Apparently Some People Hate the New PS5, PS4 Prince of Persia Game

They think it’s a Dread to them.

Because this looks more like the Prince of Wakanda rather than the Prince of Persia.

I honestly don't get it. I think it looked great. Music on the other hand was horrible, as it really didn't fit.

I don’t really get it. Part of it, which was laid out by certain users on NLife, is to do with the choice of rap for the trailer and the appearance of the main character, which comes off a bit icky if you think about it too much. The other complaint I saw was that the series should stick to its roots and be a 3D game like Sands of Time, the first entry in the series. Which of course is blatantly wrong.

christ alive they beat me to it while I was literally writing a comment.

Imo one of the better announcements of SGF. The music choice in the trailer was horrible though

We really bout to act like we don’t know why ppl are upset??? Aight y’all got it.

Why? There are always haters for everything, everywhere.

@RBD I get what you're going for there but Ubisoft Montpellier is developing it and they're located in France. It's not even the Canadian studio.

As for my take, it's not the Prince that I'm used to seeing. The music was horrible. Gameplay looks more akin to what the series was originally which I never enjoyed.

@SirMarshmallow It’s just crazy when you look at the other entries in the series with a white main character that was played by Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie. Like come on, you didn’t care about accuracy with those games.

@paulbuck1996 Yes. Gameplay looks very similar to the original but it was the PoP series from the PS2 era that everyone enjoyed.

@RBD How? Because any brown skin character must be African? This is the same nonsense I saw on Twitter.

Oh because it's 2D I expect, and not some open world dross !!

@RBD Can Persians reverse time? Is that "magicwashing" other cultures?

Haters will always hate. The game looks RAD!

The main character looks like he's wandered out of Fortnite. The art style is just a bit too contemporary for my tastes but the game looked like it could be fun

I loved Metroid Dread, and this looks just like it. This and Sonic were easily my favorite announcements from the show.

@Kidfried Oh, definitely. Just read the YouTube comments. They see a character with brown skin and assume he's African (Because apparently no Middle-Eastener has ever had brown skin), and pull out their "Prince of Wakanda" tripe.

I don't really care either way but my first reaction when watching it was that someone made a game and then decided to make it a "Prince of Persia" game after the fact.

The art style and the fact that you aren't even playing the prince but rescuing him make it feel not like a Prince of Persia game.

I don't really understand why people care so much what music is used in the trailer.

Personally not into 2D platformers all that much, mostly because I’m bad at the majority of them I play, and I also think the art style is super generic. I dont really understand people being mad about it though. If you don’t like it, don’t play it. Simple as that.

As always, I’ll try to be open-minded about it and hopefully it’ll be a surprise hit that I can’t ignore, even if I typically stay away from the genre.

The character designs and music choice really mutes the first impression. But I think the real issue is that it looks more like a typical Metroidvania than a Prince of Persia game. Other than that I think it looks pretty awesome.

The sideshave haircut, hip-hop & cliché dialogue had me disliking it at first, though the gameplay looks fun so it's a decent watch when it's on mute.
Besides, you don't even play as The Prince in this game, instead you're someone who sets out to rescue him.

@nessisonett Honestly this reads to me as "But look at this other thing you all hated, you loved it".

I don't know of a single Prince of Persia fan who felt Jake Gyllenhaal was an accurate representation of Prince of Persia.

I think the character’s hairstyle looks far too edgy. The whole thing gives me mobile game vibes.

@nessisonett

t’s just crazy when you look at the other entries in the series with a white main character that was played by Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie. Like come on, you didn’t care about accuracy with those games.

The playable character in this game is not the same character. The trailer starts literally stating the prince has been kidnapped and some group called "the immortals" (i am assuming inspired on these Immortals") are on their quest to save him (or at least save the empire.)

The official web page goes further to state the character name is Sargon.

As far as I can tell, they were making a metroidvania game based on Persian mythology, and since it had a Persian theme they decided to tie it to the Prince of Persia IP/world. At the end of the day, its still a damn good looking metroidvania game, IMO.

