NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT?A time-bending Metroidvania that marks a new era of Prince of Persia
EXPECT TO PAY£45
DEVELOPERUbisoft Montpellier
PUBLISHERUbisoft
REVIEWED ONAMD Ryzen 7 2700X, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
MULTIPLAYERNo
LINK store.ubisoft.com/us/prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a slow burn to a fault. Its beginning hours are mired by overly simple platforming, not helped by a disjointed narrative that left me with zero investment in its story. If I were reviewing this based on the first 15 hours alone, I would’ve been a lot more sour. Yet its second half does a fantastic job of leaning into its strengths, and when I rolled credits I couldn’t help but wish the entire game had been this way.
It’s a solid attempt at a Metroidvania from Ubisoft and one that, all things considered, took me by surprise with how much I came to enjoy it. I’ve never been one to express much interest in Metroidvanias or even Prince of Persia for that manner, but The Lost Crown has given me the bug.
