Hej guys! SORRY for the odd sound in the beginning and the lack of the amazing intro music during the cutscene. Sadly RUclipss Copyright police struck me hard, so I had to mute the music.
Yeah, the Soul Reaver 1 intro is notorious for getting claimed -.- Ps: Did you make cuts in the video? At some points it looks like there are some cuts (maybe to remove boring bits).
@@D2daICE I stream the games and my editor then removes the moments I take to greet folks and thank for their support. Also I pause the game during ads so those who are not subbed won't miss the game play. Ofc sometimes I also get lost and the aimlessly running around then gets cut out
Any plans on playing Jak & Daxter or the Sly Cooper games that just released on PS5? Would be kinda cool to get some platformers into that playlist of yours. :)
Gotta admit I'm glad Dead Sun was abandoned. The story of the series is set up ready for a direct continuation from Defiance, not a massive time jump that (by the producer's own admission) was set to retcon and reboot the mythology of the series and its characters. It would have completely destroyed the series - at least now there's a chance that if the remasters do well we might get a Defiance remaster followed by a proper sequel.
I remember Melchiahs lore as he was the last to receive power, so his flesh kept falling off. To compensate he added dead bodies to himself. That's why he looks like he has bodies everywhere on his body.
@@LIZZgame It's heavily implied in the game. At 36:26 Raziel mentions that Melchiah was the youngest of Kain's offspring, and received the smallest portion of his power. He was still immortal, but his flesh would rot and decay. You see what this ultimately led him to be, a hideous amalgamation of corpses as he continually tries to overcome the perpetual decay he is cursed with.
34:39 Is allowed to kill human but if you don't, they worship you when they see you and let you feed from them. By killing that one they will attack you always now.
1:30:41 - If you keep holding the triangle button after you've picked a stunned enemy up, you can walk around with him and aim where you wish to throw him.
This game still has one of my favorite intros of all gaming, the voice acting was also pretty good for being a 99 game. They actually used pro voice actors from shows and cartoons.
You are my Soul Reaver! ❤ Thanks for playing them 💖 Edit: the originals didn't have a compass and there was no map. The games really look like i remember them from my childhood. I think it really helped that they worked with the community in both cases. Ps: there is a wonderful interview from BoyManBeard with Raina Audron, who led the remasters.
Soul Reaver is my favorite game, I love this game so much! The lore is one of the best ever in videogames and really few gets close of the atmosphere Nosgoth brings. Hope you have a lot of fun!
Oh my goodness (or should I say 'oh my Elder God' ;) hehe) the memories....I LOVED this game in fact I still have original version...the remaster of it was definitely great idea....so that people can experience it now refreshed!!!
44:35 Ah! So now they tell you what to do! When I played the game back in the day I got stuck for sooo long because I did not know the environment twisting and changing opened ways to progress, I thought it was just a visual effect and I remember spending a long time in that very room trying to figure out what to do that my health depleted and was shifted into the spectral realm and the cutscene played. By accident found out what to do 😱
When you showed they had a map now I assumed they were going to incorporate that into the warp rooms somehow... but nope, still as confusing as ever :P
I just finished playing BAD OMEN for the first time in my life Awesome game So now I want to play SOUL REAVER, I played it before but never finished it
you play very smart i love'it, in pc press F1 to switch between old version and the remaster in playstation i think use right analog, if you would see graphic diffrence
I played a heck out of this game many decades ago, and I still love it. And now a remake, I can't believe it. Well ... I suppose these are remake times ... ? Thanx for this. Say hi to Raziel.
Once u pick up an enemy you hold triangle, aim and release to throw onto fire or spikes on walls. I've completed the 1st boss and now I'm in the human citadel. Loved the og games and I still love it now.😁😎👍
Every1 seems to be on the soul reaver bandwagon. I gotta say u simply playing the game is so refreshing than giving some assessment. I always enjoy your playthroughs
tip to not get lost: it seems obvious but every "map" you go will be banners and flags with the icon they represent. Some resembles some feature on that map too. It is ok to back track, because some places are locked away from you until you get a new power (ability).
