Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Game Review/Commentary 45

[madimpossibledreamer]

Oh hey, light puzzles. 

Don’t leave me.  My love. [Farah] Really?  Please don’t leave me. [Farah] You’ve never called me that before…  What did you call me? [Prince]  Nothing. [Farah]  I can tell you.  She said love. 

Woah, your skirt went up.  Hopefully you’re wearing—(underwear). 

Pay attention this time.  I can’t spend the whole day chasing after you. [Prince] Just most of it. 

Your skirt went up and we might have seen a bit—Farah, you might want to look at that, that’s not… 

Uh, okay, there was sand somewhere.  Actually, I wonder if we can go back the other way because we didn’t and it might actually be another increase your max HP or something.  Curious. 

Oh.  Oh, no, it’s just a dead end, never mind.  I’ll say that and leave you, but whatever. 

Really?  The Prince just likes to jump off things sometimes. 

Did I check around this entire area, because—Hi.  (I ended up randomly close to Farah.  I feel like she’s upping her previously nonexistent seduction routine.) 

I feel like if they would hide the thing anywhere, they would hide it around here…

Hey, look, statue.  I have to—hi.  We are taking this home with us.  Oh, I guess it has a spot for you to go to. 

Well, what are you waiting for? [Prince] I’m afraid.  What if I get into trouble? [Farah]  (Of the world ending, of you not being able to fix anything or save your people, sure.  Of going off on your own??  Play the J Jonah Jameson meme.)  I mean, you can handle yourself when you feel like it. 

…There are candles?!  (candles are cool.)  I’m strangely excited by the candles. 

I’m afraid.  What if I get into trouble? [Prince making fun of Farah]  I’m gonna slap you. 

You know what?  Prince?  Prince.  What?  Okay.  Here we go.  We are taking this with us.  I actually can’t push it any further, okay.  Well, we are going to move it over onto this rug.  Don’t look at me like that; it’s important.

(for the record, I don’t actually hear him say anything here.  I might have been making fun of him but) You say that, but what happens when you go into the Velvet Room? 

Hi.  There are leaves and weird sounds.  And nothing else here to trust.  Hi.  Are you sure I’m not slowing you down? [Farah]  All right, all right. [Prince] No.  I’m slowing me down when I decide to RUN OFF RANDOM THINGS. 

(again, I don’t hear her say anything new…)  Agreed, Farah.  This time you are perfectly acceptable to make those faces at me.  Hey, she sighed.  That is her ‘I am contemplating the death of my entire family’ (pose). 

I wonder what happens if we turn this and hit the Sand—I’m sorry for blocking you, Farah—hit the Sand Monsters.  Can they stay in the sunlight? 

The Altar of Mourning?  Farah, you’ve never been here… We came out on the wrong side of the Baths.  We’ll need to go back through the Royal Palace. [Farah]  All right then; let’s find a way out. [Prince]  Farah, you’ve never been here, how do you know these things? (Unless the monarch was a friend of her people and she’d visited too; I hadn’t considered that one because I thought the two were mutually exclusive types of the “you’re friends with the cop faction you can’t be friends with the thief faction” sorta deal.) 

Ow! [Prince] Sorry! [Farah]  (For the record, she just sounds amused, and not sorry at all.)  She just immediately shoots me in the back.  ‘My love.’ 

Oh.  I can’t actually run against that because I’m too busy not having my sword out. 

That’s a mirror. 

I like this new music.  Ow.  If I use this enough eventually I’ll remember that I can jump off things.  At least I’m not too hurt, I suppose.  Oh. 

Help! [Farah]  Really?  You’ve got this.  You can just stab him with your arrow at that point. 

Don’t run up them, run up the wall.  Be careful! [Farah] 

I love this new music. 

Oh hey, water.  Drink.  Yes. 

Help! [Farah] You’re fine. 

I parkoured over the table so they were like ‘this table has to go’. 

Stop trying to parkour over these people; you know they don’t do that.  Be careful! [Farah]  Yeaaah.  I think it’s time for me to go drink some water again. 

Why did you put your sword away? [Farah]  Because magical water cannot be had while you have your sword out.  You are incapable of drinking magical water when you have your sword out. 

How ‘bout you do this? 

Also someone’s been slashing up books and it’s a terrible thing.  This, by the way, is a really pretty library.  There we go. 

Why did you put your sword away? [Farah] You got this.  *laughs* 

Help! [Farah]  Why do you keep screaming ‘help’ like you’re a completely useless lady?  You’re not. 

Also I cannot see what is happening, thanks Camera. 

This music is really cool.  Wheee. 

Thank you for actually being useful for a bit. 

I’m going to say he didn’t see that one coming.  He also didn’t see that one coming either.

That slash was not meant in your general direction; that was just me being dumb. 

Also, hey, look, more sand with which to contaminate myself. 

Behind you! [Farah] Thanks!  …I’m stuck on a book.  Ow. 

What was I even slashing at?  Man.  What I will do though, I think, is take out these stools, because they’re doing nothing but cause trouble.  And for whatever reason Prince was focusing on this guy.  The stools are the more dangerous enemy, you realize, Prince. 

‘Kay.  Now it’s pretty much right behind me.  Ah.  Yeah, dude, that’s right.  Slap your buddy. 

Uh-oh.  I told you, the stools are our greatest enemy, Prince.  You didn’t believe me. 

Okay, she’s getting a little hurt, you might want to help out.  Oh hey, they’re not even—this is a lot of guys. 

Just staying light on your toes seems to be helping.  Like sidestepping. 

That’s all of them; I sheathed my sword.  Look, I’ve definitively sheathed my sword when I pose when I do it and it’s safe.