Day 51 - Best puzzles: Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time

Puzzles are a weird thing, in games. They'll either be piss-poor and extremely easy, or fiendishly hard but unrelated to the rest of the game or the guidelines of common sense. Very few games manage to find the right balance between the two, and usually they're either adventure games or puzzle games, without any false pretense of being something else. Many an adventure game are in reality a disguised abstract puzzle game. One of the few games that does strike the aforementioned balance, though, is Sands of Time. Ignore the bad film conversion of it: This is a great story, with some of the finest puzzles ever. Not because they're hard: they're really not. But you'll never stop yourself, mid-solving, and ask "Why am I doing this?". You know why you're climbing this ledge, you know why you're pulling a lever, you know why you're turning a dial. The solution is always visible and in context and makes sense: it's just out of reach.