After these two games it concludes with Legacy of Kain Defiance, which IS on steam but im not sure how well it runs because it never got a remaster. Its a great conclusion to this trilogy.
@@mrangryface Even if you are willing to see it as a circle, including Blood Omen 2 to the story. Freeing Janus and closing the portal seems not to be the solution Kain seeks to avoid Nosgoth to be doomed. He wants to break the circle with the cleansed Soul Reaver.
I really wish they added an option to use the skins from Legacy of Kain Defiance, for Kain and Raziel. I loved those models. They were so cool and expressive and dynamic.
I think they don't change anything, or VERY little in these Remasteres. They added a compass and a very vague map, that's it. Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered was the same. They just want better textures and smoother gameplay.
@@LIZZgame Imagining Raziel lyrically pontificating about morality while impaling Edward Cullen and eating his soul has made my evening, thanks. 🤣 If you're interested in understanding the story of the game, look up a plot summary of Blood Omen 1. It will actually become important in the later games to give context about what the heck is going on. It gets....convoluted. Like - really, really convoluted.
I loved the video! This is a really strong franchise with a strong story. Even though I don't speak English, I had fun watching you play. And you're very nice, you play well and you're beautiful. I'll be back to watch more videos. Hugs and kisses. See you. (P.S.: I apologize if there are any spelling mistakes in my text, I used Google Translate.)
It truly is something when gamers see any NPC they just go immediately to kill mode without a second thought instead of "is this actually an enemy or a friend" Just so you know (if you don't already) when you attacked that human you made all Human Hunter's your enemy that will attack you on sight for the remainder of the game. Regular Humans will run from you. If you didn't attack/kill the Hunter or Humans in general the next time you encounter any of them they will kneel before you with their arms high in worship. In them doing this you get a special interaction where you can siphon a small portion of their Soul to replenish a small amount of your health. Doing this doesn't hurt the Humans but it does temporarily knock them out. This mechanic was in the original and is known as the Morality Mechanic which was only explained in the Physical Manual that came with buying the game back then.
I know it's a bit early in the run to be thinking this far ahead, but if there's any way you can get hold of Legacy Of Kain: Defiance, that's essentially Soul Reaver 3 and is imo essential.
Hi LIZZ and thanks for the new upload. Did you play this game on a stream? If so I totally missed it. I saw a bit of the original when it came out but never played it. Now the game looks really good. Thanks for playing this new Remaster😊😊👍👍
That amazing voice your hearing right now,, was Tony Jay. No one can best that voice. Its unmatched. Want to hear more? Then check out a classic children's TV show called Reboot. The fist ever CGI TV show, set inside a home PC. - Its a gem, trust me. He plays the villian, Megabyte and has some of the best lines ever uttered on TV (I think they hired him after watching him on Reboot)
34:56 By the way, killing the human vampire hunter, defines all of this hunters as enemies of yours. If you hadn't kill him, all humans, including the vampire hunters, would worship you like a god, as long as you don't kill humans (excluding some evil priests).
You should try Blood Omen and The least popular Blood Omen 2... unpopular because some people STILL say it has inconsistencies even though events in SR2 and Defiance ties it in, also because gameplay mechanics and in the stuttering during gameplay.
I had a bug render my save file useless right near the end of the first game. A block for a puzzle somehow managed to merge with another block & immobilised both. When I reloaded my save both blocks had vanished rendering the puzzle unbeatable. 10 hours of gameplay right down the shitter. Gonna have to start over.
@@drakocarrion I had the same thing, blocks appear to merge together if they fall on top from a great height. Sounds like I was more fortunate with my save situation 😔
It's hard for me to judge, staring at my tiny smartphone screen, but I think the graphics didn't improve very much looking at Soul Reaver 2 or at least Defiance. It did in comparsion to the 1st Soul Reaver, for shure. My impressions are quite fresh, 'cause I replayed the original games, just a few weeks before the remastered versions were announced. 😂 It was a funny coincidance.
