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Prince of Persia ~ Road Map and Epilogue Trophy Guide


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2 other guides have been chosen as the preferred guides for this game so this one has been closed, is not maintained and as a result it may contain outdated or incorrect information. Please follow the link below to the preferred guide.

 

*Direct link to stickied guide*

*Direct link to stickied DLC guide*

 

Road Map

 

Overview

+ Estimated trophy difficulty: 3.8/10

+ Offline: 51 (1(P), 3(G), 5(S), 42(B))

+ Online: 0

+ Downloadable Content: 10 (3(S), 7(B))

+ Approximate time: 15-20 hours

+ Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1+ to 2

+ Missable trophies: Combo Specialist, Precious Time, Some of the Light Seed ones, In Harmony, Sword Master

+ Glitched trophies: Combo Specialist, Light Seeds Master, Be Gentle With Her, Speed Demon

+ Cheats: No cheats

 

Original Trophy Guide: KingBroly's Guide

 

Prince of Persia is action/platforming game that isn’t too difficult and shouldn’t cause you too much difficulty. The action in this game is de-emphasized when compared to previous Prince of Persia games and more attention is focused on the story and the development of the bond between the two main characters, the Prince and Elika. The game is fairly short and should take you just over one play through if you plan things out right.

 

The way to plan a run just over one play through is this. Save your game as often as possible. You want to have Elika save you fewer than 100 times to get “Be Gentle With Her.” Every time you fall (except when you have to in the game), reload your save and do the section that you fell again. Collect only enough light seeds to unlock all four powers in the game. After you defeat all four of the bosses and are ready to head to the temple for the final time, create another save file and save your game. Continue through and finish the game. After you complete the game, reload the second save that you made and clean up what you missed. Alternatively, you can split this up into two playthroughs; one for all the light seeds and one speed run. Doing the speed run second is recommended since you will know your way through the game and you will be familiar with all the puzzles and bosses. You can get “Be Gentle With Her” on either play through.

 

Part 1

 

There are a few trophies that you will get simply from playing the story. You don’t have to worry about them in the trophy list, because you’re guaranteed to get them if you finish the game. These trophies are “Into the Storm…”, “Wallrunner,” “Explorer,” “Climbing to New Heights!”, “Heal the Land,” “Savior of the City of Light,” the boss trophies, and “The End.”

 

Early on in your first run, you should focus on getting as many combat trophies out of the way. You can get “Block Master,” “Improviser,” and “Up Against It” before you even reach the temple. Once you’re through the temple, you can very quickly get “Compass” and “Sinking to New Depths!” out of the way. Start talking to Elika every chance you get to clear out the three conversation trophies, “Where’s That Temple?”, “Good Company,” and “Getting to Know You.” Over the course of the game, you’ll be building up the times Elika has to assist you in a jump for the “In Harmony” trophy. You can farm this over and over again in the spots where she has to help you, but this will also unlock while you’re going for all the light seeds. The choice is yours, spend the time doing one jump again and again, or get it as you progress through the game.

 

This is a good time to mention that you should start working on “Combo Specialist” very early in the game. A lot of people have trouble with this trophy. I would recommend printing out a list of all the combos in the game, and checking them off one at a time as you do them. If a combo gets blocked, deflected, or for some reason doesn’t result in a solid hit against an enemy, the combo doesn’t count and you’ll have to do it again. There are 63 combos in the game that you’ll have to do. You can start working on some of them as soon as your first encounter with an enemy, but some of the combos you have to wait to use until after you discover Elika’s power. Pay very close attention to what you have left to do and what you’ve done. If you use a printout of all the combos, mark the ones you’re not sure worked so you know exactly which ones you have to go back and do if you don’t get the trophy when you complete the list. This thread has a list of all the combos that you will need to do:

 

Combo Specialist Guide

 

Now you have to decide which order to the bosses. I chose to go to the Hunter first, then the Alchemist, followed by the Concubine, and ending with the Warrior. Why did I do it that way, because it goes from left to right along the map. Do them in any order that you choose. Whichever order you decide to fight them, make sure that you get the four boss special trophies out of the way in the first battle with each. The reason for this is that each boss gets more difficult each time that you face them. Do them the first time you meet each of them. With the Warrior, move the left stick left or right and hit X 20 times in the fight. For the Hunter, hit R2 when it pops up on the screen to deflect his attacks. You have to do this five times for the trophy. This is also a good spot to get “Deflect Master” if you want to continue deflecting the Hunter’s attacks. With the Concubine, don’t push circle. And in the fight with the Alchemist, don’t push X.

