While many of you wouldn’t have batted an eyelid to the fact, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 have been re-released today. Frankly, I’m just not seeing nearly enough rejoicing online about this fact. Or, indeed, cheap deal guides on where to buy these two long-forgotten classics for the least amount of coins possible.
That being the case, I’ve taken it upon myself to fix both of those problems with a quick article that’s equal parts praise and price-slashing...
Forget pulling on the tank top of a buxom heiress; you’ll need to slip into the barely functional epidermis of Raziel, a ludicrously articulate vampire lieutenant whose unfair demotion almost resulted in his total dissolution. The hideously clawed hand that wrought this injustice: Kain, a Machiavellian Draculaesque deity who’s playing 4D chess with the destinies of everybody and everything around him. In a good old-fashioned revenge tale.
Raziel must then discover and fortify a new set of wraith abilities to become an avenging angel of un-death. The basic gist is to work your way up the food chain, hunting your betrayer “brother” lieutenants as you Highlander-acquire their respective vampiric gifts which have also devolved them during your centuries of torment. As you’d expect, that wrinkle provides fertile ground for spine-chilling creature designs and creative (for the time) boss encounters.
I’ll not spoil the proceedings much more than that; suffice it to say that Soul Reaver’s greatest stren.
