Now I'm not sure what to do. Played through KF1 (JP version with English patch) and I was able to get through the entire game without the use of a guide, thought it was actually pretty straightforward even if I got lost a few times.

King's Field 2 I start out alright, but eventually drop down a hole and keep exploring. Hole is much more difficult than the areas I was in... but not so bad. Eventually I start coming up against ice golems and stuff, which I can't seem to kill, so I sprint past them.

I end up in a room with just a single ice golem, and decide to try and fight it. Like most of the other enemies in the game I had fought, it is bizarrely weak to basic circle strafing (it's super easy to stay behind it and never get hit) and just as I'm about to hit it for what feels like the 200th time with my Morning Star, and I'm about to give up because I assume it's invincible, it dies! And gives me a dope sword! And then the ice is gone, and an ice mail is left behind. Suddenly the enemies down here aren't quite as dangerous, so I press on for a few hours.

Since I have Retroachievements turned on, it becomes increasingly clear that I'm somewhere I'm not yet supposed to be ("Find the 4th light crystal" when I've only found 1...) but I keep on going, hoping I'll find a warp or an item to teleport me back home like the Green Dragon Rod from the first game.

More and more spelunking and I'm in a funny little coliseum of sorts with enemies in rooms that open one at a time, which I think is neat but they're all super easy thanks to the magic of circle strafing. The human you fight is much more difficult and kills me a few times, but once you get behind him you can do the same thing. Beginning to wonder if this is how you're "supposed" to fight because the first game felt a lot different.

Then I finally beat him, get to a save room behind him, find some weird demons and angels in tubes and think "this is way weirder than the first game" and go into a cube with a little maze. The maze takes me a good 10 minutes of sprinting (did I mention how easy sprinting made it to get this far? I sure as hell didn't fight everything to this point, at least until I got the ice sword) to find a proper path, I jot down the path, which you can traverse without taking a single hit, and begin the fight against the boss, a weird one-eyed dragon.

At this point I see it's guarding the moonlight sword, so I assume I've entered an area nearing the endgame, given everything that's happened so far.

The boss completely destroys me a few times, but then I take out my bow (I picked up an arbalest earlier but never got a single bit of ammo for it) and start shooting my piddly 14 arrows at the little orbs. It doesn't seem like it does anything, until I get a level up prompt and one disappears. I don't have enough ammo to kill them all before pulling (and it auto-starts the fight if you get too close) but I'm able to leave just 2 flying around.

I die a couple more times, but am able to consistently start the fight with just two. My only items are a single one of those full-heal dragon crystal things and two moon stones, plus 4 demon picks, everything else is just to heal status ailments.

So I try an attempt where I shoot the orbs with magic (I only have fire ball and wind cutter) but it doesn't seem to do anything, so I shoot the dragon with it instead and while some attacks land, the orbs appears to dash towards the magic to intercept it. Then it finally clicks. I try aiming my magic towards where I am (so I can actually reach the orbs) and it works! They come flying over. Using this I'm able to kill the remaining two orbs, and then... I die again.

But now I feel like I stand a chance, since the orbs are the reason I kept dying (that and the dragon randomly launching nukes, which it seems to do less if I can get close to it) -- I get back in there, leave two orbs, start the fight proper, then kill the remaining two orbs. I figured out what demon picks did prior to this (seems to double my magic power? Or at least raise it by +30 or something) when I first got one and experimented with it, so I pop that and unleash wind cutters until my remaining 50 MP is out, then attack the head until my health drops, pop my dragon crystal thing, use my full MP bar to launch another billion wind cutters, run out of MP again (but do enjoy that each wind cutter staggers the boss more easily than awkward head slashes) and then, when I'm down to just 30 HP and am still swinging wildly, thinking I might need to either load a REALLY old save state (I try to minimize their use as much as possible to proper save rooms/experimenting with items/if I have to stop playing, but I ain't no purist, would never survive on actual PS1 hardware, not at that framerate!) from before I entered that original hole... but then the dragon actually dies!

...and as I await my glorious sword reward, a cutscene plays and the game is over. WHAT?? Nothing about what I did felt like a climactic ending at all! I knew I was in an area I shouldn't be yet, but the first game had this real sense of constant progression and things felt more and more chaotic and dangerous, even though you were quickly becoming OP. When I saw the moonlight sword from the first game, I assumed, like the first game, I'd get to use it! It's a neat sword! But... nothing.

