Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones

[Friction]

Ah right I know the place.

I will try to find out now and plan a route for you!

[-Taurus-]

Sorry for the off-topic, but i have the Sands of Time but never did buy the Warrior Within.

I was thinking buying this one after the praise i read here, do you reckon i will miss anything not buying WW?

Thanks.

[shafropuff]

Theres not rele much you've missed, I haven't completed WW cos I found it annoyingly glitchy. Anyway in the begainin' of the game you get kind of an overview of what happend so far and as long as u know the story line to WW it shouldn't be a problem or you could get the PSP version which comes out friday I think, thats a remake of WW from what I know so it should hopefully be better.

[Friction]

dont know the name will check later

it is where you are chasing

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the guards dragging the woman (forgot her name) you then come to a large open room with i think dog statues

Right I think I know where you mean mate!

Here's what I did to get around the room

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start by facing the water fountain. Turn to your right, and you will see a horse type statue with a knife hole on the wall above it, climb the statue, wall run up and hang from the knife point. Wall run to the right from hanging to the platform there. Wall run from this platform to the springboard and use it to get to the platform with the archer. Kill him, wall run again to the other side.

Keep going straght ahead and wall run up to the next platform. Turn right, run along the wall and hit the springboard. From the ledge the springboard lands you up jump up and knife hang. Leap backwards and navigate the ledge till you can climb onto it and then jump into the gap between the two walls, slide down, speed kill the guard. With the gap you slid down behind you, look to the right, run up the wall and grab the ledge. Follow it round the corner, climb onto it, jump straight up and knife hang. From here wall run right.

I think you should be able to suss the rest out, sorry if I went into too much details, just wanted to be sure you got info!

HTH

[Yoshimax]

^^ ProEvo5 is the same - It just looks (and to an extent feels) "better" - can't really explain why.

[eastyy]

Thanks but i think its a bug i will have to try a earlier save.


For some reason on that last bit its just not allowing me to wall run from the knife hole.....i thought might have taken a wrong route but no thats the way i have gone

[squidman]

I've clocked up about five hours of this so far. I haven't run into any game-killing bugs yet, but from the sounds of it it's only a matter of time.

I quite like it, but I honestly can't understand why they try and focus on the combat and the fighting so much. Fighting in this is just so boring compared to DMC3!

It is pretty cool stealth-acrobat'ing your way around a room to pull off a silent kill, though. In fact, it's very cool. They only get better the harder they are to pull off, too

[squidman]

Although, I will definitely rescind my opinion that it was fun after running into a boss that is just a complete and utter pain in the bollocks. Basically, you meet up with some godawful twin bosses, one with an axe the other with a sword. The basic principle is that you're supposed to attack the one with the sword to bait the one with the axe to take a big lunge at you, get his sword stuck and then you beat him around a bit whilst he tries to get his weapon free.

It's kind of like Agni & Rudra, although with this one you can be 100% safe in the knowledge that instead of dying because you're just not good enough at the game yet you're getting wasted because it's the games fault. And the combat controls are woefully inadequate.

You see, whenever you try and attack the guy with the axe the one with the sword will just take a few swings at you. He can even attack you by swinging straight through the axe guy, so it's not like you're safe at all. You can't block his relentless barrage, because you're attacking. Flip the coin, and you can't attack if you block them. Not to mention the fact that every now and then you'll just get hit with such a strong attack it doesn't matter if you're blocking or not and lose a fifth of your energy bar. It's a real "stuck up **** creek without a paddle" situation for the entire duration of the fight and the whole thing just saps any and indeed all of my enjoyment out of me.

And when you die, you have to watch the introductory cut-scene again because you can't skip it. And if you reload a save you have to go through a bloody chariot race to get to it. I'll soldier through, but I don't really want to anymore

[Dezm0nd]

I had the exact same problem as you squidman, great game let down by a single frustrating bit.

