Watching this while I take a breather from Elden Ring, it's fascinating to see how various aspects of the Soulsborne genre have been present from as far back as King's Field

I love Armored core, and armored core, and armored core, and armored core, and armored core, and armored core, and armored core, and armored core

Damn I had no idea the moonlight greatsword had been around for this long

Armored Core is underrated though despite how many games there are. It's like Fromsoftware refuses it's acknowledgement of it's existence... Edit: I do also agree that Fromsoftware should go back and look at the older IPs I'm generally interested in them but trying to get them is really difficult.

From software fans when to hardware shows up:

This was excellent! I applaud you. Very professionally executed and entertaining. Great job on an epic subject.

Cookie & Cream hold an interesting concept. It's not only a cooperative only game. In fact controls are set for one player to move the two characters at once, each stick controlling each character. So at the beginning, you move the first character, continue with him until you cannot move anymore then switch to character 2 who have to open the door for him, etc. But soon you'll be challenged to move the two at the same time, doing different action, enter different directions, paths, etc... between screen 1 and screen 2. It can be challenging as you must have a very good coordination of your fingers AND are forced to a "split your brain in two" gymnastic. Worth a try

Great video, your humor is reminiscent of Max0r and you kept my attention the whole video despite the fact that I knew nothing about 95% of the games you covered. From might have been the most difficult company to pick for this video because of the massive disparity in popularity between their most known titles, which have been picked clean of any new insight over the last ten years, and their abundance of obscure titles, which are known so little that you were given the responsibility to convey the values behind each and every game. I hope you do end up doing another video of this style on another company because I would definitely watch it.

Really enjoyed the video! I recently started to explore From's history myself, starting with the King's Field series which is so much fun, even today. I'm glad that they got so popular without losing their identity or inspiration to try out new things. Thank you for putting together their obscure and beautiful history. Earned yourself a new sub! ^^

Amazing video cant believe you’re not a lot bigger, essay style videos are hard to pull off but I was glued the whole time

Looked up " Fromsoft games" and found this absolute Gem of a video. I'm shocked it doesn't have the views it deserves, you're humor is great and so is your editing.

3D Dot game heroes is a fun Zelda style title where you can customize the sprite of your character and upgrade sword attacks to be screen filling.

Haha, this was a great video dude! I feel enlightened now. It’s crazy to see how From Software was so active back in the day, but their games weren’t quite garnering an extensive audience. Then suddenly Myazaki shows up and everything explodes. But I like From’s other obscure titles, specifically Deracine and Kingsfield. Btw, I hear you about hoping this video gets shared because of the time you put into it. I’ll try to spread it around.

Really tragic how few views this video has. This is an engaging video that explores an interesting developer’s history and it genuinely made me laugh multiple times. Great stuff!

Heckin rad my guy, absolutely adore the amount of work you put into this all

The only From Software games I've played so far are Sekiro and Bloodborne, in that order. I had no idea they experimented so much, especially in the earlier days of the company. Great work on this informative yet entertaining video!

Armored Core on the way! But I'd love more weird Shadow Tower with guns.

man this video is amazing for real !!!! good work man u deserve much more visibility, i was SHOCKED to see that this video dont have nearly 10k views!!

Stumbled onto your video while watching old Armored Core videos and I'm so happy I did! What a rich history! The company really gets distilled down to two or three IPs all the time but I appreciate your holistic overview and understanding of the nature of their growing and changing design philosophies! Amazing video, I love to subscribe to content like this.

Excellent documentary, this is the most in depth From Soft History Timeline ive ever seen.

have been looking for something that was exactly this for a while, thanks for making this it was a very informative watch

Damn amazing video, one thing I would say now when you said something about From Software needing to revisit their older IPs, it's exactly why I am willing to support their journey in going back to Armored Core this year. As someone who joined the Soulsborne party back at very late 2020, I am very, very willing to see FS come back to their older stuff with their current day wisdom, and from what Zullie the Witch has documented in terms of which game designers put an influential part of their game design into the later Soulsborne games, I want to see Miyazaki let other people in his team cook, so the torch can be passed on further and further!

Thank you for the history lesson Professor Cryveil! There's some really cool games that I really wanna check out now. Kuron and Echo Night look badass. I'm gonna dream of mechs now

i'm actually fucking angry that i didn't find this video and channel sooner.

Just came across your channel and noticed how hard you worked on the video, I just wanted to say you did a great job on it and to keep up the good work. If you love making videos it shouldn't matter how many views you get so long as you love making them.

it seems From is making a new Armored Core + a new game and elden ring, i wonder what this new game would be seeing that we already have plenty of Miyazaki's ARPG and Naotoshi Zin probably don't want to make a new King's Field. I hope that it's a more Horror type of game like Kuon (Kuon is cool af).

