PsychoCarbo Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain Review

06/10 Final Rating Below! ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ DaVinci created a new reality ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Red Dead Redemption II ☐ Byutchifu ☐ Good ☑ Decent (released in 1996) ☐ Don’t look at it for too long ☐ Bad ☐ Atari ☐ Tamagotchi ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Does your PC run Paint? ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich Ox ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Story }--- ☐ Story? What story? ☐ One word: Pewpewpew! Three words: Pew pew! ☐ Some sweet talk ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Beautiful! ☐ Isabel Allende, Machado de Assis, and Tolkien teamed up to write it ☐ It will replace your life ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ "I know kung fu!" ☐ Excellent! ☑ Good ☐ Mehh ☐ Instead, watch paint dry ☐ Yeah, no ☐ Smash your hand with a hammer — it’s funnier ---{ Grind }--- ☐ You’ll need a second life to grind ☐ Grind maniac ☑ Medium grind level ☐ Only if you care about achievements ☐ None needed ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press ‘W’ ☑ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Hard without a brain ☐ What’s your IQ? ☐ Dark Souls ☐ Hawking joined Neil deGrasse Tyson to build a time machine to find Einstein and Tesla to create this game ---{ Playtime }--- ☐ Just enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Medium ☐ Long ☐ You start it, your grandson finishes it ☐ To infinity and beyond! ---{ Replayability }--- ☑ Once is enough ☐ Only if you’re an achievement hunter ☐ After a few months... Years... Mods... ☐ Worth it with DLCs ☐ Hope you’ve got time to waste ☐ Well... you didn’t need a life anyway! ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of any ☐ Minor glitches ☐ Can be annoying ☐ You’ll start swearing... ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a giant insect farm ---{ Multiplayer }--- ☑ No multiplayer ☐ LAN ☐ Says it has, but will blow up your PC if you try ☐ There it is... a lonely forgotten desert ☐ Meh, kinda fun ☐ Solo mission? What? ☐ Basically an MMO ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Audiogasmic ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Acceptable ☐ Bad ☐ I’m deaf now ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ☑ Everyone ---{ Price }--- ☐ No longer available on Steam ☐ It’s free! ☑ Fair price ☑ If it’s on sale ☐ If you have spare cash ☐ Not recommended ☐ You might as well burn your money ---{ 06 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, besides being the first in the series, is also the first one I’ve tried to play. The experience itself wasn’t bad. For a game released in 1996, its graphics, sound, and gameplay hold up. And the story seems good, with the interesting twist of not being your typical goody-two-shoes protagonist. However — and this is the main issue — that’s about it. It feels like they did the bare minimum, leaving a game that could have been much better... kind of boring. I’d love to see and try a remake of this title, which really shows promise. But for now, the laziness I feel every time I try to play it — combined with the long list of other games waiting to be tested — just doesn’t make it worth the effort. Not to mention that Good Old Games’ platform is the worst: it lags, freezes, resets… you name it. So, for the price, nostalgia, and symbolism, I do recommend it — but without much excitement.