Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time Remake Dev Update Shared In New "Exclusive"

Sounds good to me. They should put effort into making sure PoP stays at the top of it's genre. Lost Crown is a tough act to follow.

If nothing else, I do appreciate that we skipped the part where a company tries to convince people to buy a game they own again because you'll never get a new game in a series again unless you buy the game you already own and they just made a new, good game in a series.

Looking at you, Super Monkey Ball remake you had to buy to get other Super Monkey Ball remake to get a new Super Monkey Ball game.

I doubt we will see a switch version now.

Welp, I guess we'll see this on Switch 2 later down the line.

I will definitely be waiting for more details. SoT is one of my favorite games of all time, so I am weary. No Yuri = Bad. New Combat Mechanics = Good.

I wish people never bullied Ubisoft into restarting development just because they didn't like an art style faithful to the original game.

Ubisoft are famous for abandoning projects or IPs stuck in development. Let's hope they get this one out the door.

Why do Ubisoft just seem to have one troubled development after another these days? Does that coincide with when Ancel left actually? Hmmm

Is this the moment where we witness PoP being milked for all it's worth and finally ending up somewhere in a ditch, like so many IPs before it? I'm not enthusiastic about Ubisoft's approach at all. In fact, all their games have been a hard pass for about five years now and I can't say I feel I'm missing out.

@datamonkey
Their development model wasn’t sustainable and went off the rails near the end of the last generation, this is happening to a lot of publishers right now but it’s more obvious with Ubisoft due to how consistent they used to be in their yearly release schedules.

@kkslider5552000
Tbh Super Monkey Ball was three games in a collection.
And also a way to say hey we're relearning how to make Super Monkey Ball the way it always should have been.

dang, i swear yuri lowenthal is in everything. i keep seeing his name in games i play and see, guy is THE quintessential videogame VA

Good! I do hope it won’t be a realistic style though. These producers in suits probably misinterpreted the criticism as a call for 8k skin pores.

@Pillowpants
The Lost Crown is really good though. But yeah I'm not very enthusiastic about PoP rogue lite whatever or even them doing three PoP games a year.

@mlt Yeah, I've read the reviews, but at this point I've decided to not sponsor Ubisoft any more. They disappointed me too many times before and I've basically just lost interest in everything they put out.

@mlt But they still remade a random much more mediocre game that you had to buy or else they wouldn't make a remake to "figure out how to make a Super Monkey Ball game" (because I guess making good games is impossible without remaking other games) in order to make a new game.

I also don't buy it because the last new Monkey Ball game on Vita AFAIK was considered a return to form, but no one bought it because...Vita.

@datamonkey maybe, but it probably coincides with reports of management that has absolutely no idea what they are doing.

I played the demo of TLC and really enjoyed it ... then put off buying it due to my inherent dislike of Ubisioft. I caved (I was going to wait for a sale) and I'm glad I did - its brilliant.

I missed out of SoT - it was on my list of things to play so I'm kinda looking forward to it now.

Rouge/Rougelite games just aren't my thing - I don't enjoy them at all. While it'll be great to play SoT I really would like more TLC - or a sequel.

This tells me Ubisoft is just about as good as Microsoft when it comes to poor "communication".

I haven't played the original game, and this just tells me I won't have any interest in this remake.
Just curious if the remake ends up costing more than the original. At least that would be funny.

@kkslider5552000 It feels like that type of passive sales pressure (“It’s up to fans if they want to see another instalment blah blah..”) is being used less. It was always ridiculous to hear, of course

@rushiosan
Given the source material I'm not sure what kind of agenda really?

In the original we've got one indian and two iranian characters. The vizier is just classic villain material who screws everything up because he's a power hungry piece of crap. The prince has an arc where he learns to be less of a toxic male stereotype and also less arrogant nobility. Farah is a cool headstrong female character which is not that common in the days the game was written. The romantic relationship that evolves between the two is well handled which is also pretty rare at the time. And there is even a sex scene which is tastefully done and serves as a true narrative device since sex is not a reward at the end of the story but happens in the middle of it, again as a cleverly handled narrative tool. And THAT especially is super rare in the industry even freaking nowadays.

So if they want I guess they could go with a moronic alt right agenda maybe? Farah becomes a trad wife, the prince learns how to become even more toxic and the poor vizier is given an excuse to be insane because being power hungry is legitimate and should be encouraged? Yeah. I agree with you in the end, I guess they could screw it up with an agenda.

EDIT : oh and also they white wash all three characters of course

@mlt Or the prince realizes he's a she and you've got to collect pronouns. Once collected, you throw them at enemies for FORCED bonuses. See? agendas can go either way

I am curious considering that they had a complete game as a template to work with. I get the Jade/Anvil engine has grown and remakes like resident evil set the bar but how much are they changing? I replayed sands of time in the past 5 years and it still felt good to play.

@ITSAMELUIGI @mlt just say no to bait. Nobody threw out a political buzzword except the person that set the bait and now both of y’all are derailing the thread. Was that what y’all really wanted to say about the restarted development?

@Ryu_Niiyama When you're right, you're right. Apologies all around.

A bit worried about the rewrite...
The original had such a great script...I am very afraid that this is getting the new Ubisoft Whedon-Writing.

The remake plague continues. I wish we could turn back time and stop the industry from this boring fascination with re-releasing old material.

I need to get back to the lost crown but as for the sands of time remake I'll probably pass. No Yuri. No way. Besides the remake would have to be pretty damn amazing before I'd care. The original is good enough as it is.

@Alpha008 yes I agree that’s probably more likely!

@kkslider5552000 That Monkeyball remake is very bad too.

@Pillowpants how dare Ubisoft put out a very solid 30-60 hour open world game a couple of times a year, they should be drug out into the streets and shot, no soup for you right?

I bought Prince of Persia on Gamecube when it released and to this day I consider it one of the most overrated games I've ever played. It received INCREDIBLE review scores at the time, but I found it quite simplistic, unchallenging, and unremarkable.

Don't get me wrong... it's in no way a bad game. Just as average as average gets. The only thing I truly loved about the game was the song in the credits. I still remember it to this day.

All that said, I have zero hype for this remake.

@Adol-Bannings what a great way to pull my reply out of context. I just decided what they currently create is not for me. To each their own, peace out!

Skip this remake and go straight into making Warrior Within and make Shahdee a playable character.

The fact that Yuri Lowenthal is out is unacceptable. He gave such an iconic performance as the prince and is an important part of the overall recipe that made that game great. Plus, he is still active as a VA. They really should use him.

@Poodlestargenerica If you mean Banana Blitz, the original was just ok and they took out some of the music, which is the best part of the game.

If you mean Banana Mania, the complaints seem mostly like nitpicking about physics rather than genuine deal breakers that any normal person would care about.

@kkslider5552000 I mean banana mania and they are not nitpicky. It's almost unplayable.

Hopefully the remake stays faithful to the original. Fantastic example of storytelling in game form which I would like to share with my kids

Siigh, just remaster it already, just add widescreen, 4K and 60 fps. We don't need the remake, it's not like ubisoft is good at melee combat gameplay either, it's not like we'll get elden ring melee with this new remake.

I'm ok with this. That old trailer didn't look so great from a graphical standpoint so I'm glad they went back to the drawing board. Let it cook I say. The original will always be there

@Woodyshoe Switch 2 will have been out for awhile by then.