Any modern western studio would've been shut down by its stakeholders by the time of kings field 3 lmao. INSANE how many games they made before souls

Yo algo, come over here and boost this! The information density of this vid is crazy, there is so much to cover and you highlighted a lot of fascinating things. Keep up the good work :)

Amazing video bro ‼️ love all your work

Awesome video dude. Glad to have stumbled across your channel!

Amazing video! When it comes to the tenchu games, from software only developed shadow assault and either co-developed ports or published the others which would be why the aren't listed on wikipedia.

This video is peak youtube. Thank you so much for making this. Edit: No, seriously. This is some of the best content I've seen on KZfaq, I really really do hope you get the proper recognition you deserve.

Expected 10x more likes, very enlightning video, I expected maybe 20 big games, not freaking 200+ lol. Amazing job mate, it puts their newer games into a perspective!

Amazing video man. Subbed.

best from soft video history by far

Did a great job Matt. I refer you to my buddies and whoever I can whenever it comes up. Ill do my part friendo you just keep doing what you love.

Hey just found this after watching a history of final fantasy and I got curious about from soft. I had no idea their titles were so diverse. Thank you for taking the time to dig for them. This video was so well done and I’ve subscribed and hit the bell for more because your edits were also fantastic. Well done, keep up the good work.

holy this was well put together, informative and entertaining! guess I'll have to like, share and all that now. what a gem!

11/10 From Software

For the longest time, it felt like I was one of the few people that actually played the original Shadow Tower. I loved it, and still do. The monster designs were so diverse and intriguing. In ways, after later experiencing the souls games, they felt more Shadow Tower than King's Field to me. When I later got to play a patched localization of ST2, it felt that way all the more so. The stat screen for your character by itself had that feeling, right down to even featuring an early take on a poise mechanic, equipment durability, items and etc. Several of the armour sets, weapons and shields were visually reproduced in Demon's Souls and the first two dark souls games, which was just another one of those fun, but not overboard callbacks Fromsoft is known for. Also yes, I did know about Spriggan. Love its soundtrack. The attract mode demo for Shadow Tower's title screen sounded very similar to Spriggan's OST, down to the same choices in digital samples.

what a great video i hope you will get bigger soon.

Great video. A labor of love. I picked up Ninja Blade a couple of years ago and I do not think it sucks. It's a pretty fun but standard hack-and-slash with tight controls and an over-the-top presentation. Obviously, the PS3 won out by getting Demons Souls but if anyone is curious and likes From Software, Ninja Blade is a good get for your collection.

I do not give thumbs up on KZfaq, but for this retrospective deep dive you've gotten one. Very well done sir. Eternal Ring btw looks very reminiscent of a certain Hoonter game. Now I'm inspired to complete my own Bloodborne video

Really appreciate this deep dive. I was 14 and got King's Field (KF2 in Japan) as one of my first Playstation games. Back in the days when you played the shit out of a game regardless of how unforgiving or clunky it was because getting new games was rare. I had also just discovered the band TOOL and have such fond memories of playing that mindfuck of a game while listening to that mindfuck of an album, ænima. Hugely formative time for me. Still playing Elden Ring and it's just so amazing to think how much Fromsoftware has improved since then and how little has changed with their atmosphere because they knew they nailed it the first time. They refused to change to please American audiences and eventually our tastes got sophisticated enough to appreciate the Kingsfield/Souls atmosphere. Also... just think of the balls it takes to still be using the serif and italicized fonts in the UI. NOBODY else can get away with that because it looks dorky and not modern, but when Fromsoftware does it - it just lands somehow.

Excellent video, i think if you keep making these kind of high quality videos, you will eventually blow up :), just keep doing what you love

also the reason why most from soft titles have some very "experimental" music is credited to their head sound guy Kota Hoshino who plays music not from theory but by ear so why its "different" if it vibes good its good enough the mad lad doesnt even write music sheets

Lmao bruhh what's with the Atlus soundtrack over your dialogue, I'm here for it. 😂😂

Tenchu 1,2 and 3 were the best ten chu games needs an HD remastered collection

Absolutely excellent video bro, very well researched and laid out.

I need more cookie and Cream! Give me MORE!

It is funny how I never heard of From Software until souls. I didn't realize they have quite the catalogue of games and I am currently playing through the Armored Core games and have lots of fun. Might reference this video in future when want to play more of their games.

this video deserve more views

I just recently started playing these games which started with Bloodborne and I loved it. Overtime I quickly became a fan playing ds3 then ds1 plus all dlc but I was kinda weary of Sekiro at first but once I purchased it I loved it as well. I respect this company and cannot wait for Elden Ring!!!

I still wish that some day FROM made another RPG in FPP... These days RPGs with both FPP and TPP camera are really rare.

I enjoyed this as much as you enjoyed making this video, thanks for the history!

