Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2

Raziel its back. The history increase the vampiric argument! A game that improves their graphics in a great sense. Really, a fine succesor!

So yeah.. it's a Tomb Raider'esque thing with a vampire, dual-world gameplay and a good story. Sold? Good. It also has terrible controls and suffers from cut-content. Still sold? Good. The thing with Soul Reaver is it's uniqueness in assembling parts that are not that unique. We've all done 3rd person jumping and fighting, collected souls and shifted between worlds, but not maybe in the same game in the same bizarre universe. A recommended journey with some beauty flaws.

I love the Kain series and I have a lot of love for this game specifically. The twists and turns the story takes are very entertaining and I love the voice acting. This particular game lacks on thing that I enjoyed in the first soul reaver however. They pretty much removed all boss fights. I loved the boss fights because really they were puzzles. You couldn't just hack the boss to death, you had to look around for its weakness. Now the game itself added a lot more puzzles to its gameplay through use of the usually block puzzles, gliding puzzles, and light reflection puzzles. All fun, but I still miss the boss fights. If you enjoyed soul reaver you should enjoy this game though. I have replayed this game a whole bunch of times mostly because I just love the feeling I get when you finish and watch the ending movie.

I played the game because I like the story and dialogues. Little did I know that the gameplay is frustrating and rage inducing. I can't use my controller for this game so it was with keyboard and mouse. I've never managed to win a fight fairly. The enemies can just block you and you have to wait for them to stop or you can't damage them, the heavy attacks are useless, they hit faster than you and sometimes with a better reach, you can crouch to dodge some attacks if you can read them in half a second, the black demons are the worst part because they can just stunlock you. The only viable way to fight was to run around and swing the arms hoping to hit something. The last level needs you to be invicible to have a chance against the remaining enemies. The immortal vampire turned wraith I was playing was so weak compared to everything else I avoided most fights because the only interesting thing about them was to heal. Loved Blood Omen 1 and Defiance, I have yet to play the 1st Soul Reaver but this one disgusted me

Controls are awful and i've had multiple crashes.