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Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Review
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13/01/2025
We've played four hours of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown which is a 2.5D platform action-adventure video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It also turned out to be a rather good game.
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Sam has been playing Prince of Persia The Lost Crown and the biggest thing that I think
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most people will know and I want to know is, is this just a cash grab using the Prince
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of Persia IP or have they actually made a really good game?
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It's a really good game.
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Yay!
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Like, I pulled four hours this morning and I did not want it to end.
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I've kind of been describing it in my head as like Rayman Origins meets Hollow Knight
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in terms of like how it presents.
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So it's a really good metroidvania game in terms of like the exploration but also like
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the combat.
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Like the bosses are really hard and like obviously it takes a while to warm into these games
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and like some of them are, you know, start off quite simple, you've just got like a basic
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attack and then you kind of get like an air dash and then you get a bow and arrow and
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then you get like a sort of boomerang version of the bow and arrow and it is layering and
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layering and layering but it's also like you've got to make sure that you're dodging
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out of the way and parrying and blocking and like it's, it's, and obviously like the whole
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point of it is that you're supposed to be, that you're rescuing the Prince of Persia
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and you're not playing as the Prince of Persia which I think for a lot of people they were
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quite like cross about that rather than like, yeah, celebratory with the fact that hey look
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it's the first new Prince of Persia game we've had for a long time, right?
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Like the remake.
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13, 14 years?
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Really?
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Oh my god that's longer than I thought and you know it's like that remake, it may come
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out at some point but at least we're getting a really, really good side-scrolling platformer
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metroidvania game where you're rescuing the Prince of Persia and like things are going
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to get tiny whimey, like I can feel it.
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I do empathise with people it not being the Prince of Persia because I had the same reaction
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when I watched the trailer, I went oh they're going for a new aesthetic with the Prince
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of Persia, this looks amazing, he looks fantastic and then as the trailer went on it was like
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oh you're rescuing the Prince and I kind of had to re-watch the trailer and went well
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where he's not the Prince and I was a bit like I don't understand then why is it called
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and then immediately my first thought, like you said getting tiny whimey, I was just like
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well if he isn't now he will be or it was just that clear thing where it was like all
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of the people getting angry, I understood it but partly I was like just wait until you
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play the game, then you can get angry if you don't ever play as the Prince or it doesn't
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work out or they don't story canon it or time loop it somehow, fine you can get angry then.
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You've just watched an amazing gameplay trailer, the style of it is amazing as well, it looks
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so good. You start out the game in sort of like a battleground and then you move into
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Mount Caff which I think it's like, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, it's like the
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mountain where the main game takes place and you're kind of like in the land of the gods
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then and like that's when things start to get like weird and like there's lots of like
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interesting characters that start popping up and going like oh you think you haven't
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got time and they're like the people that you followed in there have been in there for
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30 years even though it's been like five minutes since you like followed them in there
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or like a couple of hours so there's a lot of intrigue already with like the idea of
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time and like you encounter some statues which have kind of like been frozen as they're falling
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and then eventually you can like hit these orbs and then the entire map will like move
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around, well not the entire map, the whole area around you will move around and platforms
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will like go back into place which is another part of that kind of metroidvania unlocking
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thing but it's also like a really cool way of doing that that plays into the gameplay
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mechanics and stuff that we know from the Prince of Persia series and like it just looks
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visually amazing as well I've got a slightly like cartoony element to it that makes everything
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look really pretty like there's lots of different areas that you move through like there's like
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an underground level there's a bit with like these horrible birds that come at you but
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it's all sort of like lovely tropical jungles and like waterfalls and things so they've
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had a lot of fun with the sort of mystical element allowing it to have loads of different
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kind of locations.
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The graphical style as well also means that while it will come to playstation 4 and playstation
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5, xbox series x and s, xbox one I want to say, yep xbox one, it's also going to fulfil
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the metroid dread hole that I've had since I've completed it because it's going to come
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to switch as well because again it's that very similar thing so this graphical style
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just means it's going to just look like the perfect game to have on the switch and playing
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on the couch which is fantastic.
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So all in all very very good is there anything that was a little bit jarring with it like
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difficulty level something that people need to get be aware of because that's kind of
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again going back to the original original prince of persia games where there is a difficulty
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bar that you do need to be hitting.
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Yeah it's definitely not easy like uh you've you've got to be quick on your feet and it's
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very it is very metroidvader in that way like lots of dodging lots of parrying lots of like
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well timed but very metroid you know very metroid dread in terms of like the bosses
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if you go through the door then you know you're stuck in a boss fight for a bit or whatever.
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How are the checkpoints?
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Yes there's checkpoints in the form of whack whack trees w-a-k w-a-k by love I'm definitely
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not saying that in you know I played it all in persian as well with like english subtitles
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so it's oh but that's so good very nice kind of like building the atmosphere really like
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but yeah so the beautiful trees sort of unfurl and it was interesting there was two different
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modes like which is a very ubisoft thing to do there's like the guided version and the
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exploration version they put me on guided because they were like let's make sure that
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you get to see everything that you can do in this preview and occasionally the sort of
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golden glistening leaves of the whack whack tree will kind of be like you should probably
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go this way rather than like trying to beat your head against the wall and I think that's
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quite nice kind of balancing of it's hard like you can't like cheese through the boss
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battles but at least like if you're not used to playing a metroidvania game and you want
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to get involved like it's not like you know when you can get lost you'll be like actually
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I don't need to be going this way right now you can kind of just let the tree just be
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like just maybe go up that way rather than you know go go left rather than right at the
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next sort of fork which was good for me trying to get through as much as you can and you
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know a limited time but actually is a really nice thing for new players as well one one
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interesting thing that I think uh my partner who overheard me playing the whole thing well
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remember is there's a prison guard who is kind of patrolling certain areas of the map
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and he's kind of got like this purple aura around here where if you get inside the aura
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he's got a magic stick that just sends you to jail so like you've got to avoid this thing
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again very metroid dread in that in that sort of way apart from it's not death you're being
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put into jail and like the first time you have to figure out how to break out of jail then every
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time you go back like the door's still open but it means you've got like crap retrace my entire
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steps and go back to it and it made it really tense because you're just like I know I was like
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two like doors away from like the next tree but this blinking guard kept like just stabbing me
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with his little magic stick and sending me back to prison and it was it was very clever because
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it's very unexpected I was like oh it's another boss battle blah blah went up to give him like a
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whack with my sword and he just went straight to prison yes it was very good it was very unexpected
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and yeah it's a very clever creative game that has lots of like clever puzzles like very interesting
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enemies that like constantly challenge you and it was way better than I expected it to be
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I've been hearing lots of good things and I'm glad that four hours of playing it has just
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reinforced the fact that it is very good and it's very fun and and there's lots there to explore as
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well the fact that you've played four hours of it and you're just like give me more give me more
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give me more um when's it coming out January 18th so really not that long away now oh yeah but that's
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so close to Christmas this would be a perfect Christmas game where I could ignore my family
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and just sit on the sofa hey I'm still going outside it's too cold as it is so January's
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perfect this is going to be great yeah especially the Prince of Persia like oh look at the sands
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look how warm it is all the palm trees and you look outside and it's minus two whatever it is
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here right now but fantastic all right thank you um I can't wait for this it sounds really
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really interesting Prince of Persia The Lost Crown coming in January
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