I'm starting to think Kira might not understand [i]King's Field[/i] at all.
You are given the tools, from the mud, the chisel and hammer were thrust into your hands. You painted and sculpted and stretched the fabric over the stone and the bricks. All you had to do was fill the world birthed with souls and steel.
Within a minute, I knew something wasn't right in the halls. I walk a bit forward and notice a hidden room that is reminiscent of the first hidden room in [i]King's Field 1[/i]. Lone chest so I figure something is up, which it is. Skeleton pops out and swings, misses. We play the usual game of stick n' poke for what seems like 5 minutes before I get killed. Game closes itself. Chock it up to Sword of Moonlight being an old engine. Stick n' poke, same thing happens. Uh oh, is the game crashing upon death? It's an annoyance because when it crashes my monitor flickers for a bit before going to normal. 21 minutes is all I can muster. I check the Steam discussions and see people either say it's intentional/result of the game engine. This is followed up by people complaining about said game closing along with game texture bugging, controls being clunky, etc etc. Fans of the game would then say "oh, it's not for you, it's for true [i]King's Field[/i] fans."
Like a 9-banger to the retinas. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ my head and was left puzzled. 'What?" I wanted to give the game the benefit of the doubt. I turned to my actual, physical ps1. I turned on my CRT. I started up the actual [i]King's Field[/i], the JP original. Maybe it was clunkier than I remember, rose-tints come for us all. I beeline for the hidden door in the beginning. I can physically feel it. It's smoother to play. I easily kill the skeleton here and the other enemies in the beginning area. I stop and turn it off. "Maybe I can't separate myself from nostalgia." Perhaps I need a fresh experience. SoM is a free engine, there must be other games made with it. There's an entire website dedicated to it. Giving the game more benefit of the doubt, I download a random game. [url=https://www.swordofmoonlight.com/games/angel-tower/][i]Angel Tower[/i][/url] is the first on the list. Of course, it being JP only, we quickly move past the story and begin the game. I wander a bit, hit a teleport, enter a dungeon with an impressive looking dragon enemy. I die in one hit. Almost immediately, I respawn in the first room the game places you in. "Huh." More benefit, i download and boot up [url=https://www.swordofmoonlight.com/games/dom/][i]Diadem of Maunstraut[/i][/url]. It's like cool water filling my belly. Lobster too buttery, steak too juicy. These so far have had the same controls as [i]Lunacid[/i], yet they're more responsive, little bit more slick. I kill myself and another instant respawn at the beginning. Even [b]more[/b], this time [url=https://www.swordofmoonlight.com/games/reign/][i]Reign[/i][/url] is up to bat! It's a homerun with built-in mouse look! Instant respawn after death! Call the game! Call the game! It's a blow out!
I'm at my limit, there is no need to waste time in this hole when there are much greener pastures. I think about the "true [i]King's Field[/i] fans" who haven't actually played the game squawking like a couple of stuttering parrots. One last go-around. What is supposed to be nuclear bomb vs coughing baby. [url=https://www.swordofmoonlight.com/games/tower-of-babel/][i]Tower of Babel[/i][/url], a game from 2003. Years of documentation, innovation and modern ideas should have prepped [i]Lunacid[/i] for this bum fight. Flashing lights. Camera shutters snap and click. The motor of the crowd rumbles. The young buck against the ol' battle axe over the hill. Let's get it on! The squeaks of shoes. Muscles shining under harsh lights. The human gears and oil work in tandem. The air rips from punches shooting straight from the barrel. A ragged and aged shadow ducks under the bullet. Thunder cracks. It happens in an instant. An infinite microscopic moment between 1 and 2. The motor dies. Silence weighing in a ton is cut by a sharp thwack of skull meeting mat. A body crumbled into bones and rags. [i]Tower of Babel[/i] slowly raises its fist to the air. No count is needed.
[b]DING DING DING[/b]
Coughing baby finally won.