How did you play them? Console? I tried playing Soul Reaver about three years ago on PC and it was completely broken. It would boot to the title screen, but not much else. I looked for fixes at the time and there didn't seem to be any then. I assumed that they'd been forced to delist it on Steam because of that, but the later remaster announcement made me think maybe it was just the publisher's choice to remove it from Steam.
@toddjones1480 The old PC version doesn't work on later operating systems than ME, without an unofficial patch. But I've got an old system for other reasons than playing. It's just a bonus, that this old system is able to run those old games, too. Another favour thing besides gaming is music for me. And I have still some vinyls, that aren't available on the internet. But I want digital copies. So I digitize my vinyls and even that I did this already for years, it's still not done yet. Even if modern sound chips seem to be better, looking at the pure technical data, an old soundcard from the 1990s provides the best sound, digitizing an analogue (vinyl) sound source. But this is still a card that needs an ISA slot, that isn't available anymore for years. So I kept an old Pentium3 PC + spare parts, running Windows 98.
I loved the game but those were times when the internet was not much accessible and fluent like it is now. I would be stuck in some places were i would not know how to proceed and there was no help. This would drive me mad and i would switch to other game. Now long gone are those days of my potato PS1. Sad and funny lol I wished they have made a remake rather than a remaster
Nooooooooooooooooo. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Try to the end this time and the sequel. It's amazing.
Hej guys!
SORRY for the odd sound in the beginning and the lack of the amazing intro music during the cutscene. Sadly RUclipss Copyright police struck me hard, so I had to mute the music.
Yeah, the Soul Reaver 1 intro is notorious for getting claimed -.-
Ps:
Did you make cuts in the video? At some points it looks like there are some cuts (maybe to remove boring bits).
Damn that sucks, but explains my lack of music.
Don´t forget the gliphs ^^
@@D2daICE I stream the games and my editor then removes the moments I take to greet folks and thank for their support. Also I pause the game during ads so those who are not subbed won't miss the game play. Ofc sometimes I also get lost and the aimlessly running around then gets cut out
Any plans on playing Jak & Daxter or the Sly Cooper games that just released on PS5? Would be kinda cool to get some platformers into that playlist of yours. :)
Good choice. The writing and dialogue in this series is second to none. It's almost shakespearean...
You’re in for a treat with this series, hopefully with these remasters LOK will get more attention for potential future games
man the leaks for Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun, sad we'll never get to see it. I hope if the series is rebooted it gets treated with respect
@ yeah that hurt after seeing what dead sun could have been but we must not lose heart
@@LaughingMan44
Dead Sun did not look good at all, I'm glad it was never made.
Gotta admit I'm glad Dead Sun was abandoned. The story of the series is set up ready for a direct continuation from Defiance, not a massive time jump that (by the producer's own admission) was set to retcon and reboot the mythology of the series and its characters. It would have completely destroyed the series - at least now there's a chance that if the remasters do well we might get a Defiance remaster followed by a proper sequel.
@ i agree i want a follow up to defiance
I remember Melchiahs lore as he was the last to receive power, so his flesh kept falling off. To compensate he added dead bodies to himself. That's why he looks like he has bodies everywhere on his body.
how do you/we know about lore like this?
@@LIZZgame I followed this game since the PlayStation one, reading about it in PSM (Playstation magazine) i was obsessed
So it's not directly told in the game?@@bratsmovies17
@@LIZZgame
Kind of. When you see the mural of Melchiah Raziel gives a quick remark about him and his spawns.
@@LIZZgame It's heavily implied in the game. At 36:26 Raziel mentions that Melchiah was the youngest of Kain's offspring, and received the smallest portion of his power. He was still immortal, but his flesh would rot and decay. You see what this ultimately led him to be, a hideous amalgamation of corpses as he continually tries to overcome the perpetual decay he is cursed with.
34:39 Is allowed to kill human but if you don't, they worship you when they see you and let you feed from them. By killing that one they will attack you always now.
It’s so cool to see this game remastered. The voice acting in Soul Reaver was what initially inspired me to pursue my own voice acting career.
Nice I finished this 20 years ago well worth it
1:30:41 - If you keep holding the triangle button after you've picked a stunned enemy up, you can walk around with him and aim where you wish to throw him.
