2026-08-16 · blog
Soul Reaver (1999) — The Action-Adventure That Stacked Two Worlds on Top of Each Other
Episode 29 of "Today Is Release Day": Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, the PlayStation action-adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive in North America on August 16, 1999. Raziel can move freely between the material and spectral realms, and the geometry itself warps as he shifts — one mechanic that carries the combat, the traversal and the block puzzles alike. 91 on Metacritic, Editors' Choice from both GameSpot and IGN, 9.3 from IGN. More than 1.4 million copies sold worldwide by 2001, and the first game in the series to join Sony's Greatest Hits line. In Japan, however, the PlayStation version Capcom was to publish was cancelled; it did not reach a Japanese console until the remaster arrived on July 10, 2025.
