Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered

Things I expect from a remaster: -Updated visuals -Quality of life improvements Things this delivered: -Updated visuals -Everything awful about turn of the millennium gameplay and a good deal of jank to boot SR1 is dated and clunky, but I can see why it was so popular. Charming puzzles, nice level design, good boss fights. Of course it also has a camera that hates you and incredibly rudimentary combat, but sometimes you have to appreciate a game for its legacy as much as its own merits. SR2 on the other hand is bad, just bad. It's a series of linear corridors taking you from one banal cutscene to the next (and boy does the game feel the need to turn every little thing into a cutscene) with fairly dull puzzles and no boss fights until the very end, which is just a series of bossfights, and seeing as the 'bosses' are just regular enemies with much much more health and at that stage of the game you are invincible, it's literally just busywork. In fact the entire game feels like busy work, it's like opening a package and rummaging through all the packing chips to find your order isn't actually in the box. Enemies are dull and not even worth engaging except when the game forces you to…

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ garbage trash game broken ass puzzles, where devs faulty design locks you out of game, this old ass game got remastered but didn`t bother to fix the damn dumbass puzzle design, morons wasted my time and money on this. ♥♥♥♥ it left it in midgame uninstalled never to bother touch this ♥♥♥♥ again.

I think I found my new number 1 favorite game

This game is so fun. I came across it randomly and liked the art style, but man, did I not expect the story, gameplay, level design, and OST to be so good! The first game in the bundle has a quirky saving mechanic where you always respawn at the beginning of the game in the spirit world. It's a little inconvenient in the beginning of the game, but past the midway point, you will have unlocked enough teleporters that it becomes quite easy to travel around. I liked the story of vengeance and each boss felt unique with different mechanics and satisfying rewards to fuel exploration. The strongest aspect of the game is the shifting mechanism between the spirit world and physical world, often necessary to advance in certain areas and to complete certain puzzles. The camera is very stubborn to fight though, often making it difficult to navigate or avoid running into walls. Fighting enemies was a bit primitive, but overall fun with the different monster designs. The map is downright useless, so my biggest complain is navigating and knowing where to go. I also did not find all reaver upgrades, but that does not really matter to complete the story. Going out of your way to find every collec…

Alright, so having played the first one here is my honest review. I absolutely love this game. Soul Reaver is one of the all time greats of story telling so getting a fan remaster was an absolute treat. The higher fidelity for interactions letting you see facial animations add to the expressiveness and having played the original on PS3 it plays just like the original. Some minor gripes I will get into, nothing that ruins the game they just stand out to me in a way that's hard to ignore. I noticed that the spears in the game tend to clip through the floor textures rendering them invisible when they're on the floor. And the first thing I noticed is the games color palette. The original had more muted and grey colors that added to the dark gothic aesthetic and tone of the game. The remaster's color palette is much more saturated and bright and it ruins the grime and decay that defined the world and it's enemies.

As somebody who never played the original and only now tried this version, the gameplay is simply too dated and uninteresting to keep me engaged after getting used to the various other modern action games. The narrative and story seemed interesting, but the combat really drags it down for me, unfortunately.