Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
- Offline: 40 (1000
)
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 7-8 Hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Number of missable achievements: 3 - Collectibles, 2 boss encounters where you can't lose health
- Do cheat codes disable achievements? No
- Does difficulty affect achievements? 1 - Secret achievement requires you to be playing on normal and changing to easy
- Glitchy achievements: 1 - The collectible achievement seems to be giving some people problems.
- Unobtainable achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed? None
Introduction:
This is a very easy 1000. The only real challenge is beating two boss battles without being hit and finding all collectibles in one playthrough. You will only have one autosave, and a backup autosave you can only access by deleting your main autosave. It would be a good idea to have a backup on your memory card as well, before the boss battles. Once you get to the said battles, quit out and copy your save to another device. You can do this every time you get a collectible if you want to be safe.
Step 1: Play the campaign
First, you have to play the campaign before you can unlock the Tides Challenge. Play through, gaining all collectible and combat oriented achievements. I highly suggest that when you upgrade, you upgrade health, Stone Armor, and sword damage first. Check the guide for videos and collectible information. There are no actual levels, just checkpoints and area names. You cannot replay any area unless you complete the game again. Remember Untouchable and Invincible are misable. For Untouchable I would suggest once getting to the boss and seeing a checkpoint, dashboard out and copy your save to a memory card or USB. The last boss encounter, even if you mess up, is very easy to retry. After you finish the game you can continue from your last checkpoint to try again. See the guide for more details.
Note: If for some reason you passed a collectible and cannot return back to get it, the game has a backup save. I would suggest putting your normal autosave on a memory card just in case before doing this. Delete your autosave, and your backupsave will kick in when you load the game. Normally you will be a few checkpoints before the current auto save.
Tips (The Basics)
- Learn your controls, and remember them. Never hit
while running on a wall unless you want to jump in the opposite direction. This is extremely hard to get used to, but failure to follow will result in loading a last checkpoint or rewinding time. Pressing
while on a wall will never make you jump forward. Just keep wall running to get to the next point! When you have the freeze water power, or the power that lets you retrieve environment that's gone, memorize what buttons they are! You will later be asked to switch between these two buttons on the fly (literally).
- Always remember your new powers. If you are having problems, refer to your last learnt power as you may have forgotten about it. This is especially true when gaining the power of flight. You'll think a jump is too big, but look for the enemy that you can dash to by hitting
.
- Not all water is frozen for you to climb. There are a few puzzles that you must freeze water, but not for you to jump on. One such puzzle has you freeze water on a switch to keep it down. Another with statues and broken staffs they are holding, require you to freeze a fountain to use while turning them seperate pieces of the statue.
- Only use the Power of Time or the Stone armor power. Using the other powers after you gain the achievements are a complete waste of energy. Your sword can more than handle all enemies. Save the energy in case you mess up on a jump so you don't have to keep playing a section over.
- Charged attack groups of enemies. When there are a lot enemies on screen, let them all come towards you while you have the
held down. Let go when they get near and you'll kill a lot of them at once.
- Kill summoners first. Some areas of the game will have a summoner. They will keep raising dead army enemies to fight you. If you don't kill them, they will keep spawning enemies that don't even give you experience points.
- Balance reloading your checkpoints. Do not reload your checkpoints because you want a specific achievement (unless you know it's a great spot to get specific ones). All your doing is wasting tons of time! You will be fighting a lot of enemies in the game, 50 enemies are nothing to reload over. Reloading erases all experience, even if you upgraded! You will get tons of oppurtunity for all combat related achievements just by playing the game (even the Titans, which you will be facing multiple times in the challenge mode). If you refrain from reloading checkpoints over and over to get achievements, you should save yourself at least an hour of time.
Step 2: Tides Challenge and Finishing Your Upgrades
Before playing this, you may want to go to Uplay (in the main menu) and buy the experience boost. This will only save you around 10 minutes of gameplay, but you might as well if you have no other need for Uplay. All of your last upgrades will be 300 experience, and playing the Tides should get you about an hour and a half upgrades a try. You can beat the challenge in about 5 minutes. Also in Uplay, you may buy the Time Trials if you'd like to play a different mode to grind out the rest. It should give you more experience as well.
Conclusion:
This game shouldn't give you much trouble. Some inexperienced players (with acrobatic puzzles and gameplay) may find this a bit more challenging, especially in later areas. If you need a full walkthrough , you can google Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands Guide (or Walkthrough). You will find one site ( here) that will do videos for the whole game, but I never suggest watching a video walkthrough. All it does is cost you time (possibly double the time since you have to watch someone do something, then do it yourself). You should be able to figure everything out on your own, if you just think about what needs to be done. Worst case scenario, find the end of your destination, and backtrack with your camera to find where your course of travel starts.
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
- Offline: 40 (1000
)- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000
: 7-8 Hours- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Number of missable achievements: 3 - Collectibles, 2 boss encounters where you can't lose health
- Do cheat codes disable achievements? No
- Does difficulty affect achievements? 1 - Secret achievement requires you to be playing on normal and changing to easy
- Glitchy achievements: 1 - The collectible achievement seems to be giving some people problems.
- Unobtainable achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed? None
Introduction:
This is a very easy 1000. The only real challenge is beating two boss battles without being hit and finding all collectibles in one playthrough. You will only have one autosave, and a backup autosave you can only access by deleting your main autosave. It would be a good idea to have a backup on your memory card as well, before the boss battles. Once you get to the said battles, quit out and copy your save to another device. You can do this every time you get a collectible if you want to be safe.