I am actually shocked that anyone watched this reveal thinking anything other than “wow, this is lame as hell”. I’d assumed that was everyone’s reaction. It looked like a video made by an A.I. Who’s been told to make a video about a hip edgy action game based on the Prince of Persia IP in the artistic style of a phone game.

Game looked fun to me. Combat was quick, platforming looks fun. Appears to have some big boss moments like old GoW games. I imagine most of the hate is because people want a 3D game and it’s been started over.

I don’t hate it and will play it because I’ve been wanting a new game for a long time. Thing I dislike the most is that it’s 2D instead of 3D. Makes it seem like it’s aimed more for phones and trying not to feel too much like Assassins Creed to avoid burnout for that series

@RBD this looks more like the netflix cleopatra show.
made by will smiths wife.

slap.

@RBD This game is not produced by any of the US studios. BTW Ubisoft is a French Company. So Go Talk to the French why they feel the need to DE&I (DIE) everything to death.

The music choice was atrocious, and I dislike the Fortnitey art style for the characters, but the actual gameplay looked fun. That trailer is worthy of a dislike from me, but that doesn't mean I'll dislike the final game.

Looks like a mobile game with Fortnite animations but I guess that's enough for people nowadays.

@nessisonett The Marketing material is out of touch with the source material. Hip Hop (not rap) was used, which has nothing to do with the Prince of Persia. If they really wanted to market this right, they'd use more classically oriented music embeded with the type of styling and instruments for that region. So that's strike one. Ubisoft is notorious for trying to push this sort of music where it does not fit. I'd expect it from Watch Dogs, not PoP or AC. This is more "Hello Fellow Kids" than "Damn this is bangin, but no one but me is gonna appreciate it". Even if the latter was true as opposed to the former, why would you limit your audience with music that would alienate a good chunk of your user base as well as the fans who come from a very different era of music. It's tone deaf in the worst ways.

I don't know what the hell you're talking about when you use terms like "a bit icky", just say what you mean. If you can't say it, then what's the point of Free Speech and open forums? So you're going to get a response with some assumptions about what you meant as opposed to something well thought about what you actually meant. The character design is a bit out of touch. It's as bad as having Jake Gyllenhaal play the prince in the movie. Though Jake was a lot closer to what we'd expect the prince from that region to look like. Sadly I agree with the comparisons being made with the lie that is Netflix's Cleopatra. A Bunch of uneducated or indoctrinated idiots making assumptions based on bad information about how to design the character. It's insulting to the end user no matter how you shake it. Including if you're dumb enough to be ok with it. Ultimately the character looks out of place, especially amongst the rest of the cast. Only one other looks like she's on the wrong continent, so there better be a damn good explination for that (like AC Revelations, back when ubisoft had a brain in its head and not some goose steping DE&I agenda).

As far as your opinion about the series' roots. While I agree sands of time is not the series' roots. It is hte formula most people are familiar with. The classic game from the late 80's from broderbund (sorry Jordan), isn't what people think of these days when you say Prince of Persia. As it stands we have the Sands of Time and the reboot style we saw only get one game on PS3. There isn't any other expectation for what that franchise is. So I think these people are a bit grounded in their request. Though I think they should all direct their frustrations to Jordan Mechner as he owns the IP, Ubisoft is licensing it and been trying damn hard to keep that license in their possession. Same goes for the Tom Clancy games, they should be contacting the Tom Clancy estate about yanking that franchise away from ubisoft as they have been abusing it to no end. I'm not sure if it'll save splinter cell, since ubisoft may have domain over that depending on if Tom Clancy wrote books to that end with that character. I'm only really familiar with Jack Ryan my self. They've certainly taken a scorched earth strategy with that ip as much as they have with PoP.

I think if it wasn't for the marketing, the character design, and the fact that we haven't seen a mainline PoP in over a decade. I think people would have had less of a Metroid Prime Hunters reaction to this. This would have been a nice compliment in the way Metroid Fusion was to Metroid Prime.

Well i think it looks like its going to be a riot. I agree the music used is not very fitting but i guess they have to try and be down with the cool kids..i'll have a bit of this when its released..

