The Prince of Persia Interview on IGN.AU talks with Ben Mattes, producer on the upcoming return of the wall-running regent. A primary focus of the conversation is Elika, the new sidekick character, and the efforts they've put into avoiding creating one of those sidekicks you love to hate: "We had instances where we had interest points in the world -- little objects that would attract her attention, and if you idled for a few minutes she would wander over to one of those objects to look at it, but then the player would, y'know, haul ass to the left and Elika's wandering over there looking at that thing and then he has to stop and wait and go and get her and bring her back, and it was these things that detracted from that overall core message, which is more important than anything else. More important than you liking her, more important than you loving her, more important than anything like that -- you just can't hate her. So there was a lot of design that we had to do to just make sure that you didn't hate her. And sometimes that was reducing or eliminating her autonomy to ensure that it's always the player who's in the lead, who's always in control and Elika's there as sort of a support mechanism."