Ubisoft making games that aren't the same camp raiding , tower scaling and map revealing messes?

Well yeah back in 238912 BC Ubisoft made all sorts of games including the Prince of Persia series especially the PS2 trilogy.

Funny thing is I played this dead last after Warrior Within and Two Thrones and after the ending of the latter it made going back feel even more appropriate.

Now this game doesn't have the more varied platforming of Two Thrones or the improved combat starting from Warrior Within but it has the best story and atmosphere out of all of them , I'd say music as well but you know ... Warrior "I STAND ALOOOOOONE" Within exists so it can't beat that masterpiece. Tower of Dawn is really damned good though.

It's also a linear experience which is refreshing to play after playing 50 billion open world games nowadays. Will Ubisoft return to this series to make it yet another Ass Creed? Time Only Knows.

Oh yeah the remake looks like shit stay away from that thing.

The Sands of Time pra mim foi uma das mais competentes e interessantes repaginadas em uma franquia que já vi.

Após anos de lançamentos mais esquecidos, a Ubisoft resolveu renovar a franquia, repensando o gameplay para focar em uma espécie de plataforma/parkour que me lembrou meus tempos de criança brincando de atravessar espaços sem pisar no chão.

A mecânica das areias foi um toque magnífico que adicionou mais tolerância aos erros comuns em jogos tridimensionais, aprofundando o level design de maneira a permitir ao jogador experimentar algumas coisas sem necessariamente precisar recarregar o jogo.

O jogo também faz um bom balanço de combate, exploração e quebra-cabeças, criando um dos jogos mais marcantes e mais importante da história da Ubisoft.

+ Rewind mechanics complement trial and error
+ Puzzle Platforming
+ Story wraps up well
+ Running on walls is always fun
+ Saving also works as a hint system
~ Glitchy
- Farah likes to die
- The length of where you die when falling seems random at times
- Combat is tedious

Remember when Ubisoft made games that were meant for entertainment instead of tricking people into "engaging" with their products? I do at least.

This is one of those rare games where everything just clicks into place, the platforming is great, the puzzles are good, the combat itself serves its purpose fine (and I remember it being way worse when I first played it around a decade ago). All of this is kept together by some really good pacing, the designers knew just when to ramp up the action and when to make things calmer, how many times in a row they should use a specific obstacle/mechanic before it got stale, you really can't ask much more out of the game.

What you could ask for though would be a little less waves of enemies at times, half of the encounters seem to go just a wave too long, it doesn't even serve much of a purpose since you can usually heal during the time it takes for the enemies to spawn again. A better camera would've been fine as well, a few times it can be difficult to figure out where your next jumping point is.

These issues though are greatly outweighed by the pros, plus a number of really good decisions on smaller things (the time rewind mechanic is basically iconic, the way the game presents itself is also really original to this day).

If you haven't played this game absolutely do so, it might seem very quaint at first since it introduces a lot of things that most action games made afterwards took, but you'll realize that very few if any of them execute these concepts with such efficiency.