The Blue Prince (PS5)

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DaHeckIzDat
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The Blue Prince (PS5)

Postby DaHeckIzDat » May 13th, 2025, 7:03 pm

You ever notice how it's the simplest ideas that always make the biggest waves these days? Ubisoft and Rockstar can go on and on about how their newest games have the biggest and most realistic worlds ever, and nobody even cares anymore. But a little game with a unique idea like The Blue Prince can set the internet on fire! This really is a unique game, but it's so simple that I'm betting every indie game dev is kicking themselves for not thinking of it themselves.

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You play as a young boy who's been bequeathed his uncle's 45 room mansion, on the condition that he can find the 46th room. Problem is, the mansion changes every night. You start at the entryway every morning, which has three doors to choose from. When you select a door, you're given a choice between three randomly selected rooms to put on the other side. Each room is laid out differently, and the idea is to choose rooms with doors that lead you to the final room on the far side of the house. Some rooms have multiple doors, some don't have any at all. Some have money and items in them. Some have smaller puzzles you can do to earn helpful prizes. Some have special effects, like bedrooms that restore your steps or dining rooms that serve you a meal. You start each day with fifty "steps" and going from one room to another counts as one step. The house doesn't look that big, but your paths will usually end up becoming so circuitous that backtracking through them will eat up your steps pretty fast. If you run out of steps or lock yourself into a dead end, you have to "Call It a Day" and try again the next morning when the mansion's reset itself.

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I played it for a couple hours yesterday after work, and when I one room away from reaching the final room I thought "Well, that was fun. Too bad it was so short." Then I chose a hallway that would lead to the final room, crossed into it...and found the last door sealed shut. I was legitimately surprised. Apparently there are more secrets in this house than I thought. I don't want to spoil any more than I already have, but there are *special* rooms that you can only place in certain parts of the house or under certain circumstances, and those rooms will help you unlock other places even deeper in the house. I ended up finding a breaker box with switches marked for rooms I hadn't seen yet, a guard room that unlocked doors in a high security wing I haven't found, and a garage that looks like it'll lead somewhere else if I can manage to get power to the garage door. A quick glance online also had people talking about breakable walls and using items from certain puzzles in completely different rooms.

Needless to say, this game's got my attention.

RatsTheDonkey
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Re: The Blue Prince (PS5)

Postby RatsTheDonkey » May 13th, 2025, 7:13 pm

Ooooooh, I love the idea behind this! Is it playable on PS4 as well?

DaHeckIzDat
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Re: The Blue Prince (PS5)

Postby DaHeckIzDat » May 13th, 2025, 7:33 pm

RatsTheDonkey wrote:Ooooooh, I love the idea behind this! Is it playable on PS4 as well?

Nope, looks like it's just PS5

DaHeckIzDat
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Re: The Blue Prince (PS5)

Postby DaHeckIzDat » May 15th, 2025, 1:55 pm

Played a little more last night, and I'm a little worried that the formula's going to turn stale before I'm able to beat the game. It's technically a roguelike, so what rooms you're able to draft and where are randomized with each run. That might not be a great combination for a puzzle game, since I might want to experiment a certain way, or even figure out the solution to the puzzle, but I won't be able to solve it because it doesn't give me the right combination of rooms to do what I want. I dunno, maybe the devs have figured out a way around that, but I don't see how they could without breaking their own rules that they've laid out.

newmodelarmy
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Re: The Blue Prince (PS5)

Postby newmodelarmy » May 15th, 2025, 3:28 pm

This game is free for PS+ subscribers, I downloaded but have not checked it out. Looks like something right up my alley.

DaHeckIzDat
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Re: The Blue Prince (PS5)

Postby DaHeckIzDat » May 15th, 2025, 4:07 pm

newmodelarmy wrote:This game is free for PS+ subscribers, I downloaded but have not checked it out. Looks like something right up my HALLWAY HA HA PUN


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