I think it's the fact that it's so incongruous with other titles, if the team writing the story had done some more research on the characters and setting it would be regarded as up there with Soul Reaver imo
I thoroughly enjoyed blood omen 2. It could be confusing if you hadn't played the soul reaver games, but I instantly realized that the story was explaining what happened after elde Kain and Raziel screwed about with the timeliness in Nosgoths past. That is what caused the inconsistencies with continuity that some ha e complained about.
@@irakennington9701 I always interpreted BO2 to be happening after Defiance when the pillars explode and Janos Audron is controlled by Hylden Lord. As such, BO2 is the true ending.
I love Blood Omen 2. Mainly because it shows what Sarafan were truly like, and how humans were used by both vampires and Hylden. It also shows exactly who is pulling the strings of the Sarafan order. This gives a really deep perspective on the whole atmosphere of the world - given that all other LOK series simply bash on humans. I also love it how it shows that not all Hylden are evil. Some were actually on vampires' side. Blood Omen 2 shows a much deeper complexity between the factions of Nosgoth, in a realistic way. Unlike other titles, which felt more black and white in comparison. At least in this regard.
Slums, I don't know how to explain it but... It's like being there seeing what Kain See's and I feel like I'm in the slums RN just by listening to it XD
Yyyeah, this one... loved it when it first came out, but not a game I remember fondly. The soundtrack, on the other hand, was absolutely incredible. The main theme and The Living End are tracks I can always come back to.
I played all the Soul Reaver games, and this is my favorite. The main reason is that it's more of a classic vampire game with a classic vampire setting. I really loved the atmosphere of the game compared to the Raziel focused Soul Reaver games. Mainly sneaking around foggy medieval towns and killing people as a Vampire. One main thing I always hated in the Soul Reaver Raziel games is the constant switch between astral realm and reality. That was tedious. And Soul Reaver games are often basically Tomb Raider platformers/puzzle solving which I don't like. I would say my two favorite games of the franchise are Blood Omen 2 and Defiance, Defiance because it precisely brought back Kain and his more action focused gameplay.
Blood Omen 2 and Defiance are my favorites as well. Kain being brutal feels more satisfying and visceral than Raziel's astral shifting and soul sucking.
It plays like a mixture of Tenchu and Zelda, in a setting that reminds me of Bloodborne, with just the best OST. If you hate this game, you hate it, but those who like it tend to really love it.
I started re-playing this game yesterday after buying it from steam for 0.89 because I got hooked again by listening to this sountrack and seeing the nicely chosen screenshots. It's insane what a timeless piece of art this game is, from level design and lighting, to the design of combat (and of course, the music and soundFX). Contemporary games should be inspired by this. The depth and feeling of going on an actual adventure on a vast journey is so pleasently implemented. It is a game with incredible depth and enjoyable game mechanics. (If you have problems with the menu getting stuck, simply ctrl+alt+del your way out of it, switch between task manager and game to get passed the menus and the game should work fine otherwise, despite the bad reviews. It even decently supports xBox360 controller still, which is really great for that orignal feel)
Even better: this will fix the game entirely ! github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/wiki/Legacy-of-Kain-Blood-Omen-2 - no worries its absolutely save. I installed it yday and gameruns as perfectly as back then again!
At the time, games were great constantly, so Blood Omen 2 just seemed a bit mediocre, but when you play this in 2024, it;s design is so tight, and the feel of going on a journey in this atmospheric world is way above stuff now. Cool character, all these nice little ideas. And the OST. It's got real passion put into it, it's only that the other games had even more so it got bad reviews. They can't make games like this now though.
@@PalaceMidasMusic They should tho! And I don't see how other games had "more" in them. I see no need to compare pieces of art and tag some sort of consumer value metric to them. They stand on their own. No one would say : Have you heard that great album? Watched that great movie? Saw that great picture? Only to follow up with: Jeah, but album/film/pic XYZ had even more to offer. With games, people treat it as if they would shop in a supermarket or "best value for buck" mentality. I think this is super weird.
