Spoiling the hell out of the plot and ending to Prince of Persia but it's necessary. The plot of POP has the protagonist and his lady-friend purging the corruption from a kingdom in order to seal away the dark power that created the corruption. A number of twists and turns occur throughout the story and you find out at the end that purging the corruption results in the death of your special lady. It is at this point that the protagonist realizes that if he brings the corruption back he can save his special lady friend, which he proceeds to do and the game ends with him carrying her off; as seen here:
My initial reaction, like many people, was one of disgust - "if i just undid everything I spent the last 12 hours doing, what the hell was the point." It soon dawned on me that I was being insane - what do you ever honestly accomplish when you finish a video game, if I get mad that I didn't "accomplish" something when the prince let the corruption back out, shouldn't I be equally upset when Master Chief wipes out the flood, the degree to which either of those things actually impact my life is minimal to non-existent.
After clearing my insane "what did I just accomplish" hurdle, I realized the game had one of the best endings I've ever seen. The Prince was himself at the end of the game - given the plot and everything that was learned throughout the course of the game, we come to the understanding that even if the corruption is gone, there is no land left to save - its inhabitants have left, and it is only protected by a temple whose strength is rapidly waning. By choosing his special lady, the prince made the only choice available to him - he could either live in a desolate land alone or he could live in a corrupted land with her and fight the evil together. The land, to him, is still corrupted if it claimed her as a victim, that is why he made his choice and that is why the ending is awesome.
Unfortunately Ubisoft is releasing a downloadable epilogue to the game, that ostensibly appears to put a more satisfying conclusion to the story; pandering to those who couldn't process the meaning of the ending. As far as I'm concerned, the story is over.
The POP ending is good, but its not as good as
So the ending would have been better if the prince flew away on a helicopter from an exploding island, but the amount of closure would have been the same.
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