King's Field (1995)
Genres:Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Themes:Action, Fantasy
Game modes:Single player
Story:King's Field--the hour of destiny is at hand... Your kingdom is once again under attack by the ruthless minions of evil. This time they have possessed King Alfred himself! As the King's son, Prince Lyle, you must bring forth the tide of change that will effect the universe from now until the end of time. The fate of the world is in your hands!
Re-enter the realm of King's Field for the most explosive debut on the PlayStation yet... ASCII Entertainment went all out to provide a fully non-linear three dimensional world that even blows away the original! The intense action and powerful storytelling will keep you riveted for months!Show more
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As an early zoomer, I didn't play this growing up; but I've been a FromSoft fan since I played Elden Ring (like how Breath of the Wild made me a LoZ fan), & so when I randomly heard about King's Field in a Gameranx video, I was intrigued enough to dig into it; which's how I found out it was FromSofts very 1st IP, & shortly afterwards, about the spinoff series, Shadow Tower, & that they're the IPs that pioneered everything the Souls games & Elden Ring're famous for now, & where many iconic Fromverse elements, like Seath the Scaleless & the Moonlight Greatsword, made their debut. So naturally, when I started emulating retro games on my Steam Deck (because getting the og hardware's prohibitively expensive now), I had to download both the King's Field & Shadow Tower IPs to play; & while they're, as FromSoft games're famous for being, brutally difficult, I've been enjoying them, & I immediately noticed their control scheme was what'd be standard keyboard & mouse controls mapped to a controller, as demonstrated by modern games that, while officially labeled "Soulsborne", or a similar term, actually, whether the developer realized it or not, take more after King's Field &/or Shadow Tower gameplay wise due to being played from a 1st person perspective (surprising the difference it makes); which's why I came up with a new term for such games I even made into a Steam tag; "King's-heir". Games like Monomyth, Dread Delusion, & the upcoming games Dreamspring & Labryinth of the Demon King. So, as you may've guessed, I wanna see both the King's Field & Shadow Tower games made playable on PC for both longtime FromSoft fans, & simply curious newcomers, to enjoy, & discover where many iconic FromSoft elements came from, & where the legendary studio got their start; & if Nightdive Studios doesn't remaster/remake them, I wanna see them added to the GOG preservation program (if you see this reposted on the other King's Field/Shadow Tower games, the story's the same there as it is here).
We had a Playstation in our household when I was a kid, and one day my mum came home with two games that my cousin didn't want anymore: The Incredible Hulk and King's Field. The latter apparently gave him nightmares.
While I played both of those games, the one I spent the most time with was King's Field. At first it was my older brother that played, and I watched. And we'd try to solve the game together. We'd stay up late into the nights. This also meant we got to experience the game's atmosphere at its strongest.
This experience is one I consider to be formative for me as a person, helping shape my tastes in media and more.
I grew up with retro games, but I didn't play King's Field until long after playing its spiritual successors, Demon's Souls and the Dark Souls series. Something about these games are truly special, and they make for intensely immersive dungeon crawlers with a high focus on exploration and using your inventory intelligently.
For how late I got into them, they easily take the spot of one of my favorite series of games of all time, especially the Verdite Trilogy. On that, this particular one, KF2 jp or KF us, is my favorite of the entire series.
played this game as a kid never got to beat this game because I didn't understand what to do never got passed the first dungeon. would love to replay this game as an adult. PRESERVE THIS GAME!!!!
This game needs to be preserved! it is difficult to get ahold of and has a of history even with modern gamers. I got this on an emulator because it is so hard to find, it is so fun and would love to get a legitimate copy.
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