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Last week though, I managed (through the kindness of a friend) to finally get my hands on a copy of this much maligned 3D platformer and my torrid affair with his Highness was rekindled. I'd heard it was shit anyway so figured I wasn't missing much. During the Dreamcast era, I was aware of Prince of Persia 3D/Arabian Nights but because the game never got a PAL release, I just let it pass me by. Just goes to show that if you drift through life like I do, you'll develop weird relationships with all manner of random, antiquated and forgotten crap. The more I think about it, the more it becomes apparent that I've had quite a history with the franchise.but not through any sentient thought process.
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I played the shit out of Sands of Time on the Gamecube and Warrior Within on PSP, and even went to see the movie adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
If I said that was my last experience with Prince of Persia, I'd be lying. The CD was quickly removed from the machine, replaced with Silpheed and never spoken of again. Constant deaths, shit controls, graphics that looked like something out of a Kinder egg. After getting home and slapping the CD into my Multimega, I recall that it took me about 10 minutes to realise that Prince of Persia was not a game I would be enjoying in this life, or the next.
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I knew that Prince was basically the grandaddy of the genre - side-on action with relentless hardcore puzzles and cruel trial and error insta-death gameplay - but I vividly remember buying it from a stall in Manchester's Arndale market, and excitedly absorbing the contents of the manual on the bus back to my squalid homestead. I looked again for another title that could fill the void left by Delphine's spectacular adventure and eventually I landed a copy of Prince of Persia for the Mega CD. I can only apologise for such adolescent idiocy. A good looking mess with excellent cut scenes, but a mess all the same. Before you start foaming on your yellowing, crumb-filled Amiga keyboard know this: I have since played it as an adult and fully appreciate the game now but back then in my youthful 'fresh from Flashback' comedown period, I thought it was an impenetrable mess.
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Ultimately, Another World (or Out of This World if you're American) was tossed aside after about an hour of trial and error (and random outbursts of rage at the TV screen if I remember rightly). Even though it was lauded by the press, I couldn't even get past the first couple of screens with that big black dog and those stupid snaggle-toothed slug things nipping at my ankles. I'm not going to lie in an attempt to look like some learned and well-versed gaming expert: I thought Another World was shite.