Prince Of Persia Creator Addresses 'Lost Crown' Controversy Surrounding In The Best Way

The game looks great, the combat looks awesome, I can't wait for it and I could care less for the appearance of the character.
I mean, it could be stick figures, but with this combat, I am on board.

The trendy haircut is pretty stupid, but I imagine most peoples' problems lay in the more problematic direction.

I see variations on basically two main different looks there across all the previous designs, and then this new punk dude or whatever look that is. I can't tell, is he supposed to be a black guy with a shaved side cut and dreads? Is that the look they're going for with the new Prince of Persia main character? He looks fine, but his hairstyle is maybe a bit too "cool" and modern for its own good and seems possibly misjudged. Of course, I'm not a Persian expert, and certainly don't have a clue about the time frame this game looks to be set in, so maybe some real expert can tell us if this actually looks good and makes sense or actually kinda stupid and misplaced given the context, theme, location, setting, era, etc. I wouldn't have even brought it up if I didn't see this article and indeed now the original Tweet clearly making a big deal out of it--I didn't think too much on it when I watched the trailer first time around--but now I want to know just so we can all be clear on it once and for all.

Yeah I will pass, a bit too zoomer for me.

Can't say I care about the look of the prince, but I'd rather have full 3d game a la Sands of Time than a sidescroller. Is that remake dead?

His response makes me dislike it even more. Gotta love the modern-day response of "Hey people who don't like this, your feelings are wrong and i have proof!"

Fun fact, nobody wanted a Poochie-fied prince.

The game looks like it's trying to capture the woke crowd but it's gonna flop. They don't pay for anything and those you should be working to earn their buck from is the fans of the previous games but hey it's your time and someone else's money to waste. PASS!

Might as well go ahead and lock this one down 😆 smells a bit in here already.

Ahhh, the fresh smell of thinly-veiled racism in the morning.

Shame to see so much of it in the comments section here.

@Kayden3 : Your first comment aptly describes the elephant in the room with regard to this "new direction". It's hideous, anachronistic, and requires quite a substantial suspension of disbelief to believe that such a man would belong to a Middle Eastern royal family (though I'm unclear as to whether the protagonist is supposed to be a royal or a commoner).

And while the gameplay admittedly looks solid, it's disappointing that a franchise borne of lofty ambition (the original Prince of Persia still impresses 30+ years after its release) would produce something so unremarkably derivative. I would love to see them actually revisit the original's concept and produce a game with realistic physics in the spirit of Jordan Mechner's original vision.

I'm also quite annoyed with the very Western/"zoomer" art direction given that this is one of few gaming franchises routinely set in the Middle East. It hardly seems reflective of "diversity" if Prince of Persia of all things is being Westernised in response to corporate pressure. If the producers wanted to revive the franchise as "Prince of New Jersey", then I would have appreciated them being upfront about it rather than insulting our intelligence and co-opting a beloved decades-old franchise.

I do think they belong in a different game, that's what I think of the character design.

I guess some bodyguard for the Prince more so. But the design does look odd.

The game itself may be good I am interested. But I assume if Ubisoft knows how to do metroidvanias.

Insomniac's Song of the Deep was a fair attempt I noticed the AAA to it immediately but hey it was a good attempt and unlike Prince of Persia was generous in who it was targeted to with the dev's daughter and a genre they'd never attempted but cared about and a small Spyro size team and I can see that in it, not just following a trend like Ubisoft is taking with Prince of Persia the same way Ratchet tries to be the 'hip thing for kids' and we just go what are you talking about not as fans getting annoyed for the sake of appealing to a new audience but as people going what are you thinking and warning that it isn't a good angle to do so with the IP.

I think the past characters worked. I think appealing to the west is odd. They can but do they have to 'this' hard it's just awkward.

Like sure many don't think of Persian mythology/culture as much as greek, norso or others, but I'm enjoying Forgotten Sands on Wii (Prince and Zahra are great) and clearly many people supported Prince of Persia entries over the years.

Appeal to an audience is sometimes ok sometimes awkward.