Poll: Are You Excited About Ubisoft's Metroidvania "Inspired" Prince Of Persia Platformer?

I thought it looked fab. Do we know if it's made by Mercury Steam as it looks to share a lot of their DNA, Day one to be honest and hopefully, we see the Sands of Time remaster eventually.

Edit - totally agree that the trailer 'music' was awful, but man the gameplay looks tight.

The "actual" Prince of Persia is not the main character, the choice in music for the trailer was absolutely abysmal, I can't help it but I don't like the art style, plus is looks like one of those endless runners you can get on mobile... So, definite no for me.

I haven’t played Sands of Time since it came out but my memory is that it was completely fine and that’s about it. I think I’d rather play this than a remake of a 7 out of 10 type game

The game looks fine, but I'm not interested in any side-scrolling games anymore. I would have bought Sands of Time remake already.

It does look rad but I am not super, super excited. Just interested, yeah.

The sideshave haircut, hip-hop & cliché dialogue had me disliking it at first. The gameplay does look fun, so the trailer is a decent watch when it's on mute and I hope the game doesn't disappoint. Plus, this is Ubisoft's first sidescroller in a long while, so It's about time that they branch out again.

The game itself looks good.
But after multiple dozens of Ubisoft employees reported nearly endless harassment and abuse instances caused by upper management? I'll never buy a Ubisoft game again.
It's wild how many sites stopped reporting that out of fear of losing preview/review privileges.

Looks bad,to be honest. Game seems to barely have a budget, since Ubisoft needs to give profits to Jordan Mechner, hence why PoP has fallen into oblivion on their hands. Why does Ubisoft still have the IP? Mercury Steam could do a PoP side scroller on the veins of the original, now that'd be awesome!

When will these production companies understand any sort of population mainstream music in trailers is just TRASH. I will give it a shot gameplay looks solid. Peeps out here crying "it's not my prince." I get it, I would get up in arms of Nintendo changed Link or Samus.

I'm not super hyped or anything, but what I'm seeing is intriguing, and with the promise that it'll be 60fps on all platforms (including Switch), if it reviews well, I may pick it up.

And as for the music, yeah - the trailer music isn't great, but with Gareth Coker involved, I'm sure the in-game tracks will be excellent

@MythTgr I think that will happen, eventually, but only in the case that Mercury Steam works on other Nintendo franchises and those games also achieve a million sales.

The gameplay alone shows promise, but there's no looking past those awful, anachronistic character designs (and dialogue too, I would presume). There's virtually nothing "Persian" about any of this.

I would have been less irate had they called it Prince of New Jersey.

Damn people are negative... It looks fine, I'll eventually enjoy it, I'm quite sure. Much like I really enjoyed the Castlevania on 3DS. And the trailer music won't be in the game, quite sure of that as well.

It looked like a bad trailer for a good game. The rap did not fit. No reason for giving the video a dislike though.

@Liam_Doolan Ah bless you. I do hope it reviews well.

Yeah, it looks great. Besides, I don't have the problems that people have with Ubisoft games, which honestly sounds more like people parroting whatever they hear as usual. Not saying that there aren't negative things, but they are exaggerated or are often mixed with their reputation as a company. I even know a couple individuals that criticize their games and talk about them without having played any of them.

@roy130390 It's not parroting if it's acknowledging the reports that actually exist, that Ubisoft admitted to (and then did nothing about).

I’m not really that into metroidvanias.

@CharlieGirl Yes it is, if people are acting as if a game is bad when they haven't played it or given it a proper chance. I'm not saying to buy their games and I understand people boycotting them, but they lose credibility when they criticize the quality of the games in an unfair way to reach that objective. I never said that they don't treat their employees poorly, but it's important to differentiate both aspects and be honest about it.

I can't remember ever playing a Prince of Persia game, but I do enjoy a quality Metroidvania. I won't be pre-ordering this, but waiting for reviews to see if it's worth it. Ubisoft = shady in my opinion.