Step 1: Play the campaign
First, you have to play the campaign before you can unlock the Tides Challenge. Play through, gaining all collectible and combat oriented achievements. I highly suggest that when you upgrade, you upgrade health, Stone Armor, and sword damage first. Check the guide for videos and collectible information. There are no actual levels, just checkpoints and area names. You cannot replay any area unless you complete the game again. Remember Untouchable and Invincible are misable. For Untouchable I would suggest once getting to the boss and seeing a checkpoint, dashboard out and copy your save to a memory card or USB. The last boss encounter, even if you mess up, is very easy to retry. After you finish the game you can continue from your last checkpoint to try again. See the guide for more details.
Note: If for some reason you passed a collectible and cannot return back to get it, the game has a backup save. I would suggest putting your normal autosave on a memory card just in case before doing this. Delete your autosave, and your backupsave will kick in when you load the game. Normally you will be a few checkpoints before the current auto save.
Tips (The Basics)
- Learn your controls, and remember them. Never hit
while running on a wall unless you want to jump in the opposite direction. This is extremely hard to get used to, but failure to follow will result in loading a last checkpoint or rewinding time. Pressing while on a wall will never make you jump forward. Just keep wall running to get to the next point! When you have the freeze water power, or the power that lets you retrieve environment that's gone, memorize what buttons they are! You will later be asked to switch between these two buttons on the fly (literally).
- Always remember your new powers. If you are having problems, refer to your last learnt power as you may have forgotten about it. This is especially true when gaining the power of flight. You'll think a jump is too big, but look for the enemy that you can dash to by hitting
. - Not all water is frozen for you to climb. There are a few puzzles that you must freeze water, but not for you to jump on. One such puzzle has you freeze water on a switch to keep it down. Another with statues and broken staffs they are holding, require you to freeze a fountain to use while turning them seperate pieces of the statue.
- Only use the Power of Time or the Stone armor power. Using the other powers after you gain the achievements are a complete waste of energy. Your sword can more than handle all enemies. Save the energy in case you mess up on a jump so you don't have to keep playing a section over.
- Charged attack groups of enemies. When there are a lot enemies on screen, let them all come towards you while you have the
held down. Let go when they get near and you'll kill a lot of them at once.- Kill summoners first. Some areas of the game will have a summoner. They will keep raising dead army enemies to fight you. If you don't kill them, they will keep spawning enemies that don't even give you experience points.
- Balance reloading your checkpoints. Do not reload your checkpoints because you want a specific achievement (unless you know it's a great spot to get specific ones). All your doing is wasting tons of time! You will be fighting a lot of enemies in the game, 50 enemies are nothing to reload over. Reloading erases all experience, even if you upgraded! You will get tons of oppurtunity for all combat related achievements just by playing the game (even the Titans, which you will be facing multiple times in the challenge mode). If you refrain from reloading checkpoints over and over to get achievements, you should save yourself at least an hour of time.
Step 2: Tides Challenge and Finishing Your Upgrades
Before playing this, you may want to go to Uplay (in the main menu) and buy the experience boost. This will only save you around 10 minutes of gameplay, but you might as well if you have no other need for Uplay. All of your last upgrades will be 300 experience, and playing the Tides should get you about an hour and a half upgrades a try. You can beat the challenge in about 5 minutes. Also in Uplay, you may buy the Time Trials if you'd like to play a different mode to grind out the rest. It should give you more experience as well.
Conclusion:
This game shouldn't give you much trouble. Some inexperienced players (with acrobatic puzzles and gameplay) may find this a bit more challenging, especially in later areas. If you need a full walkthrough , you can google Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands Guide (or Walkthrough). You will find one site ( here) that will do videos for the whole game, but I never suggest watching a video walkthrough. All it does is cost you time (possibly double the time since you have to watch someone do something, then do it yourself). You should be able to figure everything out on your own, if you just think about what needs to be done. Worst case scenario, find the end of your destination, and backtrack with your camera to find where your course of travel starts.
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for a charged slash, and let go. Watch the video below for all locations, or refer to the walkthrough 
. Now wait a split second (so you can aim where you want to jump) and hit 
. Find a spot where there are tons of enemies, and kick one into the rest. This is a very easy achievement and you might even get it without trying. Later in the game there are several places where a simple kick will get you the achievement.
. You are forced to use this more than 805 meters during the game, as you would not be able to get over specific gaps otherwise.
. There are many areas you can get this. You must not hit the ground, but you can release the 
to reverse time and try again. You do not have to be saving yourself from death when you use it, but you probably will be doing it for that reason. It will require an energy sphere to use. Using this is more of a time saver, so that you don't have to start over at a checkpoint.
as long as you have a glowing sphere in your energy slots. This power sets a trail of fire markings (glowing red). Enemies get injured upon walking on it. You do not have to kill an enemy using the trail itself, but have to have it activated upon an enemy death (with the Flame Trail or with the sword).
as long as you have a glowing sphere in your energy slots. This power makes you invincible from getting damaged. It will not hurt enemies, so you will have to attack and kill them while it is active in order for these to count.
as long as you have a glowing sphere in your energy slots. As you attack with it activated, it will send trails of ice which injure enemies. Kills will count with the Ice Blast itself, as well as deaths caused by your sword.
as long as you have a glowing sphere in your energy slots. Unlike the other powers, this one knocks enemies to the ground and can kill them if the enemy is weak. Until it is later upgraded to an actual whirlwind, you cannot physically attack enemies with your sword while it's active.
and go to "Lower Difficulty". You can play on Medium the whole way through if you want, and afterward hit "continue game" and change it. After changing it to easy, you cannot change it back unless you start a brand new game. (Note: Changing the difficulty will reset you back to your last save point).
