Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a pretty good metroidvania that, while not easy, focuses more on spectacle in it's combat than challenge.
Platforming: The strongest part of the game for me. I not usually a fan of 2D platformers, but this game manages a good balance of fun and varied movement with challenges that are difficult enough to be challenging but not overly frustrating (with one optional exception).
Combat: Does the job. The focus here is primarily on spectacle with some bosses providing a decent challenge. I found the sound effects of the swords swinging to be a bit lacklustre but not so much as to be distracting. Biggest disappointment is that the final optional boss was a pushover, would have liked at least one really tough optional boss.
Story: It had one. Somewhat forgettable and predictable, but does a good enough job of establishing what you're doing. Weirdly one character seemed to just disappear from the story. Voice acting was pretty good, not excellent but did the job.
Puzzles: While not a major focus the ones that are there are mostly good. (Though one or two optional ones that most players will likely need to use a guide for)
Exploration: The game lets you take a picture of the environment so you can easily check where you might be able to use a new ability. Other than that fairly standard fair for a metroidvania.
Bugs: For a game otherwise as polished the game had a surprising number of bugs. The most common being one where the camera stopped following Sargon, this was fixed by going back in frame and moving the camera a bit. A few game breaking ones where I had to restart the game. Whenever this happened I had luckily just saved so they did no have a big impact on my enjoyment of the game. The biggest bug is one where I am missing one Damascus Ingot (Crafting Material) to get my bow fully upgraded (only thing I'm missing for 100% and platinum trophy), I have finished all side quests and gotten all treasures according to the map so I can only assume this is a bug.
Summary: Good platforming, decent combat but to buggy to recommend at the time of writing. With some patches though it is definitely something I'd recommend to any metroidvania fan.
Platforming: The strongest part of the game for me. I not usually a fan of 2D platformers, but this game manages a good balance of fun and varied movement with challenges that are difficult enough to be challenging but not overly frustrating (with one optional exception).
Combat: Does the job. The focus here is primarily on spectacle with some bosses providing a decent challenge. I found the sound effects of the swords swinging to be a bit lacklustre but not so much as to be distracting. Biggest disappointment is that the final optional boss was a pushover, would have liked at least one really tough optional boss.
Story: It had one. Somewhat forgettable and predictable, but does a good enough job of establishing what you're doing. Weirdly one character seemed to just disappear from the story. Voice acting was pretty good, not excellent but did the job.
Puzzles: While not a major focus the ones that are there are mostly good. (Though one or two optional ones that most players will likely need to use a guide for)
Exploration: The game lets you take a picture of the environment so you can easily check where you might be able to use a new ability. Other than that fairly standard fair for a metroidvania.
Bugs: For a game otherwise as polished the game had a surprising number of bugs. The most common being one where the camera stopped following Sargon, this was fixed by going back in frame and moving the camera a bit. A few game breaking ones where I had to restart the game. Whenever this happened I had luckily just saved so they did no have a big impact on my enjoyment of the game. The biggest bug is one where I am missing one Damascus Ingot (Crafting Material) to get my bow fully upgraded (only thing I'm missing for 100% and platinum trophy), I have finished all side quests and gotten all treasures according to the map so I can only assume this is a bug.
Summary: Good platforming, decent combat but to buggy to recommend at the time of writing. With some patches though it is definitely something I'd recommend to any metroidvania fan.