Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

Been trying to get a copy of this since my original PS1 disc went missing some years ago. Old but gold, can’t wait to play this again 🫶

The only familiarity I had with Blood Omen was Soul Reaver 2, but I had a desire of going through the series to understand the full story. The first game is so well written, the atmosphere and design of the world, the story and characters, and the amount of detail that they were able to put in with the hardware limitations, you can tell that the team wanted to deliver a great story-rich game. You get so many different abilities and items to use, Armor, weapons, you explore a huge map and fight enemies on your way, everything that you pick up has an in-universerve explanation of how it functions or why it exists. The way Kain Narrates everything when you enter a place or pick up an item for the first time felt like I was getting a Lovecraftian writer to tell me a story. Even the FMV cut scenes were pretty good, graphic and got the point across. The game overall has so much potential to be a masterpiece but I think the years have not been so kind to it. The overall pace feels really slow, Kain walks incredibly slow and some weapons make you walk slower. there were even times when enemies or traps would go slightly too fast and I wouldn't be able to dodge them. The Hitboxes are not great either, sometimes the enemy would hit me when I wasn't even in their proximity and other times I wouldn't hit the enemy while other times the enemy wouldn't hit me at all. After a while, I kind of just wanted the game to be over because the dungeons felt repetitive towards the end. The boss fights were cool but some of them could of been done better and suffered from the hitbox problem. Overall Blood Omen was a fun game that I would only experience/play once. The game is in dire need of a remaster that can revitalize the franchise. The story is great and the world-building is amazing, for that alone I would recommend it but if you want something a little bit fast and can't stand slow-paced gameplay then I would say to skip this game and just watch a lore video about it.

For a game from 1996, Blood Omen is amazingly good to play in 2025. The story, voice acting and gameplay are all 10/10, and I'm having a lot of fun playing this properly for the first time since I got to see it as a 9 year old at my friends house after school one time. The game was that memorable to me - after only maybe 30 minutes of watching my friend play it nearly 30 years ago, I was a little worried that I was being duped by nostalgia, but it absolutely does not disappoint

Game is good. Two thumbs up!!!

Brilliant game, Loved it when i played it back in 1996 - still good now. Storyline is great!!