The release of the new ‘Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown‘ has surprised everyone because, suddenly, it has pulled out of its hat a Metroidvania that has reignited the excitement among gamers for a saga long forgotten in time. Not in vain, its first installment is from 1989, and it had been without an original game since 2010. The change has been positive; the world seems to agree that its gameplay is fabulous… But all that glitters is not gold.
Robot of Persia
In reality, it’s a very minor but hilarious oversight: when programming the game, the developers decided to use robotic voices for some characters (the famous text-to-speech widely used, for example, on TikTok, replacing the traditional Loquendo), and later replace them with the voices of the real actors. So far, so good and quite standard.
However, there’s a character lost in the sands that slipped through. Meet Kalux, a Wak-Wak tree that restores your health and helps illuminate your path in the Catacombs. It’s only eight lines, but they sound robotic, no name is associated with him in the credits, and they clash with the polished perfection of the rest of the game. Of course, Ubisoft has already rushed to say they will fix it as soon as possible with a patch.
It must be said that, indeed, it is a minor oversight: there are 12,000 lines of text in total in five different languages, with a good handful more of subtitled languages. It will be at the end of January or the beginning of February, so if you want to listen and find the slip-up yourself, you still have time. Just make sure that the game is in English, because the rest of the languages are perfectly implemented!
