Regarding Soul Reaver - Due to copyright claims, the intro music for Soul Reaver around the 21 minute mark has been muted. This is not an Evercade issue, just a UA-cam one! Lol it sounds rather haunting without music.
To be clear, the remaster is for Soul Reaver 1 & 2. Blood Omen isn't getting a remaster. Also, Soul Reaver 2 was a PS2 era game, so no chance of that on Evercade.
Great review Crazy Burger, two cool games 🎮👍 I played Soul Reaver on Dreamcast, it was fantastic. Never played the original Legacy of Kain and I feel that is exactly what Evercade is best at... what a great way to play these games, for me the ability to Save your game at any point is a huge plus!!
I recently checked out a really in-depth vid on UA-cam. About the making of BLOOD OMEN. Fascinating stuff. There’s so much story to the game. Never played this one myself, but it seems very interesting to play and explore! There seems ALOT of things though. That by modern standards seems “clunky”. Repetitive. Similar enemy types. Unclear or complicated menus etc… But I guess this is a game which tried these things out first?! 🤔. Not sure if this could be classed as a TRUE remaster. Without improving on the things I briefly mentioned?! What do you think Crazy Burger? 🤔. Regardless. I think BOTH games seems good anyway! One I will definitely consider owning! 🤔😊
I'm pleased to report both Legacy of Kain & Bitmap Bros Collection 2 carts work fine on the previous firmware on my VS, that's the Collie Defence game of the month firmware! It looks like Kain might do well as it was quickly selling out on Funstock yesterday. Just a shame Blaze are not sat on a load of machines to shift even more copies to nrw comers. 😢 Thanks Crazy! 🙂👍
I'd love to see Akuji The Heartless on an Evercade cart (or as a remaster). Never got deep into the Tomb Raider games and clones, but something about the whole Voodoo mythology got its hooks in me and I finished it a couple times on the PS1. Might be fun to revisit these days.
This is the only video on this collection that has bothered to address the loading in Blood Omen, or even show enough to demonstrate how it runs properly. So thank you for this. It looks like a perfectly viable way to play it over the PSX version. If I had an Evercade I’d pick it up immediately.
It's a great collection to be released on Evercade. I'll probably pick it up during a dry period of releases and in the meantime play on either PC or PS Vita :-) Keep up the awesome work!
Great reviews man thnx. Remember playing Soul Reaver at launch with a m8. Didnt go outside for like 2 weeks until we completed it. Hehe fun pale skinned times. Defo buy for me.
If I'd known back in the day these games were from Silicon Knights I would 100% have had played them. My favourite Horror game until Resident Evil 4 came out was Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. The audio and acting was a massive standout in that game. I think the voice over actor is the same as the Roman character in ET.
Curious as to whether this plays reasonably well on the Pocket due to screen size. I want to play these on the go and will get the remasters for console when they come out.
The big difference between the Evercade release and the remasters is the lack of Blood Omen in the remastered collection. It has Soul Reaver 1 (the PS1 game) and Soul Reaver 2 (which actually is the fourth game in the series, after Blood Omen, Soul Reaver and Blood Omen 2, which focused on Kain's exploits instead of Raziel).
@@basketballsteve54 I'm sure it'll be fine in the original handheld. The buttons missing are to control the camera. Though they've remapped them to a button combo. So nothing is missed.
I'm having a blast with this collection. From the time they announced a partnership with Crystal Dynamics I really wanted to see Blood Omen on Evercade. It runs really well and, I might be wrong, but it seems the load times have improved slightly?
I played through both of these back in the day. The first one is an interesting concept but extremely clunky and repetitive. Soul Reaver is one of the best action games of the whole era. Incredibly good voice acting and a big world to explore that oozes theme and Lovecraftian vibes. But it’s a rare exception. Most of the 3D games from this era have not aged well. That said, while I’m happy that this got ported, I really hope we’re not going to get piles of shoddy early 3D games without analogue controls on the Evercade when they’ve barely scratched other retro stuff like Colecovision, Turbografx/PcEngine, and they’ve barely scratched the Genesis/mega drive. There are also several pc lines like the Atari 800 series, ZX spectrum, MS-DOS, TI99, CoCo etc that are untouched. I want all of that 8-16bit stuff. I really don’t want a bunch of tank controlled janky, fugly ps1 era 3D platformer stuff like tomb raider. Maybe it’s just me.
