>a product of its time
Hate this fucking criticism. Classic Prince of Persia was a better experience than 90% of the shit released today
What's the consensus on Yea Forums about Prince of Persia: Sands of Time?
Good game. I got stuck t some part in the bath and never finished the game though. I need try again.
>runs correctly in the PAL format
It was made by french people so that seems normal.
The only good game Ubisoft made
It's the best game in the series.
Old game bad isn't a universal truth but it's often the case for popular genres that are iterated upon and refined as time goes on. Action games have improved dramatically over the past 15 years. Play Nier: Automata and Sekiro then go back and play PoP. The combat is simply not good by modern standards. It's not time itself that ages old games, but the existence of newer, improved versions of the same concept. On the other hand, if you go back and play, say Pikmin or Luigi's Mansion, they've barely aged at all because no one has made a better game in the same style.
The combat was not the point of the game, the levels and the puzzles were. The game never claimed to have amazing combat.
Sometimes if you are given orders to develop for the US/Japanese market first, the 60/30hz version will be the first one you'll make, and maybe 50/25 version will get some funding later. On occasion developers were smart and made the engine run in both formats from the get go (Ratchet, Jak).
The incredibly long, drawn out combat sequences say otherwise. You spend a huge chunk of the game fighting respawning enemies.