Comments on: Prince Of Persia Gets All Arty

By: HotSake

HotSake — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:07:10 +0000

Does anyone else smell that? Smells like Okami. Painterly style? Light battling darkness? Healing the corrupted environment and changing it? Nah, must be the stench of originality.

By: Mollusk

Mollusk — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:33:58 +0000

Light and darkness? Out of balance you say? Unprecedented.

By: Cian

Cian — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:05:18 +0000

I agree with Whiskey Jack. I’m excited for this game and I love the look of it, but from what I’ve seen it hasn’t shown off the flow and acrobatic flair that made Sands of Time so very joyous.

By: Andrew F

Andrew F — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:56:30 +0000

I would have respected the art video a bit more if, while describing the new style, they could actually have brought themselves to let the word “cel shaded” past their lips.

By: L.B. Jeffries

L.B. Jeffries — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:00:27 +0000

jph wacheski – Fair enough, but they don’t really seem to be exploring the personal or moral implications of combating the “other” beyond these shadowy things are bad, lets kill them.

And as far as metaphors for the timeless struggle goes, light v. dark has been overdone a wee bit. Twilight Princess, countless RPGs…it just seems like rather than do a proper job and make a good enemy people just say “They’re all shadowy, lets kill them”.

By: jph wacheski

jph wacheski — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:05:12 +0000

L.B. Jeffries – regarding “the actual fictional battle”,. the reason this theme is a constant in the histroy of human story telling is that this is no fictional battle, look around the world today and this battle rages in all corners of it,. and of course in the souls of each individual,. its the basic theme of all struggle.

The game looks very painterly indeed,. with the huge areas and endless details,. of course the gameplay will need to be enjoyable and that is hard to see from a video. arn’t we done with the ‘illustrative’ tag yet?

By: MonkeyMonster

MonkeyMonster — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:38:17 +0000

I like it, its a very nice [/borat] Having been a fan since the first of these new style POP’s this is a definite leap, twist, grab, scurry (whoops, rewind) and then slide down in the right direction. Only problem being I’ve played all of them on ps2 and now will have to try it on the pc (not having gone for a ps3 hog)

By: Tomzor!

Tomzor! — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:28:25 +0000

Reminds me of Ico.

By: nabeel

nabeel — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:27:22 +0000

Happy Birthday! Looking forward to the game.

nabeel

By: rez

rez — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:18:48 +0000

I do hope the gameplay lives up to the art style. The stages remind me a lot of the pre-rendered Squaresoft RPG environments. This isn’t eye candy, this is a visual feast.

Please don’t let me down, Ubi.

By: Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:07:37 +0000

Happy Bothday!

By: The_B

The_B — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:18:19 +0000

Also: happy birthday for yesterday John.