@@harrysanders818 I get your point. But I mean the other Legacy of Kain Games, people seem to prefer them and for whatever reason dislike this one, even though it's probably my favourite. I agree though more isn't always better it often just mean bloat. I had a go of the new Tomb Raider remasters the other day and thought the same thing, no-one makes that kind of level design now but they should. A mixture of puzzles, combat and adventure set in dungeon like levels with good atmosphere . The last games to really have it were Zelda titles like Twilight Princess before the Breath Of The Wild games, although I DO like those too.
Great work! Love the screenshots you added! Also, I never realized how incredible "The Living End" was until I sat and listened to it just now. Thank you for this compilation!
one beautiful masterpiece what really make this game so special and rare than any other games not jus the story telling and events but also the clean respectful speech it gives a great meaning in many events unlike any other modern games these days that always got the swears and dirty speech concept everywhere makes me tired all the time this is one of the reasons this game is special
I bump on your content on other social media platforms as well and I just wanna say how much I appreciate your efforts and every small detail of what you do brings me joy. Seriously, thank you!
Awesome, thanks for uploading! Had most of the soundtrack for years and listen to it from time to time, though unfortunately not with the ambient/combat variations. The non-combat variant of The Living End in particular I absolutely adore.
1:01:00 bro I have so much nostalgia for this game from my childhood But I swear I NEVER heard this piano track on my (kinda jank) ps2 copy Ever! Until I played the Steam version Strange how they added that in
Awesome! even the credits scene is complete, great job! if there's one thing that really liked about BO2 is its music, (Question of Faith being one of faves), BO2 itself wasn't that bad though its a real shame that the gameplay and overall polish of the game were subpar in comparison to the rest of the series.
These are themes that the blood omen 2 cd released since in the game there are music that was not used as the canyon combat or other music has different effects, the eternal prison the combat sounds different from the game
My favorite is Question of Faith second part 27:10 and I must say although the soundtrack in this game is great it really can't hold the candle for the series before and after.. Clearly this game was supposed to be something else before the studio decided to slap a Blood Omen brand on it.
There was a rumor this game was supposed to be the sequel of a sega game named "Chakan". But, so far, none of this has been confirmed. Nonetheless, it is said there are many similarities between the aforementioned game and BO2, not only aesthetically but also in plot elements.
Sadly it was by a different team, on a different game engine working with the majority of their resources being sucked up by Soul Reaver 2 - and who'd been given mandate to separate themselves from the rest of the series. But it was always BO2 - The Chakan/Sirens rumours were officially laid to rest years ago. There are multiple sources from people that no longer work with the company saying that there was no asset sharing or anything like that - just one man who has a very unique style who worked on all three titles and who was overworked when he worked on BO2 and unintentionally mirrored some of his earlier cancelled projects. By this stage if there really had been some cross-company collaboration it would've been discovered. Boring though it seems, Blood Omen 2 was always just Blood Omen 2.
I prefer the gameplay of Blood Omen 2 far more than in either of the Soul Reaver games, even if the story is not quite as well done. However I'm really happy this game exists because it gave us extremely important insight into the Hylden as a species. Without this game, I feel like they'd have basically just been relegated to being essentially absentee villains for the entire series. Also this game was not going to be something else before they slapped Blood Omen on it, the team who worked on it was just different than the team who worked on the Soul Reaver games, and that team was a different one than the people who worked on Blood Omen 1. I think it was appropriate, really, because Nosgoth itself was supposed to be far different. This is Nosogth farther into the future than we ever see it in any other game aside from Soul Reaver 1, where Kain was basically causing indefinite stagnation before humans became nearly extinct, and the world started to go into a state of Armageddon. It only seems natural that the setting undergoes a dramatic and interesting metamorphosis when taken over by the Hylden, who come from another dimension, and are technologically inclined.
