Warrior Within Ending Speculation

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Spoilers below, naturally.

Just finished warrior within with the water sword ending (and then downloaded the other ending (where kaileena dies) from http://www.3dactionplanet.com/poplegacy/WWmovies.shtml), and I'm confused as fuck!

1) Which ending would they use to tie in with the story of POP3? They are totally different..... kaileena dies in one, but not the other. In one, the Prince's amulet is gone, but not in the other....If they choose to ignore one, why did they put it warrior within to begin with? It doesn't make sense!

2) Was that Farrah on the cross in the alternate ending?

3) Who do you think is the mysterious hooded figure? I'm guessing it could be the prince who was sacrificed to the dahaka. He was probably released once the dahaka was killed, and he managed to find the wraith mask (which the prince who lived just left in the central hall). Which would make sense, when he says that all the prince has, is rightfully his (the dark prince's).

4) When you are playing as the sand wraith, you sacfrice the prince to the dahaka, as that is the only way you'll live. But why, when you were playing as the prince, didn't the sand wraith sacrifice you? Instead, he sacrificed himself. Why would he do that? Wouldn't he just sacrifice you, as you have done once you were the sand wraith? By sacrificing himself, we went through an extra cycle.

5) How does the very, very beginning of warrior within (where he is chased, I presume, in the city of babylon, by some beast) relate at all to what happens throughout the rest of the game? In POP: SOT, the very beginning is actual the ending, but in WW I don't understand what it is.

6) After the prince kills the empress (for the first time), he says: I am the architect of my own destruction. I have created the sands of time. How is that possible? How could HE have created them? And by killing kaileena in the past (before she creates the sands of time), why should the dahaka still chase the prince?

7) During the same flashback (after the death of the empress), it shows the prince and the empress running at each other and slashing swords. When that happens, something that kaileena is wearing (some amulet of some sort I thought), was torn and fell to the ground. What was that about?

8 Could the Old Man be a past version of the prince? He seemed very sad when he said no man can change his fate. And his voice is heard again, saying line at the end of the game. What could this mean?

Help me understand this bizzarre storyline!!!

[anephric]

Your questions are answered by the following aphorism:

don't let marketing bods with ponytails and latte moustaches design your game by committee.

[Rushy]

And weren't you dissapointed by both endings?

I was...

[EvilBoris]

both endings were a bit duff, but they will have to choose from one
they chose the ending where meryl dies in MGS to be the official ending

[martTM]

Can't answer it all, but...

6) After the prince kills the empress (for the first time), he says: I am the architect of my own destruction. I have created the sands of time. How is that possible? How could HE have created them? And by killing kaileena in the past (before she creates the sands of time), why should the dahaka still chase the prince?

Eh? By killing the empress, he creates the Sands of Time... if he'd let her live, they wouldn't have been created. Hence, he's done himself in by creating the very thing that got him into that situation.

That was the only bit I really did understand.

8 Could the Old Man be a past version of the prince?

Yes, he could. I certainly saw it that way.

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Can't answer it all, but...



Eh? By killing the empress, he creates the Sands of Time... if he'd let her live, they wouldn't have been created. Hence, he's done himself in by creating the very thing that got him into that situation.

That was the only bit I really did understand.



Yes, he could. I certainly saw it that way.

Ok, so if he didn't kill her, they wouldnt have been created, right?

But..... then why is the dahaka chasing him in the first place, since he's gone back to the past, "not killed her".... (well, until they have the first battle anyway), and thus was preventing the sands from being created in the first place.

[Spatial]

This is what I thought, but its all nonsense tbh

3) Who do you think is the mysterious hooded figure? I'm guessing it could be the prince who was sacrificed to the dahaka. He was probably released once the dahaka was killed, and he managed to find the wraith mask (which the prince who lived just left in the central hall). Which would make sense, when he says that all the prince has, is rightfully his (the dark prince's).

I'd say that's possibly right

4) When you are playing as the sand wraith, you sacfrice the prince to the dahaka, as that is the only way you'll live. But why, when you were playing as the prince, didn't the sand wraith sacrifice you? Instead, he sacrificed himself. Why would he do that? Wouldn't he just sacrifice you, as you have done once you were the sand wraith? By sacrificing himself, we went through an extra cycle.

This one's just silly to me, and never made much sense. I think the idea behind it is the second time around (when you are the wraith), you know whats going to happen and so use your past self to avoid it - though for that to happen you'd have to ignore the pre-destined theory because the wraith would have known all along what had happened (having seen it before anyway when he was the Prince)

My problem with that bit was if the Wraith sacrificed the Prince, then surely there would be no Prince in the past to go and find the wraith mask in the first place. Thus when the Wraith pushed the Prince into the Dahaka, the wraith himself should also have stopped existing.

The only possible explanation is that the mask allows one person to exisit twice in the same part of the timeline.

: shrugs :

6) After the prince kills the empress (for the first time), he says: I am the architect of my own destruction. I have created the sands of time. How is that possible? How could HE have created them? And by killing kaileena in the past (before she creates the sands of time), why should the dahaka still chase the prince?

The way I understood it was that she was the final part of the sands, needed to finish filling the hour glass. When he killed her in the past she completed the content of the hourglass and things carried on as foretold.

When he pushed her into the future to kill her, the sands couldn't travel back in time to fill the hourglass. Thus the sands were never finished and never created.

8 Could the Old Man be a past version of the prince? He seemed very sad when he said no man can change his fate. And his voice is heard again, saying line at the end of the game. What could this mean?

Either that or the Viziar from the first

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This is what I thought, but its all nonsense tbh



I'd say that's possibly right



This one's just silly to me, and never made much sense. I think the idea behind it is the second time around (when you are the wraith), you know whats going to happen and so use your past self to avoid it - though for that to happen you'd have to ignore the pre-destined theory because the wraith would have known all along what had happened (having seen it before anyway when he was the Prince)

My problem with that bit was if the Wraith sacrificed the Prince, then surely there would be no Prince in the past to go and find the wraith mask in the first place. Thus when the Wraith pushed the Prince into the Dahaka, the wraith himself should also have stopped existing.

The only possible explanation is that the mask allows one person to exisit twice in the same part of the timeline.

: shrugs :

I think that is why they called it "the second chance".

Anyway, with most of this cleared up, the only questions that still remain to be answered (and I guess we'll have to wait for UBI to announce the details on the next POP) are: who is the dark shadow at the end, what part has the old man yet to play (if any) and what ending will they use from warrior to build the next story on.