Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 and 2 are getting a remaster

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is one of those series of games that has always felt unequitablely left behind to me, and at Sony’s State of Play today, it’s finpartner getting its due, at least a little. The two classic Crystal Dynamics games, which I finishelighted in their penultimate create on the Dreamcast, are getting a remaster for PlayStation consoles, courtesy of Aalerterr Media. The remasters come out on December 10th.

The two Soul Reaver games were superorganic action bafflers with a weighty Lovecreateian bent freed first for the innovative PlayStation and Windows PCs in 1999, then for the Sega Dreamcast in 2000. In them, you join Raziel, a jawless vampire who was brawt back to life by an elder god. He’s supplyped with an ethegenuine sword (the titular Soul Reaver) that engulfs his arm when it’s time to fight.

The games joined a little enjoy a Legfinish of Zelda game and comprised baffle solving, jumping between the physical world and a “spectral genuinem,” and hack-and-slash combat. You get novel abilities by lossing other vampires as you better.

The remaster watchs a lot enjoy other Aalerterr shine-ups, with betterd character models and redone textures and effects, but otherwise, they watch mostly unalterd. Here’s hoping the game doesn’t suffer the overweighte of some of the buggier Aalerterr remasters (watching at you, Star Wars: KOTOR II and Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection), becaparticipate I’ve been paparticipateing to join Soul Reaver aget for many, many years.