Question for Souls fans: Have any of you actually played (or

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I'm playing Shadow Tower Abyss right now
And it's fucking great

>>378382940
I would've played them by now if it weren't for the existence of the Dark Side collection. That box is legitimately gorgeous and the idea of owning the games in a different physical format just doesn't sit right with me. Problem is I don't currently own a PS2 and the box is fucking expensive.

>>378382940
I started shadow tower abyss, but dropped it soon after. Might get back to it, it's pretty weird and unique, just not engaging, at least at the beginning.
>>378383259
Is it emulating well?

>>378383259

I forgot to mention Shadow Tower. Lots of similarities with KF. Although Shadow Tower is even more unforgiving since your equipment is constantly breaking. KF4 introduced item durability to the series, but your equipment never breaks, it just has its stats severely diminished by a general lack of maintenance.

>>378383593

But with that kind of logic you'll never get to experience the series. I doubt the Dark Side box will ever see a price drop since it's a collector's item that was distributed only in Japan.

May as well play the games in their original release form. If you want to import them from eBay sellers based in Japan, they would in fact be cheaper than the English-localized versions.

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still have my copy of it for ps1, i loved it back then because the graphics were at the time pretty neat. they can be fun if you grew up playing older games, but a modern gamer would hate them. sadly they did not age well at all.

>>378384440
>Is it emulating well?
Yeah anon,
it even runs kinda smooth on my shitty laptop
>>378384575
I'm still at the early levels of the game and I'm amazed by some of the visuals and design

>>378382940
Yeah, I still enjoy running through them now and then.
Find it funny how everyone goes crazy for item descriptions in Souls when it is just a holdover of the magic mirror giving you info with no ingame reason to exist.

>>378384608
sauce?

>>378382940
agree, definitely worth going back to play

I binge played through all 4 plus pilot style. I kinda like them more than dark souls. Hopefully they'll release a new one someday

King's Field IV was by far the hardest in the series, and frankly harder than any Souls game. It took me a good while to figure out how to progress past the first area, and to keep my levels high enough just to survive encounters with enemies that plod along at all of 1 mile per hour.

Then there's the Ancient City itself, a massive hub level that connects all the major areas in the game. At that point, progress is made by inches. You slowly tunnel your way into a new area, only to find that you have to head right back to the center of the hub, recoup and gather up resources before attempting to advance just slightly further next time. Eventually you make a breakthrough, then it's onto the next hellishly difficult area to make more progress by inches.

Otogi tho