Thanks to Ubisoft for providing the opportunity to play Prince of Persia: Rogue early adopt, this time we "Know the Game www.yxzzd.com" to experience the game content of the first 2 levels of the game, and try this indie sketch for the first time and experience the basic Rogue-lite gameplay content of the game. Prince of Persia: Rogue is a 2D action rogue-lite indie game created by Ubisoft and Evil Empire Studios, the team behind Dead Cells. Despite the short duration of this experience, we were able to get a glimpse of Prince of Persia: Rogue, and it can be said that Prince of Persia: Rogue is a Rogue-lite indie skit that combines action and jumping gameplay in the future.
Prince of Persia: Rogue has a refined 2D hand-drawn art style rather than pixel art like Dead Cells, which is more receptive to pixel art and has more detailed combat details. The game's graphics and scenes are designed to be based on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and veteran players of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown will feel very familiar with this game and have a sense of déjà vu. Even though it's a standalone game, the game's soundtrack still features the same Persian composer as Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and the game's music is a fusion of traditional Persian music and electronic music, which sounds pretty good.
Prince of Persia: Rogue has delivered the spirit of its gameplay from a short demo experience, continuing the core of Evil Empire Studios' signature 2D side-scrolling rogue-lite action game. The gameplay is still the same 2D side-scrolling rogue-lite action jumping gameplay as Dead Cells, and it will be very easy for players who love Dead Cells to get started.
The protagonist of this game returns to the real Persian prince and is reborn in the oasis after each death. The game map is still a 2D flat randomly generated map with multiple layers above and below, and there are many teleportation points in the map, which is convenient for everyone to move quickly. The game also offers a variety of melee weapons such as knives and axes, ranged weapons such as bows and arrows, as well as a variety of action designs such as kicking, smashing, and parrying defense. As a 2D side-scrolling action game, "Prince of Persia: Rogue" has a smooth combat action experience and vivid special effects of damage and bleeding, but it is decent in terms of action and combat feel, and the experience is weaker than that of "Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown", which is still the level of "Dead Cells". The boss battle that is currently open is also quite exciting and challenging.
Due to the short duration and levels of this trial, the gameplay and system presented by the game are still relatively limited, for example, we did not see more in-depth gameplay differences between different growth genres like in Dead Cells. In addition, compared with "Dead Cells", "Prince of Persia: Rogue" currently has more platforming operations, especially running against the wall, which is also closer to the Castlevania-like action gameplay of "Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown" rather than a pure rogue-lite game, which is the biggest difference between the game experience and "Dead Cells". In addition, the enemy density of Prince of Persia: Rogue is also lower than that of Dead Cells, and the battle graphics are not so dazzling.
There are also few settings and content involving the game's plot in the trial levels, especially the mysterious oasis is not much to show, and it is expected that the game will be able to further improve the relevant plot after its launch, expand the world view of "Prince of Persia", and link with "Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown".
In our previous review of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, we mentioned that Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a 2A-level work, and Ubisoft's choice of the more hardcore and niche genre of side-scrolling Castlevania action games as a reboot of the Prince of Persia IP has the nature of testing the waters. Then the volume of "Prince of Persia: Rogue" is smaller, it is only an independent game, the "Prince of Persia" IP from Ubisoft, and the actual game production is led by Evil Empire Studio, so this work is also an attempt to restart the IP of "Prince of Persia". From the positioning of the new work of the 2 "Prince of Persia", we can also see that Ubisoft hopes to differentiate "Prince of Persia" and "Assassin's Creed", in addition, at the moment when the cost of triple-A games is rising day by day and the window period is too long, short-term and low-cost indie games are a good complement to triple-A games, no matter how thin the content of "Prince of Persia: Rogue" is, but at least in the first half of 24, everyone can play 2 different styles of "Prince of Persia" action games. And just such a work project and development ideas are worthy of recognition and support.
Unlike previous Ubisoft releases, Prince of Persia: Rogue will be the first to be released on Steam rather than all platforms, and will be available in Early Access on May 14. Players who understand the Steam Early Access release model know that games released in the Early Access mode are in a state of being online while developing, and the game can be played, but the initial content will be less, and the content needs to be continuously updated and filled to expand the game content. Therefore, when "Prince of Persia: Rogue" was launched on Steam on May 14th, everyone should also lower their expectations, judging from the content presented by the game so far, the game can be played at that time, but there will not be many levels and bosses, and the game process will be shorter.
The audience of Prince of Persia: Rogue is very clear, its target audience is players who love Evil Empire "Dead Cells", if everyone likes "Dead Cells" then "Prince of Persia: Rogue" will not disappoint everyone, "Prince of Persia: Rogue" is still excellent. In addition, fans of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown will also feel familiar, although the action experience of Prince of Persia: Rogue is weaker than that of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, but the rogue-lite elements have a different flavor. It is recommended that players who are interested in Rogue-lite or even Castlevania-like games can try to get a feel for Prince of Persia: Rogue when it goes live in Steam Early Access on May 14, and I believe that as the game continues to be updated, Prince of Persia: Rogue will become more and more attractive.