Boring uninspired level design/puzzles. Ugly graphics as in an ugly world with muted browns, greys and the odd green. The combat is clunky, unresponsive and shallow. So combat is uninteresting as are the puzzles as are the environments these take place in. There is nothing of interest happening with the story or characters and nothing of the setting gets delved into or fleshed out. It fails as a Legacy of Kain game and it fails as an any other game. Painfully below average which will only become worse as time goes on with its antiquated controls.
Awful camera, boring combat, horrible lighting design (half of the time areas are so dark you have to crank the gamma to the point of breaking lit areas), constant backtracking (remember backtracking in Soul Reaver 1 being optional for the purposes of powers and stat boosting? No more, now it's built into the main flow of the game but without any of the rewards!), tedium of shifting is magnified to stupid degrees by always needing to gather souls each & every shift due to HP depletion, story is having the same discussion over fate & destiny every conversation 300 times over, no clear goals or ways to navigate, gimmick soul reaver blades that add nothing but a complete misunderstanding of the metroidvania design the first game achieved. All by all one of the worst sequels I've ever played.
Please hide more vital information in the "read more" section GOG, really helps me out.
