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10/05/09
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Death: Falling, screaming, fading to black, spawning at last checkpoint.
Elika Saves You: Falling, screaming, fading to white, spawning at last checkpoint.
Sorry it creates the illusion of the Prince only having one life to live.
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I'm sorry, that I think is just damn brilliant.
10/05/09
The Epilogue adds remarkably little to the story - it's mostly Elika being pissed at the Prince, and the Prince grovelling - love it! :)
But the "true ending" is what's on the disc. It has a much stronger impact without the coda, so I'd argue it's a good thing that the Epilogue wasn't in the full game.
It was just a very strong addition to the game for those who wanted more.
I know the game is not popular on the interwebs, but I'm eagerly awaiting a sequel.
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You do have a choice. You've already seen that credits at that point. You can call the game done, and stop playing, or you can do something more questionable.
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But to agree with you, I did like the ending. It's not really a choice for you as a gamer, and you're forced into making the decision to save her. However, I like that the protagonist falls in love with Elika throughout the story, and he decides a world without her is not a possibility. Her simple response to being revived really pulls heavy at the heart strings, because you know all she has fought for was just thrashed, but the love element is just too strong for the hero to bear. He has the option to save her, so he does.
The game was entirely built around the platforming aspect and the story -- there was little combat to speak of. Orb collecting was not my favorite piece, and I think I may have comlpetely gotten all orbs in only one or two parts of the map. I mean seriously, 45 orbs x 20+ subsections? That's a large amount of backtracking once you unlock all 4 powers. No thank you.
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I agree. great ending. And since i got the epliogue for free with my game, i didn't feel like it was a waste of money. In fact it fixed the only part i disliked about PoP, it made the platforming more challenging and made the feeling of playing the game on "autopilot" disappear.
the more i think about the ending, the better it gets :)
@zgreenwell: You would, but the prince wouldn't. It's his story, not yours.
Think about it, it was brilliant:
You could have just put the controller down, you had the final boss and the credits. It was the end. Many games just leave you in the open world at the end.
However you see that there is something to do. Thats because the prince want's to do it. But you don't want to do it since it would undo all you did. Thats because the prince knows that he shouldn't it's against what Elikas wishes.
You try to jump to the first tree and press the elika button, but she doesn't come and you fall. You feel how weak the prince is without Elika, how he needs her.
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...Did it flop or something?
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I personally loved it.
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You should have bought it. It's a lot of fun.
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Am going back to that Big Lots later today, though.
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Fuck you for not giving PC owners this DLC.
Sincerely
PC Gamers
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Complete and total agreement here.
08/10/09
Wishful thinking for next week, though.
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1point = 50 sand dollars
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Not to be snarky, but not only is this information easily found on the web, it is also calculable from the story above in that the price reduction is described alternately as $5 or 400 points.
08/10/09
Hence why I don't know why you guys are giving him serious replies.
EDIT: You take all the fun out of giving stupid answers to stupid questions :P
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Can someone explain what Google is?
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Just let it go. ;)
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10^100
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Considering retail packs drop in price faster I guess if people are yet to get it, it's prolly best to wait?
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This is what I hate about digital distribution. I am not saying that I totally hate supporting developers or anything, but I enjoy playing a vast array of games, and the only way to do so it pick most of my games up for a median price of around $25.
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In addition, as long as they keep points, the vast majority of casual gamers will spend more than they intend to simply because it's so difficult to understand the "real value" of points...
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But yeah you're not wrong, it would be more convenient to just direct debit stuff. I was looking at it from M$'s view, not from ours
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I was talking about if they used paypal to buy the DLC directly, Einstein. I don't even know where you made the leap to talking about friggin' conversion rates. And as for your 500 points != $5.00, the article quotes an approximate $5 price tag, so take it up with the editor about if that's "untrue" and you want it to be corrected to something "true" to avoid more spouts about your "true" versus "untrue," in truth. For shit's sakes....