Soul Reaver Alpha - The Undercity 

I had a hard enough time navigating this game as is lol they really need to label symbols and a map lol

But working on this would change the remaining facts of the story. I'd really love to see the story being reimagined under a slightly different perspective (LoK 2 could simply not exist, to be honest), but putting Turel back in the game could almost certainly mean that the story between Raziel and Kain could come to a different outcome. Anyway, Square Enix would certainly turn to gargabe anything about this IP.

@@felipealves4856 Another problem is that alot of the voice actors for the series is gone Tony Jay the voice of the Elder God, Paul Lukather the voice of Vorador and René Auberjonois the voice of Janos Audron all dead. So while you could do a remake you would eventually run into the problems with having to recast some of the voices. Also Micheal Bell the voice of Raziel is no spring chicken anymore he´s 82 years old, so you really have to ask how long he´s going to be around. So in truth if you really did do a remake of Soul Reaver with much of the alpha content restored (not everything if you still wanted Lok 2, Blood Omen 2 and Defiance to happen) you would maybe end up with having to recast most of the actors.

well priestess got the gift of kain's possesion spells from the first blood omen where you could enslave the bartedender that threw you out to your assassin's lead his possesed body to the spirit forge altar and sacrifice him and raziel starts possesing corpses in defiance because the portals are closed so yeah it would work!

let's hope one day the release the game remastered and as originally intended...the smokestack, the undercity, kains retreat, the cut glyphs....this game could have been so much better!

@@Erikjust they could just rework all the stuff buried in the code....no need for new voices....the dialogue is there still isn't it? and when you start a new game you could pick original retail version or the uncut version. It would be awesome and enough of a fan base is still invested in the game, I know i am. I would gladly pay 400 bucks for a playable uncut copy. This would be a great idea to celebrate an anniversary of soul reaver. They could clean up the graphics, maybe even make it a two disk game

Those are exactly my thoughts too. That way, in a remake, they could add most of the cut areas, while at the same time keeping in line with the story of Soul Reaver 2 and beyond.

the mountain retreat would guide him to moebius chamber the smokestack and the upper levels of zephon's cathedral should be optional if you want raziel to clean up some of his mess like giving the humans at least some chance to survive and rebuild with less vampire's to content with and the sun finally shining properly again

Raziel would have gone back in time anyway and guess who would have been there? Kain of course

Me too! I was puzzled as it never made into the SR1 release version either, such a shame!

That's some thing that actually worried me though, like what if you had gotten it wrong and the block fell? Would another one appear?

@@kokonaminosaki8759 You would just have to push it all the way back up there again.

@@RainaAudron Oh wow...lol I would have probably been one of those to do that

@@kokonaminosaki8759 my game design brain would say that maybe they add in a lever that acts like the boxes in Portal. Pull the lever and the block respawns in its original position and the other block de-spawns. Unless there's a system already in place that RainaAudron didn't show us, I would imagine they would have added something like this.

I love soul reaver so much man when I was 4 was the first time I played the game seeing the opening for the first time I didnt make it that far into the game and I only played it once another good game I only played once was chaos legion but soul reaver is special to me after I played it i remember pretending to be like raziel when I was a kid I would have a blue Cape like batman but I would pretend It was the mask that raziel had and walk around the house fast and happy lol I had a gamestore in the same building as a movie place called Hollywood video if you walked into the the movie place to the left was games you could rent and a door leading to the gamestore everytime I was in there legacy of kain defiance always caught my eye I could of gotten it but I just thought to much and always stopped myself same with vanquish a 3rd person shooter game I could of got there too years and years later I get a ps2 and start playing games like God of war again I see soul reaver 2 and I must've gotten it because I played it my nephew who was 2 at the time also liked it years after that I'm 18 and I see the first game on ps3 so I get it and I completely remembered it all from the time when I was 4 14 years later and i still remember the title screen and the opening of the game the throwing vampires to impale them remembered it I knew that it would not have mattered if I got legacy of defiance when I was a kid because I would have gotten stuck on the first 10 minutes as you know the series is not easy the puzzles can be tricky I always had trouble on where to go in video games when I was a kid and even to this day I stick around in one area longer then I should lol never had any problems when it came to the action tho just the puzzles but yeah the opening to the first soul reaver is and always will be my favorite video game opening all three games are a masterpiece and I hope we are alive and well when if there ever is a new game it's been quite awhile defiance was what 2002 2003? but nethereless I am always happy with the series they will never stop being fun to play there are timeless to me and what we got here is pretty good thank you and everyone else who loves soul reaver

