Poll: What Do You Think Of The Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Demo?

I haven't played it. I know I'm picking it up and trying to go in blind, insofar as spoiling locales and abilities, etc. One of the strangest takes I've seen so far is that people would rather have a game like Sands of Time or WARRIOR WITHIN (you need to shout that one). I mean ya like what ya like, but this is by the Rayman Legends team. I'd take a Metroidvania from them over a 3D action game from another Ubisoft team any day.

My only grip with the game so far (by playing the demo) is the scale of the swords in comparison with the body of the protagonist (it brakes the immersion for me) other than that, seems like a cool game, will buy for sure.

Finished the demo today and it felt fantastic to play. Will definitely be purchasing the full game on the back of it.

It was fun, but was nowhere near good enough to get me to drop $60 on it day one. I'll wait for inevitable Ubisoft deep discount.

From the demo, the game is a 9/10 at minimum, quite possibly a 10/10. Solid combat with more to be added, excellent platforming, and accessibility features to tweak the game to your tastes. A must-play for me personally. Let's just hope the full game continues in the same vein and does not have any major mess-ups down the line.

@FishyS Wow. So you've established that the game is fun, but are still indecisive because you didn't fight a boss? That and your concerns about the parry system seem like excuses to me, especially because both of those can be tweaked with the accessibility options so that they conform to your tastes.

Loving it (haven’t finished it) and quite pleased as this isn’t a genre I normally enjoy.

Say what you will but I uninstalled the demo after I found I could not play it without a Ubisoft account.

I already am not a fan of having to register for an account to play a game and feel it should be optional and clear about it's perks like in Baldur's Gate 3 (there is an obvious exception for online only multilayer games.)

But I am very much against having to register an Ubisoft account to play a demo. I mean if I played the game and found it wasn't for me, then Ubisoft still has my details for marketing. As if enough companies didn't have that already.

@KStowell1994 you can still skip the account requirement. Press A and when the login page opens in the browser, press X to close it. Then you're back in the game, and the B button becomes "maybe later".

@teoulas admittedly I got to the part where it said I need to log in, I pressed B as I thought it was optional but it took me back to the start screen, didn't realise I'd have to start the process in order to skip it! 🤣

Thanks for the advice

Completed the demo and am seriously impressed with the general feel and polish. For me, it feels too similar to the Ori games (especially Will of the Wisps) to make me want to play the full game right now. Not a criticism on the game, it's abundantly clear why it's reviewing so well.

@KStowell1994 I would have done the same. But I insisted, because I saw the Digital Foundry review where they mentioned it's optional.

Anyway, it looks like a great game and it's a shame they push so aggressively for their account system. 🤷‍♂️

I like metroidvanias and I like prince of persia but this demo left me just as on the fence as I was before playing it. Ability to skip cutscenes is a nice addition, especially in ubisoft games, they forced me to watch so many boring cutscenes in so many of their games I’m always happy when there’s a skip button. Demo ended before it even well began, I didn’t get the chance to use any interesting ability or fight any interesting enemy, and just the length of this demo (was it even 20 minutes?) doesn’t strike confidence in length of the full game. I don’t think it’s worth the full price but being a ubisoft game it will be 50% off in couple of months and I would definitely buy it then.

I played it but didn't even notice the account bit. The demo did convince me to buy it, where Dread's demo didn't, but it probably has partly to do with the setting/atmosphere which speaks to me more.

IMO and for my tastes already a GOTY contender. Kudos Ubisoft.

Had a great time with the demo.
Some complaining about the price in the USA saying 60 united state dollars.

In the UK you pick up physical for £34.29 are games more expensive in the USA?

@JackieCMarlow I'm seeing it for $50.

I'm too busy with TotK. I've already pre-ordered the game and seen/read enough to be convinced. Glad to see all the positive comments on the demo and all the great reviews.
Finally something positive coming from Ubisoft since Rayman Legends. Hope they're on the right slope now.

Not allowing saves neither transfer to the full game was a bad mistake. I'm not encouraged to even finish the demo.

I thought the demo was a bit ungenerous, really. I have since gathered from other coverage that the combat system is pretty extensive and feels great when you get it right. I got all the way to the end of the demo without having to learn that. Just felt like running to the right swiping at things for ten minutes.

@OldGamer999 Its 50 dollars

There's a demo? Would've been nice to know earlier, because the reviews have really got me curious and I've been waiting for my preorder copy on Xbox to unlock. And now, not even 24 hours away from unlocking, I finally find out that there's a demo that could have answered some of the questions I had days ago as they were raised by reviewers' comments.

@OldGamer999 People often complain about a game being overpriced at 60 or 70 dollars while the game is actually 50. I've seen that with Mario vs Donkey Kong and WarioWare. They like to complain while having even less than zero knowledge of what they're complaining about.

