Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review: A new king ascends to the throne

News of a Metroidvania-style Prince of Persia game truly scared me. The franchise has been left to rot for over a decade, and the Sands of Time Remake is stuck in perpetual development hell, leaving me to reminisce, while Ubisoft regroups—again. 

Thankfully, like a noble warrior, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown swipes all that adversity to one side with a cutting-edge sword strike to put on a clinic of Metroidvania excellence. Not only does The Lost Crown dispense with the pleasantries and formalities of a genre welcome party, but it jumps straight into the action with its own idiosyncratic systems, a stylistic and engaging story, and makes you go, “Oh yeah, Ubisoft makes good games, doesn’t it?”