Blood Omen / Legacy of Kain / Soul Reaver: The Complete History | RETRO GAMING DOCUMENTARY
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Publicado 2021-09-04
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The Legacy of Kain series is a confusing one… starting with the fantastic top down Blood Omen original created by Dennis Dyack and McCulloch at Silicon Knights before taking so many right turns that it ended up going in circles unsure which path to take next!
After Silicon Knight told the story of Kain it was the Tomb Raider house that was Crystal Dynamics who would continue on with the series and even though this was a nasty crossover behind the scenes… Amy Henning did a fantastic job on the 2x Soul Reaver titles move from the original PlayStation to the GameCube, Xbox, PC and almost… the Saturn
And it doesn’t stop there either! Blood Omen 2 continued on the story whilst the company was being taken over by Eidos and eventually Square, before the Rocket League studio themselves (Psyonix) started work on a multiplayer deathmatch. Whilst several other games (most notable dark phoenix and dead sun) were cancelled!
Yep, this is one complicated story with a crazy amount of mishaps along the way, but still, fans love it. And hopefully you this video will entice you to pick up one of the earlier titles and get you teeth stuck into this awesome franchise
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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I'm a simple man; I see Legacy of Kain, I click.
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The Legacy of Kain series is indeed my all time favourites. Most younger generations won’t know about this game,but oh man how much they’ve missed out. Soul Reaver brings so much memories when it comes with Shakespearean dialogues and LoveCraftian horror into it. Such amazing memories.
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HOLY SHIT, YES! Finally someone is talking about this series outside of the fandom! We'll never stop being salty it was cancelled and also never stop hoping for a new one. 😭
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I dont think Id call the story confusing when its probably one of the most cohesive examples of a story spread over multiple entries, compared to other series. Particularly when it comes to the games with Raziel.
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He said "Silicon Graphics" a couple times when he meant "Silicon Knights." I understand, as the two companies are from the same era and sound similar. It threw me off a couple times though because they are from the same era, and I found myself wondering if they had used Silicon Graphics machines at some point.
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Holy crap, this is one of my favourite game series ever and so happy it’s getting the Complete History treatment. Still holding out hope for either a new instalment or reboot.
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On the Chakan thing - Steve Ross, the art director, actually disconfirmed it awhile back. Quote: "Yeah, some of the themes are the same simply because they came from the same artist (me). As for the symbol I had completely forgotten about it being on one of the Chakan Sketches. I did about 20-30 full color concepts in 2 weeks and it was all kind of a blur"
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Slope's in-depth research is really great...at least, he still gotta keep his soul
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One of my favorite series. Great atmosphere and story telling. The absolute best voice acting in any video game. Bar none
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Legacy of Kain?! NOW we’re talking.
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As much as I have been a lifelong fan of this series since playing Soul Reaver as a child, after seeing what they were doing with Dead Sun, i'm happy it was cancelled. For a start, it was set in a part of the timeline that was canonically destroyed, set in the original Soul Reaver 1 timeline, but after the events of the game...which would be impossible as the world would have already decayed. Aside from showing whoever was in charge did not know about the lore of the franchise enough, they also wanted to make it pointlessly "gritty and mature" and what they meant by that was no more shakesperian level dialogue, it was a load of modern swearing with random boobs on display...if Dead Sun was released, it would have been the only new entry in the franchise as that game would have killed the IP completely. It's best to be left with Defiance's unknown finale than it was to have butchered the legacy with what Dead Sun was going to be.
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Always found this franchise pretty neat .
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When I first played Blood omen I thought it was really cool , especially seeing as nearly every new game at the time was 3D , was great to see a 2D game , and the atmosphere and story was fantastic
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My all time favorite series. Proudly have a tattoo of the soul reaver on my arm. I'm glad I'm one of an army of fans that will never let this franchise fade into obscurity. It's so damn good. I have the entire series cinamatics downloaded on my phone and watch them all the time while I work. Can't help but quote it and try to replicate Simon Templeman or Michael Bell's voice inflections even if I'm terrible at impressions. Lol.
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Dreamcast port of Soul Reaver is incredible, I'm so disappointed that the sequel was belatedly cancelled, despite I believe being the lead platform for the game :(
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OH wow - I Didn't expect you to cover this! For some reason, I always felt Kain was overlooked, and Soul reaver got the most attention. I loved both when I was younger. Defiance was my favourite!
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Hopefully the popularity of this video will convince developers to continue/remake an updated game.
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I can not wait to watch this. Always been one of my favorite franchises.
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Oh Yes!!!! One of the best gaming series ever!!!
