Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain - Review / Retrospective 

I’m a simple man. I see literally anything related to LoK and I click.

Honestly one of my favorite series. Simon Templeman has such an iconic voice. (As did Tony Jay [RIP], and the rest)

I love how the creators subverted the endings in the sequel, and that the "Good Ending" of this game would damn the world even worse than Kain staying in power, and that Kain was trying to protect the world with his decisions after he figured out the truth. (The canon ending is Kain chooses to rule)

And this is how you make a review. I was never interested in LoK... but now I am, flaws and all. Good job, Finn.

Hey Finntrovert, I like your videos, I found you after watching Ultima videos after I found Majuular. Glad to have found you!

Like some of the Ultima games, I was originally introduced to this game due to your streams. It's a hidden gem which marks the start of another classic game series.

I always saw this on the shelf at the gamestore and thought it looked really cool but if i recall it was 18 rated here in England and i was about 12 at the time so wasnt allowed to get it!

42:54 I feel like Moebius wanting to get rid of vampires isn't something that needs to be explained. The tomb you wake up in has bound prisoners (who put them there anyway? Mortanius? Other vampires, since they also all seem to have bound humans in their lairs?) that the game clearly expects you to feed on, and that you literally can't free. And IIRC there are no vampires in game that don't not only view humans as livestock (which, fair, predator/prey relations etc.), but seem like they would even hesitate to drink an entire family on , or an entire school full of children. Now, clearly they fill an important ecological niche by keeping humans from overpopulating. But, if you were a human in this world, wanting to get rid of vampires would be like wanting to get rid of the plague.

Oh yeah, I've been waiting for this. A great, thorough review as always. As good as the following games were, I'm still craving more titles like the first Blood Omen. Technically a metroidvania, but with its own flair.

Late to the party, but m glad to see you cover another great series.🎉

yesssss another finn drop let's fuccin goooooooooooo

Great video I finally played this for the first time last year and loved it. Hopefully I start the sequel soon.

VAE VICTUS!

When they're not on fire, vampires are probably room temperature! This series was controversial early on due to the IP grab but, yeah, let's not get into that. I believe the series was one of the first major works from Amy Hennig, who would later pen things like Uncharted. Ah, yes, the thing that stops a creature that just unlocked jumping up elevations into a bunch of hostiles... a waist-high boulder! Whoever thought waist-high rocks stop a 6-foot wolf from bounding over them was perhaps not sober. Oh, we're at 68 likes... I'm gonna watch this space, because I'm... a mature adult, yes. Is it me, or is there a possible connection of theme between the Pillars of Nosgoth and the Shrines in Ultima? They affect the world and the people and when corrupted, and so on. I wonder if some of these narrative choices were made in response to such prominent CRPG fantasy.

Damn, this game looks really good. I imagine gog has it? Definitely getting this next payday. I've been on an 80/90's PC RPGs binge lately

When i was 7, i can never figure out how to continue my game.....Man i was a stupid kid Granted, my brother always warn me not to play with game options or settings.

Yes my son.

*sigh* Curse you Embracer! Curse you!

Is that good smelling gothic boi you mentioned called KingCobra by any chance? :)

24:14 TMDWU

Thank you for making this video.

I have a small question. As soon the guardian of the pillar dies, another is born/assigned, so even if Kain kills a guardian, next already corrupted guardian is born/assigned, even if he is restoring the pillars almost immediately, by flying to the pillar in bat form, corrupted guardian of the pillar is already somewhere in Nosgoth, so all his actions cannot undo the corruption.

Vae Victus!!!

VAE VICTIS!