I'd love if you did some videos about Blood Omen 2! I recognize it's a *bit* of a mess to put it lightly but it has it's place as the angsty teenager of the series in my opinion. I think if you ignore the mis-charactered Vorador and Yanos it's genuinely a good continuation of Blood Omen 1 Kain, arrogant and headstrong but not yet completely jaded by the passage of millenia
If we had any early builds to discover new things we would, but sadly we don´t. If you mean with regards to story, we do cover some of it in the Arcane Tomes.
I think janos was not butchered character wise as he was kind and thoughtful but very angry with the hylden lord, he was janos's ancient enemy and made him suffer for another 400 or less years
Blood Omen 2 is not a direct continuation of Blood Omen 1, it's a follow up to altered events from Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance. It's titled Blood Omen 2 because its another Kain solo adventure. And you could argue Vorador mellowed from Umah like Kain did from Raziel.
Could you release these tracks as individual songs as well? Or at least just the Slums, since that seems to be the one track no one has released as an individual song on here?
@@RainaAudron I meant on RUclips specifically. The reason I ask is that I often run D&D games over Discord and the bot I use to play music for everyone requires a RUclips link to work.
@@RainaAudron totally understandable, which is why I was mainly asking for just the Slums since that's the only song I cannot find individually. That and possibly some tracks like Canyon, since every version I can find of that track has the standard and combat versions baked into one video; that part of the track, for obvious reasons, kind of shatters the atmospheric mood I'm looking for when just listening to the standard version of that song.
I'm sorry for hopping in, but where the Sarafan Lord combat theme? I mean this one (had to play through BO2 to Audacity it): ruclips.net/video/oFicoil07ns/видео.html The best soundtrack in the whole game IMHO (due to how combat loop combines with the mad, eerie, but calm music loop).
Okay, I stand corrected, this is using Eternal prison part 2 as the base and adds a combat layer on top. It cannot be extracted as the combat part of it is generated while playing the game and recording while playing has its issues as you have stated in the description.
I realized that after your comment that it is EP part 2 + Hylden loop. What's even more funny is that it has S P E C I A L combat loop unlike normal "vs Hylden" one. And since everything is dynamic...
![Fallout 3 | Ambient Music | 1 hour | [4k-UHD-Max Settings]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/S8JlQV_y4Hc/mqdefault.jpg)
Never understood why this game gets a bad rep. One of my favourites in the series. Gameplay wise I think it's probably the one I liked the most.
I agree, BO2 is the "fun" one out of the 5 games for me.
I think it's the fact that it's so incongruous with other titles, if the team writing the story had done some more research on the characters and setting it would be regarded as up there with Soul Reaver imo
Yeah this is considered the black sheep in the franchise
I thoroughly enjoyed blood omen 2. It could be confusing if you hadn't played the soul reaver games, but I instantly realized that the story was explaining what happened after elde Kain and Raziel screwed about with the timeliness in Nosgoths past. That is what caused the inconsistencies with continuity that some ha e complained about.
@@irakennington9701 I always interpreted BO2 to be happening after Defiance when the pillars explode and Janos Audron is controlled by Hylden Lord. As such, BO2 is the true ending.
Love this game so much and the soundtracks are a masterpiece.
I love Blood Omen 2. Mainly because it shows what Sarafan were truly like, and how humans were used by both vampires and Hylden. It also shows exactly who is pulling the strings of the Sarafan order. This gives a really deep perspective on the whole atmosphere of the world - given that all other LOK series simply bash on humans. I also love it how it shows that not all Hylden are evil. Some were actually on vampires' side. Blood Omen 2 shows a much deeper complexity between the factions of Nosgoth, in a realistic way. Unlike other titles, which felt more black and white in comparison. At least in this regard.
I very much agree. Is Blood Omen 2 perfect? No. It's it still amazing? I like to think yes.
The living end is a simple masterpiece, the sounds are perfectly eerie and dramatic. Really giving you vibes that it truly is the end
My favorite is 0:03:25, Slums. Thanks for the amazing work!
