First Impressions: Prince of Persia Epilogue

To start things off, I want to do more of these "First Impressions" pieces, so look forward to more of those. I should be doing a Halo Wars one later today or tomorrow.

Okay so onto what I think about it:

• Quite annoyed that all of us who enjoyed the game so much and got it on the first day were screwed over.
  
• I'm quite glad the achievements issue has now been fixed. For those of you who don't know, there was some problems with the achievements system on the first day this was released. The issue was that it hadn't been updated on whatever servers Microsoft uses. This means you unlocked the achievement, but it didn't show up on xbox.com or when you went to check it through the system. To make matters worse, you had to get the achievement again and recover your gamertag to reset the DLC's achievements if you wanted them.
• Some of the voice audio seems to be off. Seems like the mouth movements are starting up a bit late.
• The new power is alright but nothing quite new enough to add new game play elements or different thinking in anyway. It's essentially the Red power again but with a different cause to it.
• It is definitely harder.
• The achievements are much harder now as well. This rounds "don't be saved by Elika ___ number of times" is down to 20 which is crazy. So much quitting and reloading.
• 800 points for a game lasting under 2 hours? Maybe 4 at the most if you're slow or want to go from some achievements. And I can't see you needed more than 6 for the full 250 points and at that point, you're having no fun while grinding. Seems a little steep in price.
• The new enemy is definitely just a copy of the others. Even though they came up with a good reason in game for it, I still think they should have done a bit more work.
• Overall -- so far --I think there wasn't much effort put into this, which is sad.

I haven't decided if I will be reviewing this as I don't normally review DLC (mainly because this is the first hefty game add-on I've purchased). I want to, but I still need to truck through Halo Wars. We shall see.

Update

I haven't posted much, mainly because it was my holiday time and I was busy playing too much games. What did I play you ask? Animal Crossing mostly. There were quite a few 6-10 hour days last week.

Anyway, here are somethings going on:

New banner up, I feel it works with the black and blue color scheme of the site. I wanted a more recent game, but not much noteworthy has come out lately

I'm back borrow many games to get some more points out of them. I'm playing Quantum of Solace right now and it's pretty weird. Gears 1 is next.

I will be writing a review for Prince of Persia, Animal Crossing: City Folk, and Chrono Trigger (possibly). These might not end up on The Bin, but they will go up here for sure.

Prince of Persia skins

I just beat Prince of Persia for the 360 and found it incredible. Of course there are things in it that I dislike but overall it was amazing. I can't wait for more from this game.

To let you know, in case you missed it somehow, you can change the skins that both the Prince and Elika have. So you can make them look different. There are 4 skins for each of them, and you start out with one each. I thought I would tell you how to get the others.

The Prince:
The Prince - You start with it.
Sands of Time - This is the Prince from the sands of time game. To get it you must go into "Extras" at the main menu and then hit Y for the pre-order thing. Input 52585854 and you should unlock him.
Prototype - Collect all 1 001 orbs. Only available on the PC version.

Elika:
Elika - You start with it.
Farah - This is Farah from the sands of time game -- not the donkey. To get it you must go into "Extras" at the main menu and then hit Y for the pre-order thing. Input 52585854 and you should unlock her.
Prototype: - Collect all 1 001 orbs. Only available on the PC version.

I haven't gotten the Prototype skins yet and I'm not sure I will be going for every single orb, but there you are. Comment if you have any questions or concerns.