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If you’ve been watching the trailers ofPrince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, you won’t be surprised to hear that combat is one of the main focuses in the game. There are 13 different biomes on the main map, and each biome has a set of unique enemies with interactive attack patterns.
Apart from learning each enemy’s attack pattern, you’ll also have to get used to the general combat if you want to survive certain rooms, especially during the endgame. Thankfully, there are a few tips that can make it much easier.
Parry Is The Most Important
If a game has a parry mechanic, you know it’s going to be something you use all the time. The same can be said for Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, however, the parry in this game ismuch more detailed with both its advantages and disadvantages. The main advantage, of course, is that you get to avoid damage from an attack completely.
If you successfully parry a yellow-glow attack from the enemy,you can even perform an execution move on them. However, there are also downsides if you parry too early. When you parry an attack too early or try to parry a red-glow attack, you’ll see your screen get covered in red for a second.
This essentially means that you failed the parry, and when that happens,you take much more damage from the attack.
It’s important to keep an eye on your opponent and parry at the right time. You’ll also have tomemorize the general attack pattern for each enemy so that you may avoid getting hitby them whenever you visit the biome. Keep in mind that there are also some non-boss enemies that have special effects when you miss a parry.
For example, one opponent can enter your body on a failed parry andreduce your maximum health bar to one.
There Are Many Attack Combinations
As soon as you start playing this game, you’ll already spawn with dual blades as your weapon. Moreover, as you progress the story a bit,you’ll get your hands on a Bow and a Chakram. While fighting against an opponent, you may use these weapons to have a combination of over six attacks easily.
One example of this is throwing an enemy in the air by performing an upward attack with the sword, attacking it twice with normal sword attacks, shooting it with an arrow to reset the combination, attacking it two more times with normal attacks, andthen finally throwing it back to the ground with downward attack.
This combination is enough to defeatmost of the smaller enemies in the game, especially with a few upgrades.
However, the best part about this is that you canstay in the air for most of it, preventing damage from ground-based attacks.
There are many other combos you can perform in the game, andyou can learn them by training with Artaban near The Mage vendor. You’ll be able to reach him quite early in the game, and it’s important to finish this training since it also gives you some crystals apart from teaching you useful combinations.
Flyers And Archers Are Priority
Once you get past the first few hours of the game, you’ll start getting into more difficult areassince the game assumes that you’re used to its mechanics by now. These areas usually either have an enemy between multiple traps or multiple enemies at the same time. You can find various types of enemies in combat:
Out of all these types,archers should always be your first target followed by the flyers. This is because the former enemies can deal damage to you from a range, which is quite frustrating when you’re fighting other enemies. As for flyers, these enemies are quite hard to dodge since their attacks come at an abnormal angle.
As you progress the game, you’ll also get some abilities thatmake it easier to deal with these enemies.
Know When To Give Up
Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown has a beautiful map, and it gives you a ton of freedom to explore it. For example,you may get to an area that’s supposed to be partially towards the endof the game in the early hours itself. However, the difficulty of the enemies you encounter in these areas still matches the story.
This leads to scenarios where you might end up being in a place where you’re able to get defeated very easily. It’s important torecognize when you enter a hard area like that and backtrack on your steps. This will help you save a bunch of crystals that you’d otherwise lose if you continued.
The same can be said for the boss fights in the game sinceyou can lose crystalswhen you get defeated there too.
Choose Your Amulets Wisely
You’ll get all the weapons you can have in the game quite early, butone thing that you’ll constantly keep getting is the amulets. These are some of the collectibles that can be found in specific areas, and each one of them does something unique. You also have a limited amount of amulets you can place on Sargon.
While you can get more Amulet Slots as you explore the game, it’s always going to beimportant to choose the right ones according to your play style. For example, if you like an aggressive approach, you can use all the amulets that increase your weapons' damage in some way or the other.
Amulets canrequire one, two, or three slotsdepending on how good they are.
The best part is that you can actually upgrade every single amulet in this game, andit doesn’t increase or decrease the slots required by it. It can be done by talking to Kaheva The Blacksmith, and you’ll need both crystals and Xerxes to fully upgrade them.
