I produced a map while working on this. drive.google.com/file/d/1TXJf_XGZjZvrimhMx0QxANky6sAPH6tz/view Note that it was made to aid my recording process first and foremost and I’m not really concerned with its user friendliness or how it looks, though I did go back and add a few lines of text to aid the user. It’s comprised of 753 layers, mostly text, and took about 50 hours to make. Yes, it’s pretty slow to work with at this point and this is definitely the most elaborate visual aid I’ve ever made for a performance. If you find something I missed, feel free to comment or email me and I will update it after I confirm it. This was way too involved for me to just abandon it. I can easily make changes to the image and I won’t have to update the link in this post if I do, as it will automatically point you to the most up to date version. It would help if you could be detailed and not just “you missed this, lmao”
This is by far one of my top faves. The Ancient city has a melancholy feel to it, as if you have to go back in time and see a magnificent city in utter ruins. Hard to explain, but the isolated characters, the music in different backgrounds, the sadness of what once was, it all fits perfectly.
There's always a strange sense of comfort with PS2 games that I feel when I play them, Regardless of what it is. This one in particular is the one that does it for me. I don't know what it is, The game may be brutally difficult but it's also relaxing at the same time with the soundtrack and the dated graphics.
I remember playing this game when I was young with my grandfather. I could only remember the beginning cut seen of the soldiers blood hand print on the door. The nostalgia hit I got was fucking insane.
This game has very disturbing moments such as the corpses hanging in the dark room in the king's tomb or the prisoner soldier near the Widda temple who ends up devouring his companions
These King’s Field games, while appearing clunky, were ahead of their time. This one in particular is quite good. The ambience and music give it a lonely and melancholy feel that we really see fleshed out in later FromSoft titles.
@@filho4437I wouldn't say that kf is ahead of it's time, because it's more like a reimagination of a full 3D dungeon crawler environment with his own ideas, games like Ultima underworld or dungeon master already did the same as kf, but at least kf has a better control scheme (in my opinion) than the two games mentioned.
Dark Souls 2 has always given me a strong Kings Field vibe. For all it's flaws, it has an atmosphere and 'vibe' about it that no other Fromsoft game after TAC has. DS2, for all it's many flaws, has this impenetrable air of mystery surrounding it - the strange shadowy figures, the inexplicable geography, and the more fantastical almost fairy-tale esque art-style. Such a strange and beautiful game, even if it is still the least polished of the three.
The director of Dark Souls 2 actually worked on another from soft game called shadow tower, which was sort of a spin off of kingsfield. That might explain the similarities between the two🤔
Tons of enemies from Shadow Tower are in Dark Souls 2. Gyrms, Giant Malformed Gross Trees lol, Giant Malformed Mushroom....things, even the Undead Soldiers. Shadow Tower is unbelievable.
Yes, even the giant you energize with some item to open a door at the forest, very similar to those on DS2 with souls. And then the inside is very.. Drangelic castle wall texture, with series of knights that wake up. Similarities are crazy. And way more stuff, like the amazing frozen map that unfreezes and reveals more loot and enemies (like that one DLC in DS2), those annoying spitting statues, are hanging statues in the silent room with whispers on KF4. The only thing I saw that rather reminded me DS1 than DS2 was the existence of Lizard Men as enemy type. And the always recurring Moonlight Sword through all KF series. But really KF4 is both my favorite in atmosphere and music and locations and really reminds me of DS2 inspirations.
I can see a lot of things that carried through to future Souls games, but man oh man that VO at the beginning. I'm glad they settled on the forlorn VOs we have now. FOR I AM PATCHES AND I AM HERE IN THIS LAND THAT TIME FORGOT
@@shelly8563 Yeah maybe the first one is the hardest to get into and the most outdated but most people start with the 2nd one which was called just King's Field outside Japan. It is a good starting point imo.
@@Aristogonianfromsoft games are still like this, you’ll find npcs just standing alone in some dark corner of the map and just stand in place giving you exposition
Yeah Souls games have a melancholy solitude to them. They are meant to feel hopeless and bleak with only near glimmers of life between the enemies and hardship your character faces.
The spirit of FromSoft does that to characters. It roams the pages, hunts, looking for characters filled with reason, and slowly twists their reality as it detaches them from their surroundings. Soon, they become the very "dialog" they've been assigned to: arbitrary words collected into what Dark Souls fans call a story. Cracked Red-eye Orb could've been Blunt Rock Mayonnaise and it would've worked equally well, because most items are just rows in an Excel with arbitrary names without meaning. Item 17 has Effect 6 and Effect 14, multiplayer item. Eeny meeny miny moe, we'll call you Bloody Toe. Or why not Finger? Yeah that's it, Festering Bloody Finger. FromSoft has a process that churns out more of this, until infinity.
