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Ninja Dodo · 09-01-2008, 02:05 AM

So I guess there's no separate thread about this yet...

I'm a bit on the fence about this game. While I'm mostly liking the painterly visual style (apart from maybe the outlines) I'm really not sure I want to play Okami again as I just spent 60 or so hours doing so already on PS2 and the core mechanic of banishing darkness here seems a little too similar.

The acrobatics feel less grounded and more anime now than in previous Prince games, one of the defining features of the series always being a sense of reality to the movement... In the footage they've shown so far some of the jumps and attacks especially feel really weightless.

I have two questions:

Why does the Prince have an American accent?

And why does Elika look like Natalie Portman?

Seriously, good looking girl, but are she and Angelina Jolie really the only reference game artists use for attractive women?

I applaud the reboot relative to the last two games as that was not a good direction for the series, but I feel they're also losing some of what was great about Sands of Time, or for that matter even the 2D originals.

09-01-2008, 02:05 AM	#1
Ninja Dodo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,459	The new Prince of Persia So I guess there's no separate thread about this yet... I'm a bit on the fence about this game. While I'm mostly liking the painterly visual style (apart from maybe the outlines) I'm really not sure I want to play Okami again as I just spent 60 or so hours doing so already on PS2 and the core mechanic of banishing darkness here seems a little too similar. The acrobatics feel less grounded and more anime now than in previous Prince games, one of the defining features of the series always being a sense of reality to the movement... In the footage they've shown so far some of the jumps and attacks especially feel really weightless. I have two questions: Why does the Prince have an American accent? And why does Elika look like Natalie Portman? Seriously, good looking girl, but are she and Angelina Jolie really the only reference game artists use for attractive women? I applaud the reboot relative to the last two games as that was not a good direction for the series, but I feel they're also losing some of what was great about Sands of Time, or for that matter even the 2D originals.