I feel like I'm an outlier in the Kain fandom: I love Defiance. Could you skip it? Sure, but get ready to be confused about a certain aspect once you get to Defiance, unless you watch a recap. If you're having issues getting into it, I'd say it'd be okay to skip and watch a detailed story recap (but I'd still suggest trying!)īlood Omen 2 is kinda bad, but people like to forget it introduces some major story. Blood Omen is pretty archaic, even for aged gamers. Release order, if you want any chance of not being confused, so: You'll get more out of the series if you know where it all started Blood Omen is so dense, all the games end up making nods to it in some extent. Overall, though, I'd say release order is the best way to play them. It's kinda complementary to SR2- SR2 is 90% story, with terrible combat and excessive puzzle rooms BO2 is fairly light on the story (though there's a good chunk of ambient environmental storytelling, if you take your time with it), meaty-feeling (albeit eventually repetitive) combat, and (mostly) good puzzles. It's not a particularly great game, but it's got a cool setting, some neat puzzles, and interesting boss fights. For that reason, to understand Kain's motivations in Defiance (that are not actually spoken of in the game, but implied), it's best to play Blood Omen 2 AFTER SR2. The game is basically a sequel to Defiance that takes place in an altered timeline created by the events in Soul Reaver 2. It's a steampunk action game with a Legacy of Kain slapped onto it. It is a direct sequel to SR2.īlood Omen 2 gets a lot of hate, and many of the criticisms are deserved. To compensate, the gameplay's painfully linear, and mandatory combat encounters are a chore you get through.ĭefiance is a good mix of both exploration in wide linear levels and an actually somewhat deeper combat system, that wraps up most of the story beats. Soul Reaver 2 is where LoK story goes from "pretty good" to GOAT. Running past enemies is generally your best strategy, since there's no benefit in fighting them, ever.
And it has a very clunky combat system, where you're basically timed on killing enemies, and if you don't he'll come back to life. Also, camera controls are pretty awful, so expect a lot of dumb deaths. Do be warned, there's A LOT of block puzzles. Soul Reaver is the most engrossing 3D game, as it hits a sweet spot between its atmospheric story-telling and it's exploration-based gameplay. It's a one of a kind atmospheric "dark Zelda" game that has not been matched in over 20 years. Blood Omen 1 is a masterpiece, which is why not having an easy way to purchase it digitally on PC is a travesty.
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