Mine too! I can't get enough of it! What a gem of game music
Slums, I don't know how to explain it but... It's like being there seeing what Kain See's and I feel like I'm in the slums RN just by listening to it XD
I always found this piece of music in the ost alluring, idk y always stuck with me
We need a single cut of this track
The music in this game was incredible.
Amazing underrated OST.
"Question of faith" is amazing (24:29).
Yyyeah, this one... loved it when it first came out, but not a game I remember fondly. The soundtrack, on the other hand, was absolutely incredible. The main theme and The Living End are tracks I can always come back to.
I played all the Soul Reaver games, and this is my favorite.
The main reason is that it's more of a classic vampire game with a classic vampire setting.
I really loved the atmosphere of the game compared to the Raziel focused Soul Reaver games.
Mainly sneaking around foggy medieval towns and killing people as a Vampire.
One main thing I always hated in the Soul Reaver Raziel games is the constant switch between astral realm and reality. That was tedious.
And Soul Reaver games are often basically Tomb Raider platformers/puzzle solving which I don't like.
I would say my two favorite games of the franchise are Blood Omen 2 and Defiance, Defiance because it precisely brought back Kain and his more action focused gameplay.
Blood Omen 2 and Defiance are my favorites as well. Kain being brutal feels more satisfying and visceral than Raziel's astral shifting and soul sucking.
It plays like a mixture of Tenchu and Zelda, in a setting that reminds me of Bloodborne, with just the best OST. If you hate this game, you hate it, but those who like it tend to really love it.
Slums is the perfect tutorial music in a video game.
I started re-playing this game yesterday after buying it from steam for 0.89 because I got hooked again by listening to this sountrack and seeing the nicely chosen screenshots. It's insane what a timeless piece of art this game is, from level design and lighting, to the design of combat (and of course, the music and soundFX). Contemporary games should be inspired by this. The depth and feeling of going on an actual adventure on a vast journey is so pleasently implemented. It is a game with incredible depth and enjoyable game mechanics. (If you have problems with the menu getting stuck, simply ctrl+alt+del your way out of it, switch between task manager and game to get passed the menus and the game should work fine otherwise, despite the bad reviews. It even decently supports xBox360 controller still, which is really great for that orignal feel)
Even better: this will fix the game entirely ! github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/wiki/Legacy-of-Kain-Blood-Omen-2 - no worries its absolutely save. I installed it yday and gameruns as perfectly as back then again!
@@harrysanders818 There's also a software called ''voodoo'' that can fix Blood Omen 2 for any system in case dxwrapper one doesn't work.
At the time, games were great constantly, so Blood Omen 2 just seemed a bit mediocre, but when you play this in 2024, it;s design is so tight, and the feel of going on a journey in this atmospheric world is way above stuff now. Cool character, all these nice little ideas. And the OST. It's got real passion put into it, it's only that the other games had even more so it got bad reviews. They can't make games like this now though.
@@PalaceMidasMusic They should tho! And I don't see how other games had "more" in them. I see no need to compare pieces of art and tag some sort of consumer value metric to them. They stand on their own. No one would say : Have you heard that great album? Watched that great movie? Saw that great picture? Only to follow up with: Jeah, but album/film/pic XYZ had even more to offer. With games, people treat it as if they would shop in a supermarket or "best value for buck" mentality. I think this is super weird.
@@harrysanders818 I get your point. But I mean the other Legacy of Kain Games, people seem to prefer them and for whatever reason dislike this one, even though it's probably my favourite. I agree though more isn't always better it often just mean bloat. I had a go of the new Tomb Raider remasters the other day and thought the same thing, no-one makes that kind of level design now but they should. A mixture of puzzles, combat and adventure set in dungeon like levels with good atmosphere . The last games to really have it were Zelda titles like Twilight Princess before the Breath Of The Wild games, although I DO like those too.
