It’s incredibly easy to overestimate the impact King’s Field had when it was first released. It came out, didn’t do too badly for itself at all, got a couple sequels on PS1 and PS2, and in the US at least that was it. The series did better in Japan, but it was hardly a sales juggernaut. But then King’s Field evolved into Demons’ Souls, Demons’ Souls became Dark Souls, Dark Souls became Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring, and somehow a weird little first-person RPG became the basis for a hugely-popular genre of action gaming. Even so, King’s Field and Dark Souls had their differences, most notably a difference in player perspective, and if nobody else wants to use that viewpoint it seems only fair that Queen’s Domain should pick up the brutal first-person fantasy adventure crown.<\/p>\n
It’s Not a Proper Proto-Soulslike If Every Inch Of the Island Isn’t an Adventure<\/p>\n
Queen’s Domain released today on Steam and all the consoles, given a warm reception thanks to last winter’s excellent demo. A prince washes ashore on a dangerous island with nothing but the clothes on his back, but a little exploration turns up the remains…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s incredibly easy to overestimate the impact King’s Field had when it was first released. It came out,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,75031,75030,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-388632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-open-critic","tag-opencritic","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}