Soul Reaver Alpha - Turel's Lair and the Smokestack 

"And here, at last, our brother Turel..."

I want the original game fully realized with today's graphics & fine-tunes fighting mechanics. I'd pay $500

I can't believe i watching that!! It has always been my dream to see Turel's clan!! Thank you so much for making that possibile!!

It hurts my soul that this was cut. Even as a kid, I knew Turel was always supposed to be there.

This Turel's desing looks so frigging cool. Way better than the Defiance one!

UNBELIEVABLE! After 20 years, the quintessential definition of Cut Content, the Lost Clan Territory of the Turelim. Is this the Alpha? In the retail version much of this has been removed, right? It would be cool if it was somehow possible to ''mod'' the second half of Soul Reaver in the retail game, taking the content from the alpha and polishing it/making it functional. It would be a lot of work surely...

The game would be even greater than it is if all this content remained intact. What a pity it was cut off.

Figures that the best level was cut! Turel's lair looks awesome...high ledges, lakes of lava, the smokestack, an apocalyptic industrial zone. Even the music is eerie. I wish one day a remastered version is made with these cut levels being added in as originally intended. It always bugged me that Turel was never seen, yet his banners are seen everywhere. Why didn't the creators just take their time and do the game like it was supposed to be? Deadlines? I'm so jealous watching this. Wonder how the boss battle was going to be...Turel's attacks and dialogue with Raziel?

Turel looked like a more wild version of Dumah.

Years over Years of hearsay and in the end... was real!!! Dude thank you so much for showing this!

Finally, after so many years... Big thanks to all, who works on it. Amazing to show. I still sure - Legacy of Kain franchaise is not dead.

This needs to be remade...this series is so awesome...I still play it now👍👍

I'm so glad to be able to see this this. Looking at the model for Turel I in my own head canon believe that this form would have been one he had before we see him in Defiance. Much like how Dumah was still fairy humanoid because he was impaled on his throne while his awakened brothers were more degenerated.

Its so satisfying to finally see a walkthrough of this, one of the most iconic screenshots of a cut area! The scale of this area, being one big puzzle, is awesome, a great way to access Kain's Retreat, as the final part of the game! :)

you know remember explaining this soul reaver alpha leak to someone that wasn't a lok fan and telling him that to us it's the equivalent of us got the full source code to the ocarina of time's beta and now we got all these Nintendo leaks that came out it's neat with how messed up this year has been at least we get to see all this unseen contents from our favorite games

I can finally see Raziel exploring the territory of Turel, great work recovering that material. I'm fan of this LoK and I never thought I'd see this ,our great work.

Crazy to think Soul Reaver already had quite a large world and ability set for Raziel. But even more was originally planned.

Such a shame this was cut, it looked nearly finished. I honestly would've preferred this Turel over the one from Defiance. Pretty surprising that we would've killed him pretty early within his territory.

excellent video detailing this clan!! i loved this game series as a child and its still one of all time fav. game series. 👍👍👍

No puedo creer todo el material q le quitaron al juego. Siempre q derrotaba A Dumah y me introducia en Oracle Cave sentia q faltaban cosas por explorar y resolver. Aqui un gran ejemplo de lo q nos han robado a los fanaticos de este juego. El poder conocer el Clan de Turel. Y encima la batalla en la montaña de Kain. Cuantas cosas maravillosas nos han quitado. Una pena grandísima. Gran aporte y gran trabajo saludos.

Been binge watching all your content over the last few days!! 😂 This area and the "Human Farm" under the Citadel have always really interested me and it's amazing to see what we could have had! Keep up the fantastic work!! ☺

You really want my heart to bleed and twist in pain of unfulfilled, huh...? I will cry... My nostalgia is going to kill me...

In a parallel universe this is how soul reaver will be.

Someone managed to tie the animations that Turel had to the model. It would be interesting to see the spoken dialog used with it.

Frickin scary those models that just stand there. Unfinished characters scare me.

This is amazing! Great work! I've been wait for this since I was 10, so good to see it!

