The problem there is that he wasn't supposed to walk away from his experience with the Sands at all. Having parted ways with Farah, his competent sidekick-slash-love interest during that adventure, he resealed the Sands of Time and went on his merry way. Our Prince has been walking a long, hard road since we last saw him at the culmination of Sands of Time. I'm not here just to quote web comic lines at you, though. Fan opinion hasn't been kind to this game at all, with the oft-quoted 'I smolder with generic rage.' line from Penny Arcade summing up the vocal majority's feelings on the Prince's new look. Now, for a couple of reasons this focal shift comes off as a little strange.