Great work! Love the screenshots you added! Also, I never realized how incredible "The Living End" was until I sat and listened to it just now. Thank you for this compilation!
32:52 - This part feels like having a sudden insight, a revelation.
15:37 is the best, I love the furnace
Blood omen 2 has some of the best soundtracks.
one beautiful masterpiece what really make this game so special and rare than any other games not jus the story telling and events but also the clean respectful speech it gives a great meaning in many events unlike any other modern games these days that always got the swears and dirty speech concept everywhere
makes me tired all the time this is one of the reasons this game is special
I bump on your content on other social media platforms as well and I just wanna say how much I appreciate your efforts and every small detail of what you do brings me joy. Seriously, thank you!
good stuff right here - a REAL CLASSIC
Awesome, thanks for uploading!
Had most of the soundtrack for years and listen to it from time to time, though unfortunately not with the ambient/combat variations. The non-combat variant of The Living End in particular I absolutely adore.
Please we need a solo clip of the slums theme it's 🔥
Already up 👍 ruclips.net/video/hbgAPEpQHq8/видео.html
@@RainaAudronthank you 👍🏾
Blood Omen 2 had a lot of things wrong with it, but the soundtrack wasn't one of them.
1:01:00 bro I have so much nostalgia for this game from my childhood
But I swear I NEVER heard this piano track on my (kinda jank) ps2 copy
Ever!
Until I played the Steam version
Strange how they added that in
Say what you will about Blood Omen 2 it had very atmospheric music
Liked and subscribed👍👍👍 for the download available
gotta love 3:24 it was in the trailer before the game was released.
15:35 - the Furnace is so eerie
🤔
Thank you!
House Of My Enemy is my fav. Furnace is a very close second.
37:03
My favorite theme
Awesome! even the credits scene is complete, great job! if there's one thing that really liked about BO2 is its music, (Question of Faith being one of faves), BO2 itself wasn't that bad though its a real shame that the gameplay and overall polish of the game were subpar in comparison to the rest of the series.
My V Rising track of choice right here
iirc the song starting at 27:10 is actually a separate track called "High City"
These are themes that the blood omen 2 cd released since in the game there are music that was not used as the canyon combat or other music has different effects, the eternal prison the combat sounds different from the game
Yo quiero las verdaderas canciones del juego de combate algún héroe?
jak to vidím tak opět nainstaluju všechny díly
The builder soundtrack sounds like it'll be in final fantasy since its not used in the game.
My favorite is Question of Faith second part 27:10 and I must say although the soundtrack in this game is great it really can't hold the candle for the series before and after.. Clearly this game was supposed to be something else before the studio decided to slap a Blood Omen brand on it.
There was a rumor this game was supposed to be the sequel of a sega game named "Chakan". But, so far, none of this has been confirmed. Nonetheless, it is said there are many similarities between the aforementioned game and BO2, not only aesthetically but also in plot elements.
Sadly it was by a different team, on a different game engine working with the majority of their resources being sucked up by Soul Reaver 2 - and who'd been given mandate to separate themselves from the rest of the series. But it was always BO2 - The Chakan/Sirens rumours were officially laid to rest years ago. There are multiple sources from people that no longer work with the company saying that there was no asset sharing or anything like that - just one man who has a very unique style who worked on all three titles and who was overworked when he worked on BO2 and unintentionally mirrored some of his earlier cancelled projects.
By this stage if there really had been some cross-company collaboration it would've been discovered. Boring though it seems, Blood Omen 2 was always just Blood Omen 2.
I prefer the gameplay of Blood Omen 2 far more than in either of the Soul Reaver games, even if the story is not quite as well done. However I'm really happy this game exists because it gave us extremely important insight into the Hylden as a species. Without this game, I feel like they'd have basically just been relegated to being essentially absentee villains for the entire series.
