What does Yea Forums think of the legacy of kain series?

Soul Reaver is the best one for exploration, puzzles and overall atmosphere.
Soul Reaver 2 is linear and has bad level design but the plot is mostly great.
Defiance is a wannabe devil may cry with watered down gameplay, the writing and the world design make no sense but the ending is god tier.
But ultimately you should really play all of them, the worst Soul Reaver is still much better than what is being released nowadays.

You push blocks to solve some puzzles and typically get new abilities immediately before/after boss fights are where the similarities begin and end. Soul Reaver has the benefit of possessing its own unique combat system while Darksiders is derivative in that aspect as in all others

>Defiance is honestly one of the worst game I've ever played, I did not enjoy it at all.
I'll admit the gameplay was all over the place throughout the series, but please explain how Defiance is worse than Stun Reaver 2
Blood Omen is still the best in series to me though

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It's got a great story and I love the writing style but it's a pretty clunky 3d action adventure and I was having a hard time getting into it.

I unironically enjoyed and miss Nosgoth

>terrible gameplay
>5/10 writing
>10/10 delivery of that writing, voice acting and setting

Blood Omen and Soul Reaver are the only good games in the series to me.

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That synth as Raziel walks out from the shadows.

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Raziel I had to throw you into the abyss so you could discover your destiny to have me kill yourself using yourself as a weapon so I could defeat some ancient tentacle beast who revived you because he wanted me dead because I refused to kill myself in the first place.

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>playing blood omen 2

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no he cast him in to play into mobius' false destiny because he knew if he could convince raziel not killing him in that one part in SR2 he could break raziel's loop later by halting the process of soul reaver trapping raziels soul in it. everything after soul reaver 2's ending is just kain winging it, he didnt even know he had the janos audron's heart.

Agreed. BO2 was ass. I hated Kain's design. The only thing good about BO2 was Faustus.

I really enjoyed nosgoth. When both teams new what they were doing and worked together it was great fun. Those moments of calm and suspense right before a tyrant fucking smashes in and shit goes insane in an instant

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the music is pretty good though and some of the locations are nice.

Fate is whimsical is it not, Raziel?

>The only thing good about BO2 was Faustus.
The only thing good about BO2 was Simon Templeman's performance. He made kain sound like an even bigger asshole than he did in BO for some parts

I'll agree with you on the music. I hated the enviroment design, except when you go outside the city and everything is PEAK SPOOKY.

>2019
>No one has surpassed the voice acting in Legacy of Kain

Fucking pathetic.

>enviroment design
it's fucking astouding how it can feel stupid and dead, when everything on soul reaver was fucking awesome
>music transitions in SR

I quite enjoyed Hylden City. Felt like proper techno-horror setting. Also bald Sarafan knights were kinda neat.

Someone tldr me the plot of the whole series

Realtalk, they're kino but all make for shit vidya. They don't play to the medium's strengths whatsoever, just watch the cutscenes on youtube or something.

destinies women will never get

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pick the best boi

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fuck you because its retarded

The settings, locations, music, characters, plot and va are one of the greatest in gaming history.

Gameplay in all of the (maybe exept the first blood omen) is shit tho. No matter how they changed combat system in every game it was always subpar.

Still, one of my favorite series.

A coin flipped onto its edge.
Free will is an illusion.
Time traveling and paradoxes.
Vae victis.

I've only beaten Blood Omen 2 and it's my favourite one.
I've tried playing Soul Reaver but it's terrible on PC (no mouselook, you have to look around on keyboard).

>The only thing good about BO2 was Faustus.
Don't forget Umah and the Seer.

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Malik is the best one because he did nothing wrong

I really liked Soul Reaver way back when, but I can't imagine that it has aged very well. Christ, I just realized that it's almost 20 years old.

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But woman wrote this destiny?

KAIN WAS DEIFIED

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I know thats the joke.

Here is raziel, the soul reaver, killing himself, raziel the man, with himself, raziel the soul reaver. Thus ensuring that he would he resurrected as Kain's lieutenant, there by ensuring he would be killed and brought back as the soul reaver.

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>You're a righteous fiend, aren't you?
>Apparently, I am
Based Crystal Dynamics

I could be mistaken, but I believe it was the same people who worked on Metal Gear Solid, same with the Berserk game on Dreamcast. Guts and Raziel even have the same actor.

>implying you could fap with simon's voice in the background

Honestly I would fap to Simon's voice because no one in this industry gives a single fucking shit about voice acting

>Thread dies
And fuck you, zoomers.

Yes
>playing soul reaver
>that amazing feeling when after 1 hour of fighting Zephon I got this amazing moment of realization how to kill him

nah, just watch a lets play of it and skip the parts where faggot gets stuck on a puzzle.

Kain refused the sacrifice.

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time FUCKAGE

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