Kings Field (PSX): Review

[@Trevelyan2]

Sponsored by Dicken’s brand Apple cider!

[@Iamgoat41]

You haven't had anything until you've had a Dickens's cider.

[@Beeyo176]

First off, I didn't even notice the Flanders cheeks so kudos on the subliminal programming, nice one Trev. Second, it's funny that you down your writing in this video because from 23:55 on, you end being pretty insightful and put down some of your best work. It's difficult to put very specific feelings like this down into text. Good job.

[@Trevelyan2]

@@Beeyo176 thanks, I appreciate that. It was difficult to edit the end of the video in particular so it’s nice to get validation there.

[@PorygonFTW]

THE Wingsofredemption???

[@Trevelyan2]

Yep! And if he's washed up, then I'm the dried up bones on the beach.

[@MrScottyTay]

DMC is also my favourite Devil May Cry game, gameplay is stellar but the music just trancends it to levels the standard gothic games can never do in my opinion

[@razumskiy]

i keep liking and watching videos but subscriber count ain't going up! 😮

[@Trevelyan2]

@@razumskiy it actually is, I’m up around 20% in the last 3 months. It’s not a large number but seems to be filled with decent folk, and that’s all I care about

[@torgo_]

Great video. I love King's Field, and all these old spooky dungeon games. I'd like to see this genre make a comeback. It would definitely be possible to make a self-deleting game. I've ran some experiments on this before, including an online type thing where the game files are partially stored on the cloud with Firebase. Meaning if one player fucks up then the game files are corrupted for anyone playing it.

[@Trevelyan2]

I played an iPhone game a decade ago that sent SMS's to your phone, being a text based choose your own adventure book- The character was on Mars and asked you for assistance on what to do, including researching things online to find out what the best options are for survival. It was really cool. Add in the self-deleting feature and we will be thousandaires!

[@EarthboundX]

14:46 From Software still does this as well in a way. Playing Elden Right now, and you can't compare the stat differences from buying armor from a merchant, to what you are currently wearing. But at least you can when it's in your inventory. Still a dumb pointless limitation of course 16:39 That cool idea gets pretty bad in the third game, where instead of translating it, the localizers just made it all jokes. Now that I think about it though, I wouldn't be surprised in the same was done for KFII, just not as overtly jokey.

[@Dizerfullpower]

20:36 have you tried the Missile Shield spell?

[@Trevelyan2]

@@Dizerfullpower I did. Still sent to the abyss. As far as I can tell, it only takes you to a lower area that is a short walk away, making it pointless anyway.

[@tompuce84]

[@MikasaNeedMoney]

"..at least I can't, because I can't write for shit." Hearing that made my hand click the sub button on its own, somehow. Some dark magick at work, I presume. Guess I'll roll with it, Soulslop-style hehe...eh. Nice review bro.

[@Trevelyan2]

@@MikasaNeedMoney Thanks! Words bad get in my brain sometimes

[@MikasaNeedMoney]

@@Trevelyan2 lmaooo I hear ya

[@DoctorZyo]

There's something hilarious about watching an older man taking a decent swig of (what looks like) hard liquor and following that up with the words: Tea bagging noobs.

[@Trevelyan2]

It was a great day. Tea. bag. Dad hated video games for decades which added so much personal flair. 🥲

[@DoctorZyo]

@@Trevelyan2 Sorry for your loss, man. I recently lost a parent myself and I know it hurts. Glad you have some fun memories to look back on.

[@FessCloud]

1:46 That's Devil May Cry 5.

[@Trevelyan2]

Eh, close enough. Dante is in all of them. 😅

[@Beeyo176]

You bring up an interesting point with the Souls games- not necessarily one I have trouble with, but one that I acknowledge is present. And the problem is escalation. Dark/Demon Souls was hard because it was new to everyone, and the game mechanics were fairly simply. As the series progressed, so did the players skillsets, necessitating new ways to challenge the player, resulting in every boss being an exercise in attrition. In essence, every time we found a weak spot in the brick wall they built, they built a new layer of wall instead of filling in the hole we created. Mix that with Bloodborne almost completely negating a style of play most people were accustomed to, Sekiro basically being a different genre altogether, and imitators taking the wrong lessons from the Souls games, and you have what we have today. Or maybe I'm just trying to sound smart, I don't know. You don't pay me for my opinions, I'm just here to clean the toilets

[@Trevelyan2]

That’s true- If they made a new Dark Souls and kept it at a slower pace, the feedback is probably going to be negative. But the push from bonfire to bonfire in DS 1 is still brutal to every other entry, especially at the start, with the mobs being crafted to punish aggression. Personally, unlocking the elevation at the church is the floodgate of dopamine that is my reward, not the mildly difficult boss at the top. Black Myth had me for a while with their style, but the focus is bosses, and a lot of them. Tons of credit to where it’s due, it’s a rare game to turn me away. It’s so close to letting you feel like an ultimate badass monkey man, but you’re stuck being a glass cannon that can afford few mistakes as the game progresses.

[@soliddew]

yippeee

[@charless607]

TEA BAG

[@Trevelyan2]

His teabagging shall forever be remembered. :')

[@jhonviel7381]

🛹🛹🛹 🛫🛫🛫 🚳🚳🚳

[@EmergencyChannel]

Uh aktually the X button is a cross, not a X. Don't you feel embarrassed and shamed?

[@Trevelyan2]

@@EmergencyChannel so much so, that the video will be deleted along with the channel. Let the self flagellation begin

[@Xegethra]

Dickinsonia. Sounds like a sitcom. Dick and Sonia. It's not a very good sitcom.

[@Trevelyan2]

@@Xegethra Dickinsonia and HomoErectus, where dick and Sonia try to raise a Neanderthal. Yeah maybe put a pin in that idea. Lol

[@Xegethra]

@@Trevelyan2 Haha. A 90's throwback series right there.

[@borrellipatrick]

Think your disruptor video is how I started watching ya 🤔 Then your Goldeneye video made me subscribe 💪 I'm impressed the textures don't wobble in this game. Always hated that in Playstation games 🥲

[@Trevelyan2]

@@borrellipatrick while I do choose to render it as the original resolution, there Is some black magic in duckstation to help texture wobble. But also the game originally rendered pretty aggressively to keep it lower than most games. Thanks!