Yeah, something about it is just...instinctual. Sets off my aesthetic chills, something not many things can do. When even my own nervous system likes something, you know it's good.
The melody rises so gently and hauntingly, and then suddenly backs off, giving you a sense of reprieve from a stress you didnt realise was building yet still never a sense of anything but hopelessness
You ever listened to the 1 hour loop of Pigstep? It's pretty similar to me in how it loops so well you can't even tell where it begins and ends. It's hard to find tracks that loop this well in a way that makes time melt away.
I contacted From a few years ago and asked for another KF game. I got a slightly broken English reply of , "please play Souls game".... The Souls games are fine but it's just not the same.
If we want it to happen, we'll have to make it ourselves. Would have to do it under a new name, but I'd be willing to help fund a game like KF if I was confident the creators knew what they were doing.
There is something great about this theme. It plays on the menu and on the last level. This is the only Kings Field game i have played a significant part of and this theme fits the atmosphere perfectly. The name of the track is what makes it stand out so much as well. Being a human during the events of Kings Field 4 is undoubtedly a dark reality indeed.
Bro, umm please play the game..its an highly umderrated game. Kingsfield is the reason why there is souls series to begin with and bloodbourne. I hope they remake kingsfield. I would die if they did...
@@zenx28 kings field 2 was literally one of the first games I played on PS1 back during it's heyday. Then I played KF1 and was like what did I miss out on!? Since then I was hooked. I don't know what dark souls was meant to be but to me it's some masochist version of KF
King's Field music is all about telling the player: "You shouldn't be here" Give an air of dread and terror. You never know what's lurking in the corner.
I'm a weeeee bit late here, but I do highly recommend giving it a try at least once. In every area, there's this melancholic emptiness that fits to their ambience. The music alone can give every bit of them a feeling of that blend of both hopelessness and determination to press forward. I will say though, if you've yet to play it: Be prepared to be patient with the controls.
@@carcerharlson9767 Just took a look and I gotta thank you for the wonderful recommendation. I usually listen to this kind of stuff while drawing and the mansion of the howling winds is absolutely perfect for that strangely soothing tone it gives off.
"Curse here, curse there. A curse for he, and she, why care. A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea, source of all greatness, all things that be. Listen for the baneful chants. Weep with them, as one in trance. And weep with us, oh, weep with us”
"soulsborne" 🤓 why do people say this. why are you making a distinction between bloodborne and everything else in this formula. do you know what bloodborne is? it's a fucking souls game
Composer is Tsukasa Saitoh. He was sound director for King's Field and lead sound designer for Bloodborne. He composed Cleric Beast, The First Hunter, Laurence theme which I consider the best in soulsborne and many others. He truly is god like composer and I wish he was utilized more in other souls games. Edit: He also made "The Final Battle" for Elden Ring and that one is probably the best song in ER. He is still on top of his game.
If I could pick a theme to represent dark, melancholic fantasy, it would be this theme. It’s a beautifully simple yet depressing theme that invokes a sense of unwanted clarity and discomforting finality. Given the context, that’s exactly how it should make you feel.
I came here via Zullie the Witch. Have never played a King's Field game, but for some reason this song resonates with me. It's beautiful, haunting and melancholy all at the same time. I love it!
Never expected a game as old as KF4 to have such a beautiful soundtrack. Something about it has this really deep sense of emotion, a mix of profound sorrow, anguish, but has a kind of semblance of hope? Either way, it really hits that part of my brain that sets off aesthetic chills, and I'm here for it.
@@lsfaraone True, but it is a Fromsoft game after all and usually their boss themes are really good. For example Slave Knight Gale, Ornstein and Smough, The Godskin Duo, and Gehrman, The First Hunter just to name a few.
I feel like a baby listening to this song. I’ve never played the game but something about this song makes me feel like I’ve known it for so long. Honestly want to cry
Same here,this song feels so surreal and I feel like I’ve listened to it many times.I found this song via Zillie the witches manus video from ds1.This song gives a comforting emotion.I have heard many songs that I think are very good,but this one,I think is the best.I can carry on list
For some reason this track gives me that profound sadness and heaviness around my chest, similar to ds1 firelink shrine theme. Absolutely beautiful work.
