FromSoftware historians manage to rescue 2004 mobile version of King's Field, the father of the entire Dark Souls series, and everyone's making the same joke

A skeleton warrior in the mobile version of King's Field
(Image credit: FromSoftware/RockmanCosmo)

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:FromSoftware's King's Field laid the blueprint for pretty much the entire Souls series – unsettling atmosphere, mysterious worlds, and brutal diffic♔ult – and while the Japan-only PS1 original is well-known among modern fans these days, the same can't be said for its similarlyꦐ region-locked 2004 mobile port. That's just changed, however, as the once lost phone version has been found, preserved, and even translated into English.

This 2004 phone version of King's Field was developed internally by FromSoftware itself, and 🍸features different map layouts alongside some improved quality-of-life features, like quick-saving and automaps. It's still a first-person dungeon-crawler that might look primitive to a modern eye, but in the context of earl🌳y '00s phones, it's darned impressive.

Many Japanese phone games of the era have effectively been lost to time, pending the efforts of preservationists importing these phones, hacking them, and dumping their contents for the world to see. Japanese feature phones of the era, also known as keitai, were a big deal, and many notable developers released full-on, proper entries in popular series that fans are trying to prevent from disappearing. The recent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:preservation of a canon Xenosaga sp🌠in-off is a notable recent example.

News of the preservation of this version of King's Field co🐷mes courtesy of keitai preservationist RockmanCosmo, who attributes this work to a user called Yuuku. You can check out the for a look at the game itself, as well as a guide on how to get an emulator that can handleꦡ it up and running.

If you're a connoisseur of retro video game memes, you might recognize King's Field for another reason: it's 🌃the game t෴hat of two skeletons from an old gaming magazine captioned "the PlayStation can produce mind-boggling effects."

The quaint image of the undead warriors with that superlative description has become downright infamous over the years, and I was prepared to conclude this story with soꦫme terribly clever joke about how "mid-'00s Japanese phones can produce mind-boggling effects." But I've already been . , many . Ah well, it's once again proof that the internet can prod꧅uce mind-boggingly similar jokes.

King's Field sadly did not make our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best FromSoftware games. I know, I know, I'm gonna bring it up at the next meeting.

Dustin Bailey
Staff Writer

Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually fi𒈔nd him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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