As a huge Prince of Persia fan I feel like this game is just not it. This game does happen in the same universe/timeline as the main ubisoft ones, okay, good, this is not a problem.
However, of course I have to compare it to the main Ubisoft ones (Sands of Time, Warrior Within and The Lost Crown) as it's inspired by these.
To start, I liked the game, atleast the first hours, I found them enjoyable, it presents us a new form of parkour (and easier) that wasn't in the previous titles. This parkour is pretty good, not complicated at all, easy to learn; I don't have much to say about it other than it's comfortable and really catches the vibe of the games around the 2010s.
The combat is not anything complicated either, it's pretty simple (and BORING) compared to the previous titles. This game's combat is fun at the start, theres a bunch of enemies and you gotta swing your sword while jumping around walls, enemies and even kicking them, pretty fun at first. On the other hand, as the game progresses, you obtain powers, such as summoning fire where you stepped, or covering your sword on ice and unleashing ice attacks.
These powers are lame, they don't look epic nor strong, you don't feel strong with these powers because they don't look good, yes, they can deal a bunch of dmg and it makes the game much easier because you're meant to use them, but they aren't fun to use after activating them 2 or 3 times.
The difficulty of the game is okay, I have nothing much to say about this, it escalates well with how you wanna play.
[SPOILERS AHEAD]
Now the weakest point of this game is the story, you can tell it's based off of Sands of Time. Same plot, or atleast very similar: The curse of the sands gets unleashed in a kingdom and everyone turns into sand monsters, and you gotta defeat this curse.
The character development isn't bad I say? The plot is basically: theres 2 amulets: To destroy/seal this sand curse both brothers have to unite the amulet and close the door, however, the amulet has 2 parts, one of the brothers has one while the other has the other one. Prince has one of the amulets while his brother has the other, basically his brother starts to desire for power and blablabla (he turns evil and becomes a huuuge sand monster). It's impossible to feel anything for his brother because he has like 13 lines in the entire game (or less) before he turns evil and the only thing we know about him is that he wants power to be strong, that's it.
The main character is okay, he loves his family and doesn't have any deep thoughts or phrases like the ps2 Prince. He just wants to save his brother and that's it, no memorable phrase or anything else. There's also not much of "side-plots" in this game, it's just about him going to save his brother. There's no romance like the ps2 games.
This game isn't as much as detailed as the ps2 games, it feels kinda empty, the mc doesn't feel good enough as a character to feel good playing as him, he just doesn't feel special, we can't even feel his rage (mostly cuz he doesn't show any) or sadness towards the lost of his brother.
In the end, yeah, this game is enjoyable and I understand why so many people like it (because of how comfortable the parkour and kicking skeletons is), but for me it's not something I would replay or touch again.
Huge downgrade from the previous Prince of Persia games in most aspects.
