Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown highlights March's PS Plus lineup

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is the centerpiece of March's PlayStation Plus sport catalog entries. The critically acclaimed metroidvania title is accompanied by Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions, UFC 5, Arcade Paradise and the, uh, unforgettably titled Bang-on Balls: Chronicles. In the meantime, you'll want a PS Plus Premium subscription to play the return of wonderful PS1-era Mech-piloting motion within the first three Armored Core video games. This month's arrivals will all be available from March 18.

Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown is, by all accounts, a terrific sport. It has all of the sequence' components like tight parkour controls, swordplay and difficult platforming (with a wholesome share of magical secrets and techniques). Throw in its putting visible model with a wealthy colour palette, and you’ve got one thing particular. Engadget's Lawrence Bonk found it to be "a unbelievable metroidvania that would simply sit subsequent to a few of the classics of the style, like Hole Knight and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night time."

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It even has a helpful "reminiscence shards" characteristic that different metroidvania titles would do properly to repeat: Seize a screenshot of an space you need to return to later and pin it to your map. Lest the neat mechanic make issues too simple (one thing the style not often has to fret about), you solely get a restricted variety of reminiscence shard slots.

Regardless of receiving rave evaluations throughout the board, The Misplaced Crown reportedly solely bought round 300,000 copies throughout its first few weeks after launch, so Ubisoft did its Ubisoft factor and disbanded the team that made it. (Sigh.) Though which means we virtually definitely gained't see extra DLC or a sequel, at the very least most of its builders are nonetheless working at Ubisoft on different tasks. And hey, there's another Prince of Persia game to look forward to as early as subsequent yr.

Image from the game Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions.

Different highlights for Additional and Premium members embrace Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions, which supplies fast-paced arcade soccer a putting visible makeover (and a storyline!), and the nostalgic administration sim (with bonus mini-games) Arcade Paradise.

You'll additionally get the indie platformer Bang-On Balls: Chronicles, which is a bit like taking a 3D Kirby game, chopping many of the transformations and including quirky, slapstick humor (like elective flatulence). There's additionally UFC 5 in case you're into EA Sports activities' tackle bare-knuckle brawling.

Gameplay image of the original Armored Core game.

Basking within the glow of the acclaimed 2024 entry Armored Core: Fires of Rubicon, Sony is popping again the clock to the sequence' roots. PS Plus Premium subscribers can play Armored Core (1997), Armored Core: Venture Phantasma (1997) and Armored Core: Grasp of Area (1999) for the primary time on their fashionable PlayStation consoles (PS5 and PS4).

The revolutionary (and extremely customizable!) mech sequence laid the groundwork for the 2024 entry, which Engadget's Igor Bonifacic praised as "an unimaginable achievement in sport design and thematic cohesion, and, I believe, a promise of what we will count on from FromSoftware's subsequent era of expertise."

This month's PS Plus video games will likely be accessible from March 18. You possibly can read the complete listing of entries on the PlayStation weblog.

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