[Light]

Yeah, that bit certainly pissed me off too. The game certainly does feel rough around the corners at times.

But I'm really quite surprised at the ending tbh... just finished the game and have to say that I was expecting something a bit more interesting to happen... instead... well... nothing, really. WW's one was much better (even if it ended on a cliffhanger). I'm assuming there's no alternative (or better) ending in the two thrones? Are there any differences if you complete the game on other difficulty modes?

Also, I have to say that I'm disappointed that there wasn't as much...well,

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chemistry shall we say, between farah and the prince, like in the first game. That's what made SOT so interesting, but there was none of this to be found in the new game... not even at the very end, when you'd think that we see a proper ending. Also, some things in the game just felt rushed. I'm not sure I really liked the end boss battle, nor the way things concluded with the Dark Prince. And am I the only one who thinks that the title doesn't really seem appropriate? Sure, there's two princes... but there are no two thrones, or the possibity of there being two, no matter who would end up reigning the kingdom.

I expected more from this game, the ending to Warrior Within promised so much more than was actually delivered if you ask me.

[rmoxon]

To the person who was asking which version of this is best at the start of the thread.... it is definitley the Xbox version.

I played the Xbox version at a mates house and then ordered it on the PS2 when I saw they had it in the sale at Play (Xbox version wasnt in stock).

The PS2 version has loads of slowdown right from the start and dosent look anywhere near as great as the Xbox version becuase of the lack of the bloom effect, and everything looks quite blocky.

The Xbox version felt really great to play but in comparison I'm having trouble getting into the PS2 version becuase of those issues.

[squidman]

Yeah, that bit certainly pissed me off too. The game certainly does feel rough around the corners at times.

Especially when you run into a game killing bug. Like near the end of the game when you have to move some boxes in elevators, only the elevator moves through the box, leaving the all important item suspended in mid-air with no way of moving it and subsequently no way of actually progressing past the puzzle.

Then you reload your last save game and the bug is still there. And you cry.

I did manage to get around it eventually, I just had to reload a save further back in the game. It pissed me off no end though

[Light]

Especially when you run into a game killing bug. Like near the end of the game when you have to move some boxes in elevators, only the elevator moves through the box, leaving the all important item suspended in mid-air with no way of moving it and subsequently no way of actually progressing past the puzzle.

Then you reload your last save game and the bug is still there. And you cry.

I did manage to get around it eventually, I just had to reload a save further back in the game. It pissed me off no end though

I came across a bug where it didn't let me move the damn block at all once I got it out of the first elevator (I think this was the middle tower). I tried for 5 minutes pushing it left and right, back and forth and all it did was jump up and down rapidly in one place until it finally budged. I thought I was ****ed really. I've seen other annoying glitches and bugs in the game, but that one sure sticks out.

After Warrior Within, I didn't think we'd see any more bugs in these games... shame they were here too really as they do ruin the gameplay.

Also, did anyone else come across the following whilst playing the game: in one of the court yards, not far from the stadium, if you climb on one of the pillars, a female voice comes from nowhere and gives mention to sound testers or something. Is that some sort of easter egg or something? Was pretty strange...

[chopemon]

i hated those incredibly cheap twin bosses

i also hated the last boss and haven't completed the game because the last boss is so ****.

when you perform a speed kill attack in his second form you land back on the floor and its TOTAL ****ING LUCK if you don't get hit by the moving rubble

thats genius, well done guys

same happened with condemned. the last boss was so cheap and unlike the rest of the game they broke the actual game mechanics and thus i can't see the end of the game

[Unwell Cat]

I'm pissed off with bosses / enemies as well. Got to the elevator in SOT and could not get passed it ( 89%) stuck forever it would seem. Two Thrones, stuck on the first boss, done the speed kills but he keeps kicking me to death..

All I want to do is climb and swing from things and jump around solving puzzles, why do I have to kill things ?

Or I could just be **** ?