Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

Windows 10 - perpetual black screen on startup - doesn't work.

Blood Omen does not live up to its reputation as a 'classic' or a 'masterpiece'. It is ugly, broken, frustrating, and actively tries to hinder your enjoyment at every step. You could call this game an A Link to the Past clone, but this would be doing A Link to the Past a *major* disservice -- Blood Omen is inferior in every single way. Most of the time, you and your enemy just sort of stand in place and swing at each other without any clear indication as to why your attacks land and theirs pass right through you, which feels like some kind of bizarre, broken interpretation of Diablo combat. Enemies have a tendency to either stand in place and swing blindly at you even though you are well outside of their attack range or land a wombo combo of 2-3 knockbacks that wipes out half of your health bar. The game hands out an item that heals you and revives you on the spot when you die like candy. Imagine if you could carry 99 fairies in a bottle in A Link to the Past. It's almost impossible to lose. On top of that, after the first dungeon, you get a spell (repel) that *literally makes you invincible*. If your combat *is so bad* that you have to give the player the ability to become invincible to make it tolerable, *you might as well have just removed combat entirely*. Since 90% of the game is designed around the existence of repel, almost all of the dungeons are obviously impossible (or at least simply not fun) to get through without it. However, since you arrive at most dungeons having used up all of your magic on casting repel to button mash through hordes of mindless enemies on the way there, you're forced to just put the controller down for 5 minutes and wait for your magic to recharge enough to cast repel. Some dungeons have zero magic restoration pickups, so you'll be doing this through *the entire dungeon*. Please, do yourself a favour and skip to Soul Reaver. It's not worth it.

When I go to controls settings the game freezes. I also tried Xbox 360 conrtoler wiith same result. Sorry but it is no better than my physical copy of the game that I was last able to run it some 25 years ago on P5 machine. I was so excited when I saw the game on GOG but I am not able to play it :( . Asked for refund Disappointed. When you fix it I may buy it again It is an excellent game - but not playable in its present condition.

I have this game on PS1. You just walk around all the time while getting no clue whatsoever to do, while the enemies respawning all the time, no purpose, way to difficoult, no logic in gameplay. If you wanna play a GOOD game like this, play soulbringer.

Let's be honest.. this game is older than your grandpa's farts, it's twice as stinky, but it lasts twice as long. Yeah! I said it! You probably won't find a clunkier, more dated game that is still worth playing. Why is it worth playing? Because it's the root of the Kain legacy series. This game is painfully long. I doubt anyone has completed it in two decades. It fills in those holes that younger players will be scratching their head at if they don't. Is it worth $6.95? HELL NO!! Anyone that loves the Kain Games ought to give it a try, for like 50 cents. If you HONESTLY want to try to play it through, then the shear length of the game would make it worth $1. I mean, honestly.. I'm pretty sure this game was abandonware for at least a decade or two. I just can't imagine WHAT the sellers are thinking putting a price that big on the game. I'd almost bet money that it didn't cost $7 when it was brand new in it's shiny shrink wrap packaging on the shelf. I would know, I still have that copy.. and I'm telling you, it's NOT worth it!