Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered

Great game even if it can be a little buggy at times, I would love for the developers to figure out a way to reimagine the Legacy of Kain Blood Omen games. I don't think a direct remake is the direction needed but a reimagining of the first game and a refinement of the second to improve combat among other things.

One of the best games in history !!!

This is fantastic - plays beautifully, lots of visual options, ALL the easter eggs you could ever want, beautiful skins, the art of the entire remaster is really good. The bonuses when you beat the game are hilarious. If you like LoK, get this!

Having just recently played through the SR1 and SR2 remasters and wanting more of the story, I bought this fairly immediately and continued my journey through Nosgoth to see what fate had in store for Kain and Raziel. At the very least, the game's narrative exhibits a similar level of quality from its predecessors even if I felt some parts were a bit slow. The conclusion was a bit bittersweet given that the likelihood a sequel will be made is near zero. I really felt that the execution of [spoiler] uniting Raziel and Kain by cleansing the soul reaver by absorbing Ariel and then later on, Raziel willingly gives his life to cleanse Kain's corruption and allow him to finally complete his destiny with the completed reaver [/spoiler] was so well done. I did not really expect this turn of events. Other points like [spoiler] Moebius being shown the true form of the Elder God in the spectral realm by Raziel or Janos being possessed by the Hylden Lord. Or the fight with Turel who threw Raziel into the pit at the beginning of SR1 but was noticeably absent in SR1[/spoiler]. The game really does a great job at weaving all these seemingly disconnected events throughout the series and showing you how they connect and influence subsequent events in the timeline. I felt that storytelling really rewarded you when you paid attention. Now, we come to the part that I did not like much. The gameplay... While it was in most respects leagues better than SR1 and 2, it was still pretty lackluster. I think some of this is due in part to the control scheme, where it felt really difficult to pull off anything other than your standard 3 button combo or using a launcher ala DMC to do some air combo. The telekinesis for both was nice but it was difficult to push enemies onto objects to instantly kill them because the control scheme goes against what you'd naturally expect in this game. I never quite got used to it which made combat more annoying than it might have been. It was also more annoying in the case of Raziel to switch to the spectral realm. I would often prime a switch and then it would be nullified because I was used to just pressing the button rather than holding it like it was here. The other part about the combat and gameplay that was annoying was certain groups of enemies (the demons for example) just hit way too hard and are obnoxious as hell when a group of them come at you. Ultimately, I think this is still worth playing because the story really is that good but like I mentioned in my SR1/SR2 review, if its exhausting to play, just watch a Youtube cutscene compilation as opposed to playing this. I also don't think I would recommend this at full price either. Definitely with a discount.

One of my favorite games, ever. after sr1 and 2 were remastered, I thought, "I hope they do defiance." *insert holy light sound* this game is awesome, the remaster is SO well done. They added extra skins for the reaver as well as Kain and Raziel, they fit the game and look amazing, they didn't change or mess with anything like some remasters have. As for the original game, it has storytelling no one seems to do anymore, it has fantastic voice acting, combat is fun. there's nothing I love more than sending an enemy flying of a cliff screaming in terror. or stabbing them with a 5 foot sword. or stealing their blood/soul....or... aahhhh, old games. *fuzzy feelings and flying enemies*

A good remaster that doesn't hurt the original art style and improves on the control and camera and includes some good behind the scenes material for the hardcore fans. Not much anything else to say since it's the same game. As a game on it's own... Not perfect but not bad either. Like the original. Would prefer a more open world experience when it comes to Nosgoth as it could have allot to offer +Best combat in the series +Story and dialog +Good way to end the Kain vs Raziel saga -Enemy variation is lacking and the same goes with bosses (mainly Raziels part) -"puzzles" are rather boring as it is mainly a hack and slash type game -Not that replayable and can get quite repetetive Now let's get a proper LoK sequel! (not some 2d platformer) I wouldn't mind if a sequel wouldn't include Raziel nor Kain and leave em as pure mentions, hints and nods as the new era emerges and intruduce new characters and continuing the Nosgoth history with new conflicts and such. A series that truly deserves more

8 из 10, потому что разрабы, которые делали боёвку и добавили такое количество мобов (6 в один файт, и они тебя пинают все вместе), — я, ♥♥♥♥♥, руки бы вам пообломал.

I really loved playing through these games ! Was just really nice to fill in a gap in knowledge regarding narritive within vidya-games. This was really nice and just a perfect conclusion to the franchise. It felt very definitive in its conclusion. I would haev been super curios to see whatever that cancelled 2014 Soul Reaver game would haev been like? Feel like if this franchise was to come back i'd like to see it set centuries after this games time-line and have fresh new characters that pay reference to this franchise. I would love to see a very unique different Nosgoth. Maybe with a Souls-like gameplay structure with empahsis on exploration?? Loved this! I think it's got more gameplay issues then narritive. A bit tedious the hack n slash combast system to the arkahic exploritive adventure elements of the previous. Eh ! Games are cool.

the same but now remastered and better than ever

Remastered trifft definitiv zu ! So wünscht sich das der Nostalgiker.