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Kya: Dark Lineage | 
 enlarge | From: Atari Inc.
Buy New: $19.99
New (12) Used (22) from $4.00
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
DualShock
Memory Card
Vibration
MPN: 23963
UPC: 742725239630
EAN: 0742725239630
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| Features:
| • | Help Kya find her brother by exploring nine massive & spectacularly detailed environments | | • | Use the intricate and extensive monetary system to purchase equipment & magical abilities, for better attacks and defense | | • | Steal and tame wild animals to use for attacking or escaping your opponents | | • | Free the Nativ people to earn upgrades and power-ups | | • | Unique plot twists as you face the multiple quests and subquests that will reveal Kya's destiny! |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Kya: Dark Lineage takes a girl named Kya into a strange new world, where she'll find her destiny -- if she survives the dangers she'll face!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Buggiest fun I've had March 27, 2009
Craig Ferguson
Kya is an amazing game. I've played it many times. That said, the acting is the worst I've ever seen, and the game is buggy. I don't mean, "aww, this graphic is slightly weird," i mean, "Okay, the guy I was fighting just turned 2D, then I fell through the world, and the camera zoomed inside Kya so I can only see her insides as she falls eternally."
So why the five star rating? The levels were all immensely varied and fun to play through. You can skip the cutscenes, which I highly recommend, and get to the amazing gameplay.
In my experience, the game would seriously bug out every twenty minutes or so, so bad I would have to restart my PS2 and lose my level progress. The thing is, I didn't mind at all! It just meant there was an opportunity to play the immensely fun level again!
There are so many different aspects to the game, with fun combat, challenging and great platforming, racing, and even skateboarding levels. All of them are very well done and impressive, even if you do have to play through most of them multiple times due to crashes.
Definitely buy this, but don't expect a polished game or even passable acting.
Kya: Dark Lineage November 12, 2007
Karen Deem (Utah)
The game is fun for the whole family. For some reason it makes my husband motion sick. I like that because then he does not hog the game and the rest of us can play :).
It is enjoyable to play but I did have it recommended by my sister that has the same tastes as I do. And another sister of mine loves it as well. So, naturally I bought it. I have not regretted it and the price was to reasonable to resist.
Thanks for making it available!
 Glitchy but great August 15, 2007
Maryssa (USA)
There are only a few things wrong with this game. The most important is that it is GLITCHY. You will often find yourself stuck in some odd positions - such as walking on air, non-working devices, etc.
There were too many times I had to throw Kya off of a cliff to get a particular device to operate correctly. The glitches are sometimes helpful, such as getting up to higher areas accidently through a shortcut, other times you will find yourself with gameplay upside down, frozen...
The other major problem in the game is the camera angles. They tend to wander, get stuck, etc.
Other than that, the artwork is gorgeous, the voice-acting enhances the story (especially the familiar voice of the village elder) with entertaining cut-scenes, and the story is solid. Fall into a mysterious world and save them to get back to your own. Along the way are skill mini-games that aren't fun for everyone, but not necessary to complete the game. Unlike most cute platform games, there is actual combat fighting here, and the characters are more interesting than "cute".
Don't expect a sequel; it was cancelled.
This is a must-have if you like platformers and I recommend it to fans of Spyro, Ty...
*Gorgeous artwork
*Interesting story -save the world
*Great voice acting, particularly impressive is the familiar voice of the village elder.
Kya will Kick Your @ss March 19, 2007
Kevin FitzPatrick (Avon, NJ)
I didn't heard about Kya: Dark Lineage when it was released back in '03. On a whim I recently checked it out and after playing it I can say that this game is a fantastic platformer, with an interesting twist.
The game begins with you and your brother discovering your long vanished father's secret lab. Of course something goes wrong and you get transported to a parallel world. While there your brother quickly gets captured, but with a little assistance you escape. Also it turns out you're basically the native people's Keanu Reeves. Blah, blah, powers, blah, chosen one, blah, help us Kya, you're our only hope.
Your "power" is the ability to exorcize possessed Nativs. (Yes, the name of the natives is "Nativs") Anyway the villain of the game has kidnapped all of the Nativs and converted them into angry, often gun-toting, wolves called "Wolfen". Normally your button controls are a boomerang, jump, open door, use item, but when one of the wolfen is near your control changes to a combat setup - punch, kick, block, jump. If you beat the wolfen, he will lay unconscious with a number over his head. If you have at least that number of the collectable orbs you can exorcize them and free that individual - permanently. The interesting twist is that the combat sections are one time only. There is no respawning - once a wolf is freed, he'll go back to the town and never bother you again. (i.e., if you free one and then get killed, that one is still free and there will be one less Wolfen defending that area.) Often the game forces you to first run through and fight the wolfen, then afterwards solve the platforming puzzles - pull switch, stand on lever, etc.
Large parts of each level are speed traveling zones. There are these creatures called Jamgut. They are some sort of kangaroo/raptor thing that you can ride on. With a purchase from the enhancement shops you can get a long board for pipeline sections. Also there are a few long falling sections, where you are freefalling and trying to avoid obstacles.
Something that is way too often overlooked is the save system. With Kya you can save at any time. Also it automatically saves every time you free a Nativ or get to a checkpoint. For someone who rarely saves this is a big plus.
Visually this game reminds me of Jak & Daxter - it is detailed, but cartoon like. The gameplay and control feels very similar as well. If you like that game or platformers in general you'll probably like this as well. You'll get the normal level of irritation at platformer style mistakes - badly timed jumps or complex sequences (the sewer freefall was a chore), but the inventive combat system and extremely helpful navigation system make this a great game.
great family friendly game February 24, 2006
Mimi
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We play our games with our 5 year old son watching and so screen carefully for what he is seeing. This game has all the best graphics, varied worlds, challenging play AND is fine for our kiddo to enjoy as well. Did you like Jak and Daxter (the first one)? Then you should like this game too.
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