This review contains spoilers
The chad classic PoP: has to commit to everything he does with everything being extremely dangerous to him all under an hour (or two) to save his beloved
The virgin trilogy PoP: uses a time machine dagger to turn back time if there's a mistake (unless there's cutscene stupidity at play) and has the chance to erase whatever investment you had the past 8 hours of play by doing a time reset at the end and not having to face any consequences to his actions other than not ending with the girl he knew in the timeline where she warmed up to him.
I especially find this aggravating because this game brings the divide between the two focuses I had with classic PoP, where I really liked the set piece feel of the platforming but didn't enjoy the clumsy combat (apart from the gameplay, the animations looked kind of dumb). Here the game forces you into extremely repetitive fight sequences which due to the 3D space could easily be bypassed if it wasn't for locking progression arbitrarily. However the game brings about the idea the prince is battling the possesed soldiers because he wants to end their misery, which makes the protagonist be a little more morally interesting and not be a stereotypical ultraviolent macho man like Doom's (where I always felt weird killing the possessed companions of the Doomguy and how sadistically he smiles while killing them). Everyone he once knew has to be ended, and the girl becomes his only solace which builds up a fun chemistry, and the narration reflects on his feelings on this, but then the time reset happens at the end and all those forced encounters and that connection with the woman didn't matter since everything ends up retconned and never happened.
Such a shame because the game looks aesthetically gorgeous with a nice color direction which helps make the parkouring sections stand out as impressive set pieces, the game mostly set on a huge castle which proves to be an architechtural masterpiece of map design and you can even see the times of the day changing, also just look at some of these screenshots I took while playing the game. The narration and the chemistry between the two main characters really build up to a curious identity as I said too, but I'm disappointed that Mechner took the story in this dumb direction
Thanks Nahuel all the same because the game was fun to play just for the platforming sections
The virgin trilogy PoP: uses a time machine dagger to turn back time if there's a mistake (unless there's cutscene stupidity at play) and has the chance to erase whatever investment you had the past 8 hours of play by doing a time reset at the end and not having to face any consequences to his actions other than not ending with the girl he knew in the timeline where she warmed up to him.
I especially find this aggravating because this game brings the divide between the two focuses I had with classic PoP, where I really liked the set piece feel of the platforming but didn't enjoy the clumsy combat (apart from the gameplay, the animations looked kind of dumb). Here the game forces you into extremely repetitive fight sequences which due to the 3D space could easily be bypassed if it wasn't for locking progression arbitrarily. However the game brings about the idea the prince is battling the possesed soldiers because he wants to end their misery, which makes the protagonist be a little more morally interesting and not be a stereotypical ultraviolent macho man like Doom's (where I always felt weird killing the possessed companions of the Doomguy and how sadistically he smiles while killing them). Everyone he once knew has to be ended, and the girl becomes his only solace which builds up a fun chemistry, and the narration reflects on his feelings on this, but then the time reset happens at the end and all those forced encounters and that connection with the woman didn't matter since everything ends up retconned and never happened.
Such a shame because the game looks aesthetically gorgeous with a nice color direction which helps make the parkouring sections stand out as impressive set pieces, the game mostly set on a huge castle which proves to be an architechtural masterpiece of map design and you can even see the times of the day changing, also just look at some of these screenshots I took while playing the game. The narration and the chemistry between the two main characters really build up to a curious identity as I said too, but I'm disappointed that Mechner took the story in this dumb direction
Thanks Nahuel all the same because the game was fun to play just for the platforming sections