An eternity of midnights! You're the vampire Kain, damned to feast upon the blood of man. Steel yourself for an epic quest of vengeance that will drag you to the depths of depravity. More...
Memory size: 1 Blocks
Players: 1 Player
Media: CD
An eternity of midnights! You're the vampire Kain, damned to feast upon the blood of man. Steel yourself for an epic quest of vengeance that will drag you to the depths of depravity.
A game rarely deserves an 18 rating more. Games like Mortal Kombat have worn it before due to their overflowing gore, but here is a game for a console which was out and out designed for mature players, and not for your average Playstation gamer.
The game opens interestingly... you are Kain, and are in a bar late at night. You have been traveling long and wish to have a drink to get off the streets. But, the barkeep refuses to serve you, and you are kicked onto the dark streets. There, you are attacked by a mob which, run and fight as you may, you cannot defeat.Suffering in the afterlife, the necromancer Mortanius offers you a chance vengence, and you hastily agree, thereby obtaining the eternal life of a vampire.
Almost three years in development... and worth every minute.
Yes, this game was begun when the Sony Playstation was still just a rumored stand-alone version of the proposed SNES CD-ROM drive. It was only after the game was well in its development that it became a Playstation title, and entered the realm of 32bit console gaming. (Owners of one of the original Playstations can look on the back of the box to find an early screen shot of the game.)
This game which runs on the ex 3-D console champion (before the N64), the Playstation, utilizes none of that console's 3-D horsepower, and does so without the slightest reduction in game quality.
This game consists entirely of hand drawn images, and this gives the game an image quality which could not possibly be achieved if it had been done with polygons and texture-mapping. The overhead isometric view gives good perspective of Kain as he walks about the land of Nosgoth (combination of Nosferatu and Gothic?) and can be zoomed in or out at will. Those you meet have realistic movements, although many of the townspeople tend to fall into that annoying habit of pacing endlessly back and forth like in many RPGs. The land of Nosgoth itself is detailed, and there is very little repetition in the scenery tiles (so common a major flaw in 2-D overhead RPGs).This has got to be one of the first Action/RPGs to realistically incorporate time into gameplay. Being a vampire, of course, daylight is harmful for one's health, but nighttime is, indeed, when Kain is at his most deadly, as his strength is greater