I don't trust Ubisoft much nowadays. This looks like a cash grab to me.

The wait for Hollow Knight Silksong has been far too long, and if the game’s still not released in January, i’ll be picking up Prince of Persia to get my fix!

@roy130390 That's fine. I'm not invested in who finds me credible or not.

No thanks. The trailer is really off putting thanks to the music choice. The artstyle has the same effect to me. I am not a fan of this modern edgy punkstyle, especially with a more darker tone.

It is great that Ubisoft tries something a little bit more different and revives an old series again though. It is simply not for me.

I made an account just to say I don't like the "blackwashing"(no offense intended)in popular culture. The game looks promising otherwise.

Cool idea, cringe execution.

I don’t like the graphical style at all or the over-designed main character. I really like the idea of the game, but the execution doesn’t work for me.

@CharlieGirl I think that you are missunderstanding what I'm saying. If you don't support Ubisoft games that's fine and in fact there's more than enough reasons to justify it as the company definitely has a terrible work environment. That's all the reason you need. What I don't support is the people that criticize their games without any experience on them or actually trying to be objective and just using it as a means to reach an end. Those mistreated, exploited employees were the ones responsible for the game's quality and they definitely do a great job despite of the limited time and other problems that they face most of the times. There are many good Ubisoft games thanks for them and despite of that. I understand that criticizing the games as much as possible hurts the company's sales, but I'm not a fan of lying to reach an end and ultimately it's also hating on a product that it is what it is thanks to the employees. It can also backfire eventually as people tend to support things that others try to boycott. There should be enough reason for people to avoid buying them or ar least get them on big sales by knowing about the work environment.

I hope that even if you disagree with me you understand my point of view. I'm not calling you a liar or questioning your credibility.

its the most interesting looking game from ubisoft in years

While I prefer the normal 3d PoP style because I am less likely to die every 15 minutes, I am always interested in new entries of this franchise. Especially since I have checked out on Assassin’s Creed. Hoping it will be fun. Also hoping for a new Farah/ Elika. The usual Negative Nelsons are hilarious. Love the colorful artstyle.

Where does this negativity come from? Ubisoft now uses the PoP brand for a meteoidvania heavily inspired by Metroid Dread, so what? And why do you think the protagonist doesn’t look Persian? He looks very much like a former Iranian coworker of mine. So is it the music in this trailer? Oh man…

The music that comes in the 0:40 mark of the trailer sounds so out of place there

Looks promising apart from the ill-fitting trailer music, which I suspect is not actually the game's music. A big part of the DNA of PoP is the running, climbing, and jumping while finding a path forward. Combat is popular these days, obviously, but I would enjoy a stronger focus on the athletics. Or maybe I just need to play Mario.

@Saturn64 My personal opinion - I really don't mind any X-washing, it's all fiction after all.

That being said, I shall not let them get away with that haircut

@Saturn64 what is “black washing”? You know that Persians and the various people from that region of the world have a range of skin tones right? Most that have NOTHING to do with Africa or the Diaspora. Lmao first the actor in the movie was too white and now there is “black washing”. Why are you focused on his skin color anyway and not the gameplay? Are you Persian? A historian or anthropologist? It’s a game not a documentary. There are monsters and griffins in there too, because it is a fantasy. Japanese games often use anglo looking characters. Do you think it is white washing when they do that? Better tell Nintendo to make Mario and Link look Japanese. Also he looks more Iranian and/or Afghani to me (a Black person), not everyone that isn’t white is automatically Black. Stop bringing Black people into things where Black people aren’t even inserted into.

Excited is a strong word, and I'm always very hesitant to support Ubisoft and haven't bought anything from them in a long time, but I do certainly have curiosity about it.

As long as it’s fun to play, frame rate is decent, and is a decent bit long I’ll gladly give it a shot as my first Prince of Persia game it looked fun enough.

for people who want to play the first prince of persia here you go

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for some reason it isnt working so just scearch up prince js

I hope this game plays as well as it looks and that it also gets a physical release.

