Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 | PS3 60 fps Widescreen | Longplay Full Game Walkthrough No Commentary

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Published on October 27, 2021 1:30:14 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-WDkAowmDY

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Soul Reaver 2 (2001)

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Walkthrough

Duration: 6:51:30

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Full game longplay of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, third game in the series to come out, for PS2 at first, in October 31 2001. Director of the game was none other than Amy Henning. Notably, the game was first supposed to be a PSX/Dreamcast generation game, then turned into a PS2 exclusive with a (not-so-great) Windows port a year later. A metroidvania-sort third person action game.

Played on a modded PS3, through the PS2 Classics style emulation, patched to nullify the mip-mapping issue (also present on pcsx2) and to run in a correct widescreen aspect ration. Edge antialiasing turned on, display mode set to 720p. Recorded at 1440p60, high bitrate just for teh better VP9 yt codec.

Note: it was basically a first time full playthrough, more or less blind, though I had some, not so vivid, recollections of what was I supposed to do. Died a few times, and had to redo some sections because of me being a dummy.

Huge graphical evolution, compared to say Soul Reaver on a Dreamcast (which looked absolutely briliant compared to its' any other version), PS2 was apparently powerful enough for this game to run smoothly in 60 fps, as one of the early gen titles, impressive feat. PS3 emulation effectively makes the game look much softer than it's normaly looks like on the original hardware, but I don't recommend anyone try this method to play this game, it requires quite a lot of tinkering with the PS2 Classics software and figuring out a correct config for the game, otherwise the severe texture mipmapping issues will occur, not to mention a freaking hard-lock on one specific puzzle! For now, just enjoy the playthrough, and do NOT try to play this way, save your time. Unless you're a tryhard, like me. Then hopefully the beautiful writing in this game makes it worth it somehow. :))

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Raziel's Vendetta, 30 years before Blood Omen
1:06:14 - Dark Forge and Secrets of the Past, Light Forge
2:48:00 - Ghastly Future, a century after the Collapse of the Pillars, Air Forge
4:48:00 - Janos Audron and the Age of the Sarafan, long before Kain's Empire, Fire Forge
5:53:33 - Vengeance and Destiny, Confronting Raziel's former Sarafan brothers, Kain's Irony
6:41:58 - Ending and Credits

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