Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands: Review

Hey, its Soulbishop again and I’m here to review Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands. I even stuck a video in here for you gamers!
This particular installment in the franchise supposedly covers a four year block in the Prince’s life that has previously gone unaccounted for. Why that would be important, considering he has popped centuries back in time, I have no clue.
The Good and of the Djinn
But I do have a clue about what this game is doing right. From this first cut scene you are brought into the world, and it is a beautiful world indeed so much so that gameplay blends seamlessly into cut scenes and back again. This game is pretty and knows it.
Though it is great to be astonished visually, shallow visual appeal is not all Ubisoft brought to the party, like a sorority girl after one shot too many ubisoft gives you an interesting story too. A tale of tragedy and sacrifice for the greater good, its almost like a campy Shakespearean tragedy, if it had time reversing abilities and water freezing magic.

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This brings us to the meat and potatoes of the game: the acrobatics and its controls. After twenty minutes I felt like a legit pro! I jumped where I intended to jump and ran up walls in the direction I wanted to run and I slashed, dashed, and hacked like a sword-master! This game was good for my ego!
The Bad and of the Sand
I had no real qualms with the gameplay or story, and as you can read about, I’m all but gushing over the visuals as though they were my own creations. A more physical game-related annoyance was the manual acrobatics your fingers had to preform in some of the harder jump chains. I’m one to never change the default controls on a first play through because I assume the developers have picked up their own game at some point and attempted at least a quarter of the lunacy I will attempt myself. And in doing so they would change controls appropriately. Mind you I played this on PC as I do much of my games and I would say I am more than adept when it comes to key locations. But when faced with a series of jumps where freezing and unfreezing waterfalls to us as wall jumps platforms and pass through to the next I admit I suffered a loss of direction. In the shadows there lurks something dark than a bad button scheme.

The Damn Ugly Ifrit
Ahhhhhhhh youdirtysonuvabi—ibavunosytriduoy hhhhhhhhA. Ok Ubisoft I understand, piracy and trade in games are the source of some of the biggest loss profit to the gaming industry. I understands half the loss can be prevented with piracy prevention software. But your tunnel vision on the matter blinds you to the fucking truth! Your constant nagging for internet connection and your subsequent gaming crash if you are not sated is more than a minor annoyance for end users like myself. Do you not agree if I purchase your product I should be able to play said product out of the box? I’m consider myself competent when it comes to port forwarding and firewall exceptions, but why should I change them? I purchased the game from you not my computer. This is the same reason I do not host servers because I refuse to port-forward. Ubisoft please handle it or I may not buy RUSE.
BUY RENT or AVOID
I’m gonna hit you with 2 decisions if you are playing this game on anything but a PC or if you are ok with port-forwarding and bending over to be dicked BUY this game! If you are playing on PC but refuse to bend over and present avoid it. Its a decent game but not so great as to warrant your manhood and dignity.

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Soulbishop of Real Talk Gaming.