I wouldn’t say that I hate this game but I will say it in no way (art style, gameplay, etc) appeals to me and I’ll likely never play it. Just my tastes.

It's ridiculous. Maybe because it's not a 3D remake of the classic trilogy or something. Whatever...people are stupid, and while yes you do have a right to have your own opinion, why say something is bad when it's just a trailer that actually looks dope, a fun metroidvania with cool combat? Why?

not a fan of the art style... too fornitey

I've the trilogy on the PS3, so that's that. Jenny!

@Kidfried So either people agree with you or it's hate speech? Gotcha.

I didn't like the visual art-style and the rap music matched the vibe as little as the rock one did in Warrior Within which was the worst in the trilogy.

But apparently by not liking something you do I'm racist, transphobic and sexist.

I’m not a fan of the character design — just down to personal taste — but everything else looked really good. I’m always interested in playing a Metroidvania. This is the first Ubisoft game that I’m actually looking forward to in a long, long time.

I really don’t know why people are complaining about the music in a trailer. 99% of the time, trailer music is not used in the game. Rap is not really a genre I listen to, but it suits the action in most video game trailers. As far as it not matching the setting of the game? Has anyone seen the movie A Knight’s Tale? Mixing modern music with historical settings can be pretty cool if done properly.

I swear, some people just gotta open their mind a bit.

To be fair, I was watching SGF with a group of friends and every single person in the room was like what the heck is this? Lame!

So the negative response checks out. I personally didn’t think it looked good either, so this reaction isn’t all that surprising.

Hopefully it’s good for the people that are excited about it.

@Pat_trick You’re right, not everyone that dislikes this game is racist. Most people that are calling out the actual racism are not talking to those people.

But I’m suspicious of people that are triggered at the thought of maybe being called racist. Methinks thou dost protest too much. 😏

Gee Ubisoft, I wonder why. Let's see:
You said you were working on a Sands of Time remake.
You know people WANT Sands of Time remake.
You show up, say there's Prince of Persia news and it is a totally unrelated game to Sands of Time that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE asked for.

Yeah, no wonder people are out with pitchforks and torches.
And no matter what they want to paint, this isnt a case of people "not liking a character because he's black", but rather a simple case of a company lacking common sense enough to see this isn't the best time to announce any PoP game that isn't Sands of Time remake.

It's simple: they delay and ultimately cancel the SOT remake, which was looking just fine, and give us a placeholder 2D game which looks worse than what people complained about in the remake.

Well when did the prince of Persia originate from the bronx?

@Impossibilium I'm not triggered, just not a big fan of blanket statements. A lot of people like to include a huge subset of people into one group because they like or dislike something. It's overly simplistic and it doesn't help creating a helpful and constructive discussion.

I definitely get some 'hello my fellow kids' from this one. The actual gameplay itself looks solid tho.

@wiiware however you slice it it’s still a prince of Persia game

@Pat_trick thats because it’s usually true especially with the coded language being used by such individuals

Even if you remove the music and main character it still looks like a cheap mobile game, just search your phone's store right now and you'll find dozens that look like this and better.

To me, it looks like a F2P mobile game. Hard pass

I thought it looked pretty great personally. Sure I wasn't crazy about the music choice but it's a trailer. I highly doubt the game will be blasting hip hop the entire game. I don't know. Some folks just won't ever be satisfied I guess.

I thought it looked really good.

@Fghtbk85 Sure, generalize and put everyone in one group. If it makes you feel better and superior disliking hundreds of thousands of people because their opinions differ to yours, go for it.

It absolutely has nothing to do with virtue signaling, does it?

And Warriors Within has tons of negative feedback, showing out of place music is a bad idea.
The combat looks decent sure, but where’s the platforming? This looks combat based when it shouldn’t be.
I’m not sure it really should be a PoP game. It looks like it’s missing the point.
I’d love to be proven otherwise, but this doesn’t seem like the right fit.
@Kidfried, or, or, or doesn’t look like a PoP game in the trailer. We all know the prince is Persian. It’s ain’t getting disliked for that. He does have an odd haircut though.

