History VideoGame / PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu: [[spoiler:The Prince's victory over the Vizier/Zurvan may be this.]]

* Developers foresight: At the end of the game, [[spoiler:the Prince finishes the second phase of the final boss fight by plunging the king's sword into Zurvan. In the third phase, the game makes sure you see that he doesn't have it. And just before the Dark Prince, now separated from the Prince, attacks him and takes you to the mental realm, the revived Kaileena destroys the Dagger of Time and the Prince just has the king's sword when he goes into the mental ream to chase and fight the Dark Prince.]]

* DidYouJustPunchCthulu: [[spoiler:The Prince's victory over the Vizier/Zurvan may be this.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOffCthulu: [[spoiler:The Prince's victory over the Vizier/Zurvan may be this.]]

* AGodAmI: The Vizier's ultimate plan thanks to the Sands of Time and the Dagger. It kinda works, transforming him in a NighInvulnerable WingedHumanoid with a glowing humanoid body who names himself after Zurvan, TopGod and predecessor of Zoroastrism in ancient Persia.

* DualWielding: The Prince can do this, by picking up any sword or other weapon he come across for his free hand.

* LeParkour: Much of the game is spent running up walls, jumping off of them and using your weapons to aid you in your parkour skills. Plan on jumping to your death...a lot.

* TimeMaster: The Prince with his dagger. Not only are the sands the main plot device in the game, but being able to rewind when you make a mistake as a player is extremely useful.

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[[caption-width-right:275:[[Music/{{Metallica}} Enter sandman]].]]

* UnwinnableByMistake:
** At the end of the Upper Tower, there's a section where you have to run up a wall to a dagger plate, then jump from a shutter to another dagger plate. Be prepared to use several sand tanks, or worse, ''lives'' before finding the right moment when you should bounce to the plate, especially when ''all'' other shutter jumps in the game are straightforward. [[https://youtu.be/UGmsH_xE1Y8?t=3m30s Solution here]] [[spoiler:It's also possible to [[https://youtu.be/K33PrcFd9cY?t=12m skip all dagger plates to directly reach the ledge]], but once again, you have to jump at the ''very'' right pixel.]]
** There's also a low chance to [[https://youtu.be/UGmsH_xE1Y8?t=42s fall while running along the wall]] at the beginning of the Upper Tower.

* UnwinnableByMistake: At the end of the Upper Tower, there's a section where you have to run up a wall to a dagger plate, then jump from a shutter to another dagger plate. Be prepared to use several sand tanks, or worse, ''lives'' before finding the right moment when you should bounce to the plate, especially when ''all'' other shutter jumps in the game are straightforward. [[https://youtu.be/UGmsH_xE1Y8?t=3m30s Solution here]] [[spoiler:It's also possible to [[https://youtu.be/K33PrcFd9cY?t=12m skip all dagger plates to directly reach the ledge]], but once again, you have to jump at the ''very'' right pixel.]]

* LegacyBossBattle: The Klompa and Stone Guardian battles are a CallBack to the Brute minibosses from ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' Mahasti's first part of the combat moves very similar to Shahdee.

* MultiMeleeMaster: Mixing the first two games, the Prince wields the Dagger of Time as his main weapon, and can wield and carry swords, axes, maces and daggers as his sidearms. Unlike Warrior Within, there's essentially two or three models for each weapons to be found (the standard one you get from all racks, plus the ones dropped by the enemies.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Due to the events of Warrior Within, The events of the first game have been undone and the Vizier is back to try becoming immortal once again.

* OffWithHisHead: As the Dark Prince, the player can lop off many sand monsters heads with ease.

* OptionalStealth: Stealth Kills are introduced in this game: most of the time you'll find that using stealth and the surrounding enviroment to take down enemies is the safest approach, but you can just barge in and attack all the enemies face to face, though things can get aggravating pretty soon, especially around Sand Portals. Oh, and [[YouFightLikeACow the Dark Prince will usually mock you if you can't kill all the mooks of an area stealthly.]]