I'm not interested in the franchise to be honest but it's just nice to see Ubisoft making a 2d platformer again. It'll be even greater when it's making Rayman again!

That trailer was way too pop-cultury for my taste. I'm also more than done with fashionable, "charismatic" characters that have an endless supply of quips and bravado shoved in where their personality is supposed to be. Can't fairly judge it on the little I've seen so far, but definitely not a good first impression.

Dreadlocks and hip hop are out of place with the setting, sorry. There is a time and place for everything, it's ok if the next Yakuza game doesn't have any belly dancing.

Yes but, UbiSoft is a terrible game developer these days. Twenty years ago they used to be a much more competent developer.

Lol no thanks, maybe if it's a new ip rather than hijacking prince of persia name.

My main problem with this game is that this does not look like prince of persia and i'm not talking about the protagonist but the fact that the game looks like a generic metroidvania with a lot of scripted action; maybe ubisoft could have just made this a new IP.

I remember playing the original PoP back in the day. Tight and hard platforming action. This music doesn’t match PoP - not even close. If this is trying to be a Metroidvania then I’m not convinced by the trailer. Metroidvanias give a sense of loneliness steeped in atmosphere, exploration and discovery. This looks like pumped up platform action with a gloss of PoP paint and incongruous music. Different genres but could still be good.

I hate how cynical I feel about the idea that if literally everything about this reveal was the same, save for music choice and the character's hairstyle (not even his personality or rest of his design), it wouldn't be getting anywhere as much of a negative reception...

Personally, I hope the tone of the game stays within the same realm as the trailer (there's not enough mainstream gaming OSTs that dare to break from what works), but what personally bugs me is that I wish they just pushed the visual aesthetics a bit more. It all looks nice, but still a bit too sanitized.

Yes. Looks good and its done by the Rayman Legends team, so it'll probably be great.

@Saturn64 were you saying rock/grunge music was out of place during Warrior Within? Godsmack was used in that original trailer. Or the prince’s soul patch and 00’s haircut in sands of time? Or the pop music during the AC :Revelations trailer? Did you have an issue with Eivor’s hair in the last Assassin’s creed (Eivor’s hair was mostly historically accurate but since you seem to think only Blacks braid hair or have hair textures that loc)?

It’s marketing, of course they are going to pair a gameplay reel with music that they feel that an audience will notice. And out of place where? Fantasy setting? I’m pretty sure the clothing and weapons used in game are aren’t exactly historically accurate either.

Do you have a check list of what is acceptable in this fantasy game? The disco dancing and karaoke in Yakuza must have ticked you off and all the rc car racing and bowling as it was supposed to be a gritty open world crime drama. Not to mention the character in Yakuza 3 (Ranko) who is into belly dancing.

Metroidvanias imply 2D exploration and expansive freeroam which, albeit on a smaller scale (which sure didn't feel like it at the time), is the very kind of Prince of Persia I grew up with. Why would I not be excited for it, even besides my general appreciation for the genre advertised?

@Ecco6t9 Child of Light, Rayman Legends, Valiant Hearts, Mario & Rabbids, Starlink, Immortals, multiple AC games - pretty much everything they have on Switch is from the last two to twenty years and among the library highlights, alongside many of their works on other platforms. And Nintendo appears to have the same impression, seeing as aforesaid Mario & Rabbids series (and Star Fox content in Starlink) exists in the first place.

@nhSnork agreed. I may not always like their output (AC’s story has gone off the rails) but from a technical and design perspective Ubisoft as a whole are a top notch dev (I feel bad for the team that lost the sands of time remake though). There is a difference between skill and appeal. Something can not appeal to a person but still be well made and I think people can no longer separate the two.

Just looks very generic and souless tbh. The animations look cool and definitely there's production value, but not a lot of essence behind what I'm looking at. The music in the trailer is concerning. A comeback to Warrior Within or Two Thrones would have been cool.

