The Rogue Prince of Persia puts an acrobatic spin on the Dead Cells formula, but never quite reaches the same highs.

(Okay, but seriously: I know most modern game genre names are kind of dumb—looking at you, Metroidvania—but no game has ever felt further from the slow, brutal, 45-year-old ASCII art dungeon crawl of the original Rogue than this slick little package. But I digress .)

Our pal the Prince of Persia has been through a lot since his seminal debut in 1989, his form ever-shifting like, well, the sands of time. But throughout it all, from his eye-popping rotoscoped origins to his leap into the third dimension,