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  • dude, you rock :D finally something interesting to see about LOK even after i played all parts, exept blood omen1, for 4-5 times :D niiiiiiiiiiice

  • This game is another reason I NEED to get a playstation. I mean this, persona, final fantasy 7, wow, I have to get one.

  • @SuperAjmon oh, and parasite eve, how did I forget that.

  • @SuperAjmon

    Or you could just get a PS3 or PSP and download it :p

  • Ah, Soul Reaver. Back when the brow-and-grey colour palette was still original.

  • It's water. Just water.

  • I NEED PART 2 OF THIS VIDEO......THIS GUY IS EXCELLENT ON STORY TELLING.....HOPE YOU HAVE A JOB IN THE VIDEO GAME BIZ.

  • Do part II before the fans devour your soul!

  • @d4rklqrdnem3sys Part two will just be a review of the game, like with Parasite Eve. I've already recorded 6 pages of audio and I'll be editing the video soon.

  • SPOILER

    Actually everything you do in all games wasp planed by kain to finally restore balance , but the history is so hard to understand and i hadn t played blood omen 1 and only half of 2 neither soulreaver 2 but i did play defiance. The game is full of time travel paradoxes betrayal as you said, this saga is pretty awesome . If the creators wrote a book about it it would win servera lawards for sure

  • Part 2 please?

  • I mean, serously. See this game is mature. Now days, movies like Pyranha is Teen. Then I ask: What the hell has happened to normal morals?!"

  • First time I played Soul Reaver was when I was 7, and it was on a demo CD, along with Metal Gear Solid. I didn't understand what it was about but the characters' design always interested me. Thanks for posting, can't wait for part 2.

  • This game increased my Vocabulary. 

  • nice vid but stupid song...

  • nice vid!

  • wheres part 2

    i have all 5 legacy of kain games

  • Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is my second favorite game of all time.

  • jerk... btw good game

  • Soul Reaver was insane I loved that game lol

  • i ENJOYED IT WHEN YOU YELLED ABOUT ALL the chreey crap in gaming

    It funny

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG. i played each and every one of the LOK games from day one and this is the best way i could possible think to disscribe them hahaha it's funny too

  • Hey great video, i see you did plan on a part 2, if you ever get round to it focus on the story as the gameplay got worse over the course of the games, I thought Blood Omen 2 was quite kool though and Defiance was interesting.

  • Hahahahahahahaaahahahahahaaaaa­a.......liked and favorited.

  • The images shown are not from the PSX version right?? are the from deamcast's then? they look soo neat!!

  • Wow...wtf was with 5:42-5:55...so fucking gay and annoying like was that really necessary? that sounded really nerdy dude I'm sorry it really pissed me off I don't know why but it did, and don't get me wrong I found the 'vocabulary' part very funny and the review to be excellent, but that was so loud and obnoxiou...

  • my friend brought this over and i never really got the appeal personally. However I can see why people like it has a weird and the background noise narrates the game. Love the waynes world reference!

  • 8:14  ...Funny part is that's exactly what happens. lol

  • i fucking love the kain sererys

  • do you intend to finish this? anyway great game

  • very nice promo video ....i have terminated this game more than 20 times....soul reaver 2 more than 15 and defiance more than ten ...i love it for these reasons and more....got to be a sequel or we will make one!!!!

  • wtf was with all the friggin yellingjbut still the whole devouring the soul is awsome

  • oooooh, will be getting it for my psp

  • I almost feel out of my chair when you started ranting. You are scary when you are angry.

  • fucking yes

  • 8:14 is EPIC FORESHADOWING!!!

  • Its THE best plot i've ever encountered in any game/movie/book/you name it. Understanding it fully is life-changing experience. Just imagine 5 long games, 3 different timelines and there is only one inconsistency that i know off in the entire series (but ive seen some viable explanations for it). It's so fuckin bad-ass that it makes Bible's plot look pale in comparison xD

  • Loved the game(s), agreed with absolutely nothing in your review.

  • Where is part 2?

  • so any chance we can see a 2nd part m8t? rlly enjoyed ur retrospective :)

  • Blood omen and soul reaver are awesome ... the parts that follow completely ruin the continuity. Möbius and that green vampire guy die for the second time, which makes no sense.

    On the other hand, dark omen only makes sense if you choose not to sacrifice yourself. Not only since that is a prerequisite for the rest of the series, but also because you actually have to fight the future Kain in the game.

