My experience in playing PS2 game - Prince of Persia: Sands of time

Prince of Persia: The Sands of time

Today I am going to talk about a  PS2 game, named Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Let me first tell you about the characters, then little bit about special features of the game and then lastly about my experience in playing this game.

In this game there are 4 characters.

The Prince:

The son of an Indian king. He’s a very good swordsman and good in fighting. The prince wanted to prove himself in a fight, so he needed the dagger of time.

Farah:

The beautiful daughter of the Indian mughal king. Farah had every reason to hate the prince as he unlocked the hourglass ,let the sand spread turning everything into a  Sand creature it touches and destroyed her world

The Vizier:

The assistant of the Indian king. He was the one who  told the prince to unleash the Hourglass, and now he wanted the dagger of time to complete his diabolical plan.

Sand creatures:

Sand creatures are like Zombies. As sand creatures are already dead, they cannot be killed, but they can be destroyed with the dagger of time. As soon as you kill a sand creature it will regenerate its health, but before they regenerate their health, just strike the dagger into them using the triangle button on PS2 console.

The sands of time

The sand is so powerful that can consume every living being it touches. It used to be locked in an enormous hourglass  

In the starting of the game the prince had made a big mistake by trusting the Vizier and unleashing the sands of time.

The prince, Farah and The Vizier are the only three living beings in the kingdom. They could escape the sands of time because they had 3 artifacts that are as ancient as the hourglass itself. They are,

1. The prince’s Dagger
2. Farah’s bow
3. The Vizier’s staff

Water is life

If the prince’s health is low, you have to find water and make him drink it using R1 button.

Four scenes of the game

There are 4 scenes in the game. They are,

1.                 Find the dagger of time in the maharajah’s treasure vaults

2.                 Take the dagger  and get out of the maharajah’s treasure vaults

3.                 Find Farah

4.                 Reach till the hourglass


Now, let me tell you little bit about the rules and special features of the game.

Rewinding

In the game if you do any mistake you can rewind it using the dagger of time. Whenever you rewind the time one of your sand tanks will be empty

Sand Tanks & power tanks

The dagger of time is filled with sand tanks and power tanks. The sand tanks help you rewind and the power tanks help you do freeze and mega freeze. Hold R1 for rewinding and use the triangle button.

Freeze and mega freeze

Freeze:

We can freeze any sand creature by using the triangle button, Then tap the square button twice to finish him off.

Mega freeze:

 If you had many sand creatures surrounding the prince, you can use mega freeze.  Remember, you should have all sand and power tanks full. In mega freeze, all the sand creatures will freeze, Then aim every sand creature and press square 2 times to everyone.

One more thing, freeze or mega freeze will not work on Farah.

Sand Vision

The game has many checkpoints, and these checkpoints are called sand vision. It helps us save the game plus shows what’s going to happen in the game.

Sand clouds

Some sand creatures might have a loose body so the sand in them will spread out.

This sand will be called sand cloud. We  can collect this sand ion the dagger using the triangle button.

Stages of the game

In the game you may find many stages. Did you know, there are 5 types of stages.

1. Fighting stages
2. Maze stages
3. Fighting and maze stages
4. Rewarding stages
5. Fighting, maze and rewarding

I chose this game because it had a very interesting story. This game is different from other games because the main character can control time and has different mazes so it’s making me think a lot. There is a part called “the hall of learning” you have to fight many sand creatures plus over there was a game of light which is a kind of a maze. After you finish the maze you get a sword! That sword is so powerful that it can break through walls! 
Then we come to to the prince’s health upgrades. You know what I told you about the water is life, well you increase your health by going into magic fountains. There will be many secret ways as you proceed in the game. If you take those ways it will lead you to magic fountains.

Let’s now go to the ending part. In the end you will reach the hourglass which will rewind everything that had happened, but before the prince does that, the Vizier ruins everything. He sends the prince and Farah away from the hourglass and they end up in a tomb. 

Had fun playing....