OHHH helpful, thanks!!
This game still has one of my favorite intros of all gaming, the voice acting was also pretty good for being a 99 game. They actually used pro voice actors from shows and cartoons.
I can not believe what they can do with so old games. State of the art back then. Played it and was addicted back then.
You are my Soul Reaver! ❤
Thanks for playing them 💖
Edit: the originals didn't have a compass and there was no map.
The games really look like i remember them from my childhood. I think it really helped that they worked with the community in both cases.
Ps: there is a wonderful interview from BoyManBeard with Raina Audron, who led the remasters.
Your "i can teabag that's good to know" got me to sub instantly.
Millennials stand up!
I can't...my arthritis...
Long live the 90s!
Soul Reaver is my favorite game, I love this game so much! The lore is one of the best ever in videogames and really few gets close of the atmosphere Nosgoth brings. Hope you have a lot of fun!
Oh my goodness (or should I say 'oh my Elder God' ;) hehe) the memories....I LOVED this game in fact I still have original version...the remaster of it was definitely great idea....so that people can experience it now refreshed!!!
The way you play it makes it really enjoyable, I'm happy that you are this into LoK 😊
it's an awesome game!!
Simon Templeman is the voice actor for Kain in every Legacy of Kain game to date.
This series is so epic. Remember to play the third game (defiance) if you like these two.
@@Mikx100 I'll have a look!
44:35 Ah! So now they tell you what to do! When I played the game back in the day I got stuck for sooo long because I did not know the environment twisting and changing opened ways to progress, I thought it was just a visual effect and I remember spending a long time in that very room trying to figure out what to do that my health depleted and was shifted into the spectral realm and the cutscene played. By accident found out what to do 😱
those electric shocks is when u low of energy😊
thanks!!
When you showed they had a map now I assumed they were going to incorporate that into the warp rooms somehow... but nope, still as confusing as ever :P
I just finished playing BAD OMEN for the first time in my life
Awesome game
So now I want to play SOUL REAVER, I played it before but never finished it
My favorite videogame story of all times. I hope you would enjoy this journey thoroughly!
you play very smart i love'it, in pc press F1 to switch between old version and the remaster in playstation i think use right analog, if you would see graphic diffrence
Awesome one! Well played.
I played a heck out of this game many decades ago, and I still love it.
And now a remake, I can't believe it.
Well ... I suppose these are remake times ... ?
Thanx for this. Say hi to Raziel.
It's a remaster, not a remake. :)
Oh hell yeah! Great pick
Once u pick up an enemy you hold triangle, aim and release to throw onto fire or spikes on walls. I've completed the 1st boss and now I'm in the human citadel. Loved the og games and I still love it now.😁😎👍
Every1 seems to be on the soul reaver bandwagon. I gotta say u simply playing the game is so refreshing than giving some assessment. I always enjoy your playthroughs
Classic. Will start my own playthrough this weekend for sure
❤thanks for reviving one of my favorite games ❤
when you grab the enemys you can walk with them to throw them at what you want.
If you hold down triangle when picking up enemies you'll hold them and be able to move around while you've got hold of them
tip to not get lost: it seems obvious but every "map" you go will be banners and flags with the icon they represent. Some resembles some feature on that map too. It is ok to back track, because some places are locked away from you until you get a new power (ability).
After these two games it concludes with Legacy of Kain Defiance, which IS on steam but im not sure how well it runs because it never got a remaster. Its a great conclusion to this trilogy.
@@mrangryface could be on GOG too, I'll have a look
But it's only the conclusion to the story of Raziel, not for Nosgoth and Kain.
@HiFiListener true, we need another LOK
@@mrangryface Even if you are willing to see it as a circle, including Blood Omen 2 to the story. Freeing Janus and closing the portal seems not to be the solution Kain seeks to avoid Nosgoth to be doomed. He wants to break the circle with the cleansed Soul Reaver.
@@mrangryface trilogy? You forget LOK has 2 more games
At last. Im back to see this.
I really wish they added an option to use the skins from Legacy of Kain Defiance, for Kain and Raziel. I loved those models. They were so cool and expressive and dynamic.