    It's certainly not the best time travel story ever written

  • That intro cracks me up! xD Sure would like to see a followup to this.

  • Funny, that what Ed O'Neill is saying in the Waynes World Reference is actually exactly what Raziel does in Defiance.

  • It kind of looks like the grandfather to the god of war.

  • Agreed. The pinnacle of a thinking man's game, never surpassed in my experience. I wish, as you mentioned that they'd make a film out of this, and if I ever became a filmmaker, this would be my single most precious project. Gripping, compelling, at times confusing, but only because we as men, as mortals, have no means of grasping the complexities of the issues at play here. And by this I mean that it deals with questions that have puzzled men for centuries....

  • I've pretty much quite playing video games, because they tend to unnecessarily absorb time that could be spent doing something constructive, like READING (an activity I wish more YouTubers participated in), or seeing the Sun, but if they continued to produce games like this series, I wouldn't hesitate to pick them back up. Without question, I'd call this game the high water mark of story telling, voice acting, and all around bad-assedness in the video game universe. Play. Think. Evolve. Enjoy.

  • Hmmm... how did you come across the font used in the beginning of the video? I'd love to get mi hands on those =D

  • wow somehow he did this all with no spoilers

  • Blood Omen 1 takes 15-20 hours to be beaten. 35-40 is if you want to find all secrets.

  • I bet 95% of Soul Reaver players didn't understand what was said in the cutscenes.

    Didn't stop it from being badass though.

  • @RyukendenY I first played Soul Reaver when i was about in... 3rd or 4th grade... Yeah, i didn't quite get it.. Now i do, though. Hahaha

  • hey, where is the second part??!!

  • agreed bt4life, this definitely was one of the greatest games made. they don't make them like they used to.

  • feel free to call me as an idiot but this game is the best game that've ever created by the hands of a mankind for me. I'm 24 and played so many new/old games but none of them had this strong storyline and athmosphere which makes you a total addict. all those gylphs, enemies, conversations, world shifts, mazes... everybody should play this game at least once in their life.

  • @bt4life

    you have posted that before

  • You rock man this video explain lot about my favorite series of Legacy of kain

  • I loved your retrospective of Soul Reaver; you're right about all. Keep it up!

  • I also began with Soul Reaver, but was very impressed when I played the first Blood Omen game. It suffered from a number of technical hiccups because it was a first generation Playstation One game, but the writing for the plot was just wonderful. I think some of the people that worked on it went on to make Eternal Darkness for the Gamecube, as some of the influences from Blood Omen are apparent there.

  • I loved this game, such a unique storyline and characters.

  • Seems like it, unfortunately.

  • I am guessing part 2 is never coming, a shame really.

  • Can't wait for number two. I'm subscribing just for this! XD

    You really know how to lay it on thick.

  • Fucking oldschool man!

    Thanks!

  • Man I always wanted to get Soul Reaver, but I just never got around to it.I need to seek it out and find it. Or at least get the later ones that I can find like Defiance and Blood Omen 2. Great video, you've gotten my interest up in this game again.

  • Ex-nay on Blood Omen 2. Trust me. That game is utter garbage. Defiance was good for the plot, but the gameplay was tedious and not at all creative--and they even recycled the entire soundtrack from Soul Reaver.

  • Hey now, there were some new tracks in there, and some remix to original music, and Blood Omen 2 is worth pickin' up if theres large interest in the series.

    ... Though, Soul Reaver has sweet music anyways, no biggy.

  • @AkewsticRockR Agreed.

    But Defiance is good (Trust me, the plot was ... awesome, to say the least) gameplay was fun, but creativity is... NONE!

  • @AkewsticRockR

    Hey, Blood Omen 2 may be the worst of the series but it's pretty much a nice game, still. And- you need to beat it for the whole story to became logical.

  • @AkewsticRockR no offense to you sir, i mean i really enjoy your video but as a die hard series of well...every bit of games, this series was a brand new spark to me, i loved the series, and blood omen 2 was good, to me at least

  • You can actually can get this for around 7$ plus minor tax if you happend to have a ps 3 and a U.S. PSN account.... Its pretty good deal... I got it myself because I only have one copy for my psone in disc form so if it got lost or no longer worked I would be screwed to play it again....for 7$ and its a good deal for a DLC ps one classic download game...

  • where the hell is part 2?????????????????