Questionable choice in music for the trailer aside, the game looks like it has some degree of potential behind it. A metroidvania style PoP game seems like a no brainier. I may check it out when it comes out.

Looks like Metroid Dread, so yes, very yes this has potential to be fantastic.

I will definitely buy it. I still love metroidvanias. Blasphemous 2 coming soon, too.

I think I’ll get my old PoP LEGO sets out to celebrate.

2D action platformers don't get enough love so yeah, I'm happy to see this.

Fun Fact: Spider-Man Web of Shadows DS is one of the BEST 2D action platforms Ever

https://youtu.be/6QkPOu7CzLw

I don't like the character design and the hip hop music of the trailer. But I doubt the later will have any place in the actual game. The gameplay looks super cool, it gives me some Metroid Dread vibes. I'm definitely looking forward to it.

I think this game looks cool. I get comments that it doesn't look like PoP, though. PoP has always had fantastical stuff, and over the top stuff, and this seems to be turning it to 11. I could see why that might wrankle some folks, but I'll give it a shot.

I would like to see a more "classic" sidescrolling PoP someday, but I don't think that style of game will come back.

Indeed. ‘Where’s my prince’. Who’s this punk?
Glad to see something is coming, missed the series.

new game from Rayman Legends Team? YES!

new POP game? YES!

I'm glad to see POP back but this isn't what i imagined a reboot would be. Loved the sands of time series and the two versions of forgotten sands. I'll give it a chance.

Kinda reminded me of aladdin on the snes.

The trailer didn't sell me at all on the game. But there's still a lot to be seem gameplay wise. If the other trailers focus on showing gameplay and it's solid, it could be interesting.

Not at all.

I haven’t really been on team Ubisoft in over a decade. Most of their games have this uncanny vibe to them I can’t get past. They’re just uncool and cringey.

This trailer is basically that.

Uncanny because it looks like dread kind of, uncool because the character design, cringe because the trailer.

If the whole company folded I wouldn’t bat an eye.

Whatever happened to the sands of time remake, I want that.

The design and trailer has mad "how do you do fellow kids?" vibes to it.
I don't like this 'urbanization' of things specially if you have something already 'diverse' to tap from, namely Persian folklore wich is in itself interesting enough to not smother it in generic hip hop music and hairstyles.
(inb4 people will take my words out of context because of my profile pic)

Looks good but no way am I buying anything from NFT scammers.

Seems fine. Aesthetically a little "mobile," but so did Fenyx Rising and that was...fine, mostly?

@khululy that would be what we call "on brand," not "out of context."

Nothing from these profit-at-all-costs corporations interests me. Why don't they just save the development money and give themselves another bonus.

@N8tiveT3ch It's not my prince unless it is Jordan Mechner's brother in a white outfit and rotoscoped into the game. I don't care if he is 55 years old, get him on that trampoline. All those other guys are just pretenders.

The game looks interesting, may get it depending on the price as I have enjoyed more Prince of Persia games than not.

@Ryu_Niiyama Yes, the music choice for Warrior Within was very out of place, as was that hard turn on presentation for the game at the time. It took what was an amazing piece of storytelling mixed with gameplay, and took a grunge/metal dump on it for reasons I still haven't been able to fathom other than everything had to be edge-lord metal back then.

@SACHism I get it. I'm not into FPS multiplayers and that's a big chunk of games out there. These type of games are definitely more in the I prefer to play alone category.

@LikelySatan And yet you have said nothing.

@Saturn64 as a person with brown skin: I agree. Blackwashing in media is something that I despise.
Create your own characters instead of changing established ones.

@Darknyht I listened to nüMetal and I loved sands of time but hearing Godsmack in the 2nd game was kind of cringe for me and I doubt that I was the only one.

Nah, the Gameplay seems blend and the Main Charakter does look like someone that is constantly in search for Trouble and Fights.

I can’t stand that haircut. It screams more rebellious goth girl than Persian prince.