I think they don't change anything, or VERY little in these Remasteres. They added a compass and a very vague map, that's it. Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered was the same. They just want better textures and smoother gameplay.
@ yes, which is such a missed opportunity. But I love it anyway.
This is going to be funny to watch. Btw hold the triangle to keep raz holding then release
i have the originals on steam but ima get these too cuz a small youtuber worked on it. hyped for this playthrough!
Memory is fascinating for many reasons but even when it comes to TV or movies our brains automatically upscale the quality.
This game is emo Vampire lore done right. Legendary. 😅 Scenery-chewing, extreme drama with balls and more plot twists than a ball of yarn.
and no glitter!
@@LIZZgame Imagining Raziel lyrically pontificating about morality while impaling Edward Cullen and eating his soul has made my evening, thanks. 🤣
If you're interested in understanding the story of the game, look up a plot summary of Blood Omen 1. It will actually become important in the later games to give context about what the heck is going on. It gets....convoluted. Like - really, really convoluted.
Just wanted to Hello and brighten your day a bit! LIZZ👋 ☺️ 😔 😕
When it comes to pushing blocks, u can stand right next to them, press square once and he will push it without grabbing. 😁👍
Im glad women are also fans. Thats how you know its good.
I loved the video! This is a really strong franchise with a strong story. Even though I don't speak English, I had fun watching you play. And you're very nice, you play well and you're beautiful. I'll be back to watch more videos.
Hugs and kisses. See you.
(P.S.: I apologize if there are any spelling mistakes in my text, I used Google Translate.)
I would like to take a moment and thank Kain for refusing the sacrifice. We got some awesome games because of that decision.
It truly is something when gamers see any NPC they just go immediately to kill mode without a second thought instead of "is this actually an enemy or a friend"
Just so you know (if you don't already) when you attacked that human you made all Human Hunter's your enemy that will attack you on sight for the remainder of the game. Regular Humans will run from you. If you didn't attack/kill the Hunter or Humans in general the next time you encounter any of them they will kneel before you with their arms high in worship. In them doing this you get a special interaction where you can siphon a small portion of their Soul to replenish a small amount of your health. Doing this doesn't hurt the Humans but it does temporarily knock them out.
This mechanic was in the original and is known as the Morality Mechanic which was only explained in the Physical Manual that came with buying the game back then.
Raziel fall a millenium, Im waiting a millenium for see him again
I know it's a bit early in the run to be thinking this far ahead, but if there's any way you can get hold of Legacy Of Kain: Defiance, that's essentially Soul Reaver 3 and is imo essential.
1:18:53 - You can too if you're in the Spectral Realm (you were in the physical plane when you attempted it).
It was hard for me to belive that Raziel has the same voice as Angelica's dad from Rugrats
Finished it multiple times on the mighty SEGA DREAMCAST!
Hi LIZZ and thanks for the new upload. Did you play this game on a stream? If so I totally missed it. I saw a bit of the original when it came out but never played it. Now the game looks really good. Thanks for playing this new Remaster😊😊👍👍
@@hotjoe-wl8gc yep I did! Will continue tomorrow
@@LIZZgame Okay, I will join then
I remember this game when it was new... I also never got far into it. My graphics card was awful! x)
22:52 if you jump to the abyss you earn a trophy
I did that a few months ago when I played the game for one hour :D and then I had to run all the way back up again haha
That amazing voice your hearing right now,, was Tony Jay. No one can best that voice. Its unmatched.
Want to hear more? Then check out a classic children's TV show called Reboot. The fist ever CGI TV show, set inside a home PC. - Its a gem, trust me. He plays the villian, Megabyte and has some of the best lines ever uttered on TV
(I think they hired him after watching him on Reboot)
Nice :)
Dunno what is more fun lore or searching map new areas and secrets every time u got new boss ability😏🙃😉
Some areas can only be accessed via the spectral realm., and closed metal gates after the 1st boss..😁👍
34:56 By the way, killing the human vampire hunter, defines all of this hunters as enemies of yours. If you hadn't kill him, all humans, including the vampire hunters, would worship you like a god, as long as you don't kill humans (excluding some evil priests).
