Legacy of Kain: Defiance

Review after 3hr 44 minutes. Played using keyboard Combat: pretty good but not special. Has standard hack and slash features like launchers, combos, and bars that fill up to give you special moves. So far it lacks anything that makes it stand out. Platforming: Terrible. irredeemably bad. Didn't feel good for one moment. The moving camera makes it feel awful. Graphics: Pretty good. I will say that the skybox is a little obvious at points but overall good. Puzzles: For babies.

Amazing game. It needs proper controller support and updated to run properly on windows 11.

When thinking about the series, I am sort of baffled by the fact that all of those games (barring maybe BO1) had some... pretty annoying flaws. Mostly having to do with the camera and controls, but sometimes also the overabundance of combat. But you know what? The beautiful thing is that the story and the characters were good enough and engaging enough that I wanted to play more of those games anyway. The combat was... eeeeh. Kinda enjoyable at first – nice, flashy animations, a lot of jumping around and stabbery. But it quickly got rather tiresome – and to be honest, that’s my criticism about EVERY SINGLE GAME IN THE SERIES. I think there could be less combat. I guess I should at least give Defiance credit for giving you experience and new combos for defeating enemies, but it’s hard for me to appreciate because I absolutely sucked at executing those combos and mostly just did them by accident. xD At first, right after finishing Defiance, I felt it wasn’t really... that great as a final game. But then I got it. It’s THE EXACT POINT. This is a game about Fate and about fighting Fate – and I guess Defiance can be understood as making particular points on those subjects that are actually kinda interesting. The character creation of Kain is brilliant overall. In fact, I’d say the whole series was maybe worth playing JUST FOR HIM. I loved his haughtiness, his flowery turns of the phrase as he derided peasants or waxed poetically about torture and death. He seemed to me an almost shakespearean character, reciting his lines with a charisma and emphasis worthy of a stage play. Overall, I’d say my final ranking of the games would be: Blood Omen 1 > Soul Reaver 2 > Defiance > Soul Reaver 1 > Blood Omen 2 If you'd be interested in seeing how I tackled Defiance blind, you can see a playthrough on my youtube channel, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL7Ci5v-RMY&list=PLp4TpsJ7HUWVBj2WiWSK-4Jtg_xUCz4RG

I kinda saw all the glowing reviews here and thought there may be a chance this could be a good buy. I was wrong...this is the most annoying game experience I have ever had. The camera does not position itself very well and your control over it is almost non-existent. The controls themselves are clumsy and awkward it was just ....well annoying and it got in the way enough that it affected every aspect of the game for me. Even at a buck this was not worth my time...

It's just horrible controls and camera. I'm sad I can't finish this. I guess I'll have to find videos on YouTube to watch the story.