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Strategy Guides

Each of the Kain games has been accompanied by an official strategy guide published by Prima. These guides are uniformly excellent walkthroughs and reveal all of the in-game secrets which can be obtained without hacking.

The Blood Omen guide included the enormous map of Nosgoth discussed in Blood Omen Maps.

Prima's strategy guide for Soul Reaver uses screenshots quite liberally except in the section related to the Human Citadel. It seems likely that they had already created a version which included references to The Undercity and The Temple and did not have time to completely rework it when that section of the game was removed. Raziel is also depicted with an early version of the Fire Reaver, and the stained glass window of the Fire Forge is also the prerelease version (see The Elemental Reavers and The Elemental Reaver Forges).

Prima later included a condensed version of their Soul Reaver guide in the compilation Playstation: Vital Strategies and Expert Tips. This guide was printed in black and white, but none of the screenshots were brightened, rendering them less than useful in most cases. The entry for this guide in the original version of the Library remarked that "The Murky Pit of Not Being Able to See Anything makes a lengthy appearance in this guide" in the section for deleted material.

The Blood Omen 2 strategy guide includes a few screenshots of the early Dark Gift icons (see Dark Gift Icons), and on the back is a rendered image of Kain that is not available elsewhere.

Although the internet has largely replaced old-style strategy guides, Prima's Defiance guide has something that fan walkthroughs of that game still cannot - Google Maps aerial imagery-style maps of each area. Instead of screenshots which can be confusing, the maps in this guide quite explicitly depict the layout of each room in the game.

Although Crystal Dynamics and Eidos' license for guides was with Prima, Brady released their own pocket strategy guide for Soul Reaver. The Brady guide has an excellent walkthrough, but the small black and white screenshots are much less pleasing to look at.