Really enjoyed this game playing it for the first time in 2023. Even more than the first Japan only King’s Field. Nice sense of atmosphere and Metroidvania like gameplay. The exploration and rewarding gameplay is first class. Still nothing really like it today. Recommend it. Stick with it as it’s a bit slow paced at first but the game is designed around that style of gameplay. Almost feels at times like a first person souls game.
Sure the graphics are nothing special but they definitely have a certain charm to them (especially if you play on original hardware on a crt tv or with filters on an emulator to give it that retro look) seeing how they were technically constrained yet achieved a lot with what they had.
Very impressed.