Seek the Dark || The Lore of King's Field IV: The Ancient City

According to Nishida Shinichiro, FromSoftware wanted to make sure that the PS2 was up to the task to tell the story that they wanted to tell in their next installment of the King's Field franchise. Ahead of its time and locked to a time when global control over an IP would come much later, King's FIeld: The Ancient City -- as it would be known in the West -- was a game that released a quietly, but who's influence would be felt even now.

I'm proud to present 'Seek the Dark' the result of a year of work on my end. Getting dumps of the NTSC (Agetec) scripts and JP scripts from the FromSoftware Modding Committee - to whom I'm grateful to - to translating and parsing out massive google sheet files; finishing up the Let's Play for research and footage; to the general hashing out, writing, editing, recording, and editing it took to get here. I hope you enjoy.

Thanks be to FromSoftware itself for maintaining a pdf library of most of its manuals without which comparison with my Agetec Manuals wouldn't have been possible.

If you would like access to the working script dumps, feel free to shoot a message on either discord or my social channels and I'll be happy to send a copy.

Transcript can be found at theomeny.medium.com

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:04 Notes and Disclaimers
4:40 The Primordial Dark
9:43 帳
11:40 The Ancient City
16:15 Sunlit Delirium
22:24 The War of Light and Dark
28:56 The Near Past
34:17 The Desperate
36:09 Doomed Expedition I
39:14 The Temple of Oath
42:38 Doomed Expedition II
44:00 The Widda (Ophidian)
48:25 Doomed Expedition III
48:34 The Quest of Devian Rosberg
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Music In Order Courtesy of the King's Field IV OST

Further Places:
We Review Every PS2 Game Oh God's interview with AGETEC producer Jeremy Kaufmann:    • Jeremy Kaufmann, Former Production As...  
JP LP of King's Field 4 by Miyashita of King's Field Ministry:    • 出来ない人向け キングスフィールド4 解説実況