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I’ve finally completed my verbose ramblings on the Prince of Persia Trilogy<\/em>, concluding with my final review of The Two Thrones<\/em><\/a> which is now up at Video Games Blogger. Over the past few months I’ve written quite a lot on these three games, particularly in the way of gameplay structuring and narrative, yet each review has been self-contained \u2013 now I’d like to remove those barriers.<\/p>\n To summarize my thoughts; The Sands of Time<\/em><\/a> was an incredible offering, severing ties with player expectations and delivering an unprecedented form of narrative whilst revitalizing the platforming genre. Warrior Within<\/em><\/a> was bigger, meaner and more hardcore in terms of challenge, but the emo-core pretense left a fowl taste in my mouth. The Two Thrones<\/a><\/em> took all the previous content and integrated it together to form a well mixed conclusion, best of both worlds, but the purity of the series was dead on arrival, unfortunately.<\/p>\n Warrior Within<\/em> subverted the modest and implicit nature which made Sands of Time<\/em> so refreshing, overloading the game with overt fratboy appeal. Even after just 5 minutes of Warrior Within<\/em> it’s resoundingly clear that Ubisoft had sold out pretty bad. The Two Thrones<\/em> could have redeemed Warrior Within<\/em> but instead highlights that Ubisoft had in fact they never actually \u201cgot it\u201d<\/em> in the first place, as evidenced by the failure to understand and — in their choosing — adapt the qualities of Sands of Time<\/em> to The Two Thrones<\/em>. I elaborate on these issues in the first half of my Two Thrones<\/em> review<\/a> and I do so because their mishandling of the series denotes a huge mark of shame, at least when it comes to maintaining the spirit of the Prince of Persia<\/em> series.<\/p>\nLet’s Hate on Warrior Within Some More<\/h3>\n