Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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King's Field: The Ancient City (also known as King's Field 4) was the last game FromSoftware made for the King's Field series. How does the predecessor of the Souls series compare? Does it still hold up?

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 intro
1:06 king's field naming scheme
1:37 story
2:15 "welcome to the game" moments
3:23 a bleak world
4:26 intro area/missable items
5:50 combat
7:10 exploration
8:14 journey to the tower
8:55 central tower and verticality
9:40 surprising discoveries
10:45 fake walls
12:15 traps
13:10 music
13:54 no loading screens?
14:47 ice zone/fire zone/durability
16:00 dwarf lore theory
16:48 weapon & magic levels
18:33 misc thoughts
19:32 ending section
21:36 final thoughts
22:33 outro/sponsor

thank you to kevin's computer for the very cool animated intro and knight renders throughout the video: twitter.com/kevins_computer
thank you to Grapfic for help with the thumbnail: twitter.com/Grapfic
thank you to Onua for rendering the SFM poses for use in the thumbnail: twitter.com/Odynom