As if the last several years hadn't been busy enough, 2024 has now almost run its course with one of the more jam-packed video game release schedules in recent memory. The year started strong with the remaster of The Last of Us Part 2 and then quickly followed up with two of the year's most acclaimed games – Tekken 8 and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. But January was also the month that brought us the criminally underrated Prince of Persia reboot in The Lost Crown, a Metroidvania so good that it begs the question of why more AAA developers don't dabble in the space.