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Posted April 26, 2012
They say the dead know no pain. Things are about to change!

Meet Raziel: a vampire-turned-wraith, who will show you how to have a soul-devouringly good time for just $5.99 on GOG.com

Soul Reaver is technically the second installment in Legacy of Kain series, but practically it’s a beginning of a new adventure. What is important is that the game brought the franchise into 3D and introduced a completely new character while maintaining the uniquely dark and seductive atmosphere. The player controls Raziel, once one of six powerful lieutenants of Kain who was later broken and killed by his former master. Reanimated in the Spectral Realm as a wraith by The Elder God, Raziel serves as the deity's "angel of death" and will not stop unless his five undead vampiric brothers--and Kain himself!--are destroyed.

The gameplay is flawless, fights are violent and gory, and the game requires you to shift in real-time between the material and spectral planes to solve puzzles and defeat monsters. Raziel, the series’ new anti-hero is a character who feels real despite his wraithlike nature. His striking visual appearance (a wrap hiding his jawless face, radiant pupilless eyes, tattered wings, and claws and feet), tragic nature, personality change throughout the game, and his blue symbiotic blade, made him one of the most recognizable characters in gaming history.

Once you get ahold of the Soul Reaver sword, you will never want to stop hacking and slashing, especially for just $5.99 on GOG.com.
Posted April 28, 2012
I know Blood Omen can be a bugger to get working properly but isn't that part of the idea with GOG? I hope they do bother and I don't get why they've released the sequel first even if it is an easier project.
Posted April 28, 2012
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serpantino: I know Blood Omen can be a bugger to get working properly but isn't that part of the idea with GOG? I hope they do bother and I don't get why they've released the sequel first even if it is an easier project.
Because they haven't managed to secure the rights to sell the first game, perhaps? It might not be a technical difficulty but a legal one instead.
Post edited April 28, 2012 by Miaghstir
Posted April 28, 2012
Isn't the game a bit glitchy or its just me?

The main menu is flickering all the time in my computer (game has no issues), sometimes the lag in the sound fx is about 1-2 seconds and the ambient sounds remain looping forever and I can't listen the dialogs, also the joystick can't be configured... Raziel keeps running in circles like crazy if a joystick si configured! (Joy2Key isn't helping either)

I hope GOG make a patch or something to fix this
Post edited April 28, 2012 by h3r3j3
Posted April 28, 2012
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PaladinHeart: Soul Reaver is the best in the Legacy of Kain series. It's too bad none of the other games bothered with the adventure style elements.

Sadly, Soul Reaver feels incomplete without Soul Reaver 2, even though Soul Reaver 2 is a sad excuse for a game.
You're joking, right? Soul Reaver 2 was an excellent game, and while Defiance didn't have nearly as much of the exploration it's still one of my favourite entries into the series.

The only game in the series that I felt was really lacking was Blood Omen 2, and that's largely because it was more of a tacked on sequel that the regular design team didn't really have a lot to do with. ..and it also created a bit of confused since it introduced some unexpected developments which the other games neither hinted at nor brought up again.