The trailer looked dope!

Its because a bunch of yall are closet racists who hate seeing minorities get more representation.

That game looked sexy af. If you don't like the style of game fair enough but something tells me this is about race for a lot of people.

@Volsung_Fjorgynnson oh it is about race for a lot of people from what I have read, that’s why they get in their feelings when you call them out on it and they try and twist it around

“ It’s because a bunch of yall are closet racists who hate seeing minorities get more representation.”

Yup exactly this 👍

It just doesn't feel like a PoP game to me. Too flashy and too much fast paced action. Same way that AC:Valhalla doesn't feel like a real Assassin's Creed game.
Sometimes I think modern day Ubisoft creates random game concepts without knowing what they are making, and slams a popular IP on it to boost sales.
This looks like a reskinned/modded Assassin's Creed Chronicles game.

I like the character design. It gives me a Bayek style Egyptian vibe. It just doesn't fit for me here. I would like to have seen something more distinctly Persian, whatever that might be. Game looks fun though. I'm definitely picking it up.

Trailer looks pretty awesome, IMO. The only thing that might be disappointing to me personally is I'd love to see them make a sidescrolling PoP that is like the original PC game. Everything about it was so punishing and required insane precision. I think you can make a new PoP like that with Souls-like gameplay so popular. However, again, this trailer is pretty hype, so I'm interested.

@Kidfried @Paramahansa The dreadlocks are what set it out of place and time. It's a complete character motif that's juxtaposed with the setting enough to be jarring, like the character design was originally meant for another game and then glued into this one. Even if it were set in Egypt and tied to AC Origins the whole design still looks too wrong and modern for the setting.

@nessisonett White? The other games cover guy literally look like Aladdin and cesere borgia

@danzoEX Because the majority of it is very low quality mumbo jumbo/shouting look at 69 dude just shouts he's pretty much cyraxx if he ever got famous 😂 they need to hire me to pick the music for these trailers instead of kids from fortnite

@UnusedBabyWipes so if you're not the prince, what's it matter what he looks like?

I liked the look of it.

@Paramahansa See that's the same issue I have with it. As I've said before I'm a firm believer in all races being equal and being treated equal. But just like in movies and it's starting to becoming the practice in video games Witch is black washing every other ethic people. How is that fair to wash away a character set in the middle east with a black character just like you said just because their skin is brown. Their is Indians eygiption mexican. How fair is it to make everything about afircan American how the hell is that equality? I don't blame these cultures and other countries for getting upset about their heritage being in outrage over this. These movie studios and game studios need to realize it's not just one race that buys their products and it's getting old fast. Talk about equal then make it all equality. So now we got Bangalore from Apex legends as the new prince of Persia..

Best thing about these type of articles, it really brings out people's ignorance in comments (as hard as they try to blanket it). Anyway, from seeing the locs, I knew there'd be backlash. Looks fine to me as much as Prince's design did in Warrior Within. But I don't usually play modern 2d side scrollers so that was my main turn off from this title.

I thought it was typical cringy Ubisoft trailer with rap music that felt completely out of place for the trailer. They are trying soooo hard to seem cool to the younger audience and it's not working. It's embarrassing really.

3D Prince of Persia may be iconic, but original 2D Prince of Persia is legendary! And that reveal video looks amazing (no sound). Yes it is 1000% faster than original Prince, but it looks beautiful and reminds me that vibe of that absolutely brilliant "shadow fight" in God of War 3.

If I'd get a dollar for every cheesy trailer (alone in the last few days) me and my family would be dining finely tonight. And this trailer wasn't even such a bad offender.

Honestly, feels more like some weird culture war bs brewing subconsciously, and everybody just has a hard time putting their finger on what's bothering them.

Wouldn't say I hate it, but I spent a long time with scrolling platforms, prefer to move forward.

I'm glad there's an audience for it, but it doesn't appeal to me. I don't like the art style, it feels scaled back to me, looks cartoony. And the action looks like an old school sidescroller, which I realize is akin to the original. But I found Sands of Time and its sequels way more cinematic and graphically detailed. I hope I still enjoy it. I just find the art and camera angles ugly. 🤷

To me its the art style, it gives a low budget feel to it.

