Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2

This game is considered to be the least strong of the LoK games, and for obvious reasons. The bugs when this game first came out were annoying, and now you have to jump through a couple hoops to make this game function. You have to: 1. find the fan made patch to put a dll file into the main folder 2. when you run the game, you have to go to control panel and change the 'affinity' of the game to use only 1 core, instead of the like 2 or more that most CPUs are using nowadays With that said, I have always had a soft spot for BO2, and actually consider the game play (despite the bugs) to be a bit more creative than SR2, though the plot driving dialogue in that other game was more valuable to the story. BO2 (if it didn't have the bugs) would actually be perhaps one of the most unique additions to the franchise. It is still dark fantasy at its best, and exploring the terrain (city especially) was a lot of fun. The only other thing that this game had going against it were the plot holes (like Vorador being alive) that never got a proper answer, but was supposed to get an answer in a later LoK game per true LoK fashion. With that said, go into this game knowing it's limitations, but if you do the above fixes, you should be fine and get it to run.

From the shards of tattered dreams I rose, unwilling. Tossed upon tides of pain that flowed and ebbed and left me searingly awake and more revoltingly... alive.

I wish this game would get patched and or updated as this game has never worked for me on anything past a Win 7 operating system. Even then it bugged out and crashed constantly. Just wish I could actually play the game I spent money on...

If you get past the few technical issues and clunky turning controls, it's a decent action game with a fun story and really good voice acting. And I love the medieval steampunk aesthetic.

But this game doesn't work on modern PCs. If you have an older PC, its a fun game. I have it for PS2. I play it every once in a while.