Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2

So I see a lot of people getting stuck at the red text in the intro, there's a free fix here https://www.gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=75897. For me, it worked instantly, just pop that into install folder and change resolution in game and you should be laughing. Anyway, I'm not sure how much it's worth it since the game itself seems rather lackluster. Combat is stiff, there's some of the LoK atmosphere. Not my favorite in the series by a big margin.

I really wanted to like this game. I saw so many great reviews about this game, not just on GOG but on other sites as well. But alas, I couldn't, let me explain to you why. Let's start with the story. Comparing to other Legacy of Kain games, the writing is sub par. Those famous monologues from Kain in the original Blood Omen are almost non existant, and that was one of my favorite things in the series. Since this was separately made from Soul Reaver series, there is a lot of inconsistency with the plot, but even ignoring Soul Reaver, it still has contradiction with the original Blood Omen. Existing characters are more simplified and less interesting than previous games. Kain is no longer an ominous vampire that seeks power, now he is reduced to a mere lackey that follows orders. The in game story is full of plotholes and just bad writing. The graphics are okay. For 2002 they are nothing spectacular, my only complaint is that the human models look absolutely ugly. Environments range from okay to plain boring, nothing really memorable. Music is completely dull. Again nothing really memorable, just a 15-30 second loop. Controls are terrible. Even if you switch to a controller using a fan made patch, the main problem is that combat is absolutely attrocius. Extremely limited combat that involves parrying and sidewalking until you build enough rage to use a special attack, normally at the first few levels you can beat enemies easily, but later on your attacks are just limited to using special attack because enemies like to parry your every single attack. Dash is non existent in this game, which is kind of funny because Soul Reaver games had dash. Spells are also non existent. Remember how Blood Omen had variety of spells and consumables? Not in this game There was some effort put in this game, and it's not completely unplayable, despite some game breaking bugs, and for that I give it an extra star. Trust me on this, just skip it.

Sadly this game is only one that I can't finish no matter I choose configuration alway freeze, this is f****ng exception to rest SR series that can work stable in HD resolution on my computer.

That's pretty much what Blood Omen 2 is. Stitched together from previous abandoned games, and created in tandem with Soul Reaver 2 without any interaction between teams, Blood Omen 2 suffers from the rest of the series having such high standards. Blood Omen 2 does a good job of feeling like Kain in a new setting and control style, but fails in characterisation and storytelling. As it stands, it's the weakest in the series but I personally still find it fun enough to play multiple times. If you're looking for something enjoyable and either don't care about the over arching Legacy of Kain series or can remove it enough from the rest of the story, it's well worth your time picking this up.

Storiline is gold. Unfortunately they dont have the first part of the game which is from PSone.