I've even seen someone say that 100 dollars is to expensive for Mario vs Donkey Kong only later specifying that they meant Canadian dollars, despite not even 70 US dollar games being 100 canadian dollars. Mario vs Donkey Kong is 65 Canadian dollars.

@BTB20
I see thank you.
Guess we get it ok in the UK at £34.29 physical if preordered.

Oddly it made my brain imagine a darksiders sidescroller, switch between the 4 horsemen.. lol would be kinda rad.

Demo felt good but not enough personality in the design so It wouldn’t grab me at the full price option

I really enjoyed it! My best friend works for Ubisoft and is gonna get me a copy.

@rushiosan the demo is a specially designated demonstration area of the game with certain abilities already unlocked. It is not the first level wherein your progress could be transferred to the main game.

Even if you could save, there is no progress related to the main game which could be transferred.

I thought the demo was really good. The platforming is solid with all the movement options you have available. The combat is satisfying with varying ways to approach enemies and how you deal with them. The controls are tight and responsive making mistakes and deaths feel like they were your own fault. It looks great graphically as well and the performance is really solid too making the platforming and combat even smoother than they already are. I also personally like how you take more damage if you mess up a parry because it incentivizes the player to learn how to time them better.

My only gripe with the demo is that it ends before you fight the first boss which I thought was a weird decision and was very disappointed by. But other than that, I enjoyed the demo a lot and I may actually be buying this game sooner rather than later.

Really, really good. And it runs fantastic on Switch (which it should when you consider the alternative of Metroid Dread is on here).

I think considering the behind the scenes troubles of the Sands of Time remake that the POP franchise needed a win in the meantime, so this will build some good rapport.

Also, to be honest… it probably is worth the full RRP, however this is Ubisoft and as such it will be 50% off within 2 months so I will wait 😅

Going in without trying the demo. I've read enough to know that I'm all in.

I was surprised and impressed with just how solid it was. Great mostly silky smooth performance. I'm not really into Metroidvanias, but I'll consider picking this up when it hits the figurative bargain bin; plus, the day one/in-game DLC + patches immediately put me off from ever wanting to buy this at launch. Well, played, Ubisoft.

That said, I still strongly dislike some of the character designs, especially the protagonist, and what I can only assume is a token DEI chick, neither of whom look even remotely Persian. The other characters at least look the part, but it's annoyingly jarring given the game's setting. I was also surprised that they had included a Persian dub (I don't know if this was ever the norm with past games), so I defaulted to that.

was fun enough, just not on board for paying that much for these types of games anymore.

if I want quality 2D games I'll play NSO.

About the price, I find it interesting, that people have no problems paying $50 for a Nintendo remake, with cheap looking graphics. But when we get a brand NEW, beautiful, well polished AA 2D game, then it's suddenly overpriced?!

The game takes between 20-30 hours to play through, that is definitely value for the money.

@Steel76 : I get your point, but Ubisoft made their bed in that respect. Can you blame the customer for wanting to save a bit of coin given their propensity to drop their prices so substantially shortly after release?

Plus, a lot of their "AAA" games are littered with "in-game purchases", large patches, and/or forced downloads, which also diminishes their value (and the company's repute).

It's a weird one for me. Combat was ok but not great (Ubisofts typical block, parry, attack gets old), graphics were surprisingly good for a switch game and it was smooth but it didn't grab me like I thought it would. I know the demo doesn't show everything so maybe I'll pick the game up but not for £45. I'll wait till it's on sale which going by Ubisofts previous games, they go on sale pretty quick after release.

@KStowell1994 put the switch on airplane mode. The game won’t even ask you for a login

@Steel76 for me, it's not necessarily the pricing of the game, it's that you pay more for a worse quality game. £45 on Switch and £40 on PS5. Yes the Switch is portable so for those people the price is worth it but for someone like me that doesn't use the Switch other than at home, it's worth waiting for a sale.

Just played it. It's a really good game but those saying it's as good or better than Dread are smoking something. It's got some really nice things going for it (picture map markers should be adopted by everyone) but it's just not got "thing" that Dread does.

I still need to try it. But thank you for the reminder!!

The demo was great, I like that it's a mix between the classic PoP games and the Sands of Time trilogy, in terms of gameplay. The demo ends when it's about to get good, but, I'll wait for the inevitable discount to get it.

Considering my disappointment with Dread, or more specifically the EMMI sections ruining that game so far for me I’m looking forward to this even more.

It is fantastic, Ubisoft has done it again! Hats off to the developers, this is a classic in the making. "She's the kind of book that you can't put down" -Taylor Swift.

Full release can't come soon enough!

I like it. Didn’t convince me to buy it but depending on how long it is before switch 2 is released I could play it to buy time.

I greatly enjoyed it, at least from the tiny hour I spent with it. It's surprisingly well-made for me and I do dig the numerous options and ideas it has on the table. The fact that this game is being made by the team behind the recent two Rayman games also adds more to my consideration of buying this game.