Not to mention that without SR2, this would technically be an incomplete game. In fact, I dare say most people ought to know before going into Soul Reaver 1 that it's only half of a game. They essentially ran outta time to do the other half and so that's why it ends the way it does. You can even see hints at the events in SR2 and Defiance in some of the beta photos you can see during the last area of the SR1.
Posted April 28, 2012
How to load a save game in this game? I keep wondering why every time i load my save game, it's at the beginning of the game (underworld).
Posted April 28, 2012
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wormholewizards: How to load a save game in this game? I keep wondering why every time i load my save game, it's at the beginning of the game (underworld).
Yeah you always start at the underworld where you first meet Tony Jay..I mean Cthulu..I mean the Elder God from there you go to the "gateway"(that giant mirror looking thing that you see in the beginning of the game) i.e. this thing http://lparchive.org/Legacy-of-Kain-Blood-Omen/Update%208/sr1-2.jpg which is a area selector just step in front of it and press the attack button and scroll through the various tribal symbols till you find the one you last activated,then step through the portal and there you go.
Post edited April 28, 2012 by DCT
Posted April 28, 2012
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wormholewizards: How to load a save game in this game? I keep wondering why every time i load my save game, it's at the beginning of the game (underworld).
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DCT: Yeah you always start at the underworld where you first meet Tony Jay..I mean Cthulu..I mean the Elder God from there you go to the "gateway" which is a area selector just step in front of it and press the attack button and scroll through the various tribal symbols till you find the one you last activated,then step through the portal and there you go.
That mean i must remember the symbol individually? I like this game. It's quite punishing, i lost my way quite easily due to lack of automap.
Posted April 28, 2012
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DCT: Yeah you always start at the underworld where you first meet Tony Jay..I mean Cthulu..I mean the Elder God from there you go to the "gateway" which is a area selector just step in front of it and press the attack button and scroll through the various tribal symbols till you find the one you last activated,then step through the portal and there you go.
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wormholewizards: That mean i must remember the symbol individually? I like this game. It's quite punishing, i lost my way quite easily due to lack of automap.
Not really since it goes in order from the first area to last so as long as you remember how many of them you activated so say you have activated 4 of them then just scroll over four symbols. Well that's how I always did it, just remember to keep a eye out for doors with the green circle sysmbol those are the doors that lead to that "gateway" thing/ this thing http://lparchive.org/Legacy-of-Kain-Blood-Omen/Update%208/sr1-2.jpg as you will have to activate each one in order to quickly return to that area or hub.
Post edited April 28, 2012 by DCT
Posted April 28, 2012
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wormholewizards: That mean i must remember the symbol individually? I like this game. It's quite punishing, i lost my way quite easily due to lack of automap.
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DCT: Not really since it goes in order from the first area to last so as long as you remember how many of them you activated so say you have activated 4 of them then just scroll over four symbols. Well that's how I always did it, just remember to keep a eye out for doors with the green circle sysmbol those are the doors that lead to that "gateway" thing/ this thing http://lparchive.org/Legacy-of-Kain-Blood-Omen/Update%208/sr1-2.jpg as you will have to activate each one in order to quickly return to that area or hub.
Thanks, now i know. I thought at first my game was broken or buggy checkpoint.
Posted April 28, 2012
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DCT: Not really since it goes in order from the first area to last so as long as you remember how many of them you activated so say you have activated 4 of them then just scroll over four symbols. Well that's how I always did it, just remember to keep a eye out for doors with the green circle sysmbol those are the doors that lead to that "gateway" thing/ this thing http://lparchive.org/Legacy-of-Kain-Blood-Omen/Update%208/sr1-2.jpg as you will have to activate each one in order to quickly return to that area or hub.
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wormholewizards: Thanks, now i know. I thought at first my game was broken or buggy checkpoint.
No problem and don't feel bad I would of thought the same if I didn't play the hell out of it on my PS1 when it first came out, I also recall Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain doing the same i.e. where you start a loaded saved game back at the first area.
Posted April 29, 2012
Well, I for one really want Blood Omen on GOG.

2D isometric > 3D third-person
Posted April 29, 2012
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serpantino: I know Blood Omen can be a bugger to get working properly but isn't that part of the idea with GOG? I hope they do bother and I don't get why they've released the sequel first even if it is an easier project.
It isn't that hard if you do some simple googling, there are a fair few fan pages out there and most of them have patches that not only fix the movies and up the resolution, but also get the game running on Windows XP/Vista/7. I have Windows 7 64bit myself and i have the game running fine after getting a few of those said fan made patches.

In saying that tho, i would totally pay for an official GOG release with all the tweaks made to it and pack away my retail PC versions if they decided to release it. Maybe with enough support Square may reboot the series or release an HD collection. :D
Posted April 29, 2012
Epic series begun on GOG.
Posted April 29, 2012
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DCT: Yeah you always start at the underworld where you first meet Tony Jay..I mean Cthulu..I mean the Elder God
haha :D

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wormholewizards: That mean i must remember the symbol individually? I like this game. It's quite punishing, i lost my way quite easily due to lack of automap.
If i remember correctly the symbols are so abundant in each area you'll remember them even if you don't want to.

Or i confused it with another game :) it's been a while now.
Posted April 29, 2012
I'm kinda agree this game is little bit too non-linear. I don't even know what i'm supposed to do right now. (Inside dark generator room, with elevator / shaft). Just after some block puzzle, which is also i discovered and solved by accident due to the lack of hint.
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