If its more than $40, not worth.

I liked it. Looks fun to play play and as long as the gameplay is good, I'm good. Tired of all the racism in the gaming community. But it is what it is.

Because the gaming community is against everything that isn't remasters or remakes.

@Lexluther23 but it’s always been ok for people to do the same to black culture right? Just because there’s black characters in a video game or movie doesn’t mean they are taking over, they are allowed to be represented you know, your “beliefs” you stated at the beginning are contradictory to the rest of your post

lol wow include a black character in a video game and people go nuts accusing the studios of all sorts, certain people really do dislike when black people get representation

@Kidfried Thanks for the clarification. I went back to the video and while most of the comments were criticizing the game not looking or playing like a Prince of Persia, there were a few that unfortunately were directed at the character's race.

Black main character. Hip-hop music in the trailer.

Literally everybody knows why this is getting downvoted and blasted, whether they're willing to admit it to themselves or not.

ANYWAY... I've never played a Prince of Persia game, but this looks pretty fun. Might grab it down the line.

They could have named it literally any other name and it would have been a good game if it was it's own thing instead of calling it Prince of Persia just because the franchise is better known

@SamMR Seems like a spin off. I see nothing wrong with it.

Apparently many people don't enjoy a Prince of Persia that doesn't look and sound the part.
I will say this generic look the prince has appeared in more characters during the show.
It looked and sounded awfully average. It didn't feel anything like the classic 2D PoP games either. Surely we are allowed not to be thrilled by it?

Prine of Persia in my opinion is one of those stories were you can have 10 games based on or around the character (The Prince of Persia) and have 10 different stories.

I loved the original PoP when I was 8 playing it on the Apple II (Kids these days know nothing about challenging games). The worst ever PoP is would be Prince of Persia 3D from 1999. I remember it came with free with my nVidia GeForce 64MB AGP Graphics Card.

I am disappointed the PoP:SoT is not anywhere in sight, I for one would give this new game a try.

@Kidfried They likely existed there, but were less common. They don’t have a history in PoP aesthetics, but I don’t they think wore them forward/diagonal like that.
You might argue the haircuts were never meant to be historical.
Sure, but there’s a difference between something that’s a bit of artistic liberty and just screams “out of place.”, especially for the IP.
Now combine that with the trailer in general not seeming like Prince of Persia, it stacks up.
And now I’m hearing this isn’t the Prince, but the prince getting rescued? It just doesn’t feel like a PoP game.

It looks good to me. What do people hate about it? I'm not into side scrolling or 2d games, but I like this. Might get it, depending on price.

I see a game with some interesting 2d combat and some highly stylised graphics. Its a new character so I have no investment on what they 'should' look like. I wont judge it for not being another 'expected' game. Im not into hip hop either, but I can play the new nfs game without melting, so I'll cope!
I'm not sure why so many people have a meltdown over such things, but it does seem that the net is looking for things to hate on. I just see a game that might be fun...

@Kidfried you must be a American to say nonsense like that. That's always Hollywood and Americas excuse when someone don't like something they do it's because of racism. What a crook of crap. Be lucky if one percent of the population is racist so give up with your nonsense on a gaming platform. Trying to say 80 percent of people who were upset with this game is racist. Pathetic

Hello, slightly cringeworthy comment session! 😅
I thought this was nice

I just don't like the visuals. There was a rumor saying that Ubisoft was working on an Ori and the blind forest PoP game, so I was visualizing something closer to that regarding the graphics.

Trolling.? Ridiculous sorry

Pushsquare ask why people don't like the game, I answered and then the mods deleted the answer, then why even ask the questions? I want prince of persia, not prince of modern america, ubisoft should make a new ip rather than hijacking their own prince of persia ip for brand recognition and filled it with something else.

Game looks cool music is so bad it makes my ears bleed. How can you put this music in a Prince of Persia game. Atleast it's not as tone-deaf as Cleopetra from Netflix.

