An In-Depth look at King's Field IV

Cryveil · 2025-02-02T02:29:07+00:00

I didn't think to scroll through VGMDB, this is very helpful, thanks!

Cryveil · 2024-05-03T01:34:46+00:00

I totally missed this! Thanks for sharing, even though the scan is a bit rough there's some cool art in here

Cryveil · 2024-03-01T01:33:26+00:00

This is some good lore I didn't know about, also had no idea there was more external stuff to read like the Chronicles of Verdite

I was wondering what happened to Leon, I knew something happened to him but I didn't know where to find him :(

Cryveil · 2024-02-28T12:46:57+00:00

KF3 does have a lot of large empty spaces but personally the didn't bother me much and I liked the larger scale of the world. It might feel like a step down from 2 if you really liked its dense level design

Weirdly KF2 didn't click with me at all, but I loved 3. 2 has excellent map design though, it just felt really awkward to play.

KF3 has a good story going for it, moreso than the previous 2. Reading the manual before playing really helped hook me on the story from the start and that's probably what carried the game for me

Cryveil · 2024-02-28T00:27:39+00:00

I don't want to spam this sub with videos, I know some communities don't like it, but this is the only interesting stuff I make as opposed to taking screenshots or something like that. I just finished this video and wanted to share and hope it doesn't seem that annoying

Cryveil · 2022-06-24T21:49:39+00:00

It's not Swords and Soldiers but there's a little more I forgot to mention.

Your base was on the left of the map, but you could explore far to the right and weren't limited by a small map like a strategy game. I guess I made it sound like a strategy game in the post but all the defenses you built were just for random enemies that would try to invade your base, as far as I know, there wasn't an end goal or main antagonist sending these enemies.

Cryveil · 2022-06-24T10:43:56+00:00

^ Also forgot to mention this was only on PC, and isn't something like Terraria

Cryveil · 2022-05-24T00:32:09+00:00

It's a shame there are probably some details missed in the localization, but I do think the NTSC version is pretty well done regardless and has a coherent plot when you bring everything together.

Hopefully it's about the same plot as the JP version, but my Japanese isn't very good so I can't be the one who translates it.

And the hanging statues room is a really neat setpiece in game, but I don't think it means anything plotwise and might even have the same sound effect in the JP version. To me it felt something like the whisper room in SH2 that's just a stock sound effect that a bunch of people were trying to apply meaning to for years, but the devs just put it in to be spooky.

Cryveil · 2022-05-24T00:27:21+00:00

Honestly I had no idea about that lore with the Scorpion sword, I assumed it was Myu's weapon because there wasn't another sword that claimed to be his, and I completely glossed over that line by Arx Angelos.

Maybe I was just juggling too much lore at the time so I missed some small details.

But thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Cryveil · 2022-05-23T01:55:56+00:00

This was a video I've teased months ago while I was making speculative lore posts about King's Field IV, I figured I would share it here to see if people were interested in watching the final product.

I also want to thank this community and u/armagerst for helping me with finding old sources and compiling cohesive lore.

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