Moderately excited for this. However, I would be very happy with just ports of SoT and the 2008 PoP for Switch.

@khululy
I tried playing Warrior Withing several times and the magic was just not there. Two Thrones brought me back into the fold.

Hipster prince, awful trailer music, but overall decent looking. Could be fun.

Well, given the cliché, auto-tuned trailer “music” and the way the game is currently presented as is, I have some rather mixed feelings about this. The gameplay could be fine, but this doesn’t feel like a game I would buy in a heartbeat.

On a side note, I never even played a Prince of Persia game before.

It's a Ubisoft game. Guilty until proven innocent.

It's not called Beyond Good & Evil 2, so it's a pass for me.

I just get strong Castlevania: LoS - Mirror of Fate vibes from the gameplay and that game was 👖

Glad other people are looking forward to it though. Hope they aren’t disappointed!

Not sure if people are pissed cause they don't like the gameplay or for cultural reasons like the Netflix Queen Cleopatra doc

@Jack_Goetz I think that ship has sailed at this point.

Looks great! It's too bad it's attached to one of the ethically worst companies out there in Ubisoft.

Internet gonna internet I suppose. Game looks absolutely awesome.

i feel like the game looks higher quality than the actual trailer

like, regardless of the how good the game is, the trailer is just generic and uninspired. it's a commercial that my brain wants to skip, not a trailer that i want to watch

i was kinda put off by totk's 2nd trailer, but holy *****, the third one, i've watched that like 50 times. that trailer is NOT just a commercial.

even great games can have meh trailers and i dunno if this is gonna be great, but the trailer is just meh

The trailer music was so cringe - and it's Ubisoft. But I'll keep an open mind.

Trailer - rap song didn't fit in well.
Gameplay - interesting.

I love the gameplay so far. Hope they optimize it to have it run well on Switch.

It is not a 3D Prince of Persia game but this 2D Prince of Persia game still looks very fun to play.

@N8tiveT3ch

But Link and Samus HAVE changed, especially Link. Link has undergone many artistic changes over the years.

If it turns out to be a good metroidvania then I'm in but the graphics looked very 8 years ago to me. I don't mind the rap music

I don't see what the big deal is, characters change all the time, Bayonetta had a different hairstyle every game, so what's the issue here?

@FeederJones Afterimage

@SwagaliciousJohnson

Spot on. And yes, the trash hip hop/rap music is killing everything these days

And there's proof 3D isn't the be all & end all of gaming. 2D games are still incredibly popular. Industry take note !!

I just want a really good sands of time remake on switch

I would like it better if it showed more unique platforming closer to a mix between the original pc and combined with sands of time. The music is terrible and gameplay looks like a mere clone of Metroid Dread with extra melee combat. So it doesn’t develop the franchise well and seems like copy and paste clone.

Not even in the slightest. Prince of Persia is dull at best.

Mmm no. I've never played any of them, series never caught my interest.

On a scale of 1 to 10... I'd say I'm at a 7

Gameplay looks promising. Hated the corny try-hard trailer music, but it's just trailer music. Can't hold that against the game.

@khululy I finished it, but skipped the final game. I played the second reboot and enjoyed it for what it was.

It looks fantastic. It’s clearly not a mega-budget game, but lower budget games are where Ubisoft shines (like Grow Home, Rayman Origins, Child of Light.) I’m thrilled to see the series return with a fresh take.

Rewatching it without the music actually helped my impression of it, lol! Don't get me wrong, I love rap music, but it definitely doesn't vibe with the Prince of Persia series. It gave the trailer an icky Hollywood Exec feel that really sells it short. The actual gameplay looks great, and the studio behind it has done some incredible work in the past. I think it could be a fantastic game!

Hopefully they release this at mid-range price. I enjoyed every PoP Game except for the old 2d game, which was hidden in sands of time.

I do not find excitement in anything ubisoft related.

