

( 2006, Japanese only release, PlayStation Portable) This game is so full of madness and head-fuckery that even I can’t make a joke about it. ( 2006, Japanese only release, PlayStation Portable)

( 2005, Japan only release, Mobile Phone) ( 2004, Japan only release, Mobile Phone) ( 2001, aka Kings Field: The Ancient City, PlayStation 2) ( 1996, aka King’s Field II in the USA, PlayStation) (1995, aka King’s Field in the USA being the first KF game to be released there, PlayStation)

( 1994, Japanese only release, PlayStation/remade in Sword of Moonlight: King’s Field Making Tool, Microsoft Windows) … to 1994 South Park’s Cartman makes a cameo as Verdite’s local graveyard vendor in King’s Field 1994. Please try to contain your terror when I tell you…that we are going all the way back…. Let me take you back into the hazy shadows of the mysterious past. The Souls Series, just like the ancient kingdoms it portrays, has a history that runs long and deep. But how ‘out of nowhere’ really was it? It got the backing of corporate megalith Bandai/Namco for a start and it’s obscure Japanese developer From Software, now with an enormous following, had been developing games and successful franchises for years (uhh, does anyone remember Armored Core and Echo Night? Find their timelines on here soon). The gaming world was invigorated by the idea of true old-school gaming sensibilities being matched with a high standard of design and graphics. The raging success of Dark Souls came pretty much out of nowhere in 2011. TIMELINE OF SOULS GAMES AND RELATED MEDIA This guy, Solaire of Astoria, is apparently one of those new-fangled mahmaymays that internet 12 year olds love so much
