{"id":11870,"date":"2021-06-23T19:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/11870\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T19:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:25:36","slug":"the-daddy-of-dark-souls-the-final-kings-field-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/11870\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The Daddy of Dark Souls&quot; \u2014 the final King&#39;s Field&#8230; 20 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VuQGvY5VOeo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThank you Wizards of the Coast for sponsoring! Check out Dark Alliance here: https:\/\/t.wizards.com\/c\/4d1dpx<br \/>\nKing&#8217;s Field: The Ancient City (also known as King&#8217;s Field 4) was the last game FromSoftware made for the King&#8217;s Field series. How does the predecessor of the Souls series compare? Does it still hold up?<\/p>\n<p>twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/IronPineapple_<br \/>\ntwitch: https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/iron_pineapple<\/p>\n<p>TIMESTAMPS<br \/>\n0:00 intro<br \/>\n1:06 king&#8217;s field naming scheme<br \/>\n1:37 story<br \/>\n2:15 &#8220;welcome to the game&#8221; moments<br \/>\n3:23 a bleak world<br \/>\n4:26 intro area\/missable items<br \/>\n5:50 combat<br \/>\n7:10 exploration<br \/>\n8:14 journey to the tower<br \/>\n8:55 central tower and verticality<br \/>\n9:40 surprising discoveries<br \/>\n10:45 fake walls<br \/>\n12:15 traps<br \/>\n13:10 music<br \/>\n13:54 no loading screens?<br \/>\n14:47 ice zone\/fire zone\/durability<br \/>\n16:00 dwarf lore theory<br \/>\n16:48 weapon &#038; magic levels<br \/>\n18:33 misc thoughts<br \/>\n19:32 ending section<br \/>\n21:36 final thoughts<br \/>\n22:33 outro\/sponsor<\/p>\n<p>thank you to kevin&#8217;s computer for the very cool animated intro and knight renders throughout the video: https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevins_computer<br \/>\nthank you to Grapfic for help with the thumbnail: https:\/\/twitter.com\/Grapfic<br \/>\nthank you to Onua for rendering the SFM poses for use in the thumbnail: https:\/\/twitter.com\/Odynom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Wizards of the Coast for sponsoring! Check out Dark Alliance here: https:\/\/t.wizards.com\/c\/4d1dpx Ki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,6259,647,2029,4229,14843,14845,14846,2234,15,10938,9370,14844],"class_list":{"0":"post-11870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-dark-souls","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-gameplay","11":"tag-guide","12":"tag-iron-pineapple","13":"tag-kings-field","14":"tag-kings-field-4","15":"tag-kings-field-the-ancient-city","16":"tag-review","17":"tag-rpg","18":"tag-souls-like","19":"tag-soulslike","20":"tag-video-essay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}