Also this game was not going to be something else before they slapped Blood Omen on it, the team who worked on it was just different than the team who worked on the Soul Reaver games, and that team was a different one than the people who worked on Blood Omen 1. I think it was appropriate, really, because Nosgoth itself was supposed to be far different. This is Nosogth farther into the future than we ever see it in any other game aside from Soul Reaver 1, where Kain was basically causing indefinite stagnation before humans became nearly extinct, and the world started to go into a state of Armageddon. It only seems natural that the setting undergoes a dramatic and interesting metamorphosis when taken over by the Hylden, who come from another dimension, and are technologically inclined.
I'd love if you did some videos about Blood Omen 2! I recognize it's a *bit* of a mess to put it lightly but it has it's place as the angsty teenager of the series in my opinion.
I think if you ignore the mis-charactered Vorador and Yanos it's genuinely a good continuation of Blood Omen 1 Kain, arrogant and headstrong but not yet completely jaded by the passage of millenia
If we had any early builds to discover new things we would, but sadly we don´t. If you mean with regards to story, we do cover some of it in the Arcane Tomes.
I think janos was not butchered character wise as he was kind and thoughtful but very angry with the hylden lord, he was janos's ancient enemy and made him suffer for another 400 or less years
Blood Omen 2 is not a direct continuation of Blood Omen 1, it's a follow up to altered events from Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance. It's titled Blood Omen 2 because its another Kain solo adventure. And you could argue Vorador mellowed from Umah like Kain did from Raziel.
1:08:20 the builder combat
42:24 i need the sound !!!!
❤🔥💔
Could you release these tracks as individual songs as well? Or at least just the Slums, since that seems to be the one track no one has released as an individual song on here?
I already have, check the description for the link.
@@RainaAudron I meant on RUclips specifically. The reason I ask is that I often run D&D games over Discord and the bot I use to play music for everyone requires a RUclips link to work.
@@ArvelDreth oh, I see! I've thought it's much more handy to have them in 1 video instead of flooding my channel with hundreds of individual ones.
@@RainaAudron totally understandable, which is why I was mainly asking for just the Slums since that's the only song I cannot find individually. That and possibly some tracks like Canyon, since every version I can find of that track has the standard and combat versions baked into one video; that part of the track, for obvious reasons, kind of shatters the atmospheric mood I'm looking for when just listening to the standard version of that song.
@@ArvelDreth I can upload the Slums privately if you so wish, let me know!
I'm sorry for hopping in, but where the Sarafan Lord combat theme?
I mean this one (had to play through BO2 to Audacity it): ruclips.net/video/oFicoil07ns/видео.html
The best soundtrack in the whole game IMHO (due to how combat loop combines with the mad, eerie, but calm music loop).
Okay, I stand corrected, this is using Eternal prison part 2 as the base and adds a combat layer on top. It cannot be extracted as the combat part of it is generated while playing the game and recording while playing has its issues as you have stated in the description.
I realized that after your comment that it is EP part 2 + Hylden loop.
What's even more funny is that it has S P E C I A L combat loop unlike normal "vs Hylden" one. And since everything is dynamic...
plzzzzzzz put this on soundcloud i’m begging you
Hey, sorry, I do not have a soundcloud account. Why?
@@RainaAudron so we can close the phones and still have the music playing
@@bladeer Ah, ok, you can just download the soundtrack and play it that way.
@@RainaAudron yeah, i know, i was just giving his line of thinking
What genre is this I want to find more music like it
Video game music, I´d suggest to look at the rest of the games in the series. LOK games have ambience oriented soundtrack.
Where can i buy this masterpiece again??
You can buy the game on GOG or Steam.
@@RainaAudron thank you very much. The time has come to visit Lord Sarafan again!
@@Klartext-cv9uk You are welcome! Have fun! Maybe check out the Conceptual Edition as well (fan mod).
@@RainaAudron I liked Soul Reaver 2 more Blood Omen 2.
56:26
Liseliler bilmez
Not gonna lie - this soundtrack is one of the few good parts of this game. The rest is - sadly - good ideas not executed that well :(