Honestly I think you end up loving the most, they type of games that were common when you were coming of age. PS1 was the first console I purchased with my own money when I was 13 years old, and thos tank controls and early twitchy 3d graphics and pre rendered backgrounds are my favorite! I love all things SNES as well, but being that I bought PS1 with my own money, it meant more to me. Dino Crisis my first game with my own money lol
@@robertharper3114 That’s true to an extent but I grew up on these too. Ps1 was the first console I bought too. I just don’t think the games have aged well, even if I’m fond of them. There’s a reason steam is full of games that look like snes or genesis titles but there are hardly any on there that look like, say, tomb raider or 1st Gen resident evil.
@@Androsynth75 Sprites are just more popular than ps1 style graphics, but there is an entire sub genre of games that go for that ps1 aesthetic. Since you say your not fond of the style, of course you wouldn't come across that kind of game in your travels.
The upcoming remasters are Soul Reaver 1 & 2, not Blood Omen. I'll be playing BO on Super Pocket the the remastered sequels on console. Vae Victus !! 👌👌
All good man you're the go to Evercade channel. Didn't mean to be a know it all haha. I'm hoping they do a full remaster of Blood Omen at some point...
@@slappybagOG lol not at all. I honestly didn't realise Blood Omen was part of the remasters. Makes the Evercade cart a worthy purchase regardless of the remasters.
@@CrazyBurger 100% mine came yesterday and I booted it up quick, think it may be the best cart on EC now, cheers for all your evercade news mate always keeping an eye out for your vids
Sorry, no, i won't buy this one. They have made a big mistake with this release and Tomb Raider Collection. This mistake is : English only! It's stupid. There was other languages in these games in the 90's, why only English now in 2024?! And i know a lot of people who won't buy this because of this nonsense. Bad choice Blaze...bad choice.
@@benironside1264They’ve been sold out in the US for weeks at major retailers. Think the console got a lot more popular than they expected and they ran out of stock and are struggling to catch up.
Regarding Soul Reaver - Due to copyright claims, the intro music for Soul Reaver around the 21 minute mark has been muted. This is not an Evercade issue, just a UA-cam one! Lol it sounds rather haunting without music.
Google AI still struggles to comprehend the concept of Fair Use.
@@CZpersi Honestly it's absolutely madness.
Oh good, thought they fckd up the emulation. Would have been a disaster since SR is may favourite game on the PS1.
@@OuhPii lol yeah apologies. The music is 100% fine. No issues with Evercade.
It did sound haunting.
Nice review as always! I’m having a great time with Blood Omen and can’t wait to move on to the next one!
To be clear, the remaster is for Soul Reaver 1 & 2. Blood Omen isn't getting a remaster. Also, Soul Reaver 2 was a PS2 era game, so no chance of that on Evercade.
Great review Crazy Burger, two cool games 🎮👍 I played Soul Reaver on Dreamcast, it was fantastic. Never played the original Legacy of Kain and I feel that is exactly what Evercade is best at... what a great way to play these games, for me the ability to Save your game at any point is a huge plus!!
I recently checked out a really in-depth vid on UA-cam. About the making of BLOOD OMEN. Fascinating stuff. There’s so much story to the game. Never played this one myself, but it seems very interesting to play and explore! There seems ALOT of things though. That by modern standards seems “clunky”. Repetitive. Similar enemy types. Unclear or complicated menus etc… But I guess this is a game which tried these things out first?! 🤔. Not sure if this could be classed as a TRUE remaster. Without improving on the things I briefly mentioned?! What do you think Crazy Burger? 🤔. Regardless. I think BOTH games seems good anyway! One I will definitely consider owning! 🤔😊
Here's hoping we see more PlayStation classics on the Evercade. Oddworld Abe's Oddysse and Exodus, for example??
