Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware was "worried" how its OG RPG King's Field would be received, but the studio wasn't going to be "constrained by existing games"
in newsletterGamesRadar · 2026-03-07 · 6 min read · culture
A newly translated 2001 interview reveals FromSoftware developer Shinichiro Nishida saying King's Field skipped tutorials due to an 8-month dev schedule, not design intent. The studio's "no rules" RPG philosophy traces directly to its Soulslike DNA.
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