If you’re a fan of early first-person dungeon crawler RPGs, very much in the vein of Ultima Underworld (or maybe a Morrowind demake, with extra jank) then it might be worth taking for a spin. It has a lot of the ‘early gaming’ foibles, like having puzzles that are unfair, and killing you on a whim. The controls, mmm, give you a lot of thinking time, let’s say. It’s also derivative, “follow the leader, but on the PSX” stuff. But you can see that some love went into it.
“From magic” starts with Demon’s Souls. Don’t be expecting a bold experiment that defines a new genre with the KF games.
I mean that previous dungeon-crawling games in this style were mostly on the PC - that goes from your classic Dungeon Master to true 3D games like Ultima: Underworld. The King’s Field games are derivative, but are on the original Playstation, which didn’t have any other games like this.
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gets out his cane
You whipper snappers don’t know or remember King’s Field.
field-like
One of these days I’m going to play that.
If you’re a fan of early first-person dungeon crawler RPGs, very much in the vein of Ultima Underworld (or maybe a Morrowind demake, with extra jank) then it might be worth taking for a spin. It has a lot of the ‘early gaming’ foibles, like having puzzles that are unfair, and killing you on a whim. The controls, mmm, give you a lot of thinking time, let’s say. It’s also derivative, “follow the leader, but on the PSX” stuff. But you can see that some love went into it.
“From magic” starts with Demon’s Souls. Don’t be expecting a bold experiment that defines a new genre with the KF games.
What does this mean?
What does this mean?
I mean that previous dungeon-crawling games in this style were mostly on the PC - that goes from your classic Dungeon Master to true 3D games like Ultima: Underworld. The King’s Field games are derivative, but are on the original Playstation, which didn’t have any other games like this.
Oh, makes sense.