Someone's made a right royal mess here
Posted by Thomas East |
27-Jan-2012
You can't imagine Jake Gyllenhaal signing up to be in Prince Of Persia had he played this on Game Boy Color. Mind you, it would have been easier if the film had been based on this. Beefing up into a six-pack swashbuckler with dreamy locks wouldn't be necessary. About 10 pints should do it to stumble around like the Prince does here.
It looks terrible - the hero is a lanky splodge of pixels with no eyes - but then it is a Game Boy Color game.
The controls are horrible. Tap right and the Prince will run about three steps, so unless you want to fall down a gap onto some spikes or run straight into an enemy, you have to tiptoe slowly around, which is a bit of a problem, as you're up against the clock.
You only have an hour to complete Prince Of Persia and the manual suggests you take no longer than five minutes per level, so it's infuriating that doing as something simple as picking up a health bottle takes more time than it should.
You may well find that you get used to it but, even so, this Prince hasn't aged at all well.
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