 

In either the first fight with the Alchemist or with the Concubine, you’ll want to go for “Sword Master.” The 14 hit combo has to be done straight through with no pauses, blocks, or other screw ups. Doing the combo with these two is recommended because the Hunter is more likely to block your attacks and you can’t directly damage the Warrior. To make it simple for myself, I wrote out the button sequence on a piece of paper and set it on top of my TV. You can pause it in the middle of the combo if you need to remind yourself of the next set of buttons to push. Like everything else, further details can be found in KingBroly’s trophy guide.

 

Once you’re on your way to your first area, you’ll begin to encounter the generic Ahriman soldiers. They spawn with what looks like a tornado of black goo. There are two trophies that involve the killing of these soldiers, “Speed Kill” and “Throw Master.” You can start with either, it really doesn’t matter which one you do first.

 

Once you defeat all four of the bosses for the fourth time, create an extra game save so that you can go back after the game is over and pick up the light seeds and do the timed runs. If however you would like to play through the game a second time, then ignore this paragraph.

 

[spoiler=PoP]Once you’ve defeated all four of the bosses, it’s time to head back to the temple and face off with Ahriman. After you reimprison him, Elika will sacrifice herself to keep Ahriman locked away. This is the point in time when you will get “Precious Time” if you stand there holding her for a minute.

 

Part 2

 

Now that you’ve finished off the game and received “Be Gentle With Her” and “The End”, it’s time to go and reload that second save file that you made (if you don’t want to go through the game again). Now is the time to finish finding the light seeds, do the four timed runs, and clean up any miscellaneous trophies that you may have missed. Alayes has provided videos of each timed run that are posted in the trophy guide. There’s nothing difficult about them, but they do require an extensive amount of platforming and it may take you a few attempts to memorize the sequence. Remember, to get “Light Seeds Master” you need 1,001 light seeds, not the 1,000 that are in the areas where faced the four bosses. This means that you will have to go through the game to completion in order to get that final light seed. Some people have encountered a glitch here that prevents them getting the 1,001 light seeds. I don’t know that anything can be done other than starting the game over.

 

Alternate means

 

The alternative method to this 1+ play through method is go through two separate times. The first would to collect most of the trophies and get all the light seeds, all the timed runs, all the combat trophies, and the few miscellaneous ones. The second run would be your speed run collecting only the light seeds that you need to unlock all of the powers. This order is better since the first run will familiarize yourself with the game and learn all the puzzles and how to fight the bosses. There won’t be any surprises so you can go through the game as quickly as possible. You can save often in either play through to get “Be Gentle With Her.”

 

Even if you are going for two play throughs, read through the methods in Part 1 to collect most of the trophies, and follow KingBroly’s great trophy guide for more details and Alayes’s excellent videos for specific trophies.

 

Version 1.01 Addendum

 

With the addition of the version 1.01 patch, the trophies "Be Gentle With Her" and "Speed Demon" have become a little glitched, but in a good way. It seems that the downloading of this patch resets your stats, so you may receive both trophies after the credits complete even though you have gone over the requirements for them.

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Epilogue Road Map

 

The epilogue has some slightly more difficult and longer platforming sections than the rest of the game. It's possible to do this in one play through. The Epilogue isn't so long that you can't get the speed run trophy. You can get the speed run, "Born Dead," and all the Frescos in one play through, but you'll be cutting it pretty close. I'll post both methods and you can choose whichever you want. I did it in two play throughs. My second time through was to collect all of the Frescos and my final time was about 1 hour, 45 minutes (although, keep in mind that I knew exactly how to do everything and what to expect). Not collecting the Frescos my first time, was about 1 hour, 20 minutes.

