The Misplaced Crown Introduced for January – WGB, House of AWESOME Opinions

This 12 months’s Summer season Video games Fest kicked off with the sudden announcement of a model new Prince of Persia sport from Ubisoft, titled Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown.

The trailer provides us an thought of what to anticipate from this side-scrolling journey which Ubisoft claims will function Metroidvania components. Visually, it has a cartoony, chunky model that jogs my memory a bit of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time in its tone.

However you received’t be taking part in as a prince on this new journey. As a substitute, you’ll be getting into the boots of Sargon, “a younger, gifted warrior, and member of an elite group referred to as The Immortals”.

“As they’re despatched to rescue Prince Ghassan, they’ll discover Mount Qaf, a as soon as wondrous place, now cursed and hostile,” reads the sport’s description.. “Sargon and his brothers-in-arms will quickly uncover that point itself will probably be a treacherous foe and that the world stability have to be restored.”

Discover the point out of time itself being a foe, in line with the franchise’s penchant for messing round with time-travel. The trailer additionally reveals Sargon assembly a model of himself, so maybe we’ll get to drag off some basic time-travelling nonsense between all of the platforming and fight.

Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown will launch 18th January 2024 for  PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Nintendo Change, Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X/S.

In the meantime, the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake continues to be caught in improvement hell.