Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered

SR1 worth the visual update, but without rearraging the final confrontation with Kain it's as idiotic as it was previously (pure talking with no coherence with the SR2 Intro dynamics !)... The SR2 remaster on the other hand is just a joke, with Raziel, Kain, Moebius and everything not even remotely in line with even the games own Intro, not to mention Vorador who now looks like in Defiance !!! The textures in SR2 mostly so sharp and cleaned that they ruin the gothic vibe of the original architecture... Everything worth to me no more than 7$ (30 PLN), so the retail price of 35$ (140 PLN) is a joke, as is Sarafan Raziel not moving his lips while talking in the final confrontation with the wraith Raziel !!! Citing Raziel's own words: What have You done (...) DEGENERATE?!

Totally a must buy. a lot of love was poured on these games

I am reviewing the product in its current 1.0 release. Possible future patches will have influence and I will update this review when the time has come. I have played all the LOK games and I still remember having a blast with SR in the 90s on my Pentium 200 MMX and Voodoo GPU. Already back then the game had some gameplay issues and unfortunately these were carried over to the remaster, so one can say it's a trully faithful remaster. And to be honest, it's a good game and perfect for replaying these games on modern systems. I am focusing here more on SR 1 as I haven't played SR 2 remastered yet, also I think the original is running perfectly fine on modern systems with relatively low effort on modding. This is the reason I straight up jumped into SR 1. Who played the original, knows what to expect. A classic 90s action adventure with a healthy mix of action and puzzle solving though the most of these are quite easy or simple push-some-block kind of. The good: - Remastered graphics are quite good and the new models look also detailed and much better than the original. - Smooth gameplay - Sound and music is faithful to the original and they kept the dynamic music, which was absent in the PC version. - Restored never-used-before features like the night / day cycle - New QoL features like map and a tracker for found upgrades and some goodies like some videos from behind the scenes etc. The bad: - Crashes, for me quite easy to reproduce. Human Citadel and the area where you have to activate the light tower to get a glyph. Always when changing from Maretial Realm to Spectral Realm. - Lots of clipping errors, textures blend in, geometry blend in - Controls are sometimes quite sensitive which makes precise platforming difficult (this was also the case in the original) - Camera issues, clips through geometry, obscures view, precise platforming is difficult. - Sound bugs Unfortunately I can't write that much. I am not affected by the night/day darkness bug at least.

Played it in my youth. See for ya'selves. :)

+ Faithul + Way better graphics give new life to enviroments and characters especially in SR1 + Mechanics preserved some for better some for worse + Some Bonus Material main event being unused levels i have seen some better recreations on YT but its still really nice - Some Bugs i enountered that werent present in the original hopefully patched out with time and they mainly happened in the first portion of the game of SR1