Ubisoft: Disapointed by Prince of Persia's poor reception

[Onyxmeth]

vlad321 said:

sapient said:
Prince of Persia is great. The graphics and gameplay are both innovative. I do not understand people who say the only innovation is that you can't die. I think they are not paying attention. The idea is you don't have to wait 15 minutes for the title screen and several button presses to load the last save (I am looking at you TLR).

IF you don't like the difficulty level ask for hard and extremely hard modes from designers DON'T assume everyone is as masochistic as you are.

 

The gameplay is far simpler than what even the original PoP had. It's not the fact you can't die, I love that mechanic thoroughly, it's the fact that this game has one of the worst platforming mechanics ever. If I'm anywhere near a ledge and press A, the prince automatically makes a jump, auto starts walking on a wall, and then I have a 3-4 sec time to push A again to jump to a pole, then I press A again to jump to another wall, and he auto runs up it then I just press A again to jump off THAT wall, and this continues to go and on. It's boring and it's not an innovation, it's a HUGE step backwards, in fact, the game is behind Super Mario Bros. in platforming gameplay imo. Thank god it has such decent graphics otherwise it would have been utter crap.

Honestly Vlad, if they gave you any more control over the platforming, it probably would have made the game far too difficult for most people. As it is, most people that beat it die over 200 times. That's a lot for a game.