I realize they're completely different genres and different platforms, but by god, I cannot imagine playing this after Quake III. This game would seem too slow to me if I was playing it while lying in a coma. :D The music is gorgeous though.
I had some seriously weird ass dreams with this game playing in the background. I kept hearing a dog yelping in my sleep and no one would help it. Coming too, it was one the part where your in the snake cult area. That was messed up. No more of that then lmao.
I bought hammer of woe and water carver from chad. Water carver is great against the red lizard enemies, and hammer of woe trivializes the storm section of king's throne because the slow debuff allows you to circle strafe the four-armed knights.
2:17:18 - Nice. *[edit]* 3:21:55 - Burnt Ivory King-looking MF! *[edit 2]* 4:10:55 - That boss was pretty nutty, even had a second phase. *[edit 3]* 6:27:30 ...did he eat the other prisoners? *[edit 4]* 6:32:55 - That was super cool, I wonder how long the king has been sat there? *[edit 5]* Well that was an experience, thanks for sharing. I now wish to play it myself, but I live in the UK and i understant that the PAL version is terrible. Pain.
That would moreso be Demons Souls. I've always seen it like this; Demons Souls -> Dark Souls 1/3 Kings Field -> Dark Souls 2 Obv with a lot of overlap, though.
Did you grab the magic crystal near the old man next to the poison font thing. In early catacombs area….? I believe you shoot it down with fireball and grab it in the hallway outside giant spider room.
Such a shame for the attack's animation! If it was just a little bit better like for exemple to see the arm of your character!! Anyway seems a nice game 😊 😊
@@holidayinn4293 You think you're being slick with this but it's very obvious you spend a lot of time around these topics. Looks like I was right, wish you the best of luck. You're gonna need it little buddy.
Honestly the combat in KF4 works for what it is, I don't think you should knock it just because it's "not like dark souls" When you fight your first batch of elementals (the xenomorph looking things at 1:50:40) you'll understand that the combat system while "slow" is deliberate and kind of like a dance. It has its own pace which is very satisfying.
@@jeisonpineda2404 I don't think there's anything wrong with them enjoying them, since we're definitely not getting any old FromSoft IPs ever again. (Armored Core was the exception) Anyone who can stomach King's Field controls is alright in my book.
Still looks like it plays and is smoother than any Playstation 5 game that I've seen thus far...and I own a PS5!!! So far, the games look like a bunch of cell phone games that I could play without a console...😬😬😬
@jeffreylieberman1668 literally every single ps5 game ever released runs better and more smoothly then this. Love me some kings field but to say this runs better then a ps5 game is simply innacurate
the better software games that had unique and creative designs... Now what has been done over and over again after DarkSouls 2. Basically becoming the same as COD
@@Dielawn69 They're all pretty similar but I'd argue that COD is just mindless slop whereas the fromsoft games are amazing despite not being that much different from one another. I hope they deviate a lot in design with the next souls game
@@Dielawn69 oh buddy, clearly you never created or helped on a sequel in a same engine have you? Just Target an enemy in all those games that you mentioned, that alone is the same system, add everything else. Buddy, it's sad how stupid you really are and can't connect the dots. Just because it has different assets in the game, and the scaling, lore is different doesn't mean that behind all that the games aren't the same. It's ok kid, stay stupid... Honestly I envy you.
@@Dielawn69 Are you stupid, auto locking alone is the EXACT same blueprint they've used over and over again... MOVEMENT from DS games, Bloodborne, Elden ring have been Tampered just a bit. There is no WEIGHT to movement, i 100% doubt you know what weight in animations are... Sekiro I'll admit is def a more UNIQUE game by FS BUT, Activision PUSHED that. Dante's Inferno is a million times better than Elden queer. its an open world with an EXPLOIT thats existed by FS games forever, YOU ROLL and the enemies SWINGS have a direct HIT collision so you can NEVER get hit unless your actual SHIT.... The fact I played DS3 and beat my first game in less than 12 hours was stupid. Bloodborne is literally DS but Retextured. You're actually stupid its sad.
I produced a map while working on this.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TXJf_XGZjZvrimhMx0QxANky6sAPH6tz/view
Note that it was made to aid my recording process first and foremost and I’m not really concerned with its user friendliness or how it looks, though I did go back and add a few lines of text to aid the user.