* RingOfFire: The battle with the Axe and Sword twins.

* EnemySummoner: Sand Guards are EliteMook enemies guarding a nearby Sand Portal. If they spot you, they'll immediately try to activate said Portal, which will force you to fight through many guards to seal it. However, if you manage to keep the Sand Guards from summoning by killing them either in combat or by Stealth Kill, the portal will remain unoperative.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Dark Prince, when explaining about his origins states that's probably a result of the Prince spending a little too much time among the Sands... or rather, "among the Empress", referencing [[spoiler: the RescueSex scene from the GoldenEnding]] of the previous game.

* JuxtaposedHalvesShot: The cover features {{The Pr|otagonist}}ince and [[JekyllAndHyde Dark Prince]] juxtaposed on each other, and provides the trope image for SuperpoweredEvilSide.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: During the final section of the game, you obtain the King's Sword, a secondary-weapon that can OneHitKill ''any'' enemy in the game. You'll have plenty of opportunity to use it, too.

* AffablyEvil: The Dark Prince is often little more than a VoiceWithAnInternetConnection; it never actually ''lies'' to you, since he's just the shadow of the Prince brought to life by the sands of time. Nor does it seem particularly malicious until much further into the game.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: How the Prince takes out Klompa, first by [[EyeScream plucking out both his eyes]], then by aiming to the feet and finally the unprotected back. You can also insta-kill Hounds when they're trying to eat your sand reserves by jamming the dagger right into their mouths.

* BigDamnHeroes: When the Prince and Farah attempt to get inside the palace, they quickly find themselves surrounded by a literal army of hundreds of sand monsters of all sizes; far too many to fight. Just when it seems like the heroes are about to be slaughtered, [[spoiler:the voice of [[BlindSeer the Old Man]] rings across the noise, and everyone turns to see him standing at the front of what appears to be the ''entire'' population of Babylon.]]
-->[[spoiler:"All hail the Prince of Persia: the greater hero the land has ever known! You have saved the people of this city, and we have come to repay the favor!"]]

* CallBack: In an elevator, Farah remarks that she's heard of a similar device in Azad, a reference Sands of Time players will be [[ThatOneLevel intimately familiar with]].
** When getting the first weapon in the game (a regular knife), the Prince remarks that he never has a suitable weapon when he needs it. At the beginning of Warrior Within, he lost his sword and had to use a stick, and broke another shortly before running through a dungeon full of enemies.

* {{Hellhound}}: Hunter Hounds.

* LegacyBossBattle: The Klompa and Stone Guardian battles are a CallBack to the Brute minibosses from ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin''.
* LighterAndSofter: It's still darker than the first game, but it manages to find a happy medium between the first game's fairy-tale atmosphere and snarky protagonist and the second's [[DarkerAndEdgier darkness and edginess]] and improved combat.

* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Sand monsters.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: The GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' is actually made canon, which Kaileena [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges]] in the opening narration.

'''[[spoiler:Prince]]:''' [[spoiler:'''''NO!''''' You are right. I ''have'' been like a child: naive and arrogant, always rushing to undo my mistakes. Never facing the consequences of my actions. No more. I accept what I have done, and ''all'' that it implies. *transforms back, without water*]]\\

* AllThereInTheManual: The game doesn't tell you anything about the invading army the Vizier commands, making them come off as just a legion of {{Mooks}} to fight. The Bradygames strategy guide however, has much more information about them, detailing how they are made up of a massive collection of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians Scythian]] nomad tribes whose lands were being encroached upon by the Indian and Persian empires. With the loss of their traditional hunting grounds causing a food shortage, the Scythian tribes began to fragment and [[CripplingOverspecialization specialize in certain martial arts, hence [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration the unique look of each enemy type.]] The Vizier was able to rally them to his side by promising them vengeance against both empires.