Prince of Persia: Warrior Within/Headscratchers
- Why did they decide to make the alternate ending of Warrior Within the canon ending instead of just having it be the default ending?
- It's not really an alternate ending so much as the Golden Ending. Golden Endings are almost always the canon endings.
- to deconstruct the Taking a Third Option...
- Plus, when you think about it, the alternate ending has a lot more potential. The Prince has not only escaped his fate, he has destroyed it, and it means that Kaileena could be killed in Babylon to release the Sands of Time once more, setting the plot up for the next game.
- Let's say that there are three Princes: Prince A, who we only see as the Sandwraith, Prince B, who we play as, and Prince C, who we see when playing as the Sandwraith. Now, the headscratcher I have is this: Why did Prince A die? Couldn't he have avoided the Dahaka as Prince B did, since he would have seen that the Sandwraith was killed before he went to fight Kaileena? There's absolutely no reason why he couldn't have lived, other than making the story a bit simpler.
- If Prince A hadn't died when he did and instead made Prince B (you) die, Prince B wouldn't have been able to eventually turn into the Sandwraith. It only occurs to Sandwraith-mode Prince B to jump out of the way because he saw Prince A die. Prince C dies and never gets to kill Kaileena, meaning the Sandwraith is never created, and the (hypothetical) Prince D isn't killed by Prince C trying to avoid being killed and AGHHH MY HEAD IS EXPLODING
- How does the Dahaka get to the island? I know that it's shown that it can do a teleportation kind of thing, but judging by the fact that it can't teleport past water (shown when the Prince is in the time portal rooms), it would be reasonable to assume that it can't teleport past water. So how did it get to the island? Built a ship?
- There may be a difference between teleporting through running water and teleporting over the sea. Maybe it's just fresh water, IDK. Plot!