Play: Prince of Persia The Lost Crown is an exhausting game. It's a metroidvania with an absolutely punishing default difficulty. You can tweak everything to make combat more manageable, but even then the 'dodge window' setting (which I had at an old-man appropriate 'Large') seems largely pointless. The wind-up to these attacks is lightning fast, so increasing the dodge window doesn't seem to change much.
And there doesn't seem to be any dodge invincibility, so you have to dodge in very specific directions with perfect timing. It's very much about learning patterns, which jesus I don't have time for any more.
And aside from the difficulty, everything is just so frenetic. Special attacks cause the camera to cut seven or eight times in a couple of seconds, all flashing lights and anime posing. It's ADHD the game.
It's a shame because there's clearly a very good game under all this bollocks, and I find myself almost falling in love frequently. Then I get stun-locked by a tellytubby rave on fast-forward, and all that good will goes out the window.
I'm eight hours in now. It's done a couple of false ends so far, and I'm hoping this next one is actually the finish line.
It looks large. This game has always been about the exploration for me, so improving the world generation is definitely the most exciting thing they could do.
In amongst hundreds of game-changing patch notes, the most important is clearly:
PS Plus catalogue has just added Remnant 2, Crisis Core FF7 remaster, Pathfinder (BG3 before BG3 was cool) and re-added Monster Hunter Rise. Plus Anno 1800, which I still haven't made a dent in.
And they seem to have opened the floodgates on PS2/PSP games, with every Jak & Daxter, Sly etc all landing in the last few days. Which is making me consider becoming the only UK owner of a Playstation Portal.
Plus Dungeons of Hinterburg just hit Game Pass, I bought Prince of Persia: Lost Crown on Prime Day, WoW's next expansion lands soon, and No Man's Sky just had a huge update.
My second child is due in less than a month. That's plenty of time, yeah? đź‘€
Unplayable is obviously internet silliness, but I can’t do 30fps any more. Certainly not for first person games. It’s fine for strategy stuff, and handheld is a lot more forgiving. But I couldn’t play Cyberpunk at 30.
I had forgotten about this thread, but it’s interesting to read the replies after a few years of living with more powerful hardware. My response now would be 60fps (plus) above all else, ray tracing is pretty irrelevant, path tracing is exciting, and I actually can tell the difference between 4K and 1080p now, even at TV distance.
Mr Party Hat
