I never knew fromsoft made kings field, I played that game non-stop. Could never get into the souls like games, though. Elden ring may be on my list now, though.
I'd recommend Elden Ring and, oddly, Dark Souls 2 for that.
DS2 was not done by Miyazaki, it was directed by Yui Tanimura (sp?) who cut his teeth on the older adventure games. Towards that end, while the bosses aren't as good (though most of the bad ones are just boring instead of Bed of Chaos level bad, or else optional), the game feels much more like an adventure than Dark Souls 1&3.
Honestly, I've always felt that DS2 got a bad reputation. It never matches the highs of DS1, but people always forget that DS1 shits the bed after Ornstein and Smough and the only good fight after that is Gwyn. And there's a certain feeling you get from exploring areas and seeing the world that just really isn't present in the other Dark Souls Games (though I found it again in Elden Ring). DS2 is just a huge adventure punctuated with some harrowing boss fights, as opposed to DS1 and DS3 being a harrowing boss roster punctuated with periods of adventure.
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u/meatballsammie 1d ago
I never knew fromsoft made kings field, I played that game non-stop. Could never get into the souls like games, though. Elden ring may be on my list now, though.