Yeah I’m glad it got canceled too. It felt like it had no connection the universe we were introduced to. No reoccuring characters, TWO new characters out of nowhere (the vampire and human who he kills… and all of the sudden they’re on in the same?) makes no sense. Why is there another wraith-like creature ?

There's a difference between edge with eloquence and pure, unthinking edge. Let me put it this way: I love the writing style of George R.R. Martin, and I love the Game of Thrones TV show... it was great, until it wasn't. But I wouldn't want a Legacy of Kain game written or presented like a Westeros story. A Nosgoth story is edge with eloquence. Even Blood Omen 2 understood that it needed to retain that style, and it kept to writing clever, witty dialogue (such as it could). Legacy of Kain is interesting in that it really doesn't need to use foul language or have enemies running around with their mammaries flapping in the wind to convince you how "adult" it is. You can revel in the edge, in having a magic ninja star that explodes the flesh off your enemies' bones, but when Kain laughs maliciously, you've heard enough of his haughty take on the world to know he's not some grinning dudebro munching Doritos and sipping Mountain Dew, he's a brutal warlord with a goddamn education and he doesn't care if you think he's a nerd for talking pretty, either. There's poetry and wit and philosophical weight to the style of writing in Legacy of Kain. It counterbalances the edge-factor and elevates it, melds harmoniously with it. Legacy of Kain is happy to let you be a sadistic, grinning bastard and a thinking man at the same time. It's cynical, but it still has a place (somewhere) for a naive honorable wraith grasping at strings for a reason not to hate what he's become, while giving an immortal vampire tyrant a path to restoring the balance of the world. Yes, it's got edgy content. But if all it had was that, you can bet your boots we wouldn't have put up with the steady decline of the game design over the course of the series. Yeesh.

There are two widescreen modes, make sure the widescreen game cheats only is applied.

No.

No, it's a re-created, re-rendered version of the original game's opening FMV. Still an FMV, but re-done short-for-shot in higher resolution with all of the original CGI assets.

⁠ It worked for me just now. I’m on PS5 as well. I read on Reddit that if you use the save state or rewind feature then it might not work. I pressed all the switches back to back like in this video and the door opened for me. You get the trophy “She’s a Fine Vessel” once you go through the teleporter.

@@roylong1237 Just for the record, I managed to open the door and find the HMCS Bitter despite using the “rewind” feature extensively during my playthrough.

In defense to making it widescreen, yes. It's upsetting, I get that. But it's still a good cutscene regardless and it's honestly not even that noticeable for those who are coming into this for the first time. Now if you want sloppy, look at Soul Reaver 2's intro. It was just ported with AI filtering in the background. I'd give the first game's intro praise for not being THAT lazy.

I mean, yeah. The added detail visibility and smoothness is far more valuable to the impact of the scene, and the "intended composition and framing" would have also been equally thrown off had they added great chunks of heretofore unseen screen real estate on both sides of the scene. It's quite possible that the original FMV's assets and animation data wouldn't have had anything to fill those spaces with, which might have turned out worse. Apart from that concern, I am not inclined to count the visibility of Raziel's left nipple or a character's forehead being slightly out of frame for a few seconds as super-important to the framing of the scene, either.

@@OneTrueNobody I prefer my 4:3 content uncropped.... If you want it cropped .crop it yourself , there's video settings that let you do that. That way we both get to choose without forcing the other...