
The player must lead the game protagonist out of a dungeon and into a tower. The main objective of the player is to complete the game within one hour. Platforming, a core gameplay mechanic in Prince of Persia

In level 12, with the sword drawn, fighting the Prince. In level 6, when the Prince jumps and catches on a platform to climb up, his soul closes the gate before him forcing him to drop to next level. The soul, depicted as a semi-transparent copy of the Prince, leaves the screen and will appear in two of the last levels.
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In the fourth level, the Prince is forced to jump through a magic mirror that tears his soul apart from him, always leaving him with just one full bottle. There is also a green potion that made the Prince light-weight and one that made the screen flip around, depending on the level.

The Prince can increase the number of bottles in his power bar by drinking larger red potions, usually hidden or in dangerous places, while the regular-sized Red magic potions restore one life each time they are consumed. Medium falls, blue potions, being hit by falling platforms, and sword hits take one bottle off the power bar, while major falls, being hit unarmed, falling or running on spikes and blades, kill the Prince instantly. If the Prince is killed, the game will restart from the beginning of the level or in some levels, at a mid-way checkpoint. The only way to lose the game is by letting the time expire. On some platforms it is possible to save the game at the start of each level, though the time limit still applies. The twist is that the game is played in real time, so the Prince must quickly complete the quest without breaks. The Prince has an hour to complete the game by saving the Princess and killing Jaffar. The Princess is also imprisoned and she is given a choice with an hour to decide: marry Jaffar or die. The Prince is imprisoned, since Jaffar has designs on the Princess. Sensing opportunity, the evil Vizier Jaffar seizes the throne for himself. The game starts with the Sultan of Persia being called away to war in a foreign land. His feelings are reciprocated by the Princess, despite their class differences. One day, he scales the palace walls to catch a glimpse of the Princess, whose beauty is like the "moonrise in the heavens". The Prince is an orphan, living on the streets.