@@Ghost4469 That was hard to read XD but i get the gist. I am 32, so 14 years older than you, and i was almost(or barely) a teenager, when i first saw "Soul Reaver"- my pal had a Play Station(the first one) and he got a whole CD worth of demos. We played through every single one - and we encountered "Soul Reaver"- Fire Glyph. I didn`t know english back then, so we get put off pretty quickly, as we didn`t get, what the hell this was all about... But wierd skinless creature, and Xenomorph- like monsters stayed with me, i was curious. Mind, by then i wasn`t a video games nerd i am today- mainly i had shitty PC, and also games were more of a "meet with friends, play with them" kind of thing. Like "Heroes" 2 and 3, like "GTA"(after death - change!), like "Quake", like "Tekken" or "Mortal Kombat"... I spent most of my time outside house, hitting other people with sticks, or running around rocky hills, with my pals, like a pack of wild dogs :D BUT: i got new PC. Old one was already dying, and i also had a few games, i really wanted to play - so my parents decided they will get new PC, because why not. One of these games was "Gothic" - i, in roundabout way, mention in previous comment- my first beloved game ever... Other was "Medieval: Total War"(i like it a lot, but by now "Medieval: Total War 2" took its place in my heart). I was hyped, i played both games... And then, since i finished them, i decided to sample rest of this vast world of games. I started collecting magazines, that would also have CDs with full versions of games, that were 1- 2 years old... And one day i saw "Soul Reaver". I remembered skinny bastard from somewhere. Bought magazine, ran home, launched it. And i fell in love with game, for the second time. Had to sit through the game with dictionary in my hand, as my understanding of english was poor even by standards of common, modern speech, not to mention the poetic one. Till, i think, i was 18 - and i finally got good enough- i had big notebook full of scribbeled notes and phonetic descriptions of words i heard, to later check them, to see, what they were talking about. My younger brother`s english teacher was impressed with the words he knew, he even passed some exams with flying colors, thanks to this game and me suffering, trying to translate it... Also had to buy myself several guides, because - as "Soul Reaver" was my first game from "Legacy of Kain" series - i had no idea who Moebius and Mortanius were, and those weren`t times of RU-vid or various Wikis. Still, didn`t stop me. I had to know. And let this be testament to the greatness of this games - that two young Poles, one 13 - 14, other barely 5, were wrecking their brains, trying to understand every little sentence, while older one`s school just managed to implement english as a subject... Some people say it was, and is, nostalgia. That i didn`t see problems... But i saw some crap games, and i saw some good games in those times - but beside "Gothic" only "Legacy of Kain" managed to capture me like that. And clearly i am not alone :)

@@heretyk_1337 that's a nice story thank you yeah man medieval is also really good too I also played it when I was a kid because it was my older brother and sisters game they both had playstation one eventually I remember hearing my sister yell up in her room I'm downstairs and all I here is mom oreo peed on the playstation and i just smile to myself that cat was a genius i didnt say how old i am now but i was 18 back in 2015 so your 9 years older then me I'm 23 and I'll be 24 in July I also was outside alout and played with sticks one time got whacked by a stick from a girl glad it didnt get me in the eye lol

Seemingly "Soul Revenant" stopped (and given it's a fan made project that went for years... I doubt it'll get much further...). Only hope is that Square / Enix would think about doing a remaster (not a reboot :'( ... ), using original voice over etc... (everything is already there), and flesh out the original storyline in it, then, they could keep on going with original games (soul reaver 2 being supposedly Raziel getting back in time, as he'd understand the Elder God fooled him to kill the vampires etc...). But, honnestly? I doubt we'll EVER get this, as much as LoK is a great licence (still is my all time favourite game licence...), the best we could hope would be some kind of paper RPG filled with lore etc... If they'd make it, using all the original game's datas and files, they could make a giant book that would be filled with interesting stuff, lore and everything you could imagine. A video game, now? LoK is way too much "Niche", sure, they could make an RPG out of it, but honnestly, the way the games are treated nowadays, it would most likely be crap, or, at least, never as good as the original, unless one thing: That they'd stop being greedy, and they pays a shitload of money a bunch of artsy guys, really "in" that project to flesh something as "artsy" as the originals were, but do you think they'd investe THAT MUCH money for such a game? For Legacy of Kain (some kids are now 20yo and they probably NEVER heard of those games). I highly doubt it. I'd be pretty happy with a paper rpg, with original artworks and all the lore planned over different game, better this than a disapointing game :( .

@@NatasheadOverdrive666 I will be positively naive, and keep hoping they will pick up "Soul Revenant" once this shit with COVID - 19 blows over. Fan Projects managed with "STALKER: Lost Alpha", they managed with "Gothic: History of Khorinis". Why would this gem be forgotten or discarded?

It is a shame it was so underused despite being one of the key points in selling the game. Turelim have been added to the Lighthouse last minute, it was originally inhabited by the Dumahim.

@@RainaAudron Yeah so I read. There also other nifty easter eggs(?) or whatever you want to call them in the game. Like for example the place where you get the force glyph; the head resemblances so much that of Nupraptor's

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jHOYFJ6NKLI.html

sidequest: get some blue jeans for Raziel.

Well they had dead sun and looks like they just aren't interested in this kind of stuff. Better to barf out football on cars or some other crap >:(

Sounds maybe like the Lighthouse demo?

@@RainaAudron Yea i think it was, the enemies looked a lot different than anything i seen in retail too

Weren't they forced to remove it due to budget constraints?

It was because of time and money some greedy CEO defiling art for money

I think we can agree that too many...

They didn't have enough time and the release was pushed back twice by that point. They had to release it.