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

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is 1 of those bid of games that has ever felt unjustly near down to me, and astatine Sony’s State of Play today, it’s yet getting its due, astatine slightest a little. The 2 classical Crystal Dynamics games, which I enjoyed successful their penultimate signifier connected the Dreamcast, are getting a remaster for PlayStation consoles, courtesy of Aspyr Media. The remasters travel retired connected December 10th.

The 2 Soul Reaver games were supernatural enactment puzzlers with a dense Lovecraftian bent released archetypal for the archetypal PlayStation and Windows PCs successful 1999, past for the Sega Dreamcast successful 2000. In them, you play Raziel, a jawless vampire who was brought backmost to beingness by an elder god. He’s equipped with an ethereal sword (the titular Soul Reaver) that engulfs his limb erstwhile it’s clip to fight.

The games played a small similar a Legend of Zelda crippled and progressive puzzle solving, jumping betwixt the carnal satellite and a “spectral realm,” and hack-and-slash fighting. You summation caller abilities by defeating different vampires arsenic you progress.

The remaster looks a batch similar different Aspyr glow-ups, with enhanced quality models and redone textures and effects, but otherwise, they look mostly unchanged. Here’s hoping the crippled doesn’t endure the destiny of immoderate of the buggier Aspyr remasters (looking astatine you, Star Wars: KOTOR II and Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection), due to the fact that I’ve been waiting to play Soul Reaver again for many, galore years.