  • I was wondering. Were you the one that had the Soul Reaver Ebonics Intro?

  • 5:26 lols he got tight

  • pretty good work man , just don't go too far with the jokes

  • pretty good work man , just don't go to far with the jokes

  • I am playing this game thorugh for my first time. I've beaten the first boss and am not sure where to go. Please make part two!

    I love the story background gothic architecture macabre and ever4ything about this game.

  • Nice rant voice.

    Damn good stuff!!!

  • WOW man, I can't believe I hadn't come trough this video before.

    You are a really good animator d'ya know that.

    Congratulations in the name of all the Soul Reaver fans.

    We own you one.

  • Where is the Ed O'Neill scene at 8:14 from?

  • Wayne's World.

    Wayne's World.

    Party time.

    Excellent.

  • *#&^$*# BLOCK PUZZLES!! great video by the way.

  • I like:Legacy of Kain not only its Good Plot and so many Timelines to create time Paradox....but good Voice Actors...5/5 for Legacy of Kain series!

    Dislike:Gotta chill that angry voice...Sheesh i sometime plays color games but this is not where God mades...its us!...Just telling

  • Where is part 2? I wanna know the story.

    Amazing video btw, very well done and creative.

  • Oh man I love how you made this vid. Excellent music choice lol, soul man. Such amazing games deserve a retrospective like this.

    Thank you man.

  • awesome review,love the series,i still have an original copy of soul reaver,but gave away the rest of my collection

  • Blood Omen kicks ass!

  • I love you Mr. Reviewer man!!!!!!!!...XD....ahahahahah­aha...You rock!!!...So much.XD

  • nice <D

  • Your reviews are brilliant, so funny but they are extremely professional and very in depth. Well done. ;)

  • wheres part 2?!

    anywyas awsoem reveiw so far! ^^

  • I have played the lok series since the psx.

    and i think that a true GAMER and FAN of the series would acknowledge that while the STORY WAS great some of the gameplay was boring and tedious

    Like blood omen 2.

  • Video Uploaded: December 31, 2008

    "Part 2 coming soon."

    Date today: August 19, 2009.

    Am I blind, or is "soon" a bit longer than I imagined? I can't find part 2 but I really want to watch it. Or was it taken down?

  • This video definitely makes the series justice so far. If you ever decide to do a follow-up you should put stress in the moral ambiguity that starts sorrounding the characters and perhaps, put that al bundy quote again and show what Raziel does to Kain in Legacy of kain: defiance :P

  • dont be confused dude... Kain saw all this comming in Mobius's lair, the mirrors of time or whatever it where named. it showed him that he had to banish Raziel, and then Kain took the time maxhine and traveled forward some years enough for Raziel to be reanimated. he knew that Raziel was the key to kill the old god and bring balance back to Nosgoth...

  • wicked awsome review, very well played out, and your demonic voice was very good

  • Let's see.

    You bash the crap out of a video and personally attack someone that praises the very game series that you took as inspiration for your user name. (So someone who agrees with you on it)

    You write in sentences on par with that of a 7 year-old

    You say you don't care about my opinion, call me a loser, say I put a bad name on the game...

    Then you tell me you're gonna watch part 2 when it comes out.

    Yeah.

    I'M the loser here, alright.

  • On part two you should cover the different boss battles.

  • stop yelling dammit you aint samuel L Jackson HMMM HMMM DRINK MY BEER BITCH!!

  • Oh, do these Vampires sparkle!?

    According to Twitards, vampires sparkle!

  • VAE VICTUS, An awesome video that quickly clarifies the brillance that is Legacy of Kain. Probably the most convuluted series of games i have ever played, even on a level that rivals the Metal Gear Solid storyline. I just loved this entire series. He forgot to mention (or didnt have to time to mention) that it involves time travel and an ancient war between two ancient races across history.

  • Stop screaming you noob.

  • soul reaver = ps 1 xD

  • The Video Is Pretty Awesome Man ! You Could Put Some In Game Details And Stuf on Part Two =]

  • <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 X a thousands. I really love the kain series as a whole, though Soul Reaver is pretty bitchin as a whole too.

    I actually had a chance to hear Michael Bell do voice work, in real time, at an editing place my step mother works.

  • where the fuck is part two =)

  • Oh I hope you do more installments in this retrospective series on the Legacy of Kain and Soul Reaver games. Your commentary is hilarious and enjoyable to hardcore fans and novices