Prince of Persia: The Fallen King (DS)

63%
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Prince of Persia: The Fallen King (DS) (2008)
genre: action, adventure

score: 63%

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'If the team behind The Fallen King had just made it a lot shorter and perhaps added some additional challenges, like time trials, it might have helped with the diminishing returns I felt from each successive level.'
Read more » 1up.com
'You'll double-tap to roll him under things, tap along walls to jump, draw a slash mark in the middle of objects to slice them and so on. While novel, it makes precision jumps nearly impossible. This results in a lot of trial and error, and if you beat the game, there's little reason to play it again.'
Read more » Gamedaily
'Prince of Persia isn't bad. You'll need to turn down the music, get used to the touch-screen controls and deal with the fact that you'll often die for no reason. Accept all of that and you might just like this game.'
Read more » Modojo
'Touch-screen controls prove to be a double-edged sword in this alternately compelling and frustrating side-scrolling adventure.'
Read more » Gamespot
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'Prince of Persia: The Fallen King is a game that just sort of falls into no man’s land. It’s not bad, and it’s not particularly good. While there are a lot of good ideas, the execution isn’t polished enough to realize that potential.'
Read more » GameZone
'The development team has created a title with mostly high production values. Although I'm not fond of the character design, the animation is fluid and the make-up of the levels he travels through is extremely varied and beautiful by DS standards.'
Read more » IGN
'Though there are issues with the game's controls - and character dialogue is often dreadful - there is, undeniably, a wealth of PoP goodness here.'
Read more » Cheat Code Central
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