The world of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is filled with wonder, mystery, and a bunch of puzzles, too. One, in particular, requires you to use cloned versions of your character, Sargon, just to clear a path. Our Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Sacred Archives time puzzle guide discusses how you can solve this tricky brain teaser.
The Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Sacred Archives time puzzle is part of a main quest called the Path to the Sands Prison. This portion of the campaign tasks you with breaking a seal, but you need a couple of new abilities to do just that. One power, the Dimensional Claw, comes from a boss fight. This particular puzzle, meanwhile, nets you the Clairvoyance skill. For the other unlockable abilities, you can refer to our Time Powers guide.
The puzzle chamber is in the western portion of the Sacred Archives zone. Once you get there, you’ll realize that the walls bar your path, which means you’ll need to take the long way around. Keep following the corridors heading west, then south and east, until you arrive at the bottom section of the chamber.
To solve the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Sacred Archives puzzle, you have to make use of Sargon’s clones. Here’s a quick summary:
Note that this is the simplest puzzle out of all four. It serves as a means of introducing this particular mechanic to players.
Traverse the room so you can create a Shadow of the Simurgh copy of yourself (left), and then unlock the cell during the second round (right).
This puzzle room just requires you to pull the levers at the opportune time (both images).
This last Sacred Archives puzzle in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown can be somewhat tricky. Here’s what you need to do:
This is how you complete all Sacred Archives time puzzles in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Your reward for beating this portion of the campaign is the Clairvoyance time power. It allows you to turn transparent objects into solid ones, and vice versa. This ability can be used to create platforms to help you cross chasms, ledges so you can continue climbing, or gaps so you can pass through unimpeded.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown takes you on a mystifying adventure all over Mount Qaf. We discuss various mechanics further in our guides hub.
We already have our first information on Sony’s inevitable PlayStation 6: It will run on…
Author John Jackson Miller has waited his entire life to play in the sandbox of…
What time is it on the Moon? NASA is trying to figure that out. Together…
The PS5 Pro isn't even out yet, but that's not stopping a new report from…
Red Dead Redemption earned legions of fans when it launched in 2010, and the series’…
Palworld has been one the of the big gaming success stories of 2024, but fans…