Prince of Persia's Devs Welcome All Reactions After Overwhelmingly Negative Response to PS5, PS4 Sidescroller

This is sad because the gsme actually looks fun, I think the music was the biggest issue with the trailer. That and people were clearly expecting the Sands of Time Remake and not this.

Good, either make it a new ip, or change the main hero to be, you know, persian like. Don't just use the ip name and gave us something else.

Honestly, I thought it looked pretty ok. Not too good but not too bad.

Maybe it could be good, who knows.

I hate Ubisoft with a passion and even I think some of the extreme negativity around this game is confusing. This is easily one of the more interesting games they have in the works.

Fair. It looks like they'll let their game do the talking (which looked like a dime a dozen 2D side scroller with Fortnite graphics) but maybe they'll show me something good.

@wiiware looks like he could be from modern day Iran to me, which is where Persia was?!?

I liked it.

Oh well.

I like the look of this. I didnt like the choice of music used in the trailer but this game looks like it could be a good laugh.

I think it's because of the music and that modern day hair cut
his haircut is Killmonger from Black Panther
why they thought this way a good idea? game itself looks good , i will try it

I'm glad they are sticking with their guns it seems like. I honestly don't see what people got a huge problem with. Game looked dope minus the music choice for the trailer. Looking forward to seeing more.

Apart from the Fortnite style graphics, I actually liked what I saw. If they'd have made another 3D Prince of Persia, it would just get compared to Assassin's Creed. I like the 2D gameplay. People that was expecting a remake need to take off their nostalgia glasses because the ones aren't as enjoyable as you think.

@ManifoldCuriosity have we seen any cases where it works, though? Most of the games that had been hated on ended up not selling well at all. Doesn't sound like a winning strategy.

@themightyant Me neither. I dont like when things are over sensionalized.

It was the garbage music and the ridiculous character design.

Change that, and Ubi will have a solid hit with this. We all want to see the Prince return.

I personally really disliked the art style, and echoing many, feel that contemporary rap being shoveled into every trailer is getting a bit ridiculous. Otherwise? Looks fine, but nothing so special, just not especially bad.

It was the music that did it for me 😩 the rest was
... fine?

@wiiware Yes, they should do that with Sands of Time, because Prince of Persia was always 2D platformer.

just remember to those who complain about 3D or 2D, haircut or else...

I liked the look of it, as it was different from the 3D lot

people complaining they should have made a 3D game, they did that in 2008 and 2010 and noone bought it. one was a soft reboot, and one was a continuation from the PS2 saga.

so yeah, they're trying something else. big deal

Personally I'm sick to death of openworld, soulslike, roguelite crap. This is a breath of fresh air.

I really don't understand the negative reactions. The game looks sick, very fun and stylish. It's a new Prince of Persia, but it isn't the only future new game. Even the main character is cool, and nothing we never seen before.

As sand through a hourglass... mhhhhhmm check please!

The thing is this: if it's a good game, it'll be well-received in the end.

As someone with no attachment whatsoever to this IP, I'm def interested. The gameplay looks crunchy.

@themightyant "across a swathe of the most-viewed uploads of the trailer, only around 28% of likes or votes were positive."
Sounds pretty clearly like the broad opinion is negative, not just a few vocal haters.

Personally, this and Sonic were the best looking games at the summer games event. I didn't love the music. The artstyle is well done but terribly overused. But the gameplay looks to hold real promise.

Go sidescroller or full on Uncharted. “We have to stay true to the genre.”

Seriously, does it bother devs when they are constantly proven wrong?

The game looks cool enough. The hairstyle is pathetic, but Jesus, people really have time to be upset for anything nowdays.

People were expecting a more "persian" feeling to the game, not a modernized version of it, even if it's not the promised Sands of Time Remake - hence the negative reception.
I was of course expecting some news on the Sands Of Time Remake, but as long as i know it's still in production, and coming in a few years, it's ok - I don't mind giving Lost Crown a go in the meantime.

Imo the game looks ok, and the music is fine. But I may be in minority here, since for me the best Prince of Persia in the Sands of Time trilogy, is Warrior Within, which was criticized for the same thing, music... but that Godsmack - I Stand Alone tune was such a perfect fit to the game, I could not help but praise the devs choice.
Besides, you can't judge a game by a single trailer. We'll see in a few hours more details, I think they have much more to show that could change people's minds... it'll be a good game in the end.

It looks like a fun time and I'm curious to see more

@theheadofabroom Modern iran people doesn't looks like that, that's a modern american citizen right there lol.

I'm sure american people know the difference between their own citizen and a middle east people. Although looking at netflix I somehow not too sure.

@3Above
I think you nailed it. The game looked good to me. The music was unfortunate and the only thing I didn't like about the reveal trailer. It is a deviation you're not playing as the titular prince, but that's not a deal breaker for me.

@wiiware is cuh dumb? thats a persian person dawg, hair and everything. bro is just like outside of his mind begging for their to be some more cracker looking persians, just go ahead and say you want the character to be white or nothing. american looking 💀💀💀 bro is saying this with zero expertise, just a hatred of people with darker skin gtfo of this chat and go enjoy games and live life without caring about a fictional persian person looking like a dark skin persian

I was pleasantly surprised by the trailer. I think it looks a little budget and I would have preferred maybe a middle-eastern hip hop track to fit with the setting better, but the gameplay looks pretty solid. I don't think it looks full price solid, but should be a cool title to pick up on sale.

I thought it looked great!

That's what you get from a generation of gamers that only care about "those graffix" and want everything super realistic. One of my favorite games of the last 3 years was Metroid dread so you know why I like the look of this.

@wiiware I see you haven't met many Iranian folks

@3Above
Preferred over expected. There has been a lot of hatred and opposition towards new games over the last decade.

@theheadofabroom Do you? Iranian people physically is not the same as black american person, unless you believe netflix cleopatra "documentary" lol.

@wiiware my dude, that right there is what we might describe as an olive skin tone, which is common in people from the middle East. Just because people in America can also have that skin tone, doesn't mean people with that skin tone are American.

@theheadofabroom Let's just agree to disagree, you can believe whatever you want, even cleopatra documentary if you want to, lol.

Also considering I'm half asian & half middle east (my gramps is from yemen if I remember correctly, most of my relative is on either abu dhabbi or dubai) I think I know more about middle east people than you do.

It's kind of hilarious people from western telling me about middle east though

@wiiware I have no idea what the Cleopatra documentary you keep going on about is, and I also find it hilarious that you think living in a western country means I don't meet people from around the world on a regular basis, and that I haven't travelled.

You seem really het up about nothing but your own colourism, which while amusing, I'm going to leave you to it. Peace out