Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered made its debut on the Swap late final 12 months and since then it is bought some extra updates.
Patch 2 has now formally arrived and included are a bunch of fixes for each video games, some bonus supplies and numerous different enhancements. We have additionally included the earlier replace right here, which was launch again in January.
Listed below are the complete patch notes by way of Aspyr’s official help web page:
Patch 2 (2nd April 2025)
Patch 2 for Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered is right here!
Under is a listing of resolved points and numerous updates.
Full Changelist:
Bonus Supplies
- Added “The Lifeless Shall Rise” Kickstarter Backers record to the Credit part.
- Added the E3 1998 Demo to the Bonus Materials part.
- Up to date Nosgoth Lore with new places and improved descriptions.
- Corrected Lore Reader places for accuracy.
- Fastened a crash when switching to the “Corrupted” tab within the Lore menu whereas utilizing Russian language settings.
Soul Reaver
- Fastened a bug the place Raziel might begin floating after shifting into the Materials Realm whereas in water and leaping instantly after.
- Improved visuals for enemy corpses in HD mode to raised match the unique model.
- Fastened a crash attributable to saving behind geometry and trying to reload.
- Ariel’s scream throughout a imaginative and prescient sequence now performs solely as soon as, as supposed.
- Fastened a problem with Dumah’s eyes not displaying accurately.
- Restored lacking sound results earlier than and after visions, much like the unique PS1 model.
- Fastened a crash when utilizing telekinesis in a particular space of the Human Citadel.
- Well being capability exercise now accurately shows 100% completion.
- Fastened a crash when repeatedly viewing Chronoplast Visions.
Soul Reaver 2
- Fastened a problem the place the Thrall NPC’s decrease physique would disappear in mirror mild results in HD mode.
- Adjusted timing in order that subtitles throughout Raziel’s monologue not disappear too early.
- Fastened subtitles disappearing too early throughout a dialogue scene with Ariel.
- Improved distant texture rendering in underwater areas.
- Resolved a problem the place textures displayed as “noise” as an alternative of correct visuals in HD mode.
Localizations
- The “Maintain to Skip” immediate now shows accurately in all languages.
- The “Exit to Launcher” textual content now shows accurately in all languages.
- Added Portuguese language help.
Normal
- Accomplished exercise progress now correctly carries over when beginning a brand new sport.
- Fastened a problem the place stacked cubes might turn out to be caught collectively when pushed.
Patch 1 (thirty first January 2025)
Patch 1 for Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered is right here!
Under is a listing of resolved points and numerous updates.
Full Changelist:
- [SR1] The lighthouse’s beam is not lacking (after being activated to acquire the Glyph).
- [SR1] A further immediate has been added to the Underworld tutorial in SR1 for accessing the Glyph menu.
- [SR1] A toggle has been added to allow/disable the Day/Night time cycle.
- [SR1] The Bell within the Silenced Cathedral is not lower off after being hit.
- [SR1] Fastened an occasional crash difficulty triggered when Raziel was killed by a flamethrower hunter.
- [SR1] Fastened a problem that precipitated the atmosphere to de-spawn.
- [SR1] Fastened the Nice Outdated One Achievement in SR1.
- [SR1] Fastened the backward hand in SR1 for the vampire hunter.
- [SR2] Fastened a problem the place Raziel might sometimes turn out to be caught in a room with a T-pose Moebius after skipping a cutscene.
- [SR2] Black cubes are not current on the Air Forge mummies.
- [SR2] When taking part in by way of the Oracle Caves, Cubes will not get caught in one another.
- [SR2] The show not squishes horizontally to suit the display screen as an alternative of cropping the edges when the side ratio is narrower than 16:9 on PC Steam and Steam Deck.
- [All] After disconnecting the controller, the sport will routinely open the pause menu in both title.
- [All] A visible impact is now current when accessing and leaving the visions within the Chronoplast.
- [All] The Break up trophy / achievement not progresses when killing a Sorcerer Thrall.
- [All] Directional inputs can now be certain to the arrow keys.
- Now you can press pause whereas watching the Bonus Supplies motion pictures.
- Sure tutorial prompts not show the inaccurate button immediate in non-English languages.
In our evaluation right here on Nintendo Life, we gave Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 a “nice” eight out of ten stars – calling it a trustworthy remaster and as gratifying and atmospheric because it was 20 years in the past.
