enemies"
"if it fixes the core problems I had with Sands of Time"
Warrior within and Two thrones fixed all these, they just added problems with story and characters.
gameplay-wise warrior within was an excellent game in my opinion.
14 years, 8 months ago
Looking good I guess, it's the sequel the hardcore fans wanted all this time, while I was watching it, it all just felt too....samey, like, it looks like the exact same thing I've been playing on the previous installments where there was much more room for improvement / new mechanics to be placed. Yea the freezing water feature seems like a neat touch, but nothing I saw seemed like it was used to its full potential for some great platforming moments, but again, its just based off what I saw, should be interesting to see what they do with the other elements they said (Fire, Air, Earth)
14 years, 8 months ago
Touting the "50 enemies on the screen at once" ability of the engine isn't exactly a great sign.
Also, the water freezing (and implied other elements?) could still have potential for good puzzles. I doubt they would show something more than a basic example like they did in this promotional thing.
14 years, 8 months ago
This looks awesome. It wasn't even on my radar when I initially heard it was being released along side the movie, but It actually doesn't look like a piece of garbage. I'm pretty excited.
14 years, 8 months ago
They pretty much just said that they remade Sands of TIme.
Was it really necessary to make the freezing element a flash-freeze? Was there not a more fluid (heh, water joke) transition that they could have implemented?