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The controls for the chariots are useless, and the strangers sequences go on too long. Ultimately, they feel tacked on, something that makes for a good press clipping but has no place in this game and wouldn't have been missed if removed. Tempus Iudex Rerum Time is the judge of all things, and though the strangers Prince may be able to control it, it hasn't been kind to the series' technology. The fact is, this codebase is showing its age. It's still on the same engine as its two predecessors, with minimal graphic improvements. The hand-drawn animations do still look strangers great, but the game engine, first used in 2003's Beyond Good & Evil and largely unchanged since then, cannot compete. Mitten hands, braids that stick through cleavage and corpselike visages are far more noticeable these days. They do make up for it with some stunningly rendered out-of-engine cutscenes. Another thing that hurts is the lack of realistic physics.
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