Now, I didn't mean for this to become a novel, I figured people might say "how the hell did you do that" so I figured I'd pre-empt it with an explanation, oh well. So I sit at 41/177 achievements. I feel like I've barely SEEN this game, but I'm torn. Beating it kind of took the wind out of my sails to see everything, I didn't realize it was so nonlinear, which is neat! But it was rough when I just kept going deeper and deeper, waiting for it to loop back on itself and lead me to the starting area (the first KF had a lot of returning to older areas, almost like a home base) but it never happened. Feel like my stubbornness for not turning back just kind of robbed myself from experiencing a good portion of the game. The ending montage was all a bunch of stuff I hadn't even seen! Haha.

Anyway, not sure why I'm posting this besides to vent. Thought it might be a funny story. I have no idea if I'm gonna just bite the bullet and start over, but it now feels "wrong" to proceed to KH3 when I barely experienced 2.

Anyone else ever have something silly like this happen? I can't imagine it's too common, but that dang sprint makes it SO easy to get by the sluggish enemies...

Hello! Currently at level 47 and I've gotten to the guy summoning skeletons behind the kingly door. The guide I was using mentioned grinding the skeletons to get to level 60 for the rest of the game. Doesn't sound very fun to me as I died 5 minutes into trying this lol. So am I good just playing the game normally from level 47 on or should I grind a bit here?

Hello, guys, can you help me? I started playing Kings field 4 recently and i don't understand, where i can find bridge emblem, which lowers the bridge In a dungeon where strange dragons fly and spit fire. I trampled through every room, but without success, nothing was found.

I'm looking to compile as much information surrounding the development of Shadow Tower as I can, that includes old web interviews or strategy guides, maybe art prints too (although I found a lot of those already, so less important).

I'm not sure even if many articles/interviews about Shadow Tower or early Fromsoft exist, but I can only search so deep when most of the websites that would've hosted them have long delisted those pages, which is why I'm wondering if there's anyone who has anything special about Shadow Tower.

Now, before you post, I've already grabbed the stuff linked from the Wikipedia page (Gamers Republic Interview-the best source I've found so far, & the RocketBaby Kota Hoshino interviews), along with anything posted on the Internet Archive (art scans, promo material).

If anyone would like to view those, you can find them here:

https://archive.org/details/Gamers_Republic_Issue_07_December_1998/page/n115/mode/2up

https://web.archive.org/web/20030424102416/interviews.rocketbaby.net/interviews_hoshino_egac2_1.html

These don't give a lot of information about Shadow Tower specifically, but it's the most substantial thing I've been able to find. If anybody has material or knows of any beyond this, it would be immensely helpful to my research.

If you have any Fromsoft interviews between 1994~2010, I'd also like to view those for future reference :)

I'm also particularly looking for a retranslated Shadow Tower manual prologue, since the English manual reads pretty poorly and I'm wondering if the original Japanese text is more interesting. Any extra lore info/material would be helpful as well.

In KF4 there’s a room with a penis shaped pedestal in the center that says Torch of Light.

I lit it with my fire spell and it illuminated the room revealing what looks like fingers hanging from the ceiling but nothing else happened.

What am I missing and yes the penis pedestal is still erect and on fire.

I am curious what people would add/change to KF4 formula if lets say a KF5 came out.

I understand the soul of the game really plays off that loneliness, I think dark souls 1 almost feels as lonely. But they sprinkle in interesting NPCS that I think also add alot and then they end up mostly at your home world or small downtime areas.

Would more active npcs kill the feel? How about shields/parry? Would it keep the janky very slow attacks? and have blocking on that?

Coop? Summons? Messages or even the ghost system? If anyone is cares enough I'd love to hear some thoughts.

Hello, any experiences with KF games on the Steam Deck? Videos and pics would be great

Im played this game like 2 years ago, and i still cant get this game out my head, im genuinely think that this is best, atleast most unique media humanity ever made. Im watched most obscure films, most gore and horrific games, but this game made me insane. I was starting playing this game thinking that its just going to be nice retro chill game experience, but i was completely fucked up by the end. Noting triggered my schizophrenia like this game. Just completely lack of any characters or plote, lack of any small piece of lore, of any hint that this game was made by human. Completely loneliness. Absolute freedom of fantasies about not just lore, but matters of this game itself. Dark souls "atmospheric" and feeling of loneliness just pale of dust compared to this game. I cant understand people who think that dark souls its just better king's field, this games on different level. Its like casual dark fantasy vs competitive dark fantasy. Im actually dont want this game become popular, because this game's absolute lack of information about itself and absolute lack of any meta knowledge - its absolute insane obscure game combo. I mean i dont care if a game has gore shit in it, or if nobody know about it, king's field 4 just designed on its core to be obscure. This game so obscure im genuinely scare of it. I may sound insane, but im so happy that i found some this much unique. Its inspiring me to writing absolute beast shit in terms of uniqueness. This game is Goat.

