When I was in the peak of my gaming time, a lovely little game captured my imagination and I really, really liked it. That game was Soul Reaver. It played somewhat like Tomb Raider, but had a connection to the action-RPG of Legacy Of Kain: Blood Omen(BO), a cool, edgy vampire story.
Soul Reaver played very differently to BO, but the voice acting of the main characters, was incredible. The main Characters being Raziel (your guy), The Elder God and Kain. Their efforts raised what was a fairly simple premise of betrayal and revenge to something much more epic than it had any right to be.
Development was shaky and the game ended up having a lot of stuff cut from it and a "To Be Continued..." ending. Which is something I always hate. Nevertheless, I did play it on PS1, and then again on Dreamcast. The series did this a bunch of times and the story continues over 5 games and is very convoluted as there is time travel and changing of the future and shenanigans going on all over the place. Even after I finished the final game, I was still fairly unsure of the plot... Who was the main bad guy and what their motivation was to ruin the land of Nosgoth and destroy the Vampire race etc etc.
The games are:
- LOK: Blood Omen
- Soul Reaver
- Soul Reaver 2
- LOK: Blood Omen 2
- LOK: Defiance
I suspect that there was of course a delay between game releases, would have allowed for me to forget parts of the story which would have added to my confusion.
