Evil Empire is back with yet another update to The Rogue Prince of Persia, with the action-platformer getting new difficulty modifiers and more in the new Warrior’s Ascension update.
It actually dropped a couple of days ago, but just in case you missed it, here are the headline additions, including confirmation that you can now kick arrows back at your enemies!
- The Awakening – difficulty modifiers that you progressively unlock and combine to increase difficulty
- New skill tree layout + many more skills/improvements to unlock (7 trees!)
- New currency – Corrupted Blood
- Projectile reflect – kick arrows back at your enemies!
- Kick animation improvement to make it even more satisfying
- New mob – Knife Thrower
- Bomber bombs do friendly fire damage
- Roadmap for rest of 2024 coming next week
As for that new roadmap, as soon as I’ve got my hands on it, I’ll update this article with all the details. In the meantime, you’ll have to be content with details about the The Awakening, a new area that you visit once you’ve completed a run.
It’s here that you’ll be able to add the aforementioned difficulty modifiers, as explained by the the developers:
We heard your requests and difficulty modifiers are now here! After completing a run, the Prince finds himself transported to a mysterious area with a disembodied voice… We’ll let you discover the rest of that mystery, but once the Prince returns to the Oasis, an altar with a mask has been revealed…
Here you can choose stones which add difficulty to your next run, like an invincible scarab that attacks you the entire run, harder hitting enemies, weapons that break etc. You unlock a new stone each time you complete a run.
Each stone has a different score depending on its difficulty – beating a run with a certain score ‘total’ unlocks a new stone slot, allowing you to add progressively more difficulty.
When you have difficulty enabled you will earn a new currency, Corrupted Blood, as you kill enemies. The higher the difficulty, the more Blood you earn. What is this used for? Well…
Evil Empire has been very active when it comes to this Prince of Persia roguelite, and in the last couple of months the studio has added a new biome (Temple of Atar), a bunch of new weapons and enemies, and a speed boost mechanic.
Stay tuned for more news about The Rogue Prince of Persia later this week, or head this way for the EA launch review.
