Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 2001

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Crystal Dynamics' 2001 action adventure for PlayStation 2 and Windows, the third Legacy of Kain game and a sequel to Soul Reaver. Raziel at first seeks revenge on Kain, his murderer and former master, but travels through history and uncovers the truth about his own past and destiny. You control Raziel, a ghostly ex-vampire, from a third person view, shifting between two planes of existence to progress: the material realm, the physical living world, and the spectral realm, a warped mirror of it. In the spectral realm you cannot manipulate objects and weapons, and water is insubstantial. Raziel's health slowly regenerates in the spectral realm and depletes in the material one. Combat is hack and slash, with combinations of attacks before a finishing move. Every room is still a puzzle of which plane to be in, with two worlds layered on one map.