Prince of Persia Revelations... just a recompile of Warrior Within :(

So, if I already completed Warrior Within on PC, there’s kinda little point to bother with Revelations, since not that much new stuff here. Or maybe down the road there will be those 20 new maps and levels, but still, not so novel as you’d expect from a new game.

Another thing which is hurting the experience a bit for me is that the whole thing just isn’t great on PSP neither visually nor gameplay-wise. This is what you get when you just downscale all the gfx and stuff without proper aliasing and things like that — maybe I’m too PC-inclined, but I see too many pixelized borders to appreciate it. On PC, it was much nicer, and on PSP, there are many ways to make video/gfx nice too, so come on guys.

Gameplay-wise, the camera angles are sometimes weird. On PC it was great with two full two-axis controllers (mouse and WSAD), but on PSP, you only have the analog stick and the camera sometimes just moves “wrong”. True, you can rotate the camera too with the leftbutton+analogstick, but it makes it a bit clumsy. Plus as it’s a direct port, the character is often either too small or too big. If it’s too small, you can’t figure out wtf it’s up to and where exactly it’s facing. If it’s too big, then it’s hard to see the surroundings and plan the moves. Guys, it IS possible to do a third-person-perspective game on PSP properly — GTA Liberty City Stories has done it quite nicely. But you can’t just whack the PC (or full PS/console) code onto PSP and hope it’s all fine.