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Reviews Prince of Persia Review thread

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Sadist said:
As true as this is... it's something Ubisoft created themselves. It's almost astonishing how quickly Ubi discounts their software and they have trained people to wait on it.
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I understand - but at the same time it’s not like this game is 5 hours long, or overpriced. It’s actually priced cheaper than a regular AAA and by all accounts seems well worth the price. And it’s not some Assassin’s Creed or Far Cry that is guaranteed good initial sales and long legs - most gamers nowadays have probably never even played a Prince of Persia game. If this bombs, this is it, they won’t go back to this type of game again. And the guy who waited to pay $15 for it 8 months down the road will be the first to complain that AAA publishers never take any risks.
 
touchfuzzy said:
I understand - but at the same time it’s not like this game is 5 hours long, or overpriced. It’s actually priced cheaper than a regular AAA and by all accounts seems well worth the price. And it’s not some Assassin’s Creed or Far Cry that is guaranteed good initial sales and long legs - most gamers nowadays have probably never even played a Prince of Persia game. If this bombs, this is it, they won’t go back to this type of game again. And the guy who waited to pay $15 for it 8 months down the road will be the first to complain that AAA publishers never take any risks.
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yes, the monumental risk of…making a metroidvania in 2024. where could I possibly find another one of those?
 
SlumWolf said:
yes, the monumental risk of…making a metroidvania in 2024. where could I possibly find another one of those?
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From a AAA dev/publisher?

You're kinda just looking at Dread and the Ori games

Edit: OK I guess Shinsekai as well
 
Sadist said:
As true as this is... it's something Ubisoft created themselves. It's almost astonishing how quickly Ubi discounts their software and they have trained people to wait on it.
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They do those discounts on purpose. To sell more DLC. Ubisoft's main income has been from DLC for quite some time.

Gotta admit, even I fell for it. They had a big discount on Unity few months after the broken launch and I got the game... along with DLC Dead Kings at full price.
 
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It's obvious that the Switch was a priority for this games development. The visuals and framerate are top notch, and honestly, it's a step above Dread in that respect. It's nice to see games release on Switch in 2024 that exhibit this level of polish from a third party publisher. I bought the digital deluxe version so I could get the game a few days sooner and because I want to support this type of offering from Ubisoft. They need to greenlight more projects like this.

This game made me think that Platinum Games could do a spinoff Bayonetta game with this formula. The combat and boss fights could be epic.
 
Goodtwin said:
It's obvious that the Switch was a priority for this games development. The visuals and framerate are top notch, and honestly, it's a step above Dread in that respect. It's nice to see games release on Switch in 2024 that exhibit this level of polish from a third party publisher. I bought the digital deluxe version so I could get the game a few days sooner and because I want to support this type of offering from Ubisoft. They need to greenlight more projects like this.

This game made me think that Platinum Games could do a spinoff Bayonetta game with this formula. The combat and boss fights could be epic.
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Dread wasn't 60fps?
 
Maxrunner said:
Dread wasn't 60fps?
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It was 60fps, but it had more stutters in gameplay than I have experienced in PoP so far. Plus Dread was 900p docked while PoP is 1080p. Dread also had quite a bit of aliasing, PoP has some good FXAA applied. This isn't a knock on Dread, I love that game and have over 60 hours with it. I'm just elated that Ubisoft crafted a game like this in 2024 and it deserves the praise.
 
Goodtwin said:
It was 60fps, but it had more stutters in gameplay than I have experienced in PoP so far. Plus Dread was 900p docked while PoP is 1080p. Dread also had quite a bit of aliasing, PoP has some good FXAA applied. This isn't a knock on Dread, I love that game and have over 60 hours with it. I'm just elated that Ubisoft crafted a game like this in 2024 and it deserves the praise.
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From the demo the 60fps felt less smooth than dread but it might be memory playing tricks on me.
 
touchfuzzy said:
You can see the issues already in this thread. How many variations do we have of: "Wow, this looks great, and has great reviews, and is my type of game for sure. I'll play it in a few months when it's on sale."

Will be followed in a couple years by:

"Man why doesn't Ubisoft make another 2.5D PoP game, that game was awesome. Too bad it didn't sell so good."
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idk its a 2d game they shouldnt be breaking the bank for it and require 10 million copies to break even
 
Maxrunner said:
From the demo the 60fps felt less smooth than dread but it might be memory playing tricks on me.
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I agree that the demo has some judder, but I have not experienced that with the final build of the game. If you turn on airplane mode while playing the demo, the judder seems to subside, so I think there may be something going on with the game trying to connect to the Ubisoft servers. Again, Dread is amazing and runs at 60fps 99% of the time, but I feel like PoP runs at 60fps 99.5% of the time and renders at a higher resolution.
 
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Goodtwin said:
It was 60fps, but it had more stutters in gameplay than I have experienced in PoP so far. Plus Dread was 900p docked while PoP is 1080p. Dread also had quite a bit of aliasing, PoP has some good FXAA applied. This isn't a knock on Dread, I love that game and have over 60 hours with it. I'm just elated that Ubisoft crafted a game like this in 2024 and it deserves the praise.
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I think Dread still looks better. Don't remember stutters. PoP is great looking as well. Really shows how good games can be on Switch when it's priority for developers.
 
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