Prince of Persia - First dev diary

So, does it look like it's just going to be called Prince of Persia - no subtitle?

I loved TSoT (and enjoyed WW and TTT, to lesser extents respectively), but don't really care about this. The nice art style is about the only thing it has going for it, which, to be honest, is inferior to Okami & SFIV anyway.

It feels like it's just ripped too many things from Ico and other games for my liking. The black goo monsters are straight from Ico for instance. The dressed in white female character that follows you around is also very Ico-esque.

The one on one fights are then simply a kind of soul caliber fighting game complete to the point where they take place in mini arenas.

I see no evidence of this freedom of movement that is always being talked about. Freedom is being able to lead the fight from room to room or dare the enemy to follow your acrobatic path and avoid the fights altogether.

All I see is a linear game whose only choices are which level you choose to tackle first. I even suspect that, due to increasing difficulty, you'll probably end up forced to do the game in a set order anyway.

Ceiling run? What?

everything about this game looks shit. I blame that annoying producer

It seems quite fresh, a sort of manga look, I can understand the references to ico. It looks quite quick, so I hope it is not too hard, I have spent ages on previous bosses(meaning more than once). It seems the physics is quite optimistic, but it is a game. There are so many games now, it is pretty meaningless to call things unoriginal, most game designers play games? This black goo looks like some black goo I saw in another game, really what a surprise.

He's got a butt for a chin.

Also, I can't believe he said Princeability!