I came back to this game and went to post here when I saw my last two comments. Hilarious.
See, I quickly got distracted after that and moved onto something else after the first fifteen minutes of the game. I tried to go back about four months ago and the DRM is just mysteriously broken for some people under Windows 10. I can't remember what the exact issue is but no one knew the solution when I looked - it just wouldn't let me log in to my Ubi Account and play or even link it to a new one. OR something. Whatever, in either case it wasn't worth it.
So, then Sony offers the game as a free monthly game with Plus. I downloaded it to my PS3 and put a couple of hours into it today. I won't say it's a terrible game but I've decided I won't be playing it through.
It seems that right from the intro it's just a less interesting and polished Sands of Time. The movement doesn't feel quite as good for some reason, the combat is even worse - which is astonishing, and the graphics are just boring. There may be more horsepower in the hardware and the models may have more polygons, etc but the art direction really suffers. The SoT series had some great details, like the enemies disintegrating, the Prince's costume, etc etc and this really doesn't have anything at all interesting. It's like Ubi burnt out all their talent with the stellar art direction in PoP 2008 and just let an intern do this one.
I hear it gets better with additional powers, but after two hours the combat was so bad and the platforming so uninspiring I don't feel like going even a minute further. It's really a shame.
