At the risk of sounding severely autistic, I actually went "What a strange choice. Is it a holdover from Prince of Persia? Since this is a retro game, probably the first one?" and went and played Prince of Persia 1989 for 15 minutes to check, and took from it the game is bad and the controls are bad and no matter how may times I tried I could not find any similarity to the controls of this significantly better game (or even tell if it's a skill issue or a controls issue that was causing my problems), so I just thought "okay, maybe it's not from Prince of Persia?" because the alternative meant playing more of Prince of Persia until I was sure. Moving onto Prince of Persia 2 instead of making myself mad would have been the common sense option, huh...
With Prince of Prussia I thought "this is clearly some sort of skill issue and the design not connecting with me" as soon as I hit a roadblock, and I was motivated to keep throwing myself at the problem until the logic finally connected, and was rewarded with the game opening like a beautiful flower for me. Drastically different experiences for sure