10 Video Games You Should Turn Off Before The End
5. Prince Of Persia (2008)
This one still annoys me, some twelve years on.
It must have been hard to reboot a series after the success of Sands of Time. Regardless of the sequels, it was one of the best self-contained stories ever put to game.
So when the reboot was announced, off the back of the other reboot trilogy, fans waited with slight trepidation about how it would be. And y'know what? It wasn't half bad. Sure, the Prince was a smug stereotype (it was the era when Nolan North voiced everyone) and the "banter" between him and Elika grew stale very quickly.
But as platformer/adventure game, it was pretty good. The story was pretty standard: turn on several McGuffin's to reignite the Tree of Life. Oh, but the catch is Elika ends up dying at the end. Alright, fine, greater good and all that.
Instead, the Prince thinks, "Nuts to this" and undoes everything you've done in the game to resurrect Elika, dooming the world.
It was practically insulting. It's like the game said, "Thanks for putting ten hours into this, but it doesn't matter".