@HiFiListener Welp too late for that. And they attacked first
@LIZZgame The first one always does.
@@LIZZgameno the first one didn't, you just ran in and started attacking first without question 🤣
1:30:15 - it means you're low on health
You should try Blood Omen and The least popular Blood Omen 2... unpopular because some people STILL say it has inconsistencies even though events in SR2 and Defiance ties it in, also because gameplay mechanics and in the stuttering during gameplay.
I play the hd soul reaver one on PS2 a while back
Will you be playing the blood omen games as well
How did you switch from old graphics to new graphics on the ps controller?
Hey lizz if you like Diablo you should check out pathfinder wrath of the righteous the incredible adventures of van helsing and v rising
I had a bug render my save file useless right near the end of the first game. A block for a puzzle somehow managed to merge with another block & immobilised both. When I reloaded my save both blocks had vanished rendering the puzzle unbeatable. 10 hours of gameplay right down the shitter. Gonna have to start over.
@@drakocarrion oooof
@@drakocarrion I had the same thing, blocks appear to merge together if they fall on top from a great height. Sounds like I was more fortunate with my save situation 😔
@@Sinocthehodgeheg There's a fix for PC users. You have to enter debug mode & reload the level assets
Actually Aspyr did nothing, it was Saber Interactive who did all the Tomb Raider Remastered and this Soul Reaver
Kennst du das originale Blood Omen Legacy of Kain? Etwas ruppig, aber ein Klassiker.
@@Heathenpride83 nie gespielt glaub ich.
It's hard for me to judge, staring at my tiny smartphone screen, but I think the graphics didn't improve very much looking at Soul Reaver 2 or at least Defiance. It did in comparsion to the 1st Soul Reaver, for shure. My impressions are quite fresh, 'cause I replayed the original games, just a few weeks before the remastered versions were announced. 😂 It was a funny coincidance.
How did you play them? Console? I tried playing Soul Reaver about three years ago on PC and it was completely broken. It would boot to the title screen, but not much else. I looked for fixes at the time and there didn't seem to be any then.
I assumed that they'd been forced to delist it on Steam because of that, but the later remaster announcement made me think maybe it was just the publisher's choice to remove it from Steam.
@toddjones1480 The old PC version doesn't work on later operating systems than ME, without an unofficial patch. But I've got an old system for other reasons than playing. It's just a bonus, that this old system is able to run those old games, too. Another favour thing besides gaming is music for me. And I have still some vinyls, that aren't available on the internet. But I want digital copies. So I digitize my vinyls and even that I did this already for years, it's still not done yet. Even if modern sound chips seem to be better, looking at the pure technical data, an old soundcard from the 1990s provides the best sound, digitizing an analogue (vinyl) sound source. But this is still a card that needs an ISA slot, that isn't available anymore for years. So I kept an old Pentium3 PC + spare parts, running Windows 98.
I loved the game but those were times when the internet was not much accessible and fluent like it is now. I would be stuck in some places were i would not know how to proceed and there was no help. This would drive me mad and i would switch to other game. Now long gone are those days of my potato PS1. Sad and funny lol I wished they have made a remake rather than a remaster
SPOILER/BACK-SEATING?
If you do not kill any humans (vampire loyalists don’t count) they will see you as a savior, and let you “sip” from them
I knew, people already had to tell :D thanks for warning though!
👍🏼🎮
so many dark corridors .,.,make put gama 100%
👍😃
Yeah its cool! why they make his thighs skinny tho...😔 should of stuck to the old design. the silhouette is important.
Nooooooooooooooooo.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Try to the end this time and the sequel. It's amazing.
what's with all the "Noooo" ?
@@LIZZgame It's midnight here. I am too tired. And tomorrow is a big day.... but I really like to finish your video. It's SOUL REAVER!!!!!
Finally a girl gamer that doesn’t use her hoo hars to garner attention. Just straight up gamer! Respect 🫡
isn't hoo ha slang for the private parts down under? What girl gamer does that?!? I only hear they use their boobs LOL