Prince of Persia

An unopened box of Prince of Persia, a newly released virtual interactive simulation, is on my table, untouched since a week. I won it in a bet, and had it in my hands but the shiny plastic cover is still on it. I am excited about the game, the level of interest is not an issue. Why couldn't I open it?

There is an order to things, one thing should happen after another for the sake of integrity of what the things stand for. You respect the things and want to experience them the way they are designed to be experienced. You start a book, read through it and only then you can enjoy the climax near the end of it. One does not randomly read a book. Or watch the second part of a movie before the first.

In the same spirit, I was waiting. Waiting for me to play the old Prince of Persia (POP) games. Here's the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia

I played and enjoyed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time in 2007. A bit late on reviving the franchisee, I made up for it by playing the game many times. Thereafter, I promptly installed the part 2, POP: Warrior Within the and started to play it, but somewhere in the game I lost interest and couldn't keep track of the story. Too much past-present swapping happened in one stage and I tried to make sense of it but couldn't and was frustrated and eventually gave up the game. Needless to say, part 3 wasn't even installed.

Many months pass. News of a remake. Name? Just Prince of Persia. Read the reviews, waited for the game to hit the shores of India, waited for the money to buy it, and finally won it and had it in my hands.

But I had to play Warrior Within and The Two Thrones! The story must go on.

So I removed the earlier game boxes from The Tower of Games, and open part 2, and install it, and start playing it. Thats when it happened, moment of clarity ~~~ * !

The game looked so old! One generation behing current games, and most of all, I had abandoned it once. I instantly saw why. All the reasons came back. Of course they come back.

And so I abandoned the game again, only this time, much faster. To hell with it :-) to hell with all such illogical mental bonds.

Realization. Denial. Analysis. Acceptance.

Peace

:-)