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Battles of Prince of Persia is a turn-based tactics video game for the Nintendo DS handheld console in which the player takes the role of different characters of the Prince of Persia world, including the titular Prince and his father King Shahraman.

Story[]

The story of the game takes place one year after Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and six years before Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. The game is set in Persia and the fictional Aresura. Each of these places sends three generals to fight their wars.

The Prince finds out that he is being hunted by the Dahaka, an incarnation of fate, because he interfered with time and cheated his own death in the process. The Prince decides to search for a way to free himself of this creature. To do this, he has to search different countries which he only can do by defeating them in war. Over the span of the game, the Prince fights the Daevas, a mythical race of demons contained in a box he opens, and Kalim, the Prince of India and brother of his long lost love Farah. Because of the wars the Prince becomes darker and matures. The game gives great information as to what happens in the long span between the two games in the Sands of Time trilogy.[1]

Plot[]

After the battle in his brother's kingdom, the Prince is determined to prove to his mentor, Darius, and his father that he is worthy of becoming a worthy heir and warrior. However, during a conversation between the Prince and Darius, the Dahaka emerges. Darius throws the Prince out of the way and is killed by the Dahaka. The Dahaka haunts the Prince for weeks until he finds a way to restrain it.

He had traveled to the library and learned of the Box of a Thousand Restraints and planned to have use it on The Dahaka. The Box was held in India. Despite the treaty between Persia and India, The Prince marches in with an army after convincing his father to do so. As they marched to India, him and his father come across a Indian General. After defeating his forces, The Prince decides to go to Aresura, but his father protests and says they must journey to India's capital, Patna. The Prince ignores his father's orders and goes to Aresura, greatly angering him.

Along the way, he meets a mysterious woman who knows about the box and says that someone has used the box. The Prince questions the mysterious woman and comes to find out the Vizier has used it and is surprised of his inadvertent involvement. He later battles the mysterious race of Daevas and force them to retreat. He later finds the Box and breaks the seal.

However, to his displeasure, he accidentally releases the imprisoned Daevas. The Box is rendered useless and he begins his journey back to Babylon. On the way, he is captured by his father's forces and learns that he has set the Daevas free, and by going to war with India, caused the death of his mother. The Prince explains to him the events of Azad but his father is furious at him and doesn't believe his story. He is then surprised as his father knows about the Box of a Thousand Restraints and listens to his father's story.

His father tells him of the Daevas and their ruthlessness and how he had dealt with them and the Vizier's involvement, who has assisted India in battling the Daevas, but failed to convince Kalim to join forces. When the Prince discovers him dead, he decides to team up with the Daeva, Sindra, and helps capture the Daeva leader, Saurva. Afterward, he leaves and does not return to Babylon, knowing the Dahaka would continue chasing him.

Characters[]

There are nine playable generals in Battles of Prince of Persia:

Persians

Indians

Daevas

Gameplay[]

Battles of Prince Of Persia is a turn-based tactics game with some similarities to Advance Wars, including the use of the top screen to show different unit types fighting. The game involves a variety of playing cards which are characterized by a picture and a number, providing the card with its two uses. The first use is to play the magical effect on the card, the second use is to play the number on the card, which determines how many orders the player may give within the hour. Each battle is divided up into hours, which are then divided into turns. Each turn, a player either uses a card (for effect or orders) or passes. An hour ends when both players are unable or unwilling to use any more cards and both pass.

The game includes unique strategy elements that are not found in games such as Fire Emblem and Advance Wars, such as Zone Of Control and directional facing (a la Final Fantasy Tactics), where attacking an enemy from behind will produce better results than from the front. Zone Of Control prevents players from moving their units right through an enemy's lines and directly to the goal or leader. This enables a player to create a wall of defense around his leader or goal to prevent the enemy from breaking through, unless they defeat a number of your units or take a different route.

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References[]

  1. Battles of Prince of Persia gameplay

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