Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered Switch eShop Pre-Orders Now Available

Really glade soul reaver is back played this a lot on the dreamcast😊
But I may wait to see if a cart version is on the wayor not ?

I'll wait for the cart. I'd also like to see some footage from the second game. I don't think they've said anything about that yet. Or features. Like are there dev diaries, a museum, etc?
Edit: Oh never mind. Denis Dyack was involved. Definitely not going to have that dude on board.

@Mirage-5x5 There'll be a cart at some point. Whether it's retail or exclusive to Limited Run is the question. The Tomb Raider Remastered collection was Retail however.

Shut up and take my money

I've literally never heard of this series before, but it looks kinda cool. I'm a pretty simple man, I see GameCube/PS2-era graphics and I get happy. I may need to look into what exactly this is.

@Not_Soos The story and VA are great. I don't usually care too much about either of those things.

I feel like there's a huge disconnection between art style and the textures slapped on lowpoly geometry from the time. Maybe it's just my memories messing with me.

Enjoy it guys, I'll pass.

They gave him eyes? Why did they give him eyes!?

That's quite the visual update, even if some of it is a bit jarring.

I'd be interested to hear if it has any QoL features, and if the button layout can be customised. I'm not sure when I'll get this but I've wanted to give the first game in the series another go for ages.

First shadow man comes to NSO, then legacy of kain remastered! Now we just need a nightmare creatures remake and all the horror games of 1999 that weren't called resident evil will finally get their due praise.

These remasters are kinda cool as well because they play how I remember the originals looking with nostalgia goggles on, but if you actually boot up some of these PS1 games today without a resolution/texture hack via emulation. It's shocking how bad they look especially when you think that today's average screen size is closer to 40 inch when back in CRT land if you had a 32 inch screen you were a gaming God

@BananaCookie That first screenshot makes him look like he has eyes with slit pupils! But it's just his hair. Tricked me for a moment!

Yeap will definitely be getting that 10% off deal and then after that it's double dip time with the physical edition and PC versions next year.

I tried to play the first Soul Reaver once, but I just got lost wandering around and kinda lost interest. I'm sure it's a great game though, just one that demanded more patience from me than I was able to provide at the time I tried it.
...For whatever reason it didn't stand out to me, though I do know the game has a lot of fans, so maybe I should give it another chance.

@Stormcloudlive

"It's shocking how bad they look especially when you think that today's average screen size is closer to 40 inch when back in CRT land if you had a 32 inch screen you were a gaming God"

the fact that these games were designed for a ~24" CRT actually makes it less shocking that they look bad on a 40"+ HD panel. imo

Will there be a physical release?

I'm looking forward to the eventual "Pong REMASTERED" titles as we all wait for the Switch 2 to (finally) be released.

I won't be pre-ordering. If this was a Nightdive release? I'd be pre-ordering the moment it was possible... But Aspyr? Yeah, I'll wait and see.

@Not_Soos just from following your comments on this site (you have good taste lol) I think you are gonna get into this.

I have never played them, but they have been on my radar since 2002, and are supposedly quite similar to an Ocarina of Time, and yes they have lo-fi polygons that really bring one back.

Oh and I guess the story is amazing? Lol

@Inc Hmm

@LikelySatan Did he work on these ones though or just the original Blood Omen?

@TCKuma yup. Amy Hennig as well.

@Branovices It's understandadable, but to be fair, all Aspyr games that I can think of have good Switch ports since the start, including Battlefront 2. I know that's because I got the Tomb Raider Collection, Battlefront 2 and Bounty Hunter the days they were released. People were repating stuff about Battlefront 2 that were problems in other consoles, but not with Switch. I played both Online and the campaign for many hours and the only thing that happened is that it skipped a video if I remember correctly. Many that didn't even play it assumed that it would be worse on Switch simply because it was a weaker console, but it was actually more stable and polished. Other Switch users that were saying the same and got downvoted (Reddit) because of the whole campaign happening against the game at the moment, but it just wasn't happening on Switch. Servers were quite stable since the start and the first thing that I tried with a friend, with both public and private sessions.

Either way it's wise to wait. I'm dying to play these games again, who knows how much I've been waiting for remasters or remakes haha.

Yikes. That first Raziel shot. I was already a pass with it only being the Soul Reaver games and SR2 being a massive slog trying to correct a completely botched third act in the first game, but that just became a hard pass. I'll stick to playing the first game on Dreamcast or Vita.

@Not_Soos I still have to play it but I only heard of it for the original (Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain) being one of the first adventure/RPG type games released on the PS1.
I do recall it being early enough that when Game Informer reviewed Alundra, they said Blood Omen was the only similar game available in America... and there was quite a difference in tone.
2D AND RPG? Bernie Stolar must've really hated it though. Was this before or after Sony kicked him out to go to Sega?

But judging by these, I'm guessing the sequels are when the game jumped to 3D?
(also, did they confuse people by making a sequel that just swapped the title and subtitle? Hate it when newer games do that.)

Now that I look up screenshots... am I thinking of a different game? I could swear that the game I recall seeing in magazines back in the day was 2D. Maybe they all were 3D, then. Or did someone on GameFAQs upload screenshots of a wrong game to the Blood Omen page? Now I'm confused.

@KingMike The first game in the series, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, was a top down ARPG.

Obviously the publisher has not played the games themselves, or they would know how little sense it makes to release these 2 games without the last game Defiance.

It's the equivalent of re-releasing Lord of the Rings, without Return of the King.

@KingMike the Game release order is Blood Omens, SR1,2, Blood Omens 2 then lastly Defiance . The very first game was a 2D top down Action RPG, while every other game has been 3D. As to chronological order… time travel seems to be involved so it’s complicated?
All games (apart from SR1 which is coming soon as its remastered version) are on GOG. And they’re on sale, apart from SR2, for obvious reasons.

@CRB1984 you see a bunch of zombies creeping towards you.... Your health is low.... You break a box, it's a sharpening wheel!

Zombie halves everywhere

Please take me back to that time NSO!

@LikelySatan Very brief, but the opening of the trailer is footage from 2.

@Orpheus79V Yeah I just want to see some gameplay. It's not the best in the series, but the atmosphere was there.

I'll never understand pre-orders for digital games...

@Pillowpants pre downloading it so it’s ready to go immediately is why I do it, if it’s a game I know I’ll like.

When will these publishers learn that Switch owners also want Physical editions?

Please Stop announcing digital releases while being completely silent on any possible Physical Cartridge

This one I need to get it on PS5, but after that I'll def get on Switch too. I was my childhood on PS1, I need to play on Playstation again with trophy support.

@Bizzyb They want to sell the game twice, like they did with Tomb Raider and will do next year with TR 4 - 6.

@Shrek_Realista Good point. "Double Dipping" has (unfortunately) become a very real strategy for Publishers when it comes to Switch owners and game release schedules...😮‍💨