 

The first method would be to try to get everything in one play through. If you want to try this, you'll have to save quite a bit for three different trophies. I'd recommend that you save after every long platforming section. The first of three is "Born Dead." There are seven soldiers in the Epilogue that you will have to kill before they spawn. If you don't get to the spawning soldier quick enough or fall on the way to the soldier, reload and try again. Most of them are pretty easy, but there are a couple of difficult soldiers to get to. The second trophy is "I Need a Hand or Twenty." This is the same as "Be Gentle With Her" from the main list, but you have 20 to work with instead of 100. The third is "No Time to Waste." Again, it's like "Speed Demon" from the main list. Save a lot for those three, follow the video posted in the guide for the Frescos, and the rest of the trophies will come by playing through the DLC.

 

The other method is to break it up into two play throughs. The first play through, you can either go for the speed run/less than 20 deaths or go for the Frescos/soldiers. The Frescos and killing the soldiers are the part of the Epilogue that will take the most time, so combining them with the speed run could be more difficult. For both play throughs, make sure that you save a lot for "I Need a Hand or Twenty" and "Born Dead."

Epilogue Trophy Guide

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/051.jpg All the Frescos (B)

Reach all of Ormazd’s Frescos in the Epilogue.

 

There are 10 Frescos that you have to reach in the Epilogue. The Frescos that you’re looking for are rectangular in shape. You just have to touch them or run across them for it to count as being “reached.” Dying immediately afterward without landing on another platform will also make the Fresco not count. A couple are a little tricky to get to, but here’s a video that shows all of the locations.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWtxup24-Ho]Prince Of Persia Epilogue All the Frescos Trophy - YouTube[/ame]

Details for reaching all the Frescos are in this thread put together by gaol:

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/prince-persia/8319-fresco-locations.html

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/051.jpg A Fresco of Light (B)

Reach one Ormazd Fresco in the Epilogue.

 

Reaching any of the 10 will get you this trophy. See “All the Frescos” for a video will all the locations. The first one that you will probably reach is towards the beginning of the Epilogue. Elika stops and talks about her ancestors are buried here. As the camera pans around, there will be the first Fresco over an archway.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/057.jpg Born Dead (S)

Kill all the soldiers of the Epilogue before they spawn.

 

This is the hardest trophy of the Epilogue, and possibly the entire game. Remember what you had to do to get the “Speed Kill” trophy. There are seven of these generic soldiers that you have to kill. The key to this is saving often. The platforming sections are longer than in the main game before you reach any of these soldiers.

 

Note: You won’t get this trophy until after complete the Epilogue, not after you kill the seventh soldier.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/054.jpg What Once Was There (B)

[spoiler=epilogue1]First use of Energize in the Epilogue.

 

Energize is the new power that you get in the epilogue. This will come automatically. You can’t miss this trophy playing through the Epilogue. There will be a cutscene that shows the new plate being activated, and you should get this very shortly after.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/051.jpg Bouncing From Here to There (B)

Complete the puzzle with rebound in the Epilogue.

 

This is a puzzle in a very large room where have to move platforms around in a specific sequence. The puzzle is pretty easy to work out and you can’t miss it if you play through and finish the Epilogue.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/056.jpg Leaving the Storm (B)

Complete the Epilogue.

 

Finish off the Epilogue. It’s pretty short and shouldn’t take you more than two hours.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/057.jpg I Only Need a Hand or Twenty (S)

[spoiler=epilogue2]Elika saves you fewer than 20 times in the whole Epilogue.

This is just like “Be Gentle With Her.” Save a lot and reload when you fall, and you’ll have no problems getting this.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/057.jpg No Time to Waste (S)

[spoiler=epilogue3]Complete the Epilogue in less than 2 hours.

