Legacy Of Kain: Turning The Vampire Formula On It’s Head

Lately, vampires have become a hot commodity. Novels like True Blood and The Vampire Diaries have portrayed vampiric protagonists as lonely people who are afraid to get close to mortals because whatever passion they feel will be abruptly severed when the aforementioned mortals die. Their struggle to contain the bloodlust is another essential ingredient to the vampire protagonist, who perceives the sating of his bloodthirst to be a reduction to a hungry, out-of-control beast. Finally, the key goal of any vampire protagonist is to regain his humanity and to become a better person via the relationships he builds over the book franchise. Romance sells, and what could be more romantic than the evolution of a broody, lonely immortal?

However, even romance loses it’s charms over time. The saturation of romantic formulas has accelerated this stagnation, and the shadow of love-triangles has hidden other vampiric stories that, while not romances, are engaging tales. One such epic is a seri...

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Twilight killed the Vampire man...

[DatNJDom81]

And it will be up to The Legacy of Kain Series to bring some badassery back to the vampire. Cmon Sony reboot it. I don't mind if I have to wait until next gen. Just reboot this series. By the way its not for kids. Although I personally think think that Lords of Shadow did a great job as an origins story for you know who.

[CrescentFang]

(sorry for being off topic) Don't forget Castlevania too!

[Micro_Sony]

CastleAvania was ok but did not have that vampire slayer feel.

If anything it felt more like like a mix of God of War, Devil May Cry and Shadow of Colossus. Which is not a bad thing but the Vampire hunter element was missing.

Also forgot to mention that Twilight is Kojimas favorite novels.

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@ icro_Sony

Im still recovering from hearing that myself, although I imagine like many other thing, that the novels are better than the movies.

[zerocrossing]

I agree, I think a reboot of the franchise would be great, or even a retelling of Blood Omen making use of graphics and gameplay we have this gen or next. Everyone should play the original Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, sadly its age and load time is a turn of to some gamers.

Lords of Shadow did a fine job fleshing out that origin story.

[Whitefox789]

I liked Lords of Shadows I really did I just felt like it wasn't really Castlevania and it got even more confusing when they tried to blend in some of the story from Lament of Innocence into it: Gabriel is theorized to be a bastard son of the Cronqvist noble family, and Rinaldo Gandolfi made the orders weapons including the Combat Cross. I don't know what it is theres just something missing to make it feel like Castlevania, with that said I think Lords of Shadows should've been its own orignal series.

Actually you might as well as disregard this comment cause apparently David Cox has stated that this reboot isn't attached in anyway to the orignal Cannon.

[antz1104]

Agreed, Kain was a great protagonist and his story was epic. Then it was continued wonderfully by Azreal and the Soul Reaver series.

New LoK game, please!

[RustInPeace]

@ antz
I think you mean Raziel.

[antz1104]

@ Rust

YES!!! Thank you.

[UnwanteDreamz]

I played them all. This series had the best dialog and voice acting. Hell the gameplay was great as well (excluding the first LOK I didn't appreciate the old school top down 2D then, great story though). One of my all time favorites. I hear a reboot is impossible because it's tied up in legalities.

[Whitefox789]

I defintely know Eidos hasn't forgotten about it with Raziel and Kain's cameo in Tomb Raider Legends and Crystal Dynamics has stated their interest in reviving the series. Which I hope is true I already have two games on my list with unfinished storylines: Shenmue *cries*, and Viewtiful Joe *cries even more*

So I would defintely like a conclusion to Legacy of Kain after Defiance.