The Weakest Characters In Gaming Ever # 20

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Published on April 1, 2022 1:49:56 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Ekhn7qgps

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Prince of Persia (1989)

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The twentieth episode in the series.

Over the years, there have been some laughably weak main characters starring in video games, characters who you're almost embarrassed to be controlling. In this series, I'll show footage of these characters' greatest feats of "power". Wario and Kirby need not apply.

This episode's star is the prince of Persia from... the Prince of Persia.

The Prince of Persia games have been around since 1989. In the first game of the series, you control a man destined to become the prince of Persia as he attempts to escape a dungeon and defeat the evil vizier before he can marry the princess and rule over Persia. Future princes from future games in this series are acrobatical masterminds, capable of incredible feats that would leave anyone in awe... this first guy, not so much...

Games used in this video:
Prince of Perisa (Genesis)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Genesis)
Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures (SNES)
Fantastic Dizzy (Genesis)


Do you know any inspiringly weak video game characters? Feel free to mention them in the comments and there may be a video about them in the future!

UPDATE: This was an April Fool's Day video for 2022. It was created to mimic the style (if you can call it that) of the first Weakest Characters In Gaming Ever videos, created in the first month of 2009.

These first videos are possibly the most important milestone in the history of my channel. Though I had made text-commentry videos before then, (Double Dragon playthroughs, How To Get Secret Bonus Points in Dynamite Headdy and Tails Abuse In Court say hi) these were essentially the first of what is now my most common format.

I had to put myself back into my mind and equipment of back then, using only stuff available to me at the time; I tell you, when you limit yourself into using Windows Movie Maker's features, it makes you appreciate Sony Vegas a lot more again.

Whenever I rewatch these old videos again, a part of me dies at how crude they look and don't know how I or anyone else put up with it; Just look at that horrible blue line on the side of the screen in much of the footage. But at the same time, I think they still have their own charm, though that might be my bias towards myself talking there.

As you may have noticed from the original intro, the prince from Prince of Persia was intended to be one of the earliest characters featured in the series. This was mainly down to how clunky and strange his movement is in the Genesis version of the game, which always baffled and amused me when I played the game as a kid. In the end, I decided this wasn't really enough to warrant an episode, but his inculsion in the intro has always bothered me nonetheless. So thank you, April Fool's Day, for finally allowing me to right this wrong for good.

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