I just didn't like there wasn't any tie-in for how he got on the ship or anything, unlike the 3rd game links with the 2nd game's true ending.

50:42 AYE YO!? 🤨

17:47 bruh

I remember playing PoP Sands of time and warrior within but I have little to no memories of this or Two Thrones even though I know I have played it. The first 2 in the series were quite something else!

1:29:30 - There‘s a simple explanation: The goal was to prevent the Sands from ever being gathered in a one huge vessel(such as the Hourglass). Therefore, no Maharaja taking them, no Prince releasing them, as it would have been impossible to simply drag this thing out of the Island.

Hey man, don't know if you'll upload anymore, but I really enjoyed your views on the POP series. hope you are doing well.

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33:32 minutes Pharah and warrior within

I think the prince can fight the dahaka but he just can't win because the sword can't do permanent damage. He was cornered in the op and had no choice. My evidence for this is that there's a cutscene where the prince hits him with the sword as he was falling and it works

Imo, two thrones felt like a PSP spin off. Length wise and just overall feel of the levels

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In sands of time when we pause or tries to quit,or in any other situation,prince voice says the story is not over or this is not how it happened,he was telling a past story not narrating it,which we came to know in pop tt ending whe begins telling the story from beginning to princess of india or farah. Btw i loked the tt type cutscene of the sot ❤

Frankly you're basing your argument on fragile grounds the game is neither repetitive nor boring , it has got everything, if only it were made in 2023 , believe me it would be something that everybody would die for

A thing I can mention about the Prince "killing" sand monsters with a new sword: It's probably Farah's amulet that lets him kill the monsters. In Warrior Within he has the amulet, which sucks up the sands and lets him use the powers of Sands of Time. Technically, there's also Two Thrones, where he doesn't have the amulet, but can also kill sand infected scythians with a little kitchen knife, so it's kinda 50/50

I never understood the people who complain that Warrior Within and Two Thrones do things differently than the Sands of Time and that it allegedly “doesn’t work as well”. These games are not Sands of Time. And as someone who played these games without rose tinted glasses, I thought they worked well enough. I think most people claim that the latter two games are somehow inferior, because they want to relive the Sands of Time experience and not because these games are genuinely worse.

I honestly love the unapologetic sexualisation in the game. I am so sooo sick of the rampant and cancerous political correctness in recent decades. And the crushing loneliness in the game’s atmosphere is very much intentional. People can’t seem to understand that this isn’t the kid from Sands of Time anymore. This is a full grown man that has been hunted by the Dahaka for years.

The game didn't show it, but the people fighting against sand monsters actually carried waterguns with them, they practically slaughtered the whole army and just kinda chilled out

Okay I'll start with the fact that I'm writing this comment as I'm watching, but saying that the middle-eastern motifs in the music have been replaced is disingenuous. Yes, the OST leans a lot more on guitars and drums than SOT (which also did that if you recall), but outside of the combat tracks (and tbh, even some of them still) very much have the Persian vibe found in the original.

When I was a kid I went through the entire game without using any of the magic abilities because I didn’t know how to 😂

I love playing mirrors edge every now and then

The market at the time was definitely not what it is today. Yeah it's cringe today, but at the time, it was catering to this demographic which isn't as mature as it is today. The further you go back in time when it comes to video game history, the more of a boy's club it was. FAKK 2, for example also was pretty shameless.. lol.. or even the video game magazines at the time like PC Accelerator. To Ubisoft's credit, they also put out titles like Beyond Good and Evil around the same time which offered a more mature take on a female character.

Never seen more egoistical piece of bs this review is total crap and it should be private lmao if i could i would review a time just not to see this dookie...

F**k two thrones. Compared to what we orignally was supposed to get, it's garbage. Both in terms of story and gameplay.

Honestly for me, the story of Two Thrones was one of its best things but there's one major problem i have with it: KAILEENA WAS DONE SO DIRTY IN IT. I understand what they were going for and what her death meant for the Prince's development but come on, she shoudn't have died so easily. I mean, she was the Empress of Time, the very vessel of the sands of time, someone who could SUMMON TORNADOES AND SLOW DOWN TIME, CREATE SAND CREATURES ON TOP OF BEING A MASTER SWORDSMAN ON THE SAME LEVEL ON THE PRINCE. SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN KILLED OFF SO EASILY. AT THE VERY LEAST THEY COULD HAVE HAD HER TAKING DOWN DOZENS IF NOT HUNDREDS OF SOLDIERS TO SHOW HOW POWERFUL SHE WAS!

22:45 most of Iranians/Persians look like Europeans. their supreme leader Khamenei is whiter than snow

WW is definitively worth playing just to experience it even if the teenage edge not your cup of tea. It's a brilliant game for what it is, but it's not really Prince of Persia.

This is to me one of the best coming-of-age stories and examples of character writing in any media. I mean is there a more perfect depiction of two naive teenagers trying to figure out their feelings for each other and how to be adults in a traumatic setting? There's so much character growth on the Prince's part, real emotional stakes and complexity, and at the end the real tragedy is growing up and accepting that life isn't fair. That you might not get the girl even when you do the right thing. I do think they consummate their relationship because thematically it doesn't make sense for them not to in the context of the story, but rather than showing something as awkward as it would realistically be, they're experiencing a shared vision of it being magical and perfect.

Great video. Two Thrones disappoints mostly by not being as good as the writing in Sands of Time. Which is a really high bar to hold it to, to be fair. Farah and the Prince come off as cardboard cutouts of the vibrant characters from SoT, but it's a serviceable, and occasionally even touching as a bookmark to the PoP trilogy.

