You unlock new abilities as you go through the adventure, and these are all mixed seamlessly together to keep you continually on your toes. You often need to freeze and unfreeze water in midair, making it possible to leap between geysers that are not synced or crash through a wall of water that was frozen solid just a moment earlier.
Initially, these water-based puzzles provide only an aesthetic twist to the standard platforming, but once you understand the basics, things become a lot more interesting.
Waterfalls and leaking spigots can be frozen with the push of a button, creating walls and pillars of ice for you to climb upon. The first and most widely used is the ability to freeze water. However, the thing that really pushes these levels to new heights is the moves you unlock during the course of the game. The Forgotten Sands does break free from its inspiration after a few hours, but that doesn't excuse the forgettable introduction. The opening level, in which you try to break into a castle under attack, borrows heavily from the opening sequence of its predecessor, and it seems as if the predictable level design is a portent of things to come. Unfortunately, the prince's personality is not the only thing borrowed from The Sands of Time. Thankfully, this is not the dour prince who appeared in the previous game in the franchise, but rather the good-natured fellow from The Sands of Time, and his quips add to the experience. The prince narrates the events during the action, and his personality interjects some lighthearted fun into the proceedings. Although the story is ho-hum cliche, there is a certain charm in the manner it's told. At one point in their lives, they got along perfectly fine, but relationships tend to crumble when demonic possession rears its head. The story in The Forgotten Sands focuses on the sibling rivalry between the prince and his brother.
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