>rises to fame with his take on third person dungeon crawlers noteable for their simple, slow, combat and opaque, punishing mechanics that reinforce caution when exploring the world
>doesn't want to keep doing the same slow paced, unpredictable dungeon crawlers, but also doesn't want to invent a new combat system
>decides that what is effectively just Zelda combat with a stamina bar and a dodge roll needs to be the basis of 20 hit combos and bosses who pirouette around the arena and weird attack animation delays for every single fight
>also now it's open world
Is he the most overrated game dev of the last decade?

>>712909656 (OP)
Say what you want about him, but he saved the early to mid 2010's in terms of gaming

>>712909656 (OP)
Making a punishing game at all was already a huge novelty at the time. You may be misremembering how bad of a state the industry has been in

>>712910130
If anything, the industry is in an even worse state now.

>>712909656 (OP)
>simple, slow, combat and opaque, punishing mechanics
This is just because most dungeon crawlers were shitty games or were games like Ultima that pushed their systems to the max and ran at a low framerate to even function.
King's Field was one of those. It was pushing the PS1 to its limit and ran like ass for it. 2/3 were shovelware and the 4th wasn't that slow.
Diablo was never slow.

Dark Souls basically worked with Miyazaki, who'd already directed games in the Armored Core series, applied that series's rules to King's Field and made a better game than any previous KF.
3D motion, faster movement, giant scope, lots of flashy spectacle.

>>712911083
>dark souls
*Demon's Souls
Mistype.