Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Walkthrough Part 1: Treasure Vault (INTRO)
3Welcome back to the channel, dear gamers. As promised, today i'll be kickstarting something new on the channel with definitely one of the defining classics of modern platformers and the game that put the Prince Of Persia back on the map. The game in question is of course, Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time, so sit back, relax and enjoy the gameplay.
About Game: Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is 2003 action-adventure platformer video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Windows-based PCs, GameBoy Advance and Java-based mobile phones. It is the fourth mainline game of the Prince Of Persia video game series which serves as the its reboot and thus has no direct ties to any of the earlier games in the series, namely 1989's Prince Of Persia, 1993's Prince Of Persia 2: The Shadow And The Flame and 1999's Prince Of Persia 3D, also being the first game in the series developed after Ubisoft acquired the rights to the series in 2001. Upon release, game initially suffered from poor sales but quickly recovered, which led to over 2 million copies being sold within six months of release while by 2014, this number grew to combined 14 million copies across all platforms. Critically, Sands Of Time were met with acclaim and are often counted among the best video games ever made, with critics having praised the game's presentation, storyline, gameplay and controls, although some were critical of the camera controls. However, aside from its reception that led to it winning multiple awards in 2003 and 2004, Sands Of Time is also notable for being credited with successfully reviving the interest in Prince Of Persia series after years of its stagnation and for having spawned an background of another one of Ubisoft's flagship series, Assassin's Creed, whose first game started development as Prince Of Persia spin-off. Due to this success, Sands Of Time received three more games set within its continuity; Warrior Within in 2004, The Two Thrones in 2005 and The Forgotten Sands in 2010 as well as an live-action movie adaptation that same year with Sands Of Time itself also being set to receive an full-scale remake for modern consoles and PCs that was originally announced in 2020 for 2021 release but following multiple delays, is scheduled for 2026 release as of March 2025.
Story of the game is set in an fictionalized depiction of medieval Persia and takes place sometime in 9th century AD, following an unnamed Prince, youngest son of the Persian ruler Shahraman. On their way towards the Azad Sultanate, an ally of Persia, Shahraman and his army stopped somewhere in India and ransacked an palace of the local Maharaja, having been assisted by Maharaja's trecherous vizier who agreed to betray his sovereign for an chance to take part in looting of his treasure vaults. Prince, who took part in the raid alongside his father, set off into the vaults of his own and successfully fought his way in, intent on proving himself to his father by securing an treasure from the vault. Despite the access to the vault being protected by Maharaja's soldiers and vault itself being full of deadly traps, Prince is able to navigate it and eventually retrieve a shiny, ornate dagger. However, as he observes it, part of the ceiling breaks off and nearly crushes Prince who survives after pressing an button on the dagger's handle inexplicably rewinds time, allowing him to step out of the way. Realizing that the dagger can manipulate the flow of time, Prince takes it and escapes, eventually meeting up with his father and vizier, although tensions arise immediately as vizier wants the dagger for himself. However, Shahraman tells him that Prince will be allowed to keep it as an souvenir while he will be allowed to choose any of the other treasures within the vault to take. Meanwhiie, Persian soldiers are securing an large hourglass-shaped container which is to be presented as an gift to the Sultan in Azad and Maharaja's daughter observing them, is captured and taken prisoner. Once Persians reach Azad with their loot from India, they are received by the local Sultan who is immediately taken with the container presented as an gift, but is curious about its contents with Vizier claiming that the container can be opened with an dagger currently held by the Prince. As Prince moves to open the container, Maharaja's daughter tries to stop him but is held back. However, the moment the container is unsealed, sand-like substance seeps out from within and engulfs everyone in the room, causing them to turn into monsters with Prince, vizier and Maharaja's daughter being the only ones unaffected. Blaming the Prince for unleashing what he refers to as "The Sands Of Time", vizier demands the dagger, claiming that he can use it to undo the damage although Prince doesn't trust him and instead runs away, quickly finding himself facing the monsters created by the sand...