With that change comes many good things and few bad things.
The Good:
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-Stunning Artistic Graphics ( unbelievably artistic and unique from the beautiful main menu to the last minute, and nothing beats seeing the world transom in real time for the first time )
-Excellent Musical Score ( the music is really enchanting and wonderful, some of the best music soundtracks i heard in a while )
-Character Interaction ( the optional dialogs between Prince and Elika are very fun to hear and make them feel more real and alive )
-Acrobatics and Traveling Mechanics ( mainly 90% of the time you are jumping in the air with no ground under you, its almost like flying .. well you do actually fly too thanks to the new magical-pads system which works nicely )
The Bad:
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-The Combat ( messed up, repetitive and very generic specially the whole one-on-one affair, yes ... sometimes it looks good when you pull a full combo but in the end it is very frustrating and a down grade from the previous prince game excellent combat systems which mixed environmental acrobatics and deep combat seamlessly )
-The Open World ( while it is not done very badly it kinda kills the feeling of progression, i don't mind a mid-game fork in which you have a choice between different paths or have the choice to go to a group of places in any order like in Warrior Within .. but not the whole game )
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Recommended for Prince enthusiasts ( try to get along with the cranky combat ) and a good buy for fans of the action/adventure genre.