Showing posts with label King’s Field II for PlayStation Print Ad (1996). Show all posts
Showing posts with label King’s Field II for PlayStation Print Ad (1996). Show all posts

Thursday, November 17, 2016

King’s Field II for PlayStation (1996)

Original ad published in the October 1996 

edition of Electronic Gaming Monthly (no.87). 

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An enigmatic offering that sparked the Souls craze


Hardcore Demons Souls, Dark Souls, as well as Bloodborne fans know that From Software, the legendary Japanese studios that created those modern franchises, were responsible for a less known but equally important game that cemented what could be called the “unforgiving action RPG”. That game is called King’s Field and its sequel, featured in this post, still garners high esteem among the retro crowd. 

You would never know the link between the Souls series and King’s Field by looking at the ad rolled out in major video game publications during the last quarter of 1996, a time when the PlayStation was working hard to gain its footing in a market dominated—at the time—by Nintendo and Sega. But a game like King’s Field II would be exactly the type of product that Sony’s juggernaut would become legendary for: a game that was a the same time quirky, hard as hell, niche, and rich with lore.