It’s comprised of 753 layers, mostly text, and took about 50 hours to make. Yes, it’s pretty slow to work with at this point and this is definitely the most elaborate visual aid I’ve ever made for a performance.
If you find something I missed, feel free to comment or email me and I will update it after I confirm it. This was way too involved for me to just abandon it.
I can easily make changes to the image and I won’t have to update the link in this post if I do, as it will automatically point you to the most up to date version.
It would help if you could be detailed and not just “you missed this, lmao”
amazing thx
that map is simply incredible, what an amazing piece of work
more impressive cartography than the first ppl who sailed around the world
@@EnricosVoice seriously
Subbed just for the pure diligence
This is by far one of my top faves. The Ancient city has a melancholy feel to it, as if you have to go back in time and see a magnificent city in utter ruins. Hard to explain, but the isolated characters, the music in different backgrounds, the sadness of what once was, it all fits perfectly.
Playing it now for the first time in anticipation for the ER DLC. Loving it
Christ is king
@@FSVR54 In which plataform do you play it?
You single by chance ?!?
There's always a strange sense of comfort with PS2 games that I feel when I play them, Regardless of what it is. This one in particular is the one that does it for me. I don't know what it is, The game may be brutally difficult but it's also relaxing at the same time with the soundtrack and the dated graphics.
It's pure escapism
I remember playing this game when I was young with my grandfather. I could only remember the beginning cut seen of the soldiers blood hand print on the door. The nostalgia hit I got was fucking insane.
Christ is king
This game has very disturbing moments such as the corpses hanging in the dark room in the king's tomb or the prisoner soldier near the Widda temple who ends up devouring his companions
Yea i was scared asf playing this when I was a kid 😢
I was literally just talking about those two parts when I came here and saw your comment. ❤
Thanks a lot ❤ awesome work
Thanks, again, for the super.
These King’s Field games, while appearing clunky, were ahead of their time. This one in particular is quite good. The ambience and music give it a lonely and melancholy feel that we really see fleshed out in later FromSoft titles.
No is clunky, this game is very good and beautiful!
Kings for for PS1 was absolutely ahead of its time.
Kings field for PS2 is hilariously behind the times.
FromSoft ain't perfect. And that's OK.
@@filho4437 exactly. Nothing is perfect.
@@filho4437I wouldn't say that kf is ahead of it's time, because it's more like a reimagination of a full 3D dungeon crawler environment with his own ideas, games like Ultima underworld or dungeon master already did the same as kf, but at least kf has a better control scheme (in my opinion) than the two games mentioned.
Don't compare the copy-paste trash they make now to King's Field.
Watched the whole walkthrough
I swear, From software took a lot of enemy and location ideas from this game during the development on Dark souls 2
Dark Souls 2 has always given me a strong Kings Field vibe. For all it's flaws, it has an atmosphere and 'vibe' about it that no other Fromsoft game after TAC has. DS2, for all it's many flaws, has this impenetrable air of mystery surrounding it - the strange shadowy figures, the inexplicable geography, and the more fantastical almost fairy-tale esque art-style. Such a strange and beautiful game, even if it is still the least polished of the three.
Yeah I always tell people while dark souls 2 is my least favorite it certainly had some reaaaallly cool things about it
The director of Dark Souls 2 actually worked on another from soft game called shadow tower, which was sort of a spin off of kingsfield. That might explain the similarities between the two🤔
Tons of enemies from Shadow Tower are in Dark Souls 2. Gyrms, Giant Malformed Gross Trees lol, Giant Malformed Mushroom....things, even the Undead Soldiers. Shadow Tower is unbelievable.
Yes, even the giant you energize with some item to open a door at the forest, very similar to those on DS2 with souls. And then the inside is very.. Drangelic castle wall texture, with series of knights that wake up. Similarities are crazy. And way more stuff, like the amazing frozen map that unfreezes and reveals more loot and enemies (like that one DLC in DS2), those annoying spitting statues, are hanging statues in the silent room with whispers on KF4. The only thing I saw that rather reminded me DS1 than DS2 was the existence of Lizard Men as enemy type. And the always recurring Moonlight Sword through all KF series. But really KF4 is both my favorite in atmosphere and music and locations and really reminds me of DS2 inspirations.
Finally a longplay of this great game.
Holy shit a From Software game with an actual happy ending
Check demon's souls, one of two endings is happy too
Quite a surprise considering the even more depressing intro
Bloodborne has a good ending if you do the great one ending
@@uncleol you turn into a slug and lose your humanity
You never played Evergrace or Enchanted Arms?
