The Prince's moveset has been further expanded from the previous game, with moves like sliding up and down between two walls and using your dagger to hang off a hole in the wall. With the atmosphere nailed down, I was extremely glad to see that The Two Thrones also delivers on the movement part, with some great platforming challenges throughout the game. This meant The Two Thrones does atmosphere super well, and with good platforming, could be a perfect Prince of Persia experience. Thankfully, The Two Thrones dials down the edginess, in a way that doesn't feel like a hard 90-degree turn from the previous game, but a change that feels natural for the games. Sands of Time had this in spades and was a fantastic experience (minus the excessive combat encounters), while the Warrior Within did movement very well, but butchered the atmosphere by opting to go for a very of-its-time edginess, which really brought the experience down for me (along with endless backtracking due to its open design). This is a hard change from how I felt prior to starting the game, with burnout very much something I thought would ruin this game for me.īack in my Sands of Time thread, I mentioned Prince of Persia's core two pillars as movement and atmosphere.

I blasted through this game and kept wanting more. It's telling that my Sands of Time and Warrior Within threads are almost a month apart, while this one and the Warrior Within one are just around ten days apart (and that's with me replaying WW a bunch of times). I was very much proven wrong, and found a game that perfectly balances the best parts of the first two games while trimming the fat and fixing the things that didn't work in the first two games. I expected a game on the same level as Warrior Within, that is to say a game I liked but found needlessly frustrating, and one that does not reach the highs that Sands of Time did.

After having gone through The Sands of Time and Warrior Within, I felt like I needed a break from Prince of Persia (mainly thanks to Warrior Within), but I thought I'd give the third game in the trilogy, The Two Thrones, a quick glimpse, just to see what it has in store.

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