Looking at all the footage from various Alphas and Betas over the 1Q99, I'm pretty sure that if an Late March-April Beta from which the Sanctus Christus Trailer was made and which contained what appeared to be a finished version of the Throne Room in Kain's Mountain Retreat, ever surfaced - enterprising fans would probably have enough to work with to eventually create a working prototype. It would seemingly be the final point when they were still going full steam for the original vision. Looking at the May betas, you can estimate that the decision to scale the project came in very soon after said content was released probably mid to late April. Judging from the promotional material, with some hard work it could probably be brought to working order. It wouldn't be pretty, but with some work it could probably be rendered functional. I wonder if the decision to scale back was because of the Mountain Retreat, most of the main removed areas are mostly complete in the Feb. Beta only needing some minor touch ups and texture work, and game logic for puzzles necessary. But the Mountain Retreat was barely a stump, which according to Dan Cabuco was supposed to be as big as any of the main areas. I don't think it's outrageous to think that had they cut off all the fat eg. forges and glyph shrines, they could make a wrap on the Undercity and the Smokestack with the time they had. Perhaps realizing they won't be able to finish the final area before the deadline, they chose a cut off point for the story that was viable with the least amount of redone voicework? Reworking the Undercity and Smokestack into the game, even if finished - would require substantial sessions of re-recording to fit into the revised story, which would drive the costs up even further.

Thank you so much for these videos!

This video is so incredibel! Thanks a lot guy

I actually prefer this design over the defiance one, because it implies that the more gifted of kains children did not devolve as far as the weaker ones, like Rahab was still somewhat humanoid and not fully turned into a large creature like the youngest brothers

Man, I loved Turel's stage theme song!

I smell water..

Excellent video ! ;-)

A boss fight early in the dungeon? Barely any script? If I was Raziel, I’d *try* to beat the brothers on PRINCIPLE (would probably take a LOT of strikes) with the Reaver rather than just offer the only way: using your surroundings.

I'm starting to think that Turel's Lair was not cut due to lack of memory but rather because of the game's release schedule, there just simply wasn't enough time

I would really have loved to play this level... Such a shame it's been cut... Nice vids dude, i've watched all of them !

The TLW walkthrough of this area stated that some of the upper ledges were unreachable without cheating, but you actually did reach them without cheating. XD Ah, damn, what I would give to be able to play this. This seems to be the deleted area with the highest level of completion (posession not working aside).

Cool update

I want that turel model to 3d print. So cool.

This is cool evrey video made me goosebumbs😍😍😍

Wow. Hace tanto quería ver esto. Gracias.

Man its sad and amazing at the same time

The original design for Turel looks like a bigger, badder version of Dumah.

Is amazing

thanks for keep lok alive

This Turel is much much better than the one of Defiance i hope this becomes a fully fledged mod/add to Soul Reaver PC version

I really hope some day someone gets to reimagine Soul Reaver, this time including all this cut content. Though, it would certainly mess up the stories of the games that came after soul reaver, at least a bit

Nice

thank yoi

"Kain is deified. The clans tell tales of him. Fe know the truth. He was mortal once, as were we all, but his contempt for humanity drove him to create me and my brothern." In the end Raziel didn't know Kain at all.

The game would've been so much better if all this cut content had been included... though we'd either not have the sequels or the final battle with Kain would have to be the one we got.

Here Turel was a lot of smaller, than Turel from Defiance. But poor, that this wasn't complete.

so essentially the enhanced telekenisis would be reworked into the air reaver blast in the next game huh?

There is a lot of created yet unused content , not sure why some of this was not included in the final version the game was and still remain a masterpiece!! I hope sony does something about it and make Soul Reaver remake and include all this!! If it ever....

is there a release date to this i want to try it

I understand why they took it out , oh God. I would wanted to play but that would have got on my nerves.

0:06.

military time :)

why crystal dynamics cant remake this amazing game again its very gain

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If Morlock in the retail version was originally Turel, where was Raziel supposed to get his original TK powers in the alpha? You've been referring to Turel's gained abilities as "amplified". I think I missed something. I watched all the vids up unto this point in one sitting, so I'm likely having a huge Derp moment...

damn, there's games that got released and were more unfinished than this. I mean compare this to ''big rigs'' p.s. kudos for doing this in one long take

w8 a second if raziel did this then we would never know of the hylden ? cuz if he kills all the vampires then the hylden would have comeback?

Name the music

Its been a minute

Here i am

Is this build available to the public?

So much work lost. Parts of this level ware one of most impressive visual wise (not without reason they ware shown in screens) and yet they ware cut - in exchange many less interesting tunnels and caves remained. Shame. When you build a game you focus on most impressive and signature elements first - this show how desperate and in chaos they ware.

Nossa como eu queria que você falasse em português

why didn't you put Turel's Lair music in the background while exploring?

i need the book Legacy of kain or the inspirational book of that masterpiece

Is this playable with a trainer?

make more videos, show people the change.org link to get more people to sign the petition, team up with other RU-vidrs who support legacy of kain and the soul reaver games. do it....do it nowwww