Now, if you're like me and loved Blood Omen 1 and liked Soul Reaver, you're probably thinking to yourself "Boy oh boy Blood Omen 2! I can't wait to play as Simon Templeman again!", and then you play the game and understand how awful it is. Its just a direct step down from both games. 1. Controls - The movement is just awful and imprecise, no matter what you try to use. It's like you're trying to control kain on a unicycle: He's either to sensitive and can send you running off ledges to your doom, or to the bottom of an abyss of platforming, where you can run off a rooftop and slowly climb your way back up. The jumping is just as bad. Kain will either jump way over and past what you want to land on, or he'll just not grab it. The glide is also pretty useless unless you just like descending from great heights like a man who's been deified. 2. The artstyle and level design - Just bad and boring with bad textures everywhere. The starting town is a snore from start to finish. There are no intricate structures and cool gothic cathedrals with strange, foreign insignias, there's just generic walls that look like coffee stains on the fax machine. Even the characters look as lifeless as the game itself. Townsfolk all have fishfaces, most of the enemies look like generic guards and rouges, and then the big guards looks like 40K soldiers while the captains or whatever have litebrite armor. 3. Story - I try to beat every game I trashtalk so I know what I'm talking about, but it's so boring It makes Dragon Age 2's story look decent. Constant Lore breaks and contradictions (like vorador being alive). The dialogue is also just so generic, it just waters down Templemans performance, like Mel Gibson at a middleschool play. 4. Combat - It all pretty much boils down to you blocking attacks until the rage meter fills, then you use a special attack to send them flying back. That's it. The side step is only useful for avoiding special attacks, and all the weapons break after 12 hits.
