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A review by laci
The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
3.0
I must say, I liked it. It wasn't about Prince of Persia as such, but Mechner's personal journals from the time period that mostly intersected with the making of Prince. I'm fine with that; especially given how humane and mortal it made Mechner seem, when he let us see how he struggled with doubt, how he searched for a direction (he wanted to do movies and not games, except did he really?), how he changed his mind and his goals. That's something that probably most creative people experience in one way or another.
I'm not giving it four stars just because of the point where it got cut off. A big part of the book was about Prince 2 (and more movies.) I did enjoy it, and the contrast with Prince 1 was especially noteworthy - but it was cut off _before_ PoP2 was finished, and it felt just so jarringly incomplete.
Still, if you're interested in artistic processes or an artist's doubts and struggles (because I'd argue that's the core of the book more than PoP itself), I'd recommend reading it.
I'm not giving it four stars just because of the point where it got cut off. A big part of the book was about Prince 2 (and more movies.) I did enjoy it, and the contrast with Prince 1 was especially noteworthy - but it was cut off _before_ PoP2 was finished, and it felt just so jarringly incomplete.
Still, if you're interested in artistic processes or an artist's doubts and struggles (because I'd argue that's the core of the book more than PoP itself), I'd recommend reading it.