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Update: Last night I completed my second full campaign, only using the auto-save function and was able to get all 1001 seeds. If anyone experiences similar problems, try relying only on auto-save to save your progress.
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So it has been almost two weeks since the new Prince of Persia landed on store shelves and about the same amount of time since I began playing. While the game itself really is quite enjoyable, I've had to restart multiple times for a variety of issues either preventing me from progressing or completing certain tasks.

On my intial run I encounter a glitch that caused the ground in every part of the world to vanish shortly after returning from a magic ability learning session in crazy-blue-strange-world, created by the Temple. What can one do in this situation other than reload the game? Which is what I did, and with no luck. I then restarted my PS3 and again reloaded my saved game. No go, so I started over. On my second game I didn't get as far in before I miscalculated and had a nasty tumble. Unlucky for myself Elika "saved" me, but the point from which I jump apparently went on vaction and the game threw me into an infinite cycle of dying, over and over and over again. After watching that for 5 minutes I tried to reload the game, no dice. Restart, reload, nothing. So game number three it was. Game number 3 went a lot better, however now I was beginning to experience audio/video studdering issues at random through the length of my game.

Of course the Prince of Persia wasn't quite finished with me yet, no not by a long shot. After loading up my saved game I found the prince to be in a different location then from where I left him during the last save... on the other side of the fucking game world. So I thought perhaps the game didn't save or I messed something up, however all other progress (enemy encounters, light seed collection and a magic ability aquisition) was intact, except for the strange emergence of 3 light seeds hovering near by. I collected them and went on my marry way. Knowing that after I went to face the final encounter I wouldn't be able to return to collect the rest of the light seeds for the 1001 trophy I went back to each zone to grab the rest. Except there was 1 missing from the Royal Gardens. I spent a lot of time searching for that fucker, preparing to laugh at myself for missing such an obvious location in which that bastard was hiding. After awhile I got the sinking feeling a new glitch appeared on the scene. Wanting to double check I began a fresh game and hit the area in force. What do you know, all 45 light seeds are accounted for and there wasn't some Solid Snake stealth badass light seed hiding in the shadows of the Royal Gardens. I decided to complete the game, then shook my head and began a 4th.

Knowing the lay of the land this would be a speedy play through for a couple trophies I didn't get upon completion the first time. Loading the save for my new game this morning I noticed the prince was, again, in a different location than I had left him. Much like before 3 light seeds hovered near by and all other progress was intact except 2 light seeds missing from an area I had completed during the previous session. So off to the Sun Temple I went in search of these missing two. You probably know where this is going, yep, no seeds to be found. So for the second time this game has technically failed, epically. At this point I've grown tired and have one last idea up my sleeve, and that's to delete the 1.6GB of game data and reinstall in hopes some of these problems will be solved. However given my experience with Ubisoft products postdating "Beyond Good and Evil", I'm not even sure I want to spend the time and experience a 3rd failure of this type. Of course Ubisoft's website, specifically the support section, is as useless as tits on a bull.

I wanted the platinum trophy, but I'm not a dog. I'm not going to jump through hoops while constantly getting burned. The lame thing is the 1001 seeds trophy is fucking easy, only taking a couple hours to get starting from scratch. It's just too bad this game seemed to have shipped with enough bugs to make some sort of insect colony, because it is quite fun.

Play.com Exclusive Limited Edition

• Scratch card with unique code to unlock exclusive in-game skins for the Prince (Prince "Classic" skin) and Elika ("Farah" skin)
• High quality collector box set featuring varnish and metallic blue arabesque finish
• Exclusive 24-page Comic book unveiling the backstory of the Hunter, one of the key bosses of the game
• Bonus DVD including soundtrack, videos, e-goodies, widget and more!

Gamestop Limited Edition

The flavour just ain't there.

Contents:

• An exclusive look at the making of Prince of Persia
• A Prima digital mini-strategy guide
• A digital art book chronicling the game’s journey
• Original soundtrack scored by master composer Inon Zur
• Collectible Limited Edition packaging.

Some new information regarding the shape of Darth_Brush's Crossroads Mall Left 4 Dead mod has surfaced over at L4DMods.com. Looks like the map is undergowing a transformation into a 4 chapter movie, much like the 4 included in the boxed game. The current slate is The City, Crossroads Mall, Consumer World and The Escape (I wonder if that's a placeholder). Further information indicates the campaign should enter beta sometime next month. Hell they even got a poster for it now!

Yet another unnecessary, I mean minor, firmware update for the Playstation 3 is set to rollout tomorrow (Wednesday November 26th) in version 2.53. According to Kotaku said update will bring full screen support for Adobe Flash Player and... well it doesn't appear there is anything else, yet. While I sincerely admire Sony's continued effort to expand and repair the capabilities of the PS3, I find it wholly unnecessary such updates need to be done in so many small increments. SCEA seriously need to consider grouping non-critical updates into a large less frequent process for a variety of reasons. Most importantly because, as a result of the nature of  any program, every time something is changed the risk for new problem creation exists. So why risk causing problems (2.40 anyone?) with features that could be held back and grouped together?