I’ve never played any of the Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain games so I don’t have any nostalgia for them. But I have a co-worker who absolutely loves the series and will regularly re-watch all the cutscenes on youtube. His description of the games make them sound amazing so I’m tempted to try them, but I worry they’ll have janky controls and awkward early-2000s puzzles that will just annoy me since I don’t already have a soft spot for these games.

So I’m looking for an outside opinion. What do you think? Are the games fun to play if you’ve never played the originals?