Prince of Persia™: The Lost Crown - Standard Edition, Nintendo Switch

4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars | 667 ratings

Price: 17.97

Last update: 11-18-2024


About this item

Unleash your innder warrior. Use your Time Powers, combat, and platforming skills to perform deadly combos and defeat time-corrupted enemies and mythological creatures.
Lose yourself in the prodigious Mount Qaf. Lose yourself in the prodigious Discover a cursed Persian-inspired world filled with larger-than-life landmarks and explore a variety of highly detailed biomes, each with their own identity, wonder, and danger.
Live an epic adventure. Immerse yourself in a Persian mythological​ fantasy through an intriguing and original story as you use your wits to solve puzzles, find hidden treasures, and complete quests to learn more about this corrupted place.

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chris
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent metroidvania!
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024
If you're a fan of the metroidvania genre of games, you will probably love this. This is an excellent game, and runs fantastic on the aging Switch console. Solid 60fps and looks great docked or in handheld mode. It's also one of the longest games I've played in this genre, being a little over 20-25 hours just for the main story, and a decent bit longer, depending on how much of a completionist you are. The controls are tight and very responsive, which is great because the combat is pretty deep and involved. Everything is fast and fluid making for a great gameplay experience.
It can be difficult at times, but there are so many menu options, I don't think anybody will have an issue finding their preferred difficulty level. I absolutely recommend this to anyone interested in the Prince of Persia brand or just fans of the genre. It's an excellent game.
Eris the goddess of discord
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely love it
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
Have been a fan of the sands of time game since it’s creators first released it and subsequently was very smitten with the prince of Persia trilogy. Hearing about this game I was skeptical honestly as I have never really liked Metroid type games where you have to do a lot of backtracking.

After playing the demo I was pleasantly surprised and impressed with this game’s depth design gameplay and overall mechanics, and decided to pre-order it. After receiving it I played for over 7 hours and while it definitely dose not hold your hand and can be extremely difficult and frustrating at times ( as I’m not the best at precision platformers) the game itself is truly a rare gem. The amount of detail depth and complexity involved in the story and it’s substantial lore and background is impressive. The gameplay mechanics are smooth enough to not notice any major issues, and the progression is mostly smooth enough that you won’t have to many rage issuess ( save for a few puzzles that I had to look up to solve)
Plays entirely in handheld on my switch oled and only experienced 2 crashes and game shutdowns ( fortunately not losing my progress) only real problems I have with the game is I can’t manually save my progress! However the game seems to do a decent amount of auto saving so it’s probably only a minor thing.
I would recommend this game it’s fun entertaining and has decent replay value. I would suggest trying the demo first and watch some gameplay videos online if your unsure however
Tituki
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Metroidvanias of recent memory
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
I'll preface this by saying I actually played the game. I won't undermine the entire efforts of the dev team behind this game based on a woefully mis-interpreted interview either.

Because what is here is a much needed reboot of the Prince of Persia franchise, and one of the best Metroidvanias I've played since Hollow Knight. Controlling Sargon feels smooth as hell, from dashing around traps and puzzles, to pulling off ground and air combos - they nailed the "smoothness" in control to make navigating the massive map enjoyable and rarely frustrating.

Puzzles are engaging - there was a few I was stumped on for most of the game and kept coming back to. This was easy thanks to the memory capture, which allows you to essentially take a screenshot and post it on the map, making it so you aren't constantly running back to a point on the map to remember why you hadn't explored an area yet.

Additional rapid fire pros: The abilities/power ups are fun to use and unique, and make backtracking more engaging. Bosses are great set pieces and fun to beat. Animations look great, especially when parrying bosses. Areas on the map vary and offer differing puzzle types that make it refreshing to explore.

With that said, story takes a backseat here and can be hard to follow. I don't know if it's because I explored a ton, but it felt like 4+ hours at a time would go by without any story progressing. Having more side quests would have been nice to fill in the gap here. Also, the amulet system could've used more refinement. It was ok, but the potential for more is there.

I'd probably give this game a 4.5/5 realistically, but am rounding to 5. It's a great Metroidvania with a lot of meat to it. It also did not retail at full standard price for the standard edition. Outside of there being a deluxe edition, there are ZERO microtransactions. You're getting a full game here out of the box. If you're on the fence then I can recommend it whole heartedly. If not, just wait a month for the inevitable ubisoft sale.
Davideo
5.0 out of 5 stars A must play for Metroidvania fans!
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024
The game was basically just as great as I hoped it would be and I highly recommend it to any Metroidvania fans. The Metroid Dread inspirations were pretty clear to me throughout many parts of the game and I'm not complaining! The controls, combat, and abilities all felt awesome. The puzzles were all pretty clever and some in particular made me feel like I was playing 4D Chess. The platforming was often very challenging and satisfying. I also found the story very compelling basically until the end. Unfortunately the ending didn't try to make sense of basically anything that happened and I found that pretty disappointing, but that's my only significant complaint about the game. The is the first Prince of Persia game I've ever played, and I know it's a different direction from past games in the series but I thought it was really great.
C. Salcedo
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Metroidvanias of all time
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024
I have always loved the Prince of Persia series, the first 2D games many years ago on PC and the 3D sands of time. This one by going back to 2D and making it a Metroidvania makes a lot of sense for the series. If you liked games like Hollow Knight and Metroid Dread, this one will really hit the mark. I just couldn't stop playing it and reached 100% and felt awesome. The combat is great, the exploration is superb with so many quality of life features like taking a picture of places you still cannot go so you don't forget, this is a feature that should be on every Metroidvania game going forward; an excellent and intriguing story. This game is a masterpiece in modern 2D Metroidvanias. Worth every dollar spent.
alvaro
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2024
Good game, very entertaining, spent around 40 hrs pacing my self and taking time to solve puzzles, although this game could be much better if there were more enemies to defeat that would explode the combat modes and Gained abilities

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