The game overall can be fun, but I must admit, I did not play all the way through it when I fired it back up after many years. Your weapons cause you to get tired and you have to watch this meter as if it depletes, you cannot attack and you are left vulnerable to attack. It is all played from the first-person, but the real twist here is that you cannot just run around hacking and slashing.
I am not saying the gameplay is bad, but it is rather basic in comparison to the types of games that would follow. If you think this is going to be something like Skyrim, you might want to lower your expectations quite a bit. Battling With The MetersĪs King's Field IV: The Ancient City is an action-RPG, I am sure you know what to expect. Still, I think that visually this holds up fairly well. The environments are not all that detailed and can be quite dark, but that is really just because this game is a product of its time. The monsters that you fight all are designed very well and I think that even now they have a nice amount of style to them. I know you may look at some video footage of King's Field IV: The Ancient City and think “Buzz, your girlfriend woof!” however, I think that at the time this was released, it was actually a very solid looking game. Look, games released back in 2002 were not as story driven as they are now so I kind of get it, but I get that some might have a hard time dealing with it. We play as a hero that is tasked with returning this cursed idol to where it came from and that will hopefully bring an end to the curse. The statue is actually a cursed idol and it brought destruction to the kingdom. The basics are that there was this nation that gave another nation this statue as a gift. There is not exactly an amazing story that runs through King's Field IV: The Ancient City. I recently dug it out and decided to give it a try after all these years and I was pleasantly surprised at how it held up. It never quite caught on as I think it was perhaps a bit too ahead of its time.
When this was released in the early 00s there were very few if any first-person action RPGs like this for the PlayStation 2. This was a fairly early PlayStation 2 game and even to this day, it is a bit of a hidden gem. Even though there is a 4 in the title, King's Field IV: The Ancient City was the first game in the series that I actually owned.
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