Trying to emulate all four games, can anybody tell me where I can go to get safe downloads for the ROMs of these games? I own them physically but don't want to rip them.

New to kingdfield/shadow tower and I wanna play through em bc lunacid blew me away, but kf1 is killing the hell out of me? Any tips on what I’m supposed to do or how to survive? Thank you so much!

Is there anywhere I can go to find lists for all of the weapons/armour/etc. in King's Field (US)?

Recently played through King's Field 2 and joked with some friends.

Wide as a barn, sprints at mach 90, addicted to Seath's piss with 20+ crystal flasks of it on hand, and as far as I know, never seen in any circumstances outside of KF2, this is the undisputable canon appearance of the great hero Alexander.

(you may not believe it but drawing that Dark Slayer took like ten minutes, that thing is annoyingly spiky)

https://preview.redd.it/wf6y7a6qaftc1.png?width=588&format=png&auto=webp&s=ce6e1d15487dbaa6626040267df913307a3b106c

For those like myself that played everything, maybe you skipped this game.

Drakan: The Ancients' Gates for Ps2

It was in my backlog for years and I thought it was another action-adventure generic game but with a dragon, but nothing like that.

I'm just a few hours in but so far

* Open world with empty spaces and without forced hand holding

*Simple combat mechanics, but mobs hit hard and can kill you in a few hits so you have to be careful

*You can explore where you want, even high level places, so you can try to go there and loot

*Measured game economy. Sparse but useful loot.

*Intelligent level design and enemy placement. Mobs will ambush you, and not being careful will get you killed if a couple mobs surround you.

*Really atmospheric visuals and sound. (I'm at one of the first maps, the Swamp, and it's awesome)

*I found a couple secret doors

Maybe later with the dragon (you get one) the gameplay changes, but so far it's amazing.

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So to play the series wondering if i should get all 4 and japanese ps1, or just emulate the first one and then get the other 3 on american ps1? I enjoy playing older games on the original hardware, but know it can be a challenge on american hardware.

How was anyone supposed to know to use the green wand? There’s no indication that I found saying “Hey, Use this item even though you haven’t found the corresponding Marker. It’s mandatory and gets you to the next part of the game.”

I was literally trying to fight sentinel bc after trying every single path that was the last one remaining until I realized to use the green wand.

Hello everyone, first time posting here.

I've uploaded a new lore video regarding the two dragons Guyra and Seath from the King's field series. The lore for this video was based on the Japanese version of the King's field games. There's quite a bit of difference between the Jpn version and Eng version, especially regarding the origins of the Moonlight sword.

Please take a view if interested. :)

https://youtu.be/YI3Ed2uyOUo

I can read and write a bit of Japanese and understand almost all words so I tried the original version.

Many things were different like the main menu and the name of the 'Idol'

In the Japanese version they called it the 'Statue Of Ruin' (simple translation)instead of 'sorrow'

Where can I read the full lore of king's field 4? I read some pieces of info in the in-game journal but before I end the game I want to read more while listening to dark reality.

Hello all. Just had a random thought and figured I'd share since i haven't actually seen it pop up in this sub yet and nothing came up when I searched it a few different ways.

In Kings Field III you have the light spell and it's the only spell that doesn't affect your magic concentration bar. You can exploit that. So you just equip the light spell on your select key and then just start mashing that button. Keep doing it and eventually you'll see your mp drain. Keep at it until you are the actual sun.

I liked to do this the moment I got to ralugo and the first gold fountain. Just pop a crazy straw into that sparkly water and break your thumb on that button. I recommend preparing a nice snack. Maybe set up a movie to watch. Just be careful casting flash and orladin that early in the game. You will die if you accidentally hit yourself

Have fun

Im at the end game but i just need the engineer's key to get the last eye i need 1 or 2 release rocks to get said key theres a guardian with a necklace behind him and have the list of all rocks in the game. I may have missed the one in the dresser with the 5 living armours but with just that to go by idk where to start looking

Edit: Forgot to mention this is in kings field 4/ ancient city