Legacy of Kain: Defiance

[FS]

I want to like this game. I've liked all the games of this series so far, except for Blood Omen 2, mostly because its plot and dialogue sucked some serious undead balls.

But this game has the worst camera system since 9/11. How insane is it to implement a pre-set, unchangeable camera viewpoint to a game with camera-oriented movement controls, when one wrong jump can instantly kill you? How in the hell can a programmer look at this as their work and say "yeah. The players will love it. They'll love it so much, they won't want any alternatives. I'm not gonna bother programming a camera setting here. Even though you're walking towards the camera half the time with no clue as to what's in front of you."

Seriously. Is there no way to change the camera's position? Not even a cheat or some function not mentioned in the manual?