...but like @JackieCMarlow said, I'll wait for a (big) discount under Ubisoft's sporadic sale events.

I'm not saying Ubisoft looked at Metroid Dread and thought 'lets do that' but if they did, they did a solid job of it. I'll likely wait for the eShop sale that'll likely happen a couple months later 😏

It feels like Metroid Dread and Sands of Time had a really awesome baby.

My only gripe is that the controls aren't remappable. Hoping the final release fixes that.

Well I think the critics like it a lot more than I do.

Loved the demo. Ordered it. Can't wait to return to this world....

The demo was great, and I’m really excited to play it! Just not excited enough to play start it before playing through Another Code and at least one Apollo Justice game. But hey-maybe it will have gone on sale by the time I’m ready for it.

The demo was great. My only issue was that just as I was starting to get into the grove of things I run into the boss room and the demo ends. Wish I could have fought it but oh well. I'm already buying the game physically, I might double dip and buy it digitally as well. Well done Ubisoft.

I have it on my Nintendo Switch though I haven't played it yet. I would be more likely to purchase this game on PS5. I do think the game itself though looks very promising.

Gameplay is a lot of fun, controls are fluid and it seems to be a rich world to explore.

Only not sold on the graphics so far. I know they went for a cartoonish look, but character designs in particular still look odd, they wouldn't be out of place in the memories I have of PS2. I played the demo on PS5, though, no ideia if the visuals are more consistently good on Switch.

Just finished it; pretty solid overall, though I found three things that brought down the experience slightly:
1. Ubisoft login prompt - the prompt itself isn’t that big a deal, but the fact they made the opt out obscure to access or even see was a bit dodgy. Hopefully this gets fixed at some point.
2. Lack of save transfer - Admittedly, this is a short demo, and progression may be somewhat different in the full game, but not being able to pick up where you left off is a bit disappointing.
3. Lack of a boss fight - I’m not entirely sure how par for the course this is for demos, but the fact the demo ends just as a boss fight is about to start seems a bit lame.

That aside, the actual game seemed pretty good from what I played. Movement and combat feel like the highlights here, and I liked that we at least got to experience a decent range of platforming challenges. Animations were also nice, both for the player character, and the enemies, which helped make the combat feel all the more engaging. All in all, I’m looking forward to picking it up at some point, though with Tekken 8, Infinite Wealth and FFVII Rebirth also coming out by the end of next, month, that probably won’t be for a while.

@JackieCMarlow it’s not 60 bucks though it’s 50

The demo for Dread is the best one I’ve played so far, it was generous and by the time it ended (after 1,5 hours or so) I was obsessed and had to buy it right away. Will download this demo at some point but have my hands full with TOTK and Sniper Elite at the moment 😁

Better than Metroid Dread. But, just like Metroid Dread, this is a $15 game, not $60.

I paid $25 on Metroid Dread (Black Friday) and I think I paid a lot. The game is worth less than this. I think Prince of Persia will be the same for me.

Just like Mario Wonder, which I think is too short. For me, it's a game worth $15. That's why I didn't buy it, I played it at a friend's house and I was relieved that I didn't buy it.
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Demo shows that the game looks good and runs well. However they missed a trick by not really providing much substance in the demo runtime. Should have put a bit more meat on it to really hook you in. Which is the point of a demo after all. There was not much thrown in on the combat side imo

I tried it [demo] on Xbox but I've pre-ordered the physical version for Switch

Overall, the demo itself was good. I thought the gameplay was great. Good controls, fun moves, and surprisingly difficult! I tried it on Heroic and was surprised by how many times I died. Super excited to play the full game.

As a demo, it's not one I would keep installed and continue to play. I'm not sure if everyone will understand but back in days past, demos used to be pretty fun, unique experiences. Either ones from magazines (disks etc.) like my Metroid Prime 2 demo from Nintendo Power or Project 8 (Tony Hawk) on Xbox 360. I used to always replay those demos. Super fun to jump in and have a very small package / treat. In that regard, this demo isn't that good. Too much dialog at the beginning you can't skip fast enough and there wasn't a satisfying conclusion or loop.

It’s not a bad demo - I got a good sense of the exploration, movement and few other aspects, but I’m really disappointed there was no boss fight. Otherwise it’s about good enough to pre-order

@Rykdrew
You are right about dread , is a great game but too short that why i missed it. But this one is min 25 hour long maybe more for 100% and hard difficult so even bought at full price is far more justify than dread

Gameplay was great, but the surround sound is broken and the language options don't work. Hopefully these all work properly in the full game.

It's Ubisoft, so the question we have to ask ourselves is "Will I enjoy the 5th one of these in 5 years?" Nintendo might not even be able to make a Dread sequel since it will be too much like PoP.

@Rykdrew Is your value scale set by a game like Hollow Knight or Minecraft? Saying lots of top games are worth $15 makes me wonder how you've calibrated your instrument there.