Amazing, but I figured it was to be expected by Ubisoft Montpellier. I had the same feeling playing this when I played Metroid Dread a few years ago, but this game's traversal made exploring and platforming through the map a stellar time, and I always found new ways to experiment with the combat. The game's presentation rocked with its cutscenes and flashy combo finishers. The story was pretty good, though nothing too special. Depending on the difficulty level, I say you get a pretty good challenge, some of the bosses took me a few tries, but never felt unfair or too easy. You unlock different specials and amulets throughout the game. I wasn't sure how many I would be able to carry by the end, but I picked a loadout that best fit my playstyle.

The game doesn't autosave that often so try to go to a Wak-Wak tree whenever you can. I experienced a couple bugs that either made the game crash, or forced me to restart, but these were rare. There was a bug funny enough that made me unable to take damage for a good while, which made me completely invincible to one of the later bosses in the game.

I know it's Ubisoft, and I haven't played the other Prince of Persia titles before this one, but I recommend The Lost Crown with all my heart. I may go back soon to 100% it.

GOOOOOOD Game. The developers really let their creativity flow throughout the game, and it always felt like they were introducing something new from beginning to end. The game progression was very refreshing for a 2D Mario game, having come off of the NSMB games. The new power-ups were pretty cool. Of all the new ones introduced, my favorite has to be Bubble with how useful it is in some of the KO Arenas, and movement options, and Drill being able to burrow underground. Elephant was neat, but I felt like there wasn't as much utility for it as there could've been outside of spraying water. Everything visually from the art direction, animations, UI, etc. are all phenomenal. The badge system was a clever way to enhance the characters' movesets while keeping everyone the same. Despite the lack of traditional online co-op, I actually really like how the online was handled in this game. While the game is pretty easy, other players showing how to find some secrets or saving myself and others from death gave this game a big community aspect that I'd love to see in 2D Mario games going forward.

I love the Wonder flower, although some effects were cooler than others, and two of my gripes are just the boss battles being kinda whatever, and I wish there was at least one more badge challenge for each one you got.

Nintendo knocked this one out of the park. I love 2D platformers, and though I do enjoy the 2D Mario games I've played, I don't think there's one that I've loved more than any of the 3D games until this one came out. If you haven't played it already, you're missing out.

Update: That final final level is EVIL, especially towards the end wtf Nintendo

I'm so happy this game exists. It isn't afraid to show it was inspired by Jet Set Radio, but I wouldn't write this game off as a soulless copycat. Almost everything about this game from the gameplay, music, and aesthetics rock. The general gameplay loop is very fun. For as simple as doing combos are with only a few buttons, learning to keep your combo up is extremely satisfying to do, and the post-game brings a large incentive to mastering it. The soundtrack is just a 10/10 with some of my favorites being Da People, Get Enuf, Next to Me, Funk Express, Big City Life, and I Wanna Kno.

As a bboy, it was awesome to see how the director's dance background was infused into the game by tying a specific dance style and playlist to each crew, doing cyphers to switch characters, and the choreography accuracy.

If I had any gripes with the game, I feel like the combat could have been fleshed out a little bit more, you barely have a frame to fully tag a cop with graffiti before they go flying, and the impact doesn't have enough oomph to it. Also, the story is pretty interesting, but it's kinda aight towards the very end. There were a couple additional gripes I had about certain elements not being in the map, but some quality of life updates fixed them for me fairly fast.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a game I need everyone to play yesterday. I can't wait to see how Team Reptile follows up on it.