Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - new 2D Prince of Persia - coming to Steam on August 8th

[lycanwarrior]

 

[Child of Malkav]

YAS! Redemption story arc! Join NMS and Cyberscam!

 

[Semiurge]

This was always Jordan Mechner's original vision for PoP, they just didn't have the technology back then to realize it.

Seems he couldn't decide between a regular towel-wearing arab prince and Luke Skywalker.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Underdiscussed topic

The og and SoT princes strike me as visually more fitting for the PoP concept and setting. I can't buy fitness influencer Dakwon here as old Persia or anything having to do with a prince.

Agreed

SoT was lowkey good and memorable compared to the trash we have now

Pretty sure Sands of Time is universally liked around the 'Dex. Quality game

I've no interest in playing Jamal simulator featuring air combos (tm) and Denuvo. Fuck these people

 

[Zero CHAR]

I'm gonna play it tonight, the PS2 PoP games have a special place in my heart and I always wanted to get into metroidvanias.

 

[JarlFrank]

This was always Jordan Mechner's original vision for PoP, they just didn't have the technology back then to realize it.

Seems he couldn't decide between a regular towel-wearing arab prince and Luke Skywalker.

The best cover:

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

That Demo truly was unremarkably solid. Not fantastic, not bad, but definitely not reflecting the rave reviews, unless it does get a lot better later.

 

[Great Deceiver]

rave reviews

 

[Great Deceiver]

The Switch version leaked and you can emulate it perfectly on a middling PC and play at 4k/60fps. No Denuvo, no bullshit.

Well, aside from the game itself, that is. It's babby's first Metroid with magical parry/iframe dodge combat + xtreeeeeme aircombos. Very slow, very dull. And, of course, there's a hackneyed overbearing story full of girlbosses and a DIVERSE CAST (gruff black girlboss fighter! huge dumb oaf! agile archer dude!) on top of everything. Thankfully, you can skip the myriad story sequences. The soundtrack is the usual, nondescript, overly dramatic orchestral/vaguely ethnic stuff that you see in everything these days. Boring.

Just about the only positive aspect I can think of is that there's this feature to take a 'snapshot' of where you are and add it to the map sort of like a pin, so you'll have a visual reminder of which ability you need to get through a specific spot. It's a cool QoL feature but the game seems so braindead easy anyway that it wouldn't matter either way.

Sands of Time might as well have been crafted by aliens at this point. They'll never come up with anything remotely like it.

 

[Nutmeg]

Why can't they just make the characters middle eastern. They're already non-white.

Why does everything have to look like some mid 90s corporate HR stock photo.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Why can't they just make the characters middle eastern. They're already non-white.

Why does everything have to look like some mid 90s corporate HR stock photo.

We wuz kangz and all that. Modern liberal orthodoxy dictates that, historically, everything in what is now North Africa and the Middle East (if not the entire world) must have descended from/been created by sub-Saharan Africans, and therefore protagonists must look the part.

 

[Cyberarmy]

The Switch version leaked and you can emulate it perfectly on a middling PC and play at 4k/60fps. No Denuvo, no bullshit.

Well, aside from the game itself, that is. It's babby's first Metroid with magical parry/iframe dodge combat + xtreeeeeme aircombos. Very slow, very dull. And, of course, there's a hackneyed overbearing story full of girlbosses and a DIVERSE CAST (gruff black girlboss fighter! huge dumb oaf! agile archer dude!) on top of everything. Thankfully, you can skip the myriad story sequences. The soundtrack is the usual, nondescript, overly dramatic orchestral/vaguely ethnic stuff that you see in everything these days. Boring.

Just about the only positive aspect I can think of is that there's this feature to take a 'snapshot' of where you are and add it to the map sort of like a pin, so you'll have a visual reminder of which ability you need to get through a specific spot. It's a cool QoL feature but the game seems so braindead easy anyway that it wouldn't matter either way.

Sands of Time might as well have been crafted by aliens at this point. They'll never come up with anything remotely like it.

I concur with all above. They tried to go Ori route but somewhat failed. Game looks like fast as hell but gameplay is slow and kinda felt slugish.
Woke stuff is over 9000 right from the start.

 

[Axel_am]

I watched some of this on some guy's stream and it doesn't look that bad. Granted it doesn't have much to do with the original PoP trilogy, but that ship has long sailed. Will try it out later this year and report back.

 

[Axel_am]

I take that back. The platforming looks solid, but the combat and the enemy design puts me off. If anything it looks like Blasphemous's cousin than anything related to PoP. I can still see it being fun to play, but there's too much going against it to justify a $49.99 purchase or even -50% off of that.

I wonder if the price would have been so high if this was a new IP and had nothing to do with PoP in the name. The art style also slightly reminds me of League of Legends which is... fucking despicable.

 

[Great Deceiver]

It's corporate slop, zero soul. There's absolutely no reason to play it, and certainly even less reason to pay for it.

 

[Darth Roxor]

The art style also slightly reminds me of League of Legends

Thanks, this is exactly my impression, but I wasn't able to put my finger on it.

 

[Viata]

The same dev that said you should get used to not owning your games is on a path to redemption.

 

[lycanwarrior]

The same dev that said you should get used to not owning your games is on a path to redemption.

I game exclusively on the PC. Game ownership has already died completely for decades now. Unless you buy games from GoG or other similar DRM-free sites.

 

[Viata]

Game ownership has already died completely for decades now.

Thanks to remind me why pirating games is good.

 

[Machocruz]

Prince of Anime: The Air Dash Within

 

[Lyric Suite]

Why does this prince of "Persia" have nigger hairs again?

 

[Naraya]

 

[Shadenuat]

More reasons to play Shantae or something

 

[lycanwarrior]

 

[Tehdagah]

I tried the demo and didn't like the combat at all, I spent most of the time running away from enemies.

Also the demo requires an Ubisoft account to be played lol. I just put my console in offline mode and played it. Why should I create an account to play a singleplayer game?