Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is the most successful reinvention of the classic Ubisoft franchise since 2003’s Sands of Time, reframing the platforming prince as a vivid Metroidvania. If you haven’t had the chance to play The Lost Crown on Xbox, PlayStation, or Switch, you can currently pick up a physical copy from Best Buy for $29.99 (was $49.99). This is the best price we’ve seen so far, and it’s an impressive discount considering the game debuted in January 2024.
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In the past few years, Metroidvanias and action-adventure platformers have seen a resurgence. Ori and the Blind Forest, Hollow Knight and Dead Cells have breathed new life into the genre, bringing fresh ideas to its established ethos. There's also a renewed appetite for challenging games. Dark Souls came around in 2011 and redefined what one could take away from a video game. They can be fun, sure. But they can be punishing, too. Fast forward a decade, and we now have people playing Elden Ring with a steering wheel. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Ubisoft's latest Metroidvania action-adventure platformer, assimilates elements from these games and subgenres to tread familiar ground, but it does so in its own unique ways.
Save points from Dark souls, air dashes and double jumps from Hollow Knight and intricate and interconnected Biome-based level design from Dead Cells; The Lost Crown's DNA splices together strands from games that have come before. There's a bit of Celeste in there and some of Hades, too. But the final result is a game that is also distinctly Prince of Persia. From its Persian setting and its experiments with the passage of time to its high-wire platforming puzzles and its throwback dual swords, The Lost Crown is very much a Frankenstein monster unto itself, even if its body parts are not its own.
It is also ridiculously fun and surprisingly challenging. What The Lost Crown lacks in narrative depth and contextualisation, it makes up for in the pure dynamism of its action combat and the sheer variety of its platforming and traversal systems. It is also not a lean package by any means. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown cannot be breezed through in a dozen or so hours, especially on its harder difficulty settings. Just the main missions — there are nine of them — could take about 18-20 hours. And if you go for a healthy amount of side quests, optional boss fights and platforming challenges, and treasures and trinkets, the game can easily go double the distance. The Lost Crown, however, doesn't really justify that length, at least not always. Its long-winded middle section weighs the whole game down, almost to a halt. An unbalanced difficulty curve and tedious quest structure turn the game's later sections into a barely rewarding grind. But it throws enough new tricks at you to keep you on the prince's trail.
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The Lost Crown starts off in medias res, right in the middle of a Kushan invasion of the Persian empire. You're dropped into the shoes of Sargon, a member of the Immortals, an elite group of warriors who are not really Immortals but possess exceptional abilities that can
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