Sands of Time or the second one of that generation… They kinda blend together in my memory, so I literally can’t be sure which was the one I liked more. But it’s one of those.
They were, however, the first ones I played. I never had the original or even a demo of it and didn’t know the Xbox/PS2 gen ones were part of an older series until way after I played them.
The original 3D Prince of Persia trilogy - If I had to pick one I liked the most ( or left the strongest impression), then Warrior Within for the shear guilty pleasure of using time powers to hear what the Dahaka says to the Prince when it is chasing him and the story of the angsty, emo prince being knocked down a peg and starts the decision to take responsibility for his actions
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Specifically “killing” his old self and confronting Dahaka in a show of him finally deciding to challenge his fate instead of running away
I will admit Sands of Time had the most engaging story though and that The Two Thrones shook up the formula a bit with the a bigger focus on combat with the transformation ( which is a like a meta-narrative nod to the changes the Prince undertook over the course of the trilogy)
