Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown is lastly right here and has rapidly been racking up reward from seemingly everybody who performs it. With such acclaim, it was solely going to be a matter of time earlier than hypothesis started about what the Ubisoft Montpellier group would flip their abilities to subsequent and it looks as if the devs themselves have some fairly huge goals.
Final week, two of the sport’s builders, Christophe Pic (world director) and Rémi Boutin (senior recreation designer), hosted an ‘Ask Us Something’ chat on the r/metroidvania Reddit discussion board throughout which they had been requested a sequence of questions concerning the recreation, its inspirations and what it means to the Prince of Persia sequence as an entire.
One query that was highlighted by The Gamer requested, “When you might make a recreation for an IP that you do not/have not had have entry to, for instance Mario or Remaining Fantasy, what IP would you decide and how much recreation would you make?” It is no shock to say that Boutin’s response has piqued our curiosity:
Personally, I’d LOVE to work with the Zelda IP. Possibly a wierd spin-off primarily based on Journey of Hyperlink? (and naturally Castlevania)
A Zelda spin-off, eh? Primarily based on the much-maligned side-scrolling entry within the sequence, eh? Okay, we’re listening…
In fact, that is removed from a affirmation of something (who would not wish to make a Zelda recreation?), however it’s an concept that has left us eager about simply how great an idea it may very well be: The Misplaced Crown’s fight and motion however set on the earth of Hyrule — sure please!
All through the Change era, Nintendo has demonstrated its willingness to position its franchises within the palms of third-party studios (maybe most notably, on this case, working with Ubisoft on the 2 Mario + Rabbids video games), so this Zelda II dream is not not possible — even when it does really feel fairly unlikely.
For these questioning, Christophe Pic’s reply to the query took a barely completely different method, with the world designer expressing his dream to make a crossover between Bubble Bobble and Darkish Souls. Which reply appears the extra far-fetched now?