Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown's Deliciously Sadistic Immortal Difficulty, and Where to Preorder!

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Brutal. When you're a gamer who regularly tries to sink or swim in the deep end of difficulties, like I do, that word is one of the most complimentary you can use. And I've got to say it: after a 3-hour blind run into the Immortal difficulty of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, it has all the makings of being deliciously, refreshingly brutal.

My growing fondness for this reboot isn't just rooted in a weird masochistic kick, either. At 10 years of age on an Amiga 500, I cut my teeth (and the protagonist regularly in half by chomper traps) on a Prince of Persia surprisingly not unlike today's offering. It's a nostalgic thrill for me to be both side-scrolling again and to witness just how far we've come in crazy attention to detail and slick 2.5D animation. Ubisoft is not only on track to meet my high expectation mark of what a PoP ought to be; they're poised to wall-run up and over it with some clever modern mechanics.

I'm going to detail all that in a second. For now, I'll outlay some purchasing options for the diehards who clicked in with a “mind’s made-up already” mentality. If that's not you—and it's certainly not me—just bypass all the window shopping by skip clicking here.

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Before I take you into the belly of the beast and detail my torment at the hands of Immortal difficulty, I should probably set the scene and explain a few switch-ups to the PoP formula. For starters, our protagonist, Sargon, isn't the titular royalty. And that's despite his design being an amalgam of the OG Prince's fashion sense in 2003's The Sands of Time dressed over the edgier visage he took in the follow-up, 2004's Warrior Within.

Sargon is surly yet likeable. He also comes with an