Great content man! Shared as much as could brother. 🤙🏼

Jesus Christ, just how many games did these guys push out the door? Holy shit

'FrameGride' is basically 'The Vision of Escaflowne' but with more guns.

Tenchu was my favorite game series of all time , I had every American copy plus many Japanese copies , but I can honestly say fromsoft acquired the rights , the original makers were a company called ( acquire ) to this day I always hoped for a modern tenchu , but I will say that fromsoft surprised me with one of my favorite games of the modern age ( sekiro )

Look Matt I get it, you want a Ninja Blade sequel since the first one is a instant classic for you, but honestly that's not a god direction for FS to go imo.

Too bad you didn't mention the 2008 North American version of 3D Dot Game Heroes. True hidden gem there. At least you showed the Japanese version. 😅

The only Fromsoftware series I have played is Lost Kingdoms and I love those 2 games (The first one more than the second). Lost Kingdoms (Rune in Japan) is extremely underrated and when people talk about classic Fromsoftware, I tell them about Lost Kingdoms and they are consufed because they think of Dark Souls/ OG Demon souls. Maybe one Day, FromSoftware will give a second chance to some of their old series...

Nice documentary. Some AC vibes were lost along the way, but still great content. Def underrated.

Colkies and cream is such an amazing game, it doesn’t really matter what the studio made before, it’s not like they’re only allowed to create dark fantasy

I really liked this. You have a good voice, informal style, and you made me realize I’ve been a fan of From for longer than I actively realized. Which is what made it so difficult on me to hit that Unsubscribe button.

Really nice video. I was looking through your other videos to see if there was anything else I'd want to watch and was really surprised to see the Silent Hill ambient playlist. I've been listening to that on and off for the past year and this just happens to be by the same channel.

Great job man! Thanks! I really want to play some of these games! I completely agree, I would love to see from do survival horror

Otogi games helped me immensely during my teenage years. 😌

From who?

That's something I really want to do is go back and play Fromsoft old games. I remember picking up this old dot knight game and was like this feels familiar, surprisingly fun, and it was made by Fromsoft.

Fromsoftware rabbit hole where myth dies and insanity prevail

Thanks for the history lesson prof

From, cd pj red, respawn, digital extremes. Names in gaming you can usually trust.

Nice vid

I recommend playing Kings Field at least once for anyone who might've had a PS1 but never played it, it felt so ground breaking at the time (think of playing an 3D open world/dungeon crawler before that type of game was even popular) the controls are pretty bad but it's a very charming game series (especially Kings Field: The Ancient City on PS2) I don't recommend playing these games if you grew up on PS2 and later though, the controls will make you rage quit pretty hard 😂 I personally like Shadow Tower more than KF but KF is an easier game to play

even the Company has lore

Need a new Another Century's Episode game, those were badass. I still load up the previous ones every so often

And now they're bringing back armored core. : )

I would love it so much if from software would revive some of their older or more niche games like kuon,echo nights,shadow tower and make a modern adaptation of them done right. They have some of the biggest and diverse gaming catalog in the industry. I would be even happy if they announce a new armored core and bring the action mech genre back to his glory

Listen to Magic Laborator in Eternal Ring, that one song made me so immersed

Can't wait for the long awaited sequel of Murakumo Renegade Mech Pursuit

Huge W.

Bruh, Chromehounds was soo underrated, the multiplayer was ahead of it's time frfr

Good video. I grew up with the shadow tower, armored core, tenchu, late PSX to early PS2 years but I do respect the Souls and Bloodborne era. I have yet to play them but I do want to dive in cause they look fun

Excellent video 👌

I really hope From makes another Armored Core. The mecha genre has been dead for like a decade now, AC and Chromehounds were my childhood long before I ever played the souls series.

There are two things that I wish the most that From would do: 1) a survival horror game. 2) a game based on the manga called Blame!. A lot of people point out the parallels between Souls and Berserk, but I think that Blame! also has a lot in common with From's philosophy due to its enviromental storytelling and overall obtuseness.

You can recruit the president from metal wolf chaos in enchanted arms as a playable secret character.

Amazing vid, great information

Disagree about Eternal Ring's OST, but great video nonetheless -- thanks for taking the time!

Came mostly to see when armored core for answer and kings field showed up

Its this a reupload or its muy imagination?, Because i see this video before

Armoured core 6 led me here and loved everysecond

Just saw this, you did an amazing job!

may the algorithm grace your informative arse

So glad I have a copy of Kuon. So atmospheric...I'll be playing it again later in the year, when the days are shorter, darker...and more suited to Kuon ;)

Wish they would rerelease all the king's field games.

I know Demon Souls for dying non stop and quitting. I did some how complete Bloodborne with the good ending, even if the last boss took me 3 months to complete. Playing AC VI at the moment, wow that first boss is pure evil.

Armored Core VI is real! I can't wait to be reduced to scraps time and time again.

Great job ❤