I can't believe that there were serpent man already in King's Field! :)
I can see a lot of things that carried through to future Souls games, but man oh man that VO at the beginning. I'm glad they settled on the forlorn VOs we have now.
FOR I AM PATCHES AND I AM HERE IN THIS LAND THAT TIME FORGOT
The whole Kings Field Series need a Remake so much!
They have , it’s called Elden Ring ;) And it’s the entire King’s Field series too. More akin to the first 3.
@@silentservant_elden ring is nothing like Kings field save for a few creative inspirations
@@paddypibblet846 true.
All 4 games have aged pretty well. They are simple to play and the menus are really good and easy to navigate for the time as well.
@@shelly8563 Yeah maybe the first one is the hardest to get into and the most outdated but most people start with the 2nd one which was called just King's Field outside Japan. It is a good starting point imo.
I could watch this over and over again....
One of my favorite games, the soundtrack is special definitely
Everytime I hear a metal cage door open, it reminds me of the first couple notes of Rennala's children singing lol
5:10:44 i love how these enemies can silence eachother and they actually attempt to cast a spell when they are silenced, but nothing happens
I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one who enjoys these games.
Dont really get why people are spread out alone like that in such a dangerous world, just sitting/standing there.
Processing limitations and/or lack of imagination if I had to guess
@@Aristogonianfromsoft games are still like this, you’ll find npcs just standing alone in some dark corner of the map and just stand in place giving you exposition
I always thought it was because everyone was scared of going to the ancient city
Yeah Souls games have a melancholy solitude to them. They are meant to feel hopeless and bleak with only near glimmers of life between the enemies and hardship your character faces.
The spirit of FromSoft does that to characters. It roams the pages, hunts, looking for characters filled with reason, and slowly twists their reality as it detaches them from their surroundings. Soon, they become the very "dialog" they've been assigned to: arbitrary words collected into what Dark Souls fans call a story.
Cracked Red-eye Orb could've been Blunt Rock Mayonnaise and it would've worked equally well, because most items are just rows in an Excel with arbitrary names without meaning. Item 17 has Effect 6 and Effect 14, multiplayer item. Eeny meeny miny moe, we'll call you Bloody Toe. Or why not Finger? Yeah that's it, Festering Bloody Finger.
FromSoft has a process that churns out more of this, until infinity.
I still have this game ugh so great
Loved watching my pops play this game when I was just a youngin’ boy does it bring back some memories 😊
I realize they're completely different genres and different platforms, but by god, I cannot imagine playing this after Quake III. This game would seem too slow to me if I was playing it while lying in a coma. :D The music is gorgeous though.
Thank you Lord the game is alive again. I couldn't watch it, I don't know why
I had some seriously weird ass dreams with this game playing in the background. I kept hearing a dog yelping in my sleep and no one would help it. Coming too, it was one the part where your in the snake cult area. That was messed up. No more of that then lmao.
Could you please share your emulator settings or tips?
WHY DO I HAVE MEMORIES OF THIS WHEN IVE NEVER PLAYED IT BEFORE.
The elden ring dlc needs a roller coaster section
I bought hammer of woe and water carver from chad. Water carver is great against the red lizard enemies, and hammer of woe trivializes the storm section of king's throne because the slow debuff allows you to circle strafe the four-armed knights.
i remember doing passage of light with the curse and i do it all alone HAHA i grind a lot of levels before i can resist that zone haha
2:17:18 - Nice.
*[edit]*
3:21:55 - Burnt Ivory King-looking MF!
*[edit 2]*
4:10:55 - That boss was pretty nutty, even had a second phase.
*[edit 3]*
6:27:30 ...did he eat the other prisoners?
*[edit 4]*
6:32:55 - That was super cool, I wonder how long the king has been sat there?
*[edit 5]*
Well that was an experience, thanks for sharing. I now wish to play it myself, but I live in the UK and i understant that the PAL version is terrible. Pain.
Omg it’s Dark Souls 2
a favourite, thank you
Dark Souls 0.5?
Pretty much
Dark Souls is King's Field 2.0
That would moreso be Demons Souls.
I've always seen it like this;
Demons Souls -> Dark Souls 1/3
Kings Field -> Dark Souls 2
Obv with a lot of overlap, though.
rly tho whys the sword swing so slow
the more i look at old fromsoft games, the more i realise who Twighlight Princess was inspired by
Why it looks so much more real than Skyrim or dark souls or elden I wonder what is it maybe is the pacing
Did you grab the magic crystal near the old man next to the poison font thing. In early catacombs area….? I believe you shoot it down with fireball and grab it in the hallway outside giant spider room.
