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Originally released on the Gameboy Colour back in 1999, Prince Of Persia is a platform game set in ancient Persia. While the King is away at war with someone or other, his second in command Jaffar realises the only thing that stands between him and the throne is the King's daughter. Imprisoning her in a tower, he informs her that she can either marry him or die within the hour - playing as the man who loves her, it's up to you to navigate the perilous dungeons to rescue her before her sixty minutes are up. With about twelve levels filled with spike pits, tricky jumps and Jaffar's minions, you'll need to whip through the twelve levels in a matter of five minutes, max - which is far easier said than done, with all the twists, turns and dead ends of the maze like castle taken into account.
Prince Of Persia is quite a difficult game, period. Requiring pixel perfect precision on jumps, your child will find themselves dying, a lot, so if they're easily frustrated, or don't have too much patience when it comes to things like this, you may want to look elsewhere.
Nowadays, it doesn't seem quite as hard as it did when we played it the first time round. It's certainly more difficult than the Mario games, and the Prince's odd jump, which requires you to press the jump button a good while before you actually want him to jump, so he has time to build up and jump, can take a lot of getting used to, and may be a cause of frustration for younger children - and the time limit, which asks you to finish the game in less than sixty minutes, could well be the final straw. One for patient children only, we're afraid.
As Prince of Persia on the 3DS Virtual Console is actually a download of a decades old game, there's very little for parents to be too concerned about here, as graphic violence wasn't really all that possible back then. There's no swearing, blood, guts or gore, and the only violence is when your man lands on the spikes (and just literally lands on them - there's no graphic impaling), or when you come across an enemy soldier and whack them with your sword, causing their bodies to just land in a heap on the floor.
Prince Of Persia has no multiplayer at all, as it's a solely single player game.
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Format Reviewed: Nintendo 3DS
