Others have gone over the merits of Blood Omen in greater detail and with greater effectiveness than I could, so I'm simply going to note one important aspect of this port: It is, indeed, a good port. The game runs at a high resolution, accepts inputs from modern gamepads without a hitch, and plays smoothly on modern hardware. There are only two hiccups: 1. The FMVs are a bit low-res and grainy, although I expect fans will mod this problem away in relatively short order. 2. The game plays a bit slower than it should. Not in the sense of having slowdown, but in the sense of just being set to a lower speed. I suspect it may be based on a PAL version of the PC game, and if so, I kind of hope they correct that in an update. Apart from that, though, this is a perfectly good way to experience Blood Omen. I originally bought this more so that I could just own a legal copy of the PC version and continue to use my fan-modded KainGL version without guilt. But I think I may make this my version of choice if the speed issue can be fixed. It's a port of the sort of quality that I didn't expect to see for this obscure forgotten gem. Good work, GOG, and/or whoever else worked on this version.
I remember playing the "Shareware" version of Jill of the Jungle back in the day--the first game in this trilogy, like the first "episode" of Wolfenstein 3D or DOOM, was distributed for free and people were free to share it around--and I have some fun memories of it, old-school DOS jank or not. So I'm really happy to see the games available on GOG as a freebie title. They've been "available" for a long time, in the sense that you could still find the games on the original dev's website, the first chapter for free and the other two available for purchase, but good luck actually finding out about the game if you didn't grow up with an old Windows 3.11 computer like I did. The game is a standard sidescrolling platformer. Control-wise, it's quite jank, as all DOS sidescrollers were at the time (the PC was not always the glorious gaming platform of the master race, you know). But it makes up for that with a ton of tongue-in-cheek charm and personality, as well as some pretty solid level design. All three games are quite short, easy to complete in one quick sitting, which makes these a good way to unwind without committing to a long gaming experience. That said, the games do allow you to save your game literally anywhere in any level, so you don't have to worry about getting it done in one swoop, either.
