Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - All Story Cutscenes 

@ Brian I read the bio to this game in a gamer magazine shortly after it came out. Bought it the next day! To this day, it's still the best game I've ever played!

I knew it would be special, many many things indicated that... Now I didn´t know it would be the best game I ever played.

I played blood Oman, so I always assumed it would be a narrative work of art.

Nah we knew. The gameplay of this game always felt unique. Great story and the fact you had to find alternative ways to impale your enemies was interesting.

Your right. L.o.k series lifted the bar re story wise

This is THE THING, nowadays writers seemed cannot transcend between the happenings, narratives, nor dialogues

Rudely don´t really work in this sentence. Unruly is probably a closer fit.. I´m not 100% but it sounds a little better as a native Englishman who Raziel is loosely based on.

Yeah but I can't get past the Dash and his bit about the bartender's vain attempts to flee and remain unmolested by Dash's blade.

I swear to god it gives me goosebumps!

Yeah but I worry if they can do it justice or if they'd fall into the same old pattern of a modernisation no-one asked for. Not to mention some of the voice actors are no longer with us. I mean can anyone really replace Tony Jay or Rene Auberjonois?

me2 36yrs niw and there just been leaked rumors about a remaster. just a heads up

Turning 43 soon. Played it at 17 or so. You are absolutely right.

After many many games, this is still the #1 for me, my first real ❤️ed character (Raziel) and on the podium there is another chapter of LoK; it's the last one, Defiance. The whole history, since Blood Omen 1 till the 5th chapter, is absolutely crazy: I've never been crying during a videogame, but I did at the end of LoK: Defiance for how Raziel ended

They still have writers.

Ah, the words uttered by people getting old in every generation.

100% I will never forget this game. Great voice acting, cinematics and music.

Honestly. I am so hooked on this despite the graphics. The game holds true mastery.

Yeh that line said it all for me , I love vampire stories and that is up there on a high level

It will never fade from my mind or memory, I can promise you that.

​@@Raziel_Alastorsame here

Amen Brother

Same exact thing happened to me (born in 1990)! I absolutely loved the game back then and decided to replay it recently: getting a whole new experience with it. 👍

I've never completed this game only played its intro as a kid and I still remember how iconic it was

@@carloschavez344 blood oman 2 ,was a good one,they are all good

This game is where the storytelling really went from great to incredible. The dialogue is just so rich, especially from here on out.

@@MourningCoffeeMusic love all of them,boold Omen series too,it was a great time for gaming, metal gear,onimusha, resident evil, silent hill,it's a bit nostalgic)

For humans it wasnt pretty, thats for sure

But you can visit a couple of vampires cities in Nosgoth the game. Its still playable, afaik.

Grand cities and temples filled with vampire men and women dressed in.goth splendour

And, Raziel continually tries to elevate himself to the moral high ground He's a soul devouring wraith. Before that, a brutal and bloodthirsty vampire. Before that, a ruthless and cold-hearted Sarafan knight Not to mention, integrity and morality being rare and barely utilised philosophy in a world built on evil and cruelty He's the very definition of self-deluded

I do think that's a little unfair. Like, I think it's the classic thought he was doing the right thing each time. Like when he finally sees himself from the outside (Wraith meeting Sarafan I mean), he's horrified. I feel all he ever wanted was to be a hero and there's always been someone who's taken advantage of that. Mobius, the Elder God, even Kain to a certain extent. And you know what they say about the road to hell. It's paved with good intentions.

@@ryuwarrior89 I think it's interesting that, being the master of his own destiny, at the end, seeking answers brought the downfall of nosgoth but the rise of kain as the tool of hope. But you know what, if being selfish and following his own path instead of wanting to please others is what brought him there, then I can't say I respect him less for it. He redeemed himself and proved worth of his rest, from his own will. I love this franchise.

@@natanvelazquez2270 Same. I think what I'm trying to say is that, it hurt to see Raziel used the way he was. I mean, the revelation that he was unwittingly the Hylden hero especially. Like who can blame him for getting it wrong. And it makes the ending of Defiance all the more bittersweet. Coz yeah, he's finally able to exercise his freewill and be the hero he's tried so desperately to be, but we know what he's going to become. And so does he. I love how Kain tries to stop it and then says "we" and "us" as he takes on the Elder God though. It just shows how much Kain still repected Raziel and cared about him. So yeah, maybe his pursuit to be that hero was selfish but I don't hate him at all for it. In fact, maybe it's coz I started with SR1, but of the two, Raziel is my fave. Just. It's pretty close but just. So my intention was to defend him against the first comment lol.