This song stuck in my head enough to get me to write a little. I love it when a song puts you in another world so effortlessly. Makes me want to try the King's Field games. They may be older and probably much more frustrating than any modern game, but with music like this they might be worth the time.
I would definitely reccomend the Ancient City, despite being 20 years old it feels like a breath of fresh air if you're tired of open world rpgs. The level design is clever and engaging and there are so many ideas that never really show up again, even in the Souls series. And the ost is immaculate of course
The synths in this just give it this distinctly mysterious and medieval feel, souls is also medieval, but this also has that deeply ethereal atmosphere to it that I've been chasing for a while now
*There is no path.* *Beyond the scope of light...* *Beyond the reach of Dark...* *...what could possibly await us?* *And yet, we seek it, insatiably...* *Such is our fate.*
I remember playing this on release when i was 8 thanks to a friend, and he told me he couldn't understand the game and unfortunately me neither but the atmosphere capture me and i wanted to play this game again. 15 years later i replayed this game and i was astonish how good the music and the atmospehere and how sometimes the game gets hard, it was like relieving my childhood but this time i was more prepared. I EFFIN LOVE THIS GAME.
@@Phoenix-jd4yf Sure but, controls are dated (same with the other ones). Still, if you enjoy dungeon crawlers and getting sometime lost this game is for you. Use guide if you are having a hard time. I remember getting lost trying to find the last piece of a helmet.
In Elden Ring, there are times when I still hear hints of this style. Like, the background music in dark ruins or crystal caves. It's cool that some echoes of the past still remain.
@@Despotic_Waffle It's Tsukasa Saitoh's style, while he was sound director for many of Fromsoft games his style doesnt show everywhere. Especially in DS3 for example which had Yuka Kitamura as it's sound director. Some of Motoi Sakuraba's work are also similar in the minimalist style KF music had.
This music, for me, is now inextricably tied to the image of Godwyn's twisted, aquatic corpse. It feels like something crawled under my skin and... died there.
There's something so ethereal and otherworldy about this song i can't describe, it reminds me a lot of the Demon's Souls creation theme, they're just so magical
@@shauryakumar1423The final level of this game shows you the "Dark World" more or less. It's a horrifying flesh pit filled with abominations that try to kill you, and you are completely trapped there for the rest of the game
There's something about this song. I usually dislike the 90's video game synth soundtracks, because they are mostly grating, because they try to sound like orchestral music but never come even close. But in the case of this song, it just feels right. The song embraces the synth sound and chooses to be a song designed with this sound in mind, not trying to make a classical music on a kazoo. The result is really deep and full of emotions.
I couldn't agree more. I have only played roughly 6 hours of Kings Field 4 and but this theme has stuck with me for some reason. Its like a dark fever dream. It gives off the impression that what's happening isn't real but it is and the game's atmosphere only enhances the track.
This song is savagely macabre, it's like a requiem for someone about to be put to death, seeking mercy through reason of innocence, but everyone in the room is smiling ... ... the twisted realization that creeps up their spine, is the title of this song. It makes me sick to listen to, because I enjoy it so much, even knowing what it wants me to feel.
"How does it feel, Sir Undead? To know that even your homeland considers you an accursed omen? You are welcome nowhere, not even in this land of dead gods. The Earth itself shudders and wretches at your presence. Not of any fault of your own, but, because you are feared. For that horrid, overwhelming, beautiful darkness that rests in the in the corners of your heart. That darkness of humanity that could rip apart everything they hold dear. I truly hope you will keep going. Awaken renewed from every horrible fate that may befall you. Let them know that mankind is indeed a thing to be feared. It's not like you have anything better to do, right? Sir Undead?" -comment on anorther kings field video, by Panzerfaust26.
