15 Games That MUST Be On The PlayStation Classic

15. Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver

The pompously portentous dialogue of Crystal Dynamics' 1999 goth-em up might not seem quite as cool as it did when you were 12, but the game absolutely does. A dark tale of vampiric redemption, Soul Reaver sucks the blood of Ocarina of Time and cloaks it with a shroud of bleakness, delivering an engrossing action-adventure with few equivalents on its home console.

The second game in the Legacy of Kain series marked something of a major departure from its RPG predecessor. The protagonist's role was reversed - Kain, now a soothsaying villain, was the other side of the coin to deposed wraith Raziel, a man whose lack of lower jaw didn't prevent him from spewing riddles. The most significant departure was the action: gone was the plodding top-down dredge, and in its place a dynamic combat system layered atop a versatile world dripping in atmosphere.

Other than a Dreamcast burnish, Soul Reaver is one of the few significant PlayStation games that hasn't been resold to death in the intervening years. For fans of the series, inclusion is not just wanted, but necessary if the franchise is to ever make a vampire-like comeback.