It's a rather terrible thing to have to admit, I know, but I only played WW for about an hour. I couldn't stand any more. I tried, I really did. I even started the game twice, making it two different play sessions. I liked all the other POP games, even the rather bashed POP3D, but I couldn't stand WW. I have never felt so completely ... out of place in a game before. I felt like the only frog at a hedgehog party.

I loved the atmosphere and story of Sands, and the platforming and puzzles. The combat was always the part which held least interest for me, for all that I am a bit of a sword fighting nut. I liked the little things, such as the way the Prince became increasingly threadbare as time passed.

Short games I don't mind. I have never understood the insistance that a game be at least 30 hours long, or more. It should be as long as it needs to be, even if that is just 5 hours. In many ways short is good; I have a job and other things to do, and not much time for games. It has been months since I even turned on one of my consoles.