Prince of Persia
I got a PS3 and Prince of Persia for Christmas (YAY THANKS MOM) and I finished it the other day! I felt so accomplished. Then my sister pointed out that I just beat my shiny new game within a week and what was I supposed to do now. Stupid sister! Oh well, I'll be playing it again fershure and I'm having fun downloading like Every Demo Ever in the meantime.
I heard lots of mixed things about this game - It was fun, but the ending was disappointing or the characters were annoying or the plots were stupid, etc, etc. Well poo poo to all of the naysayers because I enjoyed the whole thing thoroughly.
As a team, the characters were totally loveable. I thought Elika made a cute game mechanic (though doesn't some of the drama go out of the scene when you know you can never die?) and their banter and constant flirting was entertaining and adorable. I loved the vast majority of the conversations, with the "let's play a game!" one as probably my favourite. I'm fond of the new Prince and I'd like to know more about him, for sure - hopefully the questions raised will be answered rather than postponed in the inevitable sequel.
Perhaps it's needless to say but I always wind up watching the female characters a little more closely, usually in hopes that they'll do something cool. Elika was a bit bland - but that was alright, as the Prince was absolutely right when he said he needed a straight man for the double act. The faith/brave split between Elika/The Prince kind of annoyed me - it's a very gendered cliche and for some reason that was really noticeable here, though I've been just fine with it in other places. I'm just not that into brooding long-suffering martyrs (and it was pretty easy to tell that she was going to wind up being one) - I like my martyrs to be relatively angst-free. Obviously I'm just picking nits, I like her well enough. I think I'd only get honestly annoyed about it seeing her held up as some paragon of awesome.
The Ahriman v. Ormazd thing was a pretty simple plot set up, but like, who cares. Evil dark fish and pretty trees. I'm down. Regardless of the fact that it's almost as LIGHT VERSUS DARKNESS as Kingdom Hearts, I was still actually interested in the setting and in the Ahura. Maybe it just felt immersive to not know anything and to want to know more - about what happened in the City of Light and about what was going on outside of it. I missed the minarets, though. Game needed more minarets. Plz give minarets in the sequel.
And speaking of sequels, I think this is the correct way to do a cliffhanger/sequel set up - i.e., it's not total bullshit. They raised plenty of questions and gave us plenty of stuff to chew on, but the game is still one total, self-contained story - and one that's full of symmetry, which I'm a total geek for. I love that kind of "The story ends as it begins" shit. I can see why some people would find it frustrating to have all their work undone by the end of the game, but I think it's great storytelling and it gives the whole thing a nice fable-like feel even while opening things up for a sequel!
I haven't played the add-on expansion thingie. I'm not sure I should, I don't want the ending I like trampled on. Anyone who played it got advice?
I heard lots of mixed things about this game - It was fun, but the ending was disappointing or the characters were annoying or the plots were stupid, etc, etc. Well poo poo to all of the naysayers because I enjoyed the whole thing thoroughly.
As a team, the characters were totally loveable. I thought Elika made a cute game mechanic (though doesn't some of the drama go out of the scene when you know you can never die?) and their banter and constant flirting was entertaining and adorable. I loved the vast majority of the conversations, with the "let's play a game!" one as probably my favourite. I'm fond of the new Prince and I'd like to know more about him, for sure - hopefully the questions raised will be answered rather than postponed in the inevitable sequel.
Perhaps it's needless to say but I always wind up watching the female characters a little more closely, usually in hopes that they'll do something cool. Elika was a bit bland - but that was alright, as the Prince was absolutely right when he said he needed a straight man for the double act. The faith/brave split between Elika/The Prince kind of annoyed me - it's a very gendered cliche and for some reason that was really noticeable here, though I've been just fine with it in other places. I'm just not that into brooding long-suffering martyrs (and it was pretty easy to tell that she was going to wind up being one) - I like my martyrs to be relatively angst-free. Obviously I'm just picking nits, I like her well enough. I think I'd only get honestly annoyed about it seeing her held up as some paragon of awesome.
The Ahriman v. Ormazd thing was a pretty simple plot set up, but like, who cares. Evil dark fish and pretty trees. I'm down. Regardless of the fact that it's almost as LIGHT VERSUS DARKNESS as Kingdom Hearts, I was still actually interested in the setting and in the Ahura. Maybe it just felt immersive to not know anything and to want to know more - about what happened in the City of Light and about what was going on outside of it. I missed the minarets, though. Game needed more minarets. Plz give minarets in the sequel.
And speaking of sequels, I think this is the correct way to do a cliffhanger/sequel set up - i.e., it's not total bullshit. They raised plenty of questions and gave us plenty of stuff to chew on, but the game is still one total, self-contained story - and one that's full of symmetry, which I'm a total geek for. I love that kind of "The story ends as it begins" shit. I can see why some people would find it frustrating to have all their work undone by the end of the game, but I think it's great storytelling and it gives the whole thing a nice fable-like feel even while opening things up for a sequel!
I haven't played the add-on expansion thingie. I'm not sure I should, I don't want the ending I like trampled on. Anyone who played it got advice?