Customer Reviews

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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fluid animation, intelligent gameplay, I really enjoy playing the game...
To all fans of Metroid, Castelvania , I recommend this one.

10 Years ago I played their first PC version. That was the Original version and then tried the version 2 and loved it a lot. I recently got this latest version. Wanted to try if it still got it. I was blown away with all the splendid graphics, sound effects and sequences. Has to be the best Price ever.

Anybody who enjoys action adventures should try this game and I can promise him or her without a doubt that they would enjoy every moment of it.

This game is alot more fun than the console versions (in my opinion) fluid animation, great control, and most of all fun!!! dont let this game slip under the cracks due to the console versions being released the same day ...which i feel was way over rated!!

This game is a fun game. There is only one thing that I can complain about this game is that you turn invisible for a short time early in the game. The only problem is that you turn completely invisible where you can't see yourself at all while avoiding traps and you have to hurry to the end of the room in a certain time. I got very frustrated with this part, but I got through it. Actually you turn invisible another time earlier in the game, but it's a lot easier to get through. There is also replay in this game where you can go through the levels again and find secret rooms where you couldn't access before. If you go through that frustrating part again you don't have to turn invisible anymore to open the gate.

I really and truly wanted to like this game. I could have returned it in the first week, but decided to keep it because I liked the beginning. I'm sort of regretting that decision.

First the good stuff, the characters look nice and control pretty well. You get to control the prince and unlike the other versions, the princess. In that respect, it was like a better executed version of Kim Possible 3: Team Possible. There are also some pretty decent boss fights vs a Griffin and with some exceptions the controls are tight.

Though not the central theme, combat is pretty good. You're mostly using your dagger or the bow and arrow for Farah. The prince is much better rounded when it comes to combat, employing double-jumps, time reversal, time slowing, time freezing, and more. Some enemies can be a little tricky, but if you work at it you can find their weak spots. In boss fights you often have to use the Sands of Time to cause damage. For a GBA game, it's not the flashiest available, but is pretty well executed.

If so many good things, why am I so disappointed? Well, for one thing the length of time between checkpoints gets very tedious. You'll often be asked to make a leap of faith or need to figure out how to get past an obstacle and end up dying repeatedly. That wouldn't be so bad, but the game will often set up three to four of those puzzles in a row, so you have to play through the first tricky one to get to the next, die a few times, then do the third, die another half dozen times, then finally die again a few more times to finally make it to the save point. This is made worse because some of the puzzles require waiting a little while, so you can't just rush through them to the next. It gets old VERY quickly. I found myself having to stop after a checkpoint, turn off the machine and do something else, then come back or else I got so bored I just ran the prince off of ledges, not caring at all. Your mileage may vary, depending on how much of a tolerance for replaying content.

The switching between the prince and Farah is pretty sloppy. You can only change when you're standing in certain places. Mostly this is good so you aren't jumping or hanging on something while you change, but at times the choice to not let you switch is inexplicable and can even mean you have to backtrack through dangers (possibly being injured to the point you can't complete or dying outright) just because the character you took wasn't the one the developers wanted you to take; you are given little to no indication which to use in any given spot. That leads to another problem, there are portions of the game that are ambiguous, especially relating to the Sands of Time themselves. You have a move that lets you rebuild broken structures for example, but telling when you can use it is a lot about trial and error; the trial and error are especially vexing because you need to use a significant amount of sand to try the move and many times it's in very short supply. Expect to play portions of levels over and over and over and over again.

Overall, can you play this game? Yes. You can play it and probably finish it having at least a fair amount of time. It's not awful, just disappointing. If you get this one you won't be cursing owning it, but you also won't be jumping for joy. Are there better GBA games out there? Yes! Games like the Metroid series, any of the Turtles games, Teen Titans, or even Worms World Party would probably be a better purchase.

Update:
I just found this out so I wanted to add in case anybody does get this game. Collecting the medal shard things is very important. The game doesn't really explain this very well, but they are used to open some bridges late game. I was wondering around for a couple hours trying to find my way and hitting dead ends, that was the cause. Apparently, you'll find them located in differently colored rooms on your map; I haven't had time to go back through the game to look. Buy a guide or get one for free on the Internet, but don't go in blind. Some people have even created maps of the levels like you can find for the original Metroid game (unlockable by beating Metroid: Zero Mission). It's helpful.

This game is fun, and mazey. There are a lot of items you have to pick up along the way and you always have to read the scrolls. I actually ended up going backwards at one point in the game and didn't know what I'd done wrong. (The game goes from the left to right to right to left back and forth, and that is the mazey part). Another complaint I have is that the sands of time instrument is pointless. You think, "oh yay! I can rewind time and not die!!" WRONG. You rewind time only to watch yourself die again and hear the horrid background music once again. However, I can't blow if off completely because, the sands of time instrument is useful about 1 out of 10 times.
With disregard to all that, this game is pretty fun, and I would recommend it....Unless you get lost easy and are usually tempted to give up.

this game is the best. It has every thing a game should have. the graphices are great to. I thought they would never create a game like this. thank you

If I were to buy any it would be this.

I hope you get this game it's great.