Prince of Persia/YMMV

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  • Breather Level: Levels 9 and 11 are quite a bit easier than 8, 10 and 12.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: All of the games (as well as the movie) have truly remarkable music.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The game was initially a failure in the U.S., thanks to being initially released on the Apple IIe, a platform well past its prime in 1989. It really only took off when ported to European computing platforms.
  • Polished Port: The SNES version of the original game. Needless to say, this port was by a completely different developer from the one who did the port of its sequel.
  • Porting Disaster: Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame on the SNES. as one comment on a YouTube video put it: