With KFIII, the Verdite kingdom trilogy comes to an end and hooly shit, it's amazing how good the story is in each game.
While in the previous game you would discover that the moonlight sword from the first game was made to revive one of the dragons who basically have the roles of demi-gods, in this one, the first game's protagonist goes insane and it's the second game's protagonist who gives his life to seal the castle with him inside, leaving the son of the first game's protagonist to fight his old man which wouldn't carry as much weight if it weren't for the fact that you literally played as each of these characters, and at the same time it's ironic since your old man in this game basically had a similar mission in the first game. Still, it's a bummer that it's more stilted than Dark Souls because unlike DS, King's Field has nothing but the main theme. While in Dark Souls if they tell you about a cult, you can also find out what they did in that cult, read stories about it and so on, here it's just reading items to know the existence of the cult and say "oh wow, this bug was created by this wizard" which is lowkey leatdown because they don't end up taking advantage of a story that is already very rich, but to be honest, all the old games were like that and it wasn't until Dark Souls came along that people started to worry about filling in the parts of the story where everything felt half empty, because before games were bought mostly for the gameplay because they didn't make the jump between arcades and home consoles very well.

And while we're here, I wanted to take advantage and talk about the gameplay since for me it's like peak King's Field since I don't like dungeon crawlers and the level design of this game is not as confusing and labyrinthine as the first two, which I understand that King's Field fans don't like, since it's a step-down of the first two, but in my case it's what made me enjoy it more. The third game basically takes place on the outskirts of Verdite Castle, not on another island or inside the cemetery, but in the surrounding villages, forests, etc. and it really felt refreshing to me. The textures and mapping also has a lot of things, it's no longer flat-ground flat walls like in the first two (especially the first one), there's more variation and it's harder to get lost, which made the experience much better.

The combat is still the same as in the first two games, with some slight improvement, I mean basically you have to turn around the enemies and use all your money on drugs and I found it super funny because while in the other two games the final bosses are terrible in the sense that they do too much damage, here they literally give you a spell that gives you godmode for like 5 minutes at the cost of nothing lmfao but yeah, I don't know, I really liked that at one point you go to the graveyard of the first game and you're like "yoooo", and especially seeing the appearance of the protagonists of all the King's Field