If this game is played for 15 minutes and then discarded due to the slow speed and pace of the game, you aren’t giving it the patience it deserves.
This is my favourite game ever. Great atmosphere and gameplay, the graphics actually hold up really well (played on an actual PS2), losing none of the immersion over the years. The soundtrack is simply phenomenal and merits a playthrough just to experience it in action.
If you like atmospheric games, as well as any FromSoftware RPG, do yourself a favour and play this game.
Depth is what helps save King's Field from the world of mediocrity. The level of control over your character is most assuredly a nice bonus as you can equip armor on just about every major body part.
Gamers willing to stick it out will be rewarded with a lengthy quest and plenty of challenge, but King's Field: The Ancient City is unlikely to create many new converts.
Замечательная игра с гнетущей атмосферой, хардкорным геймплеем и превосходной по тем годам графикой, не понимаю рецензоров которые захейтили игру за графен как по мне он вполне на высоте, играл в 2019 так что знаю о чем говорю.
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I was so disappointed when From didn't make anymore King's Fields. I don't understand the poor reviews this game gets. I guess people were looking at it as a high action FPS, which it isn't even remotely (but I guess that explains what forced From to go the Dark Souls route afterwards). This is an exploration horror game all about the atmosphere. The side quests are amazing and dark. I keep wishing From will surprise us with another.
This is not only the definitive entry in the King's Field IP, it's one of the best games on the entire ps2 catalog. As other reviewers have stated, it is indeed a slow game, with a completely and absolutely bleak and depressing atmosphere, akin to that so intensely praised ambiance found in the Souls games (which are, indeed, spiritual successors to King's Field).
And while it has a strikingly similar design ethos to that of the Souls games, it manages to be its own thing, focusing almost solely in the atmosphere and dungeon exploration (while Souls focus stands on the combat).
Definitely, not a game for everybody. And MOST DEFINITELY not a 60/100 game.
King's Field: The Ancient City may be the greatest rpg in the ps2 library, and it's a damn shame that critics and audicence at the time weren't able to understand the genius behind it. An absolute masterpiece and without a doubt a 10/10 in its own niche.
The start of this game is f****** scary in when you have no items you have to find armour and weapons, and the enemies can kill you in a few hits.
but I couldn't get through, which it's weird because I completed eternal ring and I have fun with that one, but this one is just a Step Too Far
My picking problem with the game is the turning the camera is just way to slow
SummaryAn accursed idol responsible for the destruction of an ancient race has resurfaced to wreak havoc once again among the kingdoms of man. You must return the idol to the Ancient City to break its curse, but monsters of unspeakable horror haunt the ruins. There is a palpable fear in the air of the Ancient City - even the monsters themselves...