DO NOT BUY Prince of Persia： The Lost Crown

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and as

an avid fan of the Prince of Persia

series, I knew I just had to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far from what I've

seen, it's been kind of bland, boring,

and uninspired. It lacks in luster in

several areas that we're going to get into

in today's video. So I'm actually old

enough to be able to say that I played the

very first Prince of Persia that came out

all those years ago. I must have been

around 8 or 9 years old. I remember

playing it on my computer. It was like a

PC DOS game. It looked really crap. It's

like really blocky and really old, but it

was quite a fun game to play as a kid.

And I remember playing that game and

remembering that the game used to be a

very scary, intense, gritty kind of— oh,

I wouldn't say horror, but almost kind of

like horror in the way that your character

was a very weak prisoner that just escaped

prison from some kind of Persian or

Arabian prison cell. And now he's making

his way through this very treacherous and

dangerous dungeon that was full of traps

and full of puzzles and full of these

platforming elements that were very

difficult. So in the original Prince of

Persia, you weren't this overpowered

superhero kind of warrior who could flip

all over the place and you use all these

weapons and destroy hordes of enemies

coming at you. I don't know why modern-day

Prince of Persia games have become like

this, but the original certainly was not

anything like this. The original, on the

other hand, was you're a very weak kind of

timid guy who was trying to make his way

through a dungeon and everything was

trying to kill you, and everything did

kill you. You'd get caught in like a spike

trap and that would just impale you

instantly and you get killed straight

away. But in this game, you jump at the

spikes and they just do like a tiny bit of

damage. You can jump into the spikes on

this game like 10 times before it actually

kills you. So there's no feeling of danger

or treacherousness like there was in the

original Prince of Persia games. I

remember in the original Prince of Persia

games also platforming was very difficult.

So you'd have these big crevices and gaps,

and if you fall through the gap you would

fall to your death because you wouldn't

survive. It was basically a game where you

would just die over and over and over

again unless you timed everything

perfectly. You had to time the jumps

perfectly. If you took a jump just one

foot earlier than you should have, then

you wouldn't make the gap and you just

plummet to your death. And then you'd pick

up the sword and you'd have like sword

fights against the guards. And these sword

fights weren't just spam the mouse button

and do all these flipping combos all over

the place and do a charged up super

attack. No, it was like very realistic and

you had to be very careful with timing and

blocking, and it's actually quite

challenging to take down a guard even with

like a very basic sword. So in comparison

to how Prince of Persia used to be in the

original game, I don't know how it's

become what it's become. It's so stupid

now. Now you're like this superhuman

powerful warrior, twin swords, you can

flip all over the place, you can take on a

horde of enemies with his swords, and

there's all these spinning combos and all

these flying all over the place, and he

never dies because everything just is

really easy. There's no like platforming

where you've actually actually got to be

good at timing. You just hold down the

spacebar to do a longer jump and you spam

the mouse buttons to do endless combos and

flipping and kicks, which, okay, it looks

kind of cool and the acrobatics is

impressive and the animation of the

attacks and everything is really smooth

and nice and everything, but this is not

what the original Prince of Persia games

used to be about. It didn't used to be

about being this superhero swordmaster,

and I miss how the games used to be where

you kind of felt dread and terror at every

step you took within the dungeon. You

don't really feel anything like that. I

don't know what this game is supposed to

be. It kind of feels like you're watching

a Disney movie where the characters look

like Disney movie characters designed for

children, and the dialogue is really

childish as well. Everything's very

childish. It's like very colorful. The

animations and the characters' faces look

like something out of some kind of Pixar

movie. It doesn't really appeal to me as

an adult. There's some gore in it, but it

doesn't really look like proper gore.

It's like fake children's gore. It's just

kind of rubbish in general. So the game is

kind of like a roguelite, but it's not

like a roguelite because it's not

difficult at all. I put it on the

difficulty— I put it onto hard difficulty

and it wasn't hard at all. I could defeat

the first boss after only a second

attempt. And the reason why I said it's

like a roguelite is because it does feel a

bit like a game like Dead Cells or Hades,

maybe because it's like side-scrolling.

You've got a lot of enemies on screen and

But you don't have that element of you

really feel like you're in danger all the

time. You don't feel like there's items

and upgrades to buy at the home hub base.

You just kind of go through the level,

you spam your attack, you go through

dozens of enemies, and they're all really

easy to defeat. There doesn't really seem

to be any kind of challenge in this game,

and as a gamer who likes to be mentally

challenged with his games, I don't really

feel challenged at all. So I'd say buy

this game if you just want like a dumb

action game that looks kind of flashy and

it's got nice animations, but don't buy

this game if you're expecting anything

with depth, anything that's going to make

you feel nervous. It doesn't really have

addictive gameplay either because there's

no real sense of progress in the game.

And if you're a fan of the original Prince

of Persia game, then this wouldn't really

appeal to you either because this is

nothing like the original Prince of Persia

games in any way at all. So unfortunately,

for those reasons, I would have to say

this is not really worth the money. I

think it was about $45, and for $45 This

is kind of pants. I feel like I'm playing

a mobile game. This feels like this should

be on the Android Play Store and just be

like a good game for mobiles, not really a

PC game. It just doesn't really feel good

enough or big enough or in-depth enough to

be a proper console PC game. I would say

at best it's a pretty decent mobile game.

If you're on your phone, then I could

imagine this being quite fun if you're

just on the train, want to play for about

20 minutes or so. But no, I wouldn't

really see myself sitting down to dedicate

an hour or 2 to this game. During my

evenings when I'm ready to relax and do

some gaming, I don't really feel like I

want to play this game as my first choice.

So I have to give this game a 6.2 out of

10, and I cannot really recommend it.