@@TheBigDaddyDReviews1 Classics for sure though not sure I want to play it again. That game definitely aged me. Lol
Hope it runs on the super Pocket 🎉
most likely if it can play everything else
I'm pleased to report both Legacy of Kain & Bitmap Bros Collection 2 carts work fine on the previous firmware on my VS, that's the Collie Defence game of the month firmware!
It looks like Kain might do well as it was quickly selling out on Funstock yesterday. Just a shame Blaze are not sat on a load of machines to shift even more copies to nrw comers. 😢
Thanks Crazy! 🙂👍
Just bought them both !
I'd love to see Akuji The Heartless on an Evercade cart (or as a remaster). Never got deep into the Tomb Raider games and clones, but something about the whole Voodoo mythology got its hooks in me and I finished it a couple times on the PS1. Might be fun to revisit these days.
This is the only video on this collection that has bothered to address the loading in Blood Omen, or even show enough to demonstrate how it runs properly. So thank you for this. It looks like a perfectly viable way to play it over the PSX version. If I had an Evercade I’d pick it up immediately.
It's a great collection to be released on Evercade. I'll probably pick it up during a dry period of releases and in the meantime play on either PC or PS Vita :-) Keep up the awesome work!
Never played either of the games and was never a big of PS1 gen 3D but these do look good additions.
Its funny that kain changed everytime his weapon position if he turns.
Great reviews man thnx. Remember playing Soul Reaver at launch with a m8. Didnt go outside for like 2 weeks until we completed it. Hehe fun pale skinned times.
Defo buy for me.
@@jedinite128 LOL thanks. Great times.
I’m expecting the LoK cart on Tuesday. Unfortunately my Exp-R is due to arrive early December
@@waynetemplar2183 So nothing to play on it I take it? It'll be worth the wait.
@@CrazyBurgerYes, I’m going to have to wait 😢
If I'd known back in the day these games were from Silicon Knights I would 100% have had played them. My favourite Horror game until Resident Evil 4 came out was Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. The audio and acting was a massive standout in that game. I think the voice over actor is the same as the Roman character in ET.
May the rats eat your eyes!
for another great indepth review of blood omen
ua-cam.com/video/i_psRi91SgU/v-deo.html
Curious as to whether this plays reasonably well on the Pocket due to screen size. I want to play these on the go and will get the remasters for console when they come out.
@@itadamson I'll check that put through the week. It'll be interesting for me too
haven't played soul reaver on evercade yet, but iirc wasn't the sneak used like the walk in tomb raider for more controlled movement?
@@genejoke8538 lol sort of. Wasn't classed as a sneak though. More a baby step so you didn't fall a thousand feet to a spectacular screamy death.
@@CrazyBurger with a satisfying thud
Never played these. Look pretty decent. Hope Amazon doesn't let me down 😅
@@the_lynx_cader lol never let me down. Oh no wait..
@@CrazyBurger Lol. Due Tuesday. We shall see.
The big difference between the Evercade release and the remasters is the lack of Blood Omen in the remastered collection. It has Soul Reaver 1 (the PS1 game) and Soul Reaver 2 (which actually is the fourth game in the series, after Blood Omen, Soul Reaver and Blood Omen 2, which focused on Kain's exploits instead of Raziel).
So can you play these games on the original evercade handheld or are they ruined by the lack of a second shoulder button?
@@basketballsteve54 I'm sure it'll be fine in the original handheld. The buttons missing are to control the camera. Though they've remapped them to a button combo. So nothing is missed.
@@CrazyBurger Very helpful to know, thanks. Your videos are so helpful to evercade users please keep it up, it is much appreciated.
I'm having a blast with this collection. From the time they announced a partnership with Crystal Dynamics I really wanted to see Blood Omen on Evercade. It runs really well and, I might be wrong, but it seems the load times have improved slightly?
The load times have improved massively. As I mentioned in the vid.
@CrazyBurger ah yeah. I'd commented before I watched the vid so I didn't hear you say that 👍
@@scootakuh3142 So loading definitely improved as is the lighting.
Mine arrive tomorrow but i've got work FFs 😂
@@jasonshiers5771 lol damn. Sickie? I'm joking.
@@CrazyBurger Don't tempt me👍
I played these recently and they were quite rough. Hopefully the remaster includes some QOL improvements.