This sounds difficult, but it really isn’t too difficult. I got this in under two hours even with going for all the Frescos and killing all the soldiers. If you don’t get it on the first playthrough, then just play through it again. You’ll know all the puzzles and you can avoid all the Frescos saving some time.

 

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/056.jpg The Best Offence is Good Defense (B)

Defeat any enemy of the Epilogue by only starting a combo with a Deflect and Counter-attack.

 

The best place to get this is in the final fight with the King. When you start to push him towards the throne, this is the only time in this fight you can get this trophy. Once you’re at the point where you’re about to push him against the throne, deflect one of his attacks and then counter-attack. During the cutscene after the fight is finished, you’ll get this trophy.

 

http://www.ps3trophies.org/images/trophies/59/056.jpg Change Once, Then Die (B)

In the Epilogue, defeat the Shapeshifter with only one shape change.

 

The Shapeshifter is the “new” enemy that you’ll be facing in the Epilogue. I put new in quotes because the Shapeshifter just changes between the Warrior and the Hunter. He starts as the Warrior and once you kill him, he changes into the Hunter. After he changes into the Hunter, you have to quickly finish him off before he changes back into the Warrior. Use the same attacks and strategies that you used against both in the main game.

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Question about the Fresco's !

 

Perhaps the answer could be a note amended in the road map/guide.

 

Lets say on your first Epilogue play through you got a couple of them 5 for example.

On the second play through would you need to get ALL of them, or you could only go for the ones you missed?

Has anyone experimented with this?

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Question about the Fresco's !

 

Perhaps the answer could be a note amended in the road map/guide.

 

Lets say on your first Epilogue play through you got a couple of them 5 for example.

On the second play through would you need to get ALL of them, or you could only go for the ones you missed?

Has anyone experimented with this?

 

Ok i'll quote myself lol.

 

The answer is... You must collect all Fresco's in 1 [One] play through. You can not collect few then go back and get only those you missed.

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"Once you defeat all four of the bosses for the fourth time, create an extra game save so that you can go back after the game is over and pick up the light seeds and do the timed runs. If however you would like to play through the game a second time, then ignore this paragraph." - Thread Creator

 

I think its better if we save it after we beat the boss for the 6th time instead. Because its pointless if we beat the boss all 4x and make an extra save. It is much easier if we beat em up in their home place already and then make an extra save.

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I have a question, do the speed kills in the dlc count toward the Speed Kill trophy in the main game. I'd guess it does but just want to make sure.

 

Also, I know the roadmap is a couple of months old, and the game older, but I think it should be updated. There are a couple more missable trophies (eg. Speed Kills, Throw Master), and Speed Demon and Be Gentle with Her are probably glitched, as I, and other from what I've read, got them even without qualifying for them. I know that a second (or part of) playthrough would cover these, but seeing as how the above two trophies are glitched, it is more than possible to finish the game in one playthrough.

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Yeah, you're right, and I think I've decided that this is my favourite PS3 game atm. I tend not to play games twice, as there's so many others to play, but I'll have to make an exception for this one. Once I'm done with the epilogue, I'll do a speedrun through the game and dlc, might even challenge myself to do it with collecting all the light seeds (don't know if it's possible). I just cannot get over the artistry and storyline of this game.

 

I'm really hoping a sequel will be announced once the whole hype for the movie and game for the SOT is over.

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You should really add more details about the glitched trophies and some possible workarounds for them. I am having trouble with both Combo Specialist and Lightseeds Master and neither the trophy guide or roadmap gave sufficient warning of these. Now I have to do a completely fresh playthrough just to get all the lightseeds over again. :mad:

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That's nearly at the beginning of the Road Map, the part you should ALWAYS read before anything else. It gives you all the information you need to have.

 

Ahhh crap I usually always check that but it didn't cross my mind to check this time for some reason. I wasn't blaming olsen77 for having to start all over though. I just thought he should elaborate a bit on what the glitch does and how to prevent it.

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