@Kidfried The worst thing for me is the horrible music choice or was this a thing of the time. The game looks cool but the music choice is horrible.

@naruball For me it's the music it's horrible and does not fit the era one bit. The game looks fun the music is totally misplaced.

@djlard If they would have put in matching music it would have been awsome. This made the whole trailer cringe.

@nessisonett The Prince in the other entries actually looked Middle Eastern and had brown skin. It's sad people like you have become so brainwashed by American propaganda that you no longer view Muslims or Jews as ethnic groups but now apparently "privileged other whites" because racist blacks like Kanye West make those claims alongside racist white leftists.

Oh and in case you and others here need some explaining. The Muslims in the Middle East are Arabic, the Jews are Jews. Black people and white people in America are not the "real Jews, Greeks, Romans, Ottomons, Native Americans" or whatever other groups both you guys actually claim to be.

Black Americans have a culture and history, it's from Africa. White Americans have one too and it's from England, Germany, Ireland whatever. None of you are the "real Jews, real Persians, real Greeks, real Ottomons or real Native Americans" and you need to stop culturally appropriating from other cultures and ethnic groups.

@Kidfried Right. African and Arabic cultures, which have been very...err.... Not friendly.... With Persian culture since time immemorial.

@Impossibilium So are you suspicious of gay people when they get offended at being called groomers? Your logic makes no sense.

@Volsung_Fjorgynnson Sure. People are racist for getting upset over the brown Middle Eastern character being replaced by a black character to appease Kanye West type racists. Whatever you say.

@Ralizah Nah. This didn't exist with Miles Morales, Deathloop, The Walking Dead (of which Lee still remains the most popular character) etc etc apart from a minority of racist idiots.

It exists because it's an example of Ubisoft making something no one asked for and if the fans were racist, surely they would have rejected to the previous protagonist who was brown? Or does brown not equal ethnic to you Americans anymore? Like Jews, are Arabic people now considered privileged "other whites" to you guys now?

Seriously, the world needs to start ignoring American politics and values.

The character design aside I'm glad it exists. Sure eh the Dread comparison but I mean Prince of Persia started out 2D, it's nice to see a come back to that time then mostly 3D ones. The 3D one is coming later it will take time why not something 2D in the mean time I'm totally fine with that and it could be fun. Whether like the Assassin's Creed Chronicles games who knows but still I'm curious how it will turn out.

If the music then yeah why not some more fitting much then 'generic appeal to the teens' here music. I like original music anyways not licensed music taking up space and whatever 'trend appeal' music inserted. So it makes me tune out. The character looks like some generic then a prince or even part of this game world he looks like he'd be some western isekai inserted character or what they think teens expect of edgy characters. Granted I've only played Forgotten Sands Wii or 2008 reboot (PS3) and if I find other entries I'll get to them but still they are far more Prince like and interesting character designs and we haven't even heard this new Prince speak yet.

I have no idea what the issue is whether the 2D (are they newcomers to gaming and know nothing about PoP's past 'clearly' they must be that uninformed or think 2D is weak and oh the prices and whatever).

I don't know if I'll play it I have many other Prince of Persia and other games to get to still but otherwise I appreciate it come out and I am new to the series but always knew these were around for a while, I wasn't sure what the Metroidvania thing is I thought it was a 2D platformer not a Metroidvania I guess wanting to compete then? I mean Insomniac did Song of the Deep so another big budget Metroidvania is a fair challenge to see happen why not.

@Fghtbk85 No sir it is not alright to do that to black culture or any culture! Maybe that's why it's unwise to want to erase history!! So it don't repeat its self? But also 2 wrongs don't make a right? Maybe no culture should be done that way? Maybe we should learn from it?

@Flaming_Kaiser I feel the same way about the music, but it's just a trailer.

@Flaming_Kaiser As I said, I watched without sound.

@Lexluther23 it’s not about two wrongs, it’s about keeping that same energy

@KidRyan People dislike that he looks like a generic Fortnite skin not change. If people disliked change the series would have died after Warrior Within.