Summary
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crownisn’t an easy game. It stays true to the legacy of Metroidvanias by beingquite punishing, both in and out of boss fights. You’ll be dying over and over again, especially if you try to get through the game in Immortal difficulty. Enemies deal a bazillion damage, environmental traps are laid everywhere, and platforming can get extremely difficult.
Although some optional platforming challenges and a few gauntlets of smaller enemies will get your blood pumping, nothing gets as intense as the most difficult bosses Mount Qaf throws your way. With a Souls-like inspiration that has been seen in other games of the genre, Ubisoft Montpellier created some tough encounters.
9Erlik
The Boar
The angry boar is one of the easiest bosses Sargon takes on during his journey through Mount Qaf, and the devs are well aware of it. He shows up multiple times in later areas of the game as a normal, respawning enemy, and once you learn his moves, he is very easy to deal with.
With that said, he is so aggressive at first and deals so much damage with each attack that he will likely overwhelm you in the first few attempts. Yet, once you learn you can parry his charge very easily and that you can stick close to him to avoid the poison spit, he becomes a relatively easy boss fight.
8Jahandar
Guardian Of The Citadel
The manticore takes Prince of Persia’s difficulty to the next level when you face him. He has a lot more weapons in his arsenal than a boss like Erlik, while still dealing absurd amounts of damage. Learning this fight will take longer, and it will force you to be much more accurate with your dodges.
Jahandar is also the first boss with a second phase(a Souls staple used throughout The Lost Crown), which is considerably harder than the first one. This ferocious enemy is quite a challenge.
7The Two Alternate Sargons
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Alternate Sargon is a recurring boss fight in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. They vary in difficulty and mostly get harder as you progress through the game. Most of these encounters are quite difficult, but one stands out above all others as one of the toughest fights in the whole game. You’ll find this fight in the Soma Tree, and it will be a true challenge.
These two Alternate Sargons dodge away during your sword combos; they can parry your attacks and arrows, and if you make the mistake of being in the middle of them, they’ll kill you in the blink of an eye. You’ll have to be very aggressive and make use of aerial combos to come out victorious, and it will feel damn great when you do because this is one hell of a fight.
6Azhdaha
Enemy Of Humans And Gods
Azhdaha is a very intimidating fight. You’re facing a gigantic king cobra-looking enemy who’s nicknamed the “Darkest Soul.” This boss will throw an entire arsenal of attacks your way and force you to use multiple Time Powers to get through unscathed. You need to play aggressively if you don’t want to spend an eternity dodging projectiles and that pesky tail, and that makes it even harder.
With that said, if you get the hang of using Shadow of the Simurgh and the Dimensional Claw in the second phase, you should get through this challenge without too many deaths. It is the first main boss in the game to force you to use multiple Time-Powers combined with dodges and parries, though, so it is a very noticeable bump in difficulty.
5Menolias
The Arrow Of Destiny
The calm and calculated legendary archer puts up a fitting fight. He is a much more ranged-oriented version of Sargon but shows an entirely new side to his fighting style when the second phase of the fight comes around. He is fast, unpredictable, and quite hard to deal with. While he doesn’t really force you to use any of your Time Powers, like most of the toughest fights in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown,Menolias throws so much at youso fast that you’ll quickly feel overwhelmed.
You’ll have to dodge a ton of projectiles while paying attention to the ones you can parry to get breathing room. You can’t just rush him down and attempt to combo him to death because he’ll just push you away. He is great at both punishing over-aggressive and overly-passive playstyles, incentivizing you to really strike a balance in your approach if you want to be successful in the hardest difficulties. Menolias gives you one hell of a duel.
4Orod
The Storm Master
The laughing giant really lives up to his intimidating stature. You knew thatOrodwould be extremely powerfuljust by looking at him, but you probably hadn’t guessed that he was also the Storm Master. He wields a massive weapon that will transform throughout the fight, allowing him to be quite unpredictable.
His attacks are hard to parry, even in the first phase, and when he reveals his final form, the fight turns into true chaos. Unlike Menolias, he counts as a large enemy, so he won’t be staggered by anything that isn’t an Athra Surge, so you’ll have much shorter windows to punish him. His intermission phases require good usage of multiple Time Powers, and he’ll keep you on your toes throughout the entire fight, posing a great challenge to Sargon before he heads to his final battles.
3Darius
King Of Kings
A bossfight that seems taken straight out of a Souls game;King Darius is an undead giantthat makes Sargon look like little more than an ant. His slumped stance with a giant sword is likely inspired by Dark Souls 3’s Slave-Knight Gael, and he’s as filled with tricks as his DS3 counterpart. His attacks are both too slow and too fast, which makes parrying his moves much tougher than in a lot of other fights.
His second phase turns everything up to eleven. He is much faster and more erratic. You can still learn how to parry his moves, but he’ll always throw one you cannot parry at the end. He’ll be flying and sweeping over the entire arena, forcing you to use your Time Powers consistently and punishing you harshly for making a mistake. King Darius lives up to the legends.
2Vahram
Time And Space
Thethird and final fight with Vahramis the best fight in the entire game. You’ve been waiting for this ever since the initial plot twist, wondering how much of a challenge he’d be after the first two encounters you had with him, where he was obviously holding back. He lives up to the hype that the main narrative creates, and he truly forces you to use every tool that you have at your disposal.
Vahram, Time And Space, has ascended to godhood when you face him, but Sargon had been ascending alongside him. This is a duel between two Immortals-turned-Gods, and it shows. Vahram is the most powerful enemy in the game, but one you face when you’re also absurdly powerful. You’ll have to dodge dozens of projectiles, handle attacks that spread throughout the entire arena, duck and weave throughout the entire screen, but you have all the tools needed. You’ll have to prove that you’ve learned how to use all your tricks to beat Vahram, and you’ll be rewarded with the satisfaction of beating the second-hardest boss in the game.
1Kiana
Forest Queen
Kiana isn’t the flashiest, most intimidating, or even most mechanically demanding boss in the game, but she gets The Crown for being Sargon’s toughest enemy on Mount Qaf. She doesn’t force you to use as many tools as someone like Vahram or King Darius because you don’t have most of them when you meet her. Instead, she pushes your understanding of the game’s basic combat loop to its absolute limit.
The Forest Queen is the only boss in the game that truly forces you to parry. During her two intermissions, she’ll be throwing an army of her “clones” at you for a few seconds. These can all be parried and are fast enough to be nearly impossible to deal with in any other way. You can jump over them, theoretically, but she’ll randomly attack from above, too, and if you’re in the air already, you’ll be toast. Unsurprisingly, she is the biggest challenge for players in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. King Darius and Vahram might be much more complex fights, but you’ll be prepared and have the arsenal to deal with their antics. When you waltz onto Kiana’s turf, you won’t see what hit you.
