Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Game Review/Commentary 80

[madimpossibledreamer]

Okay, so you’re here.  Okay, and that’s as far as you can do that, so. {roommate}  Feels like you can go a bit further, but you can’t really. 

Okay, so that didn’t make a difference.  That didn’t happen. [Prince]  Stop getting annoyed at us.  It’s not our fault. 

I mean, I might be…pressing it too early?  Well, you’re able to do it on the other parts, right? {roommate}  Yeah, that’s…confused. 

All right, so that’s all in that one. {roommate} 

“I’ve been pretty good at wall jumping or I could not have made it this far.”  SAME.  Your feelings I feel deeply. 

“The moment the Prince touches the wall…jump on the opposite side…” {roommate}  I also don’t think I can change the camera that much.  Right. {roommate} 

No, it does not.  Ah, okay.  So you need to press it slowly.  Okay. {roommate} That’s never actually helped anything, but I can try.  Well, I can…maybe make a try at it. {roommate}

Do you want me to make it to that part?  Yeah. {roommate}  Okay.  Because I don’t have the timing for the rest of this down. {roommate} And I do, ‘cause I’ve already lost count of how many times I’ve tried this today, and it has been…an hour and twenty minutes.  (Not what the recording said, but I might’ve paused it when I got my roommate.) 

I hate this part.  It’s uh, so you’ve done forty tries right now. {roommate} *scream*  …Forty-one. {roommate} PRINCE.  No no no. [Prince] That almost certainly happened.  Because you’re a loser, man.  Get your act together and stop wasting our time. {roommate}

You want to know the funny thing?  I’m pretty sure at this point he’s not even a Prince.  I’m pretty sure he’s a king.  Because his father is dead.  Because we had to kill him.  Kind of makes the rest of the games a misnomer, eh? {roommate} Yep.  I mean, technically I don’t actually know what the ending is, but I have a theory that he undoes everything with the Sands of Time, which is actually a really terrible idea.  But. 

You wonder why your life is an unfailing…  {roommate} Unending series of…  Intellectual, financial, and emotional hurdles.  Open the door. {roommate}  I am so proud of you that you know that quote, considering that you have never actually seen the series, just read the books.  You know, when Bob’s right, he’s right. {roommate} That’s true. 

And bats.  Lots of bats.  The same never-ending swarm of bats. 

I definitely think you can’t jump down inside the tower. {roommate} I have attempted it once or twice.  Have you seen any videos of it? {roommate} I don’t think so.  Then that’s probably not.  I don’t think the distances in that case are feasible.  I think it’s about the width--  {roommate} Well, there I think it’s more about the angles because the angles are weird.  Right.  {roommate} So you’re not jumping between flat surfaces. 

I don’t know if I have to make him go all the way around it like that, but.  Right. {roommate}

Die now, and curse in vain! (bats)  Old fool!  This is my hour!  …It has indeed been an hour, Mr. Prince. {roommate} Aaaaaugh, why you do this?  *laughter*  Your hour of tomfoolery is done. {roommate}

And the worst part is that you have to go through so much to get back to that one spot.  Right.  It’s a pain in the rear end. {roommate}

Do you want me to actually climb up and walk around?  I don’t think it makes a difference, based on what I’m reading. {roommate}  Or what you saw?  Right.  My instinct is to say it just comes down to timing.  {roommate}

Well.  …I’m trying to look at the…I can’t actually see.  Inside the tower? {roommate} I’m trying to compare what the length is between those two (walls on the one you’re supposed to jump) and these two (walls inside the tower).  The length is a little narrower on these two.  You might be able to do it crosswise, but it’s probably kind of tricky. {roommate} Right. 

All right.  Let’s see if I’ve got this. {roommate} *scream*  (You don’t got this. /sadface)

We can always restart the game.  No no no, that didn’t happen. [Prince]

Do you want me to restart the game?  Yeah, let’s do it. {roommate} I think it did it—You want me to leave before finishing my story? [Prince] I think it did it once.  Either that or it went to load save game.  We’re just going to quit here.  Thank you, Mr. Prince.  Your current services are no longer required. {roommate}

I was like, “I wish I could just pick him up and set him down.”  Right.  Well, just for this particular section, right?  ‘Cause it’s not…  {roommate} Right. 

Why are you opening that?  I’m checking processes. {roommate} Ah.  I really want to make sure it’s—  {roommate} Off?  Off, yeah. {roommate}

Let’s see.  Is there anything else these guys…? 

Excuse me, Mr. Prince.  We’re not done figuring out how to deal with you yet. {roommate}

All right.  So that one is the same one.  How do you stand?  What’s the command for standing? {roommate} It’s X, and you have to pretty much be on a surface that you can do that. 

I can also see if there’s anything—that computer’s off.  I don’t really want to use our other roommate’s… 

No, it is absolutely the game’s fault.  Shut up, Snanbybia. {roommate} Yeah, I was like, that’s so helpful.  No, it is absolutely the game’s fault. {roommate} The thing is, this is widely acknowledged to be a kind of buggy game, and that is when it is played on what it was designed to be played on.  Right. {roommate}

So, you can also look up a few videos to see if they help at all. 

Yeah, I think I’ll at least try to…  {roommate} Do not delete please.  (The panic in my voice there.)  If you delete I will cry.  I’d hope you at least backed it up. {roommate} I don’t.  I asked you if I should save it on a flash drive, and you said no.  I was stupid.  But then, you already knew it sometimes. {roommate}

Okay.  Let’s see.  Oh yeah. {roommate}

I do not actually remember my password for that one.  I have to look it up.  (distant me voice) 

All right.  Okay, I guess I’m at full.  All right, so in this case it has to be fast.  {roommate}