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Every Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review score: is it the best Metroidvania in history?
We’ve gathered most of the review scores for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Ubisoft’s grand return to its classic franchise, to see how it’s faring.
The Prince is back. Fourteen years passed in the blink of an eye since the last entry of the franchise, The Forgotten Sands, but at last we see the return of one of Ubisoft’s most beloved sagas. And what a return! Many doubted it when it was announced, since we we’re moving away from 3D platforming and instead getting a 2D metroidvania more similar to the original 1989 game than the platformers of the PlayStation 2 era, but Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has ended up being an incredible game that doesn’t get bogged down by the genre switch.
The international press is unanimous in its praise of what has turned out to be a great Metroidvania packed with visual and playable ideas. Awesome movement, a fun and concise combat system, memorable bosses, outstanding level design, ingenious and varied powers, speed, and challenge that make it the first GOTY candidate of 2024. Even at the risk of saying this in the second week of January!
The best Metroidvania in history… according to scores
So far, these are the best Metroidvania titles in history according to Metacritic, where unfortunately gems like Super Metroid or Castlevania III are not taken into account. In any case, it is a good review of the big names of the genre:
- Hollow Knight - 90
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps - 90
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - 89
- Dead Cells - 89
- Metroid Dread - 88
- Ori and the Blind Forest - 88
- Shadow Complex - 88
- SteamWorld Dig 2 - 88
- Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights - 86
- Metroid: Samus Returns - 85
- Axiom Verge - 84
- Blasphemous 2 - 84
- Guacamelee! - 84
- Salt and Sanctuary - 84
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - 83
- Guacamelee! 2 - 83
- TEVI - 83
- F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch - 80
Every Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review score
With over 30 reviews at the time of writing, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown stands with an 86 on MetaCritic and an 86 on OpenCritic. That is to say that today it would firmly cement itself in the aforementioned Olympus of Metroidvanias. These are all the scores:
- Attack of the Fanboy - 10
- MeriStation - 9.5
- PlaySense - 9.5
- PSX Brazil - 9.5
- XboxEra - 9.5
- Areajugones - 9.4
- Hobby Consoles - 9.3
- CD Action - 9
- Easy Allies - 9
- Noisy Pixel - 9
- PlayStation Universe - 9
- Press Start Australia - 9
- TheSixthAxis - 9
- TrueGaming - 9
- Vandal - 9
- WellPlayed - 9
- MeuPlayStation - 8.6
- Checkpoint Gaming - 8.5
- COG Connected - 8.5
- GamesHub - 8
- GamesRD - 8
- IGN - 8
- Push Square - 8
- Screen Rant - 8
- VGC - 8
