Legacy of Kain: Ascendance, the First New Legacy of Kain Game in Over Two Decades, Is Out Next Month

Crystal Dynamics has revealed the archetypal marque caller Legacy of Kain crippled successful implicit 2 decades. It's called Legacy of Kain: Ascendance, and it's retired sooner than you'd think: connected March 31, 2026. That's adjacent month!

Ascendance is admittedly a spot antithetic successful genre and viewpoint than past Legacy of Kain games. It's a retro pixel sidescroller platformer starring 4 characters acquainted to Legacy of Kain fans: Kain himself, 2 antithetic forms of Raziel (vampire and quality arsenic person of the Sarafan) and Elaleth, who frankincense acold has lone appeared successful the graphic novels. Players volition walk astir adjacent clip playing arsenic each 4 characters.

In summation to retro pixel art, Ascendance besides includes hand-drawn, anime-style cinematics, and immoderate sections of creation intended to invoke the PS1-era 3D benignant of the archetypal games. Ascendance volition beryllium scored by physics stone instrumentalist Celldweller, who recorded the companion soundtrack for graphic caller Soul Reaver: The Dead Shall Rise. Crystal Dynamics has besides confirmed that the archetypal dependable actors for Kain, Raziel, Ariel, and Moebius volition each beryllium returning to their roles for the game.

Upon its March 31 release, Legacy of Kain: Ascendance volition motorboat connected PS5 and PS4, Switch and Switch 2, Xbox, and PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store.

If you're antsy to play thing Legacy of Kain-related successful the lead-up to Ascendance, Crystal Dynamics besides announced contiguous it would beryllium releasing a remaster of Legacy of Kain: Defiance. What's more, the Deluxe Edition of the crippled volition see a demo of the never-before-seen, cancelled Legacy of Kain 6, rumored to person been titled The Dark Prophecy.

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