Very bugged and very glitchy. You're better off playing it on console.

This is an old favorite of mine, love LoK and Simon Templeman as Kain. If you're coming in from Blood Omen 1 this will be a very different game playwise (and you don't NEED to play Blood Omen 1 to understand this one but it does add quite a bit of context to the world and especially to Soul Reaver 2/Defiance) but if you're coming in from Soul Reaver (especially after 12/10), it will be a little more familiar. You will need to patch this or it does not play and you can find a thread on steam here with a working patch.

Legacy of Kain is a dark gothic story rich series that never feels like it leans on tropes or lazy writing. Even the sideliest characters get context or personalities, it's lovely. Kains ambitions far outweigh a typical sense of morals, but that doesn't stop him from being able to work with others when he needs to. He's far from your silent hero, having a lot to say to his new (and old) frenemies as well as commenting on everything throughout Meridian.

This took some fiddling to get it to work, but once you do the game is really fun! If you like 2000's era gaming, anyway. It definitely shows it's age, for better or worse.