I’ve been listening to the soundtrack of this game for a bit, just discovered it recently, and I absolutely adore it. It’s eerie, haunting, and yet at the same time…melancholy. There’s just this feeling of terrible sorrow in the music, which is fitting considering what can be gleaned from the lore. These are places of evil, yes, but also places of great tragedy.
Haunting. It sounds like heat death of the universe. Nothing left. Not even a single small light ray roaming in impenetrable darkness. Everything has already ended, and nothing is waiting in future
It reminds me of that moment when you finished the Ringed City DLC of Dark Souls III, when everything is truly over and you're nothing more than an unkindled, the last person still inhabiting a desolate world, standing in the midst of a desert with nothing but ruins to accompany you. Nothing to accomplish, nowhere to go, nobody to return to. This is the soundtrack of things which have long since faded away. Perhaps beautiful, perhaps terrible, it has all been rendered irrelevant by time, because there is nobody left to remember, nobody left to care. The soundtrack of entropy, which will render all stories, all heroics, all sins, meaningless.
@@filipwolffs a tragedy that, like a train wreck, you can’t look away from even if it’s just a story of suffering and emptiness, you’re just staring at the details and characters with the same emotion for all of them, misery
my sibling used this as background music for a dnd dungeon that took us months to crawl through. i have a lot of emotions about this song. utterly beautiful.
The atmosphere in this track is absolutly incredible, wish it had more attention because damn, this honestly is one of the most powerful songs ive ever heard in gaming history
this music is giving me a feeling like something I've felt before, or maybe a place I've been.. I have never heard this before, and I have never been there.
This is the most beautifully haunting - yet entrancingly enchanting - music that I've ever heard yet. I actually still have a PS2. I feel something of a desire to play this game, to try it out....
Be careful when you play you might not put the controller down😄 well guess you have to really be into order games that really appreciate kingsfield but it really is a hard game to quit playing once you get into it
@@JohnDarksoul69 it was only on ps2 . too bad . i do played dark tower on ps 1 back in day butcompletly missed ps2 titlles for some reason . lets hope from soft remaster it someday , they got lot of fanboys lately . shit ton of money from old games is posible just not to be lazy
Hearing this music, it is eerily perfect as a echo of the past of souls games. The dark tone is inherently in almost all souls games, even deeper into Elden Ring. The chorus of voices, echoing a soothing, yet unnervingly ominous melody, a blend of tones that are present in the characters of souls games, from the joyous and soothing charm of those like Seigward of Catarina, to the agonising fate of the damned. It's literally the formula of souls games but in music form, from the game that bears so many similarities to the games that quietly carry it's torch many years later...
This is exactly the music, ambience and feel I think of when thinking of any of Fromsoftware's games, so captivating, the melody almost tells a story of its own.
@@jessegauthier6985 Tf are YOU on about? Read the original comment. “Medieval setting” Also, they are both RPG’s so they are literally the same genre. You’re so off 😂
Oh my gods, I’ll never get tired of hearing Tsukasa Saitoh’s beautiful compositions. This track is so enchanting… I hope he continues making amazing music with From Software 💕
In order to truly appreciate the dread and hopelesness this OST aims to convey you must reach/see the ending of Kingsfield 4. To fall into the pits of flesh and despair surrounded by abominations and disfigured decaying creatures is truly what this tries to convey down to your soul.
@@TheDoomMaster certainly, I unfortunately haven't gotten a chance to play Kings Field, but I love Demons Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and eventually will likely love Sekiro and Elden Ring when I get them, so to hear such a beautifully creepy song out of... What effectively made the "shitty dying action rpg" idea that Miyazaki turned into such a beautiful franchise, knowing it all began here with the 4 Kings Field games, it feels like how I imagine knowledge of miracles during the ends of the ages must have felt... Something that feels so sacred, and so important to you and your life and experiences and things you love and like it's all around you, yet it's so perfectly unattainable to you, you can't understand, you can't reach out and grab it, you can't look because you fear it will look back into you