If it drops down to $5 I would probably give it a go. But nothing about it made me want to pay full price. I used to love the old PoP games.

I been a prince of Persia fan since sands of time and consider it one of my favorite franchises in gaming so I am just glad we're getting a new game and plan on getting it but I would have preferred a 3D game though. I'm ok with the look and art style but I'm more a fan of the violent and gritty look of warrior within. At the very least I hope it still retains that Aladin/Arabian nights vibe that the old games had with genie's and wizards etc

Music in the trailer was pure cringe

People who hate hip-hop just ain't got no rhythm that's all.

As usual, I'll wait for the reviews. It looks good, but at the same time I can't help but feel that this has very little to do with Prince of Persia and the trailer music is so weirdly off, that I instantly felt a dislike towards this game. But who knows?

@Liam_Doolan Really? Interesting that they're working on this game.

So, I haven't played any of the games, but I'm kind of glad that this series could come back, with a new game. I know they're doing the remake or whatever of Sands of Time, but at least there's a new game. Now, I do hope this series doesn't become a 2D series kind of like how Rayman became one. Maybe people don't like how the game looks. I'm not really a fan of the series in the first place, so who knows if it's good or not. But, hopefully it's good for the fans and stuff because it's a pain to wait for new games in a series lol for some people, at least.

I've never had my interest in a game so largely dependent on voice, SFX, and Music being on different sliders in the options menu.

The game, while in no way a Prince of Persia title, looks fun. But ugh that "music."

Hmmm, I thought Prince of Persia was about either getting sliced in halve by trapdoors, being pierced by spikey traps, falling to death through badly constructed floors, wither away due to drinking poison instead of health potions or mysteriously being stabbed by Jafar-like swordsmen before entering the next screen...as long as the game has a few of those things, I might be in...otherwise I prefer more atmosperic stuff that show a lot of character right off the bat, like Everdeep Aurora from the Wholesome Direct .

@Ryu_Niiyama Sorry, I don't mean to be rude or anything (especially because I completely understand the points that you make and really hate how stuff seems to turn out like this more often nowadays), but I had to laugh a bit about your use of both monsters and griffins and immediately fantasized about Griffins protesting with signs like: "Griffins are also monsters".

@Leon-San Griffins are mythological defenders/security guards. I didn’t want to profile them. But no offense intended to any Griffin that wants to be known as a monster. Trying not to get canceled.

LOL

Once the gameplay kicked in, I started to really like it. The style of graphics was a little confusing until then. It would have been better to focus more on the gameplay earlier, in my opinion. Music was fine. They went the pop-music route which will get some people to pay attention and give it a look that might not otherwise. I guess it makes some people angry or something.

As far as the anachronisms, it's meant to be hip for a modern audience, and the main is one of many "immortals". Uncombed "locks" have been around since humans had hair and hairstyles of royalty in ancient Persia had waves and tight curls and braids according to what I just looked up briefly (even curling irons have been found in excavations). Looking at sculptures, and carvings on coins, some really spent a lot of time on extravagant hair styling.

@CharlieGirl
If by "nothing" you mean restructuring their entire company then sure. Are you also Boycotting Nintendo for their continuously awful work conditions? Or are you only boycotting Ubisoft because it's convenient to you?

Nintendo players are big Metroidvania fans, that's the main reason why.
Besides, it's not like Sands of Time was confirmed for Switch... if you know what I mean, when third-party support is so big, you expect and want more.

@Ryu_Niiyama Hahaha, no worries. So far I have only read of Griffins being very proud creatures, and "being proud" and "canceling others" are like oil and water in my book.

Yes I am, the game looks great and gameplay looks extremely smooth. Price of Persia's roots is very much 2D adventure platforming so this Metroidvania take is a perfect match for the series. The music in the trailer was awful but the in game audio is a lot more fitting. It's made by the same studio that made Rayman Legends so it's in good hands.

Looks fine to me. I don't think the music fits the setting but to me to looks fine and plays well at least.