The main changes are lighting and improved loading times, specifically for Blood Omen.
Lead sanitation specialist everyone’s gonna know you’re a janitor. The guys title sounds more legit.
@@E-Leo-i8y OK lol. I like that title though 👌
Would be helpful to include the SuperPocket in these reviews. Just to show it runs well.
@@OuhPii I'll look at it separately. Apologies time constraints means easier to keep separate
@@CrazyBurger
Everything 's cool; looking forward to it.
I played through both of these back in the day. The first one is an interesting concept but extremely clunky and repetitive. Soul Reaver is one of the best action games of the whole era. Incredibly good voice acting and a big world to explore that oozes theme and Lovecraftian vibes. But it’s a rare exception. Most of the 3D games from this era have not aged well.
That said, while I’m happy that this got ported, I really hope we’re not going to get piles of shoddy early 3D games without analogue controls on the Evercade when they’ve barely scratched other retro stuff like Colecovision, Turbografx/PcEngine, and they’ve barely scratched the Genesis/mega drive. There are also several pc lines like the Atari 800 series, ZX spectrum, MS-DOS, TI99, CoCo etc that are untouched.
I want all of that 8-16bit stuff. I really don’t want a bunch of tank controlled janky, fugly ps1 era 3D platformer stuff like tomb raider. Maybe it’s just me.
Honestly I think you end up loving the most, they type of games that were common when you were coming of age. PS1 was the first console I purchased with my own money when I was 13 years old, and thos tank controls and early twitchy 3d graphics and pre rendered backgrounds are my favorite! I love all things SNES as well, but being that I bought PS1 with my own money, it meant more to me. Dino Crisis my first game with my own money lol
@@robertharper3114 That’s true to an extent but I grew up on these too. Ps1 was the first console I bought too. I just don’t think the games have aged well, even if I’m fond of them. There’s a reason steam is full of games that look like snes or genesis titles but there are hardly any on there that look like, say, tomb raider or 1st Gen resident evil.
@@Androsynth75 Sprites are just more popular than ps1 style graphics, but there is an entire sub genre of games that go for that ps1 aesthetic. Since you say your not fond of the style, of course you wouldn't come across that kind of game in your travels.
Well i preordered it and didn’t receive a copy today as planned because it’s now decided it’s out of stock… ugh.
@@the3xit762 Amazon?
@@CrazyBurger yeah Amazon!
@@the3xit762 ah.. they really are a nightmare with Evercade right now.
The upcoming remasters are Soul Reaver 1 & 2, not Blood Omen. I'll be playing BO on Super Pocket the the remastered sequels on console. Vae Victus !! 👌👌
@@slappybagOG Ah apologies my mistake, you are correct.
All good man you're the go to Evercade channel. Didn't mean to be a know it all haha. I'm hoping they do a full remaster of Blood Omen at some point...
@@slappybagOG lol not at all. I honestly didn't realise Blood Omen was part of the remasters. Makes the Evercade cart a worthy purchase regardless of the remasters.
@@CrazyBurger 100% mine came yesterday and I booted it up quick, think it may be the best cart on EC now, cheers for all your evercade news mate always keeping an eye out for your vids
There is a new game of the Blood Omen franchise coming out soon. This may be the reason, why Blaze could get these licenses.
Sorry, no, i won't buy this one. They have made a big mistake with this release and Tomb Raider Collection. This mistake is : English only! It's stupid. There was other languages in these games in the 90's, why only English now in 2024?! And i know a lot of people who won't buy this because of this nonsense. Bad choice Blaze...bad choice.
@@Stivizzz I know I was aware of this. Most likely down to cost.
Why? Why should I buy it? I still haven't got my fucking Evercade VS-R. Blaze is fucking shit company.
Where did you buy it? I ordered my VS R on Amazon a week ago to the Uk and it arrived about 3 days later.
@@benironside1264 I pre-ordered it from Amazon on May 1st. They say it's coming Tuesday.
@@benironside1264They’ve been sold out in the US for weeks at major retailers. Think the console got a lot more popular than they expected and they ran out of stock and are struggling to catch up.