Today Raziel looks like Dave Chappel

I would piss my pants

They're all hopelessly lost in one way or another Possibly, it started after Raziel-s execution dissolusioned their empire, forcing them to eventually abandon it and skulking away deep in their hovels Melchia was the weakest, less favoured son trapped within a patchwork of corpses and yearned for a chance to die Zephon, as you say, had gone mad through his insect-like mind and ravenous hunger Dumah had gone mad with delusions of superior power Rahab, perhaps due to his immunities to water, saw himself as superior also and still blindly served his absent master to the last whike seeing Raziel as a traitor

@SamuelBlack84 Kain did speak with Rahab at least once before the final showdown, though... and unlike the other brothers. Melchiah still believed Raziel was killed because he evolved first, Zephon and Dumah couldn't be talked to, and nothing in Raziel's talk with Turel involved Kain, just that he knew Raziel had returned and was killing their brothers before being abducted... although TBF, he was both possessed by the Hylden and driven insane even beyond that, so the evidence there isn't as strong. That's what makes Rahab's case so much more intriguing to me, all the others can be easily explained as some combination of wretched/devolved/arrogant except Rahab.

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I would have called you crazy a few years ago, but when you start studying the esoteric occult knowledge that is all around us, you notice that those ahead of us leave clues, specifically in media and symbols.

The path of Satanism. The pursuit of individuality and omniscience

Honestly remakes would be perfect as long as they stay consistent with the original source material for all these games.

@@jaelalonso8431 I feel like remakes would be difficult given the death of Tony Jay due to both how many roles he performed throughout the series as well as the unmatchable quality that he delivered his lines.

@@Mobius_118 Yeah but I feel like with a bit of audio engineering his original voice can be used in the remake.

Thank you

yup they weren't planning a sequel yet so the game was longer, there was also that furnace " you can see it in the cutscene" it produce smoke cloud to cover the sunlight, it was Turrel's lair I guess

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Thank you

I know I'm wrong, but as a kid, I always imagined the claw marks were caused by Malek himself lashing out in a fit of rage at how he was never able to die and rest

I think it was his first real test at the coin flip. If raziel dies in the pit how could his soul be bound in the reaver. I think it was his first attempt at making a massive paradox.

What about Blood Omen and Defiance?

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I noticed that too. Maybe her ghost doesn't wear what she died in but what she was buried in?

Berserk and Legacy of Kain. Two of the most well written franchises involving Destiny out there. The Witcher would also count, but they don't really go against destiny in that one.

The voice actors weren't British actually. They were just instructed to use a British dialect. They did great however.

@@cherrybomb3713really says something about british people, not sure what though.

@@cherrybomb3713Tony jay & simon templeman are British.

Still working. They split up, but there are some still doing things in big studios. Amy Hennig, director and writer, is still with Naughty Dog I think.

Immediately.

Remake not remastered

Remaster, not remake.

​@@AnonymousAnonposterI prefer remake

Dialogue as early as when Raziel encounters Kain at the Sanctuary would suggest that Kain was indeed playing some sort of long con.

Kain had access to Moebius' Chronoplast Chamber. That helped him become wise and gain insight into the timestream. It's why he meets Raziel there at the end of the game, and berates Raziel for dismissing their implied lessons: "These chambers offer insight for those patient enough to look." Moreover as he says in Defiance: "...Because of your *remaking*, you are the only unbound creature, the one among us all that truly has free-will." Kain did not necessarily piece together Raziel's entire importance by the time he threw him into the abyss, but as of the time he did so, he understood why it was necessary to do it. I would furthermore mention that in the cut ending sequences for the original Soul Reaver 1, Raziel explicitly is amazed that jealousy wasn't Kain's motive: "I thought I understood you, Kain. That your jealous hatred was the root of the wounds you inflicted. But this... this genocide of your own kind is unconscionable." And in the ending we got in retail Soul Reaver 1, Kain vaguely alludes to this: "...And that is why, when I must sacrifice my children to the void, I can do so with a clear heart." Simply put, it was always intended that Kain had higher motivations.