PS5
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
PS5 Details
- Native PS5 application
- Yes
Details
- Genre
- Release Date
- January 18, 2024
- Metacritic Score
- 86
Reviews
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Good
- A different approach to previous Prince of Persia games
- Offers a Metroidvania 2.5D adventure
- An immersive world with secrets and branching paths
- Citizens provide critical info and upgrade equipment
- Includes useful marker feature for unreachable areas
- Fast-paced, challenging platforming sections
- Skills to unlock and relics to equip
- Relics can be upgraded
- Wide variety of combat moves and combos
- Impressive art style, with good music and voice work
Bad
- Some unreachable areas and treasures early in the game
- Platforming sections can test your patience
- Relic upgrades use more slots
- Challenging platforming sections
- Lack of fast travel locations
Good
- Best Prince of Persia game in 21 years
- Flexible protagonist with a mysterious past
- Incorporates power-ups
- Beautifully rendered depths
- Encounters with hordes of enemies and epic bosses
- Finest example of the metroidvania genre
- Precise and immaculate controls
- Sargon is responsive and constantly moving
- Exquisite combat system
- Variety of enemies with unique fighting styles
- Special attack features
- Game is accessible, with adjustable difficulty levels
- Combat tutorial is available
- Excellent in-game map
- Secret routes, hidden quests, and unlockables
- Memory Shards aid exploration and save time
- Visually appealing
- Fusion of Persian mythology and culture
- Fresh take on old formula
Bad
- Gruesome sewer section with instant death traps
- Sudden spike in difficulty level
- Absence of a map during challenging sections
Good
- Publisher didn't play it safe
- Sides-scrolling action platformer with Metroidvania structure
- Interesting new direction for the franchise
- Fun narrative through-line
- Intricate world design
- Smooth movement with tight, responsive controls
- Slick and technical combat
- Unshakeable technical performance and stylish visuals
- Long playtime between 20 and 30 hours
- Map gradually opens up
- Variety in map's design and location
- Great environments full of hidden areas and challenges
- Abilities like double jump, air dash and time warping
- Wide variety of enemies
- Ability-enhanced combat
- Amulets provide passive bonuses
- Shopkeeper and smith available for upgrades
- Boss fights are a test of skills
- Variety of side missions and collectibles
- A lot to discover in the game
- Rewards for smart playing
- Combination of series' 2D past and time-bending powers
- Gameplay at its core is rewarding and satisfying
- Fresh new way for the franchise
Bad
- Game visuals appear dated when close up
- Backtracking in large map can feel exacerbated
- Enthusiasm can lull towards the end
- Story once or twice ramps up only to send off on another quest
- Sheer size of the game can slow its own momentum
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