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YMMV: Prince of Persia
  • Author's Saving Throw: The Two Thrones makes an amusing, fairly original and largely effective attempt to turn back from the approach taken by the gratingly Darker and Edgier Warrior Within without the need for a retcon.
  • Broken Base: Warrior Within. You'll find either fans of the first game who hate it with passion or others who think this is the best in the series.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: All of the games (as well as the movie) have truly remarkable music.
    • The entire soundtrack to Sands of Time, done by multi-instrumentalist Stuart Chatwood with extra help from session musicians. Glad to know his experience with the whole Mideastern-rock fusion thing from his days in The Tea Party was put to very good use.
    • Special attention should be given to the PC/Xbox360/Playstation 3 Forgotten Sands soundtrack as well, as it is mostly composed of variations from a single basic theme. It kicks ass nonetheless.
  • Game Breaker: In Sands, the wall-bounce can knock down-thus basically killing-just about any enemy. Any enemy it can't take care of is vulnerable to the vaulting attack. Nerfed in the sequels.
  • Genius Bonus: The Forgotten Sands contains several references to King Solomon that seem enormously out of place if you only know him from The Bible. However, in both Jewish and Islamic mythologies, Solomon was a powerful sorcerer. In The Sands of Time, the Prince twice mentions Rostam, a famous hero in Persian mythology.
  • Memetic Mutation: "I smolder with generic rage", Penny Arcade's mocking of the Darker and Edgier changes to the Prince's character in Warrior Within.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Wonder why the Dahaka scares the Prince so much in Warrior Within? Because not even in his signature ability to rewind time is he safe from it. This is because you can only understand what the Dahaka is saying when he rewinds time.
  • Player Punch: The Prince's father is a boss in Sands of Time. Guess what happens.
  • Polished Port: The SNES version of the original game. Needless to say, this port was by a completely different developer from the one who did the port of its sequel.
  • Porting Disaster: Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame on the SNES. as one comment on a Youtube put it:
  • Rated M for Money: Warrior Within wasn't even trying to hide this.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Prince of Persia Classic replaced the fat guard in level 6 with an ogre-like creature. Fans were NOT pleased.
  • Urban Legend of Zelda: No matter what you do, The Two Thrones only has one ending. There is no bad ending where the dark prince wins.

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