The King’s Field Box Art Gallery
This is the paper and plastic shelf: every King’s Field box cover that could be verified from an open source, region by region. The Japanese covers come from FromSoftware’s own product art, preserved by the King’s Field Library; the American and European covers come from the Sword of Moonlight community archive, which documents each release down to its disc code. Where a cover could not be verified, the release is documented in text and the gap is logged, not filled.
Read the names carefully, because the boxes lie politely. In North America the box that says King’s Field is the second game, and the box that says King’s Field II is the third. The numbering page in this archive untangles the whole map; the gallery below is where you can see it happen.
THE JAPANESE ORIGINALS
Four covers, one logo
THE PAIRS
Japan beside the WestKing’s Field II, twice
Japan kept the series’ face; America got a duel. Because the first game never crossed the Pacific, ASCII Entertainment dropped the numeral and sold the sequel as the original. The European release used a third design entirely: the flaming logo over a stone carving, with a FromSoftware credit on the front, published by Sony on 10 March 1997.
King’s Field III, twice
The second long box repeats the trick. No European release followed at all, so the PAL shelf of this trilogy simply stops at the first sequel.
King’s Field IV, twice
For the PlayStation 2 the West dropped the number completely. The Ancient City is King’s Field IV, and its cover turns the series’ artifact into an emblem.
THE TOOLBOX
The kit has a cover too