I legit found a copy of blood omen legacy of Kain at a bus stop when I was a kid. I never heard of it but I took it home and popped it into my ps1 and remember having a lot of fun with it. Like you I remember getting hyped to play soul reaver but it just didn’t hit the same.

P.s. when I found the game at the bus stop, it was sitting there along with a copy of Chrono trigger for ps1. Whoever forget it there must have been devastated. I took it cause it’s a big city and figured it was me or the next kid.