Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown just isn’t solely the most effective video games of the yr to this point, it’s additionally the most effective Metroidvania video games you’ll ever play- however sadly, it appears to be like prefer it’s not going to get a sequel, if a contemporary report claiming the identical is something to go by.
As per French journalist Gautoz (by way of ResetEra), Ubisoft has disbanded the sport’s improvement crew at its Montpellier studio, with the sidescrolling Metroidvania action-adventure title having failed to satisfy Ubisoft’s expectations when it comes to gross sales. Although official figures for the video games haven’t been shared but by Ubisoft, stories shortly after its launc urged that inside its first couple of weeks, it had solely managed to draw about 300,000 gamers.
As per Gautoz, core members of The Misplaced Crown’s improvement crew tried to get one other couple of expansions greenlit for the title, whereas a sequel was additionally pitched, although Ubisoft allegedly rejected each pitches. The choice was allegedly as a substitute made to disband the crew and assign its members to different tasks at Ubisoft that have been deemed to have “higher gross sales potential”.
In the meantime, ridiculously sufficient, it’s claimed that another excuse given for rejecting the pitch for a sequel by Ubisoft larger ups was that it may potentialize cannibalize long-term gross sales for The Misplaced Crown itself.
In our evaluate of the sport, we awarded it a rating of 9/10, saying, “The Misplaced Crown is a implausible recreation. Not solely does it seize the most important strengths of Prince of Persia’s earliest sidescrolling instalments, it additionally reinvigorates the collection in spectacular trend with its Metroidvania design construction. From stage design to fight, from the platforming to its visible model, from the exploration to the soundtrack, Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown is a powerful accomplishment in additional methods than one, and one in every of Ubisoft’s greatest video games in years.” Learn the total evaluate via right here.
Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown is offered on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Change, and PC.
