Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Speed Run Part 3

This is a speed run for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on the GameCube. I did not do this speed run. I got it from www.speeddemosarchive.com. I got it for all those Prince of Persia fans out there, and non-fans alike. So please don't accuse me of copyright infringement, or plagurism. Enjoy.


Best time: 2:06:03 by Paul 'IRbaboon' Wagener on 01.10.05.


Author's comments:

I never thought I would be on SDA, this run is more or less and accident. Somehow I became obsessed with this game and played through it multiple times a day trying to get the lowest time possible. When I noticed that I was only a few minutes away from the previous record I decided to make a new speedrun for it.

There are almost no shortcuts in this game so most of the time saved comes from perfect execution of the moves and ignoring most battles with the sand monsters. Only a day before I made this run I discovered the prison shortcuts and the shortcut while climbing the Tower of Dawn, which both saved me a couple of minutes and gave me the lead I needed to top the previous record...

Despite everything that went my way there are still a few things that could be improved:
- When you first do a move it moves in slow motion which can be circumvented by changing the camera perspective while doing that move. Unfortunatly I found out about this after I did this run.
- In "Above the baths" you don't have to pull the cabinet all the way to make the jump to the pillar. But I stopped pulling too early and lost some time on hesitating and pushing it all the way just to be safe.
- In the underground ruins Farah stood in the way majorly when I tried to pull a crate. I wasted a good amount of time trying to move her out of the way. She finally budged when I started hacking into her with my sword, sorry about that!
- While climbing the Tower of Dawn there is a hollow tower with ladders and bats you have to go through. It is possible to go through this tower in one go but those bats always seem to throw me off the ladders. I did it the patient way and killed all the bats before going up.
- In the torture chambers while I was pushing the switches to go up the bats wouldn't stop haunting me and I had to waste time killing them. That caused me to wait for the switches to reset and losing a good amount of time.
- A lot minor things went wrong during the battles, but that was inevitable in this speedrun.

I'd like to thank SnapDragon for his inspiring Prince of Persia runs, sorry to beat your record on this one! Though I'm sure you'll make something to top my run off again :)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Prince
• Of
• Persia
• The
• Sands
• Time
• Speed
• Run
• PoP
• SoT
• Ubi
• Soft
• GameCube

[ratachimatai]

how do you absorve the enemy with the knife?

[bigboss643]

@ratachimatai After you've knocked down an enemy, hold the control stick in the direction of the enemy and press Y.

[ryokkeno]

There was a glitch that happened to me once, on a normal playthrough some weird glitch happened when i was walking through the first level, and when i accidently died, I respawned with the black sword, I got as far as the last fight on this vid, then i had a second glitch, I killed everything so fast that fara never moved to the ground, so i couldn't continue...

[cezrulez]

i think the traps are the coolest in PoP WW

[Viperxify]

the prince says "WAIT!" but he's ahead of Farah

[ratachimatai]

@dawaveman09 I'm talking about the blow with a knife in the belly....

[murray19831983]

@edimark95 jumping in his direction then hit with the sword, repeat until hes dead

[murray19831983]

@EccizSkateboards i can do it to, its easy as pie

[murray19831983]

@ryokkeno i killed everyone so fast at that point with the normal sword, then farah started dancing and it said game over, i never understood why but its cause shes supposed to jump down while your fighting

[born9killa]

luv dis game

[TheNinjaMedia]

this guy kicks sooooooo much sand demon ass! and farah too. hahahaha

[payu1st1993]

No shit! Just instead of executing the second hit with the sword you press the dagger attack. XP