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It's because it was worked on by King's Field devs. Naotoshi Zin, the *founder* of From Software and designer/producer of King's Field, was the lead game designer of DS2. Shinichiro Nishida, Scenario Writer and Map Organizer of King's Field, was Project Manager of DS2 and Designer of SOTFS. Also, and perhaps the most obvious of all, Keiichiro Ogawa who was the Lead Artist of King's Field 4 specifically was also Lead Artist of DS2. So if you wonder why the games share a lot of area ideas what with the magical foggy forests, giants and whatnot well there's that.