[Beretta55]

Originally Posted by Vic Viper

im a big fan of Sands of Time, but i havent played the 2 sequels, i heared alot of bad things about Warrior Within though. Should i skip that and go right ahead to The Two Thrones ?

The Two Thrones is the better game then Warrior Within but I say go ahead and get both. Warrior Within is still pretty fun and different from Two Thrones with the time traveling element and plus playing it would let you more deeply involved with the story then just skipping to Two Thrones. Since plenty things are referenced to WW at the start of the game. So I say get both, their both great in there own right.

But as for my thoughts I think the POP trilogy is fantastic one of those few long running series of games that still stay fresh all the way through. But as for WW I wasn't bothered from the new mature theme it took on (I was surprised since I didn't imagine the prince would turn so dark if you take sands of time as any indication.) the only thing that I really didn't like about WW was the change in voice acting. Going from Yuri Lowenthal from SOT to Robin Atkin Downes as prince in WW was irritating and not an improvement. Robin is a good voice actor and has plenty of good roles in gaming under his belt but they should of stuck with Yuri, he had it nailed in SOT. The rock music while your platforming or not doing any fighting was stupid as well, I agree with that. Rock music during fighting was nice though, even though I really don't like Godsmack. I wouldn't of minded rock music during the Dahaka chases or some intense music, that is one thing WW needed though was more Dahaka chases those were the most fun to do IMO.

I also felt the game was a bit rushed in terms of polish there were plenty of glitches and for one cutscene the audio entirely glitched out (and there is nothing I could do about it, I even exchanged a copy. Good thing there were subtitles so I knew what was going on.) so that could of either been universal or just a problem with the Gamecube discs of the game. The one MAJOR glitch that I didn't like is that you could somehow have a save glitch around the sand portals and turn into the sandwraith early and thus you couldn't proceed with the game it was entirely gaming ending.

I'm not sure how it transpired but I think it happens if you save when the sand portal is set up, so saving before you click the switches nulls the glitch, I'm not entirely sure since it's been a year since I beat the game. But ever since that glitch happened I stopped saving at sand portals, it was pretty frustrating.

I haven't beaten The Two Thrones yet but thus far it is my favorite of the series from what I've played. Yuri Lowenthal back as the prince made me happy, the fighting is just as good as WW, the platforming is still excellent and the stealth kills is a nice added element. So for me it was like taking the best elements of SOT, WW and merging them together to bring The Two Thrones to fruition. But overall the POP trilogy is fantastic and glad I bought all three of them, I can't wait to see where the series goes next.