One of central narrative achievements of the Legacy of Kain series is its ability to frustrate traditional videogame genre expectations, subverting them to overthrow the player’s assumptions. When observing the franchise, one is struck with its decade-long mindset of the developers in placing the story at the foreground of the experience, using the gameplay as a tool to slowly unravel the plot.

One of Foucault’s most controversial claims was that our notion of man and all that it includes is merely a product of the modern epistemic epoch, which he says is on the decline. While humanism declared man the creator of discourse and science, Foucault maintains that ‘we do not produce science, it produces us’. 1 [...]