I've really enjoyed your reviews on all four games in the prince of persia trilogy. I hope you played and are making a video on the Lost crown. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that game. It might have featured a new prince and setting but I think it has better acrobatics and mechanics than even this game and a very satisfying combat too.

21:24 for this, afaik, original draft of warrior within had Empress of Time as the villain and she'd use Enchantresses to break the mind of men as per various sources. So maybe that's why they have such BDSM-esque voicelines Also I wish he had monologues like T2T and SOT

This game's combat was ahead of its time.

Warrior within would've been perfect if the music was more arabian pirate horror themed instead of rock.

Babylon is in Iraq not Persia , because persians have took seige over the city at some point and made it their home... great video!

Your and tycho's review on warrior within combat is simply wrong . Yes there is alot more combat than in the Sands of time but this time its actually good , if you know how to use combos and surroundings . If you don't like the combat and are there for platforming that's ok you can simply run pass enemies , no big deal . Just like in the Sands of time , right , right ...? No ,in previous sequel there is no running pass enemies , you literally Must fight with 15-20 enemies in stupid attack-defence boring gameplay . You are constantly fighting 4 enemies at once and have to watch over Farrah , or you can ignore enemies and keep marching , just to see Farrah get killed. Anyone who played Warrior within after Sands of time must have felt immense relief when enganing in combat , not the other way arround . So yeah , you are wrong my man , but pretty much everything else is spot on. Cheers.

Kids these days will never taste this beauty.

My favourite game.

36:38 You don't have to wait for Shahdee to finish her combo. If you block with two swords, you can left click for counterattack and crate an opening for aa follow up combo. Makes the fight terribly easy. Works on Kaileena too.

It's too bad you're not making videos anymore

Best one in the series

Major themes that the Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy taught me: Sand of Time: You can fix your mistakes. Warrior Within: You can change your fate. Two Thrones: You can live with the consequences of your actions.

Two thrones is not complete game anyway it was originally called king of blades the og e3 game they got 3 cut content half of it 😞😞

Dude rather than playing the game for the game or the review Y dont u actually play the game thinking u r the prince and considering what is at stake Pop ww is one hell of a game that I enjoyed so much i can't tell you For some. Reason u r just cramming about the game when it is not due Do u play any game with the same intetn to just end the game and be done with it or enjoy it Did u play Witcher 3 so u cud kill eredin or for the eniterity of the splendid game it is Brother I suugest you give it more credit. It is a timeless masterpiece but your takes seems too one sided and rather spoken like someone doesn't actually enjoy games It doesn't matter how many games you play if u don't enjoy them. What's the point then?

Personally, I have more gripes with the gameplay than the story since playing it very recently... 1st, the Sand Credits are meh, don't like that there's a currency for basically extra art instead of upgrades or something more substantial 2nd, the Dark Prince is fun in combat scenarios but in platforming and in general I feel he could've used more polish, The dark prince from a gameplay perspective comes directly from the Sand Wraith from WW with the health slowly draining, but the sand wraith gave you regenerating sand and didn't kill you if you took your time with the puzzles/platforming, things that happened to me a couple of times with the Dark Prince and the checkpoints are TERRIBLE, if you mess up a dark prince part you have to start again from aaaaaaall the way from the beginning in most cases, this wouldn't be as much a problem if they A) gave the dark prince regenerating sand (or at least make it so that you can always regenerate at least 1 tank) or your health didn't drain till death. 3rd, continuing from the Sand Credits, there are no major upgrades like in warrior withing where you would get better swords, all the upgrades that you get are sand tanks and sand techniques, it would've been cool if we got any kind of upgrades, or anything to feel like we've progressed through the game besides your father's sword. 4th, if you obtain all of the life upgrades in WW you get the water sword which gives you the true ending and is a big bonus in damage, I feel like they could've at least made something or given you a reward for getting all of the hidden health upgrades. Overall, I feel like they tried to go back to the formula from SOT ignoring much of the great things that WW introduced, It's like WW did 10 steps forward and TT takes 2 steps back from the decisions or gameplay options that WW gave in order to go back to the style of SOT, which is pretty funny if you think about it, All of the game is based around moving forward and recognizing the past mistakes and learning about them instead of seeking the long way around to "fix everything" but the game does the exact opposite.

Never forget that a niche of the fanbase and entitled critics made Ubisoft scrap Kindred Blades in order to release Two Thrones, objectively the worst game of the trilogy.

Worth noting that Ku never died, but was just critically injured and in essentially a coma. I believe originally she was going to pass away, but play testers basically told Moon that they wouldn't continue playing if she did. It was too much and like seeing a child killed off. So they elected to just place her in that coma like state and revive her back to consciousness at the end. I really wish we'd had more play with Ku. It had the opportunity for some creative pair work and puzzle solving. Also, Shriek did die. The guys did an AMA a few months ago and they confirmed as such

Just watched through all of your videos on this trilogy-really sharp, entertaining analysis and look forward to more.

The message the game sends to the players is very important. It's to never give up and always move forward, even if you're in hell and all the odds are against you. The empress would spend her life believing, knowing that what's written in the timeline cannot be changed. Enters the Prince. Within the day or a couple of days time or so he gives her enough of hope just by his actions that after activating the two towers she changes her entire attitude and grabs her blades, believing that maybe there is a way to change one's fate that was already written.

No. for god’s sake, don’t try to change anything or try to be innovative. the game was perfect. haven’t seen any game nearly as good as this for years. the story, the combat, the scenes were just all great. why can’t they make a game like this anymore?

game was not bad it was ok but the problem was this game was celled prince of persia - and wii and psp version (two diffrent story compared to pc) was really good story driven

I know this video is old but i love sands of time