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[saintjules]

I personally prefer something like Sands of Time. I like PoP series generally and might give this a try, but prefer the over the shoulder experiences more.

 

[Kurotri]

I was initially thrown off by this when it was revealed, but after looking at the actual gameplay I have to say it looks fantastic. I just wish they gave the protag different hair. Also their marketing team is dumb as rocks, throwing hip hop and the like in its trailers, it did some serious damage to how people perceive this game.

 

[hyperbertha]

That ancient authentic Persian hairstyle...

 

[Ristifer]

Looks like a good time to me.

 

[Punished Miku]

I'll be picking this one up.

 

[winjer]

The art style and the main character, look like rejects from art college.
But gameplay, actually looks good.

 

[WitchHunter]

This feels

I personally prefer something like Sands of Time. I like PoP series generally and might give this a try, but prefer the over the shoulder experiences more.

like Sundered, that german indie cthulhu game.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

I'm having a hard time with the art style. In some ways it looks like a mobile game.

 

[mcjmetroid]

This has potential to be Ubisoft's best game since Mario and Rabbids kingdom battle. I liked when I saw originally.. all the rest of the drones laughed at it though

It's sales potential though is very limited.. it's a risky game for sure

 

[Chuck Berry]

Looks like utter mobile barf and makes the 2008 shitstain of a game look like a masterpiece.

Ill stick with my OG Xbox Sands of Time trilogy thanks

 

[kiphalfton]

Would this be considered metroidvania? Seems like it, based on needing to unlock certain skills to move to different areas.

 

[TexMex]

I think this looks fucking awesome. Love PoP, love the Metroidvania pivot. Easily the most interesting thing Ubisoft has done in quite some time. I feel like everyone was a little sour on it at the initial reveal but after they had a hands on event a couple months back, the impressions have been great. Gerstmann, who seems to hate basically everything these days, even came away pretty high on it.

 

[Sentenza]

I can't fucking stand this art style and character design, but let's hope the game is at least decent in other areas.

 

[havoc00]

THEY DIDNT HAVE FLAT TOPS IN ANCIENT PERSIA

 

[Punished Miku]

This has potential to be Ubisoft's best game since Mario and Rabbids kingdom battle. I liked when I saw originally.. all the rest of the drones laughed at it though

It's sales potential though is very limited.. it's a risky game for sure

Looks like it might be the best 2D metroidvania game since Metroid Dread.

And just to shit in everyone's cereal, will likely be a lot better than Hollow Knight 2.

 

[Monokrom]

Yeah, I'm gonna buy this.

 

[Deerock71]

This has potential to be Ubisoft's best game since Mario and Rabbids kingdom battle. I liked when I saw originally.. all the rest of the drones laughed at it though

It's sales potential though is very limited.. it's a risky game for sure

It's not a bloated 1 billion dollar game to produce, though. More like:

 

[TexMex]

THEY DIDNT HAVE FLAT TOPS IN ANCIENT PERSIA

But they DID have double jumps, fast dashes, teleporting and laser swords so can we please just celebrate the wins here

 

[Roberts]

And just to shit in everyone's cereal, will likely be a lot better than Hollow Knight 2.

Shouldn’t be too hard to do achieve that. I typically love games like HK and after all the praise it got, I tried to connect with it three bloody times and it simply didn’t click for me.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

That ancient authentic Persian hairstyle...

When the inevitable hair mods come out, will they be removed from Nexus because it's "racist"?

 

[AJUMP23]

Prince of Persia Metroid. I hope at the end the character takes off their costume and reveal they are a girl.

 

[mcjmetroid]

Looks like it might be the best 2D metroidvania game since Metroid Dread.

And just to shit in everyone's cereal, will likely be a lot better than Hollow Knight 2.

well I certainly hope so

 

[mcjmetroid]

It's not a bloated 1 billion dollar game to produce, though. More like:

Even still though, I would imagine normally Metroidvania would fans look at Ubisoft games with disgust and the exact opposite to what they normally want in a game. I know I do.

So for them to suddenly do a metroidvania is certainly unusual, especially with a fairly dead series.

Not to mention fans of the series seem to be mocking this because they just want a sands of time sequel or whatever.

So what we have is:

a 2D game
in metroidvania style,
by a company that has a reputation of releasing shite and the opposite to what metroidvania fans normally want
A fairly dead series
and nowhere near the genre the game series is normally known for

I think if it's really good It'll be a slow burn sales once word of mouth gets out but this has a lot going against it sales wise.

But IM interested and I think it'll surprise people. I like what I'm hearing

 

[ikbalCO]

Looks great.

Ubisoft is killing it lately. With mirage, nexus and the avatar game they have been on a roll. But its sad they dont get enough credit for their recent output :/

 

[Robb]

Not a fan of the artstyle.. Other than that it looks decent though.

 

[Fake]

They hate persian or something?

I mean, there is other game that represent persian people like this franchise? Why change?

 

[Sho_Gunn]

People are complaining about the authenticity of a haircut from a game with a character who can fking teleport...

 

[kevm3]

People are complaining about the authenticity of a haircut from a game with a character who can fking teleport...

Many of these same people have anime avatars. realistic asian hairstyles indeed

 

[SolidQ]

Map

 

[hyperbertha]

Many of these same people have anime avatars. realistic asian hairstyles indeed

Animes usually don't claim to be set in japan, or Asia for that matter.