Dude... Success doesn't come easily
Is the movement speed modded?
No, but I would not expect accuracy with PCSX2 so inaccurate frame rates may be influencing things.
You hold down x to sprint
2:46:05 where is this? how do I get there?
You use the green wand
Strafing, the game
Awesome. Man u back me in 2006. Respect u.
dark soul begin
Playing the first chapter.... fuck! The ambients are the same and i cannot find seath's armour
1:18:39 minecraft spider
odd how this game is on the ps2 yet it uses dated ps1 controls
Wdym? It has dual analog support
Reminds me of elder scrolls blades.
Such a shame for the attack's animation! If it was just a little bit better like for exemple to see the arm of your character!! Anyway seems a nice game 😊 😊
strange games i never got into.
3:07:15 wingless Charizard?
This game have ng+?
nope
6:29:45 what
If they figured out third person works better in this era we would have had dark souls on ps2, everything else is there.
Those games are straight garbage but it's their milk cow. They won't give it up. We'll never see anything like this series of games again from them.
@@holidayinn4293 I'm having trouble separating the autism from words
@@Lansolot It sounds like your dosage is off. Talk to your psychiatrist about it.
@@holidayinn4293 You think you're being slick with this but it's very obvious you spend a lot of time around these topics. Looks like I was right, wish you the best of luck. You're gonna need it little buddy.
Nice playthrough, thank you very much. God bless. Jesus loves you!
Even the King's Field series have the fourth game and Dark Souls doesn't. 👀
i always like to play king's field, but the grafic still the same from 1 to 4
Holy shit, I can't stand all the high octane action.
If the combat was like dark souls games 😢
Honestly the combat in KF4 works for what it is, I don't think you should knock it just because it's "not like dark souls"
When you fight your first batch of elementals (the xenomorph looking things at 1:50:40) you'll understand that the combat system while "slow" is deliberate and kind of like a dance. It has its own pace which is very satisfying.
For the love of God, gatekeep dark souls fans from old fromsoft games
@@jeisonpineda2404 I don't think there's anything wrong with them enjoying them, since we're definitely not getting any old FromSoft IPs ever again. (Armored Core was the exception)
Anyone who can stomach King's Field controls is alright in my book.
Still looks like it plays and is smoother than any Playstation 5 game that I've seen thus far...and I own a PS5!!! So far, the games look like a bunch of cell phone games that I could play without a console...😬😬😬
You're blind, then
@brothermanner really?! Name one?
@jeffreylieberman1668 literally every single ps5 game ever released runs better and more smoothly then this. Love me some kings field but to say this runs better then a ps5 game is simply innacurate
28:15 69 Gold
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the better software games that had unique and creative designs...
Now what has been done over and over again after DarkSouls 2.
Basically becoming the same as COD
How the fuck are DS3, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring all the same?
@@Dielawn69 They're all pretty similar but I'd argue that COD is just mindless slop whereas the fromsoft games are amazing despite not being that much different from one another. I hope they deviate a lot in design with the next souls game
@@Dielawn69 oh buddy, clearly you never created or helped on a sequel in a same engine have you?
Just Target an enemy in all those games that you mentioned, that alone is the same system, add everything else.
Buddy, it's sad how stupid you really are and can't connect the dots.
Just because it has different assets in the game, and the scaling, lore is different doesn't mean that behind all that the games aren't the same.
It's ok kid, stay stupid... Honestly I envy you.
@@linezgames3893then all kingfield games are just the same lazy copy
@@Dielawn69 Are you stupid, auto locking alone is the EXACT same blueprint they've used over and over again...
MOVEMENT from DS games, Bloodborne, Elden ring have been Tampered just a bit.
There is no WEIGHT to movement, i 100% doubt you know what weight in animations are... Sekiro I'll admit is def a more UNIQUE game by FS BUT, Activision PUSHED that. Dante's Inferno is a million times better than Elden queer. its an open world with an EXPLOIT thats existed by FS games forever, YOU ROLL and the enemies SWINGS have a direct HIT collision so you can NEVER get hit unless your actual SHIT....
The fact I played DS3 and beat my first game in less than 12 hours was stupid.
Bloodborne is literally DS but Retextured. You're actually stupid its sad.
this game is so slow
It is but it's in the games favor.
This game is like Hexen for old people.
hexen fucking slaps