It's that time of year when there are all sorts of sales on games and if you haven't got around to playing Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown just yet, it's now available as part of Best Buy's deal of the day offerings.
It's just $14.99 USD (instead of $39.99) - so act fast, as there are just hours remaining on this deal. Apart from this, Ubisoft's sequel title Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is also available for $12.99 USD. This promotion is part of Best Buy's 12-days of gaming event, which runs until 20th December.
When The Lost Crown arrived on the Switch earlier this year, we awarded it an excellent nine out of ten stars calling it slick, stylish and a "must-play".
"Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a slick return to the roots of this franchise that serves up clever 2.5D action wrapped up in a delightful art style and satisfying story. There's a smart balance here between old-school levels of action and challenge, moreish combat, and neat puzzles, all mixed with accessibility options and fine-tuning that open things up to newcomers and casual players. We knew Ubisoft Montpellier was a pair of safe hands and the team hasn't let us down, serving up the first must-play of 2024 in a Switch port that absolutely does the business."
Have you got a copy of The Lost Crown yet? Let us know in the comments.
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Well, that's not a bad price at all.
Walmart and I believe Target have already been running the game at 15 dollars, Walmart was selling it for 20 a month or two ago, along with Amazon.
Insane value. This is a AAA Metroidvania, one of the best ever and a GOTY contender . You’ve spent more on pure Eshop fodder.
It's unfortunately too late to save the studio with good sales numbers, but if you're a fan of Metroidvanias you should still get this if you can. It's a really solid game; one of my favorites this year.
It's an Ubisoft game so it's on sale all the time anyway, including for $20 just last week and the version with the DLC included is presently $25 on the eShop. I'll probably just keep waiting until it's inevitably like $8 six months from now.
@Lizuka Ubisoft is falling apart so it might come down to something like $2 actually.
Personally saw it sale out at Wal-Mart around here for $14.95. One helluva deal for a high quality game.
I’d urge anyone who even has a small interest in this to pick this up. This is my Game of the Year pick. Ubisoft may have made some questionable decisions along the way, but when they are on point they are a force!
I haven't had much interest, but just bought the physical at this dealmaker price! Looking forward to giving it a go!
I grabbed this for approximately $18 in some of the recent sales, so I won't cry over three bucks. XD Haven't gotten to it yet, but it'll be the first thing I grab next time I get ye olde Metroidvania itch.
...Unless Nintendo finally decides to shadow-drop remasters for Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption out of the blue.
That would mean having an Ubisoft game in my collection…
Kinda sad that this game didn't meet sales expectations. Guess the series will go into another long hibernation. It's really good and probably now considered a switch hidden gem! Maybe they should have gone for a fully 3D game like SOT. Hard to top those. I still get them out once in a while.
Extremely well made game and would've been my GotY if Freedom Planet 2 didn't release this year as well, but Ubisoft really dug their own grave with all the discounts they do.
This game was 50% off in my country, just 3 weeks after release O.O
Why would you ever buy their stuff day 1?! And now the general audience has also figured this out and their sales plummet, what a surprise. NOT!
I feel sorry for the team that made this game. A lot of love and hard work went into this game, you can tell, but upper management clearly didn't believe in this game (very little promotion of this game too) and they apparently had to fight real hard to be allowed to do the DLC.
This franchise just can't seem to catch a break v.v
I feel like I am theoretically the target market for this game. I love Metroid style games, especially that emphasize combat. Plus I don't hate Ubisoft.
But I could barely force myself to finish the demo. I was so bored by it all. And then I got the full game regardless, due to the high praise, but I didn't get too much further before I just couldn't handle it anymore. Everything felt so vanilla and soulless... it's hard to explain.
Am I the only one who felt this? I've seen so many people claim this is up there with Hollow Knight (which is my favorite game), but I just couldn't get traction with it. I even watched gameplay videos of much further into the game to see if it would grab me, but it just didn't.
Brilliant game, but bittersweet considering what happened afterwards.
Probably is a good game but since it's Ubisoft I will pass.
Strange…I checked Best Buy and it’s at normal price (and I checked within minutes of this posting).
An absolute steal at that price in my opinion and also others' based on comments here - great for their customers, but how I wish Ubisoft kept these discounts into consideration when judging the success of a game unlike what happened with this very one as mentioned by others and also one of the related articles!
Loved this game. One of my games of the year. It runs really well on the Switch, docked or undocked. It's worth much more than $15, but grab it for that price. Also, I don't get Ubisoft. Selling over a million units of a game should be considered successful, especially one that is likely a double A product with a lower marketing/promotion budget, but they call it "disappointing" and now likely will shelve the series for a while. Infuriating.
Great game. Much better than the pretty crap demo suggests.
@Dirty_Croc Not really since none of those devs will probably see a penny.
Is this sale fisical or online? At that price I can grab sparks of hope right away!
@kingbk Ubisoft is greedy, despite their constant discounts. You buy an ultimate version of a game and they remove it a year later and republish it under another name, such as complete edition. But those who bought ultimate do not get upgraded to the compete and don't get the new year passes. They've done that to me and to thousands of others, and to multiple games.
They also keep adding weird agendas in their games.
Lots of in app purchases.
Apart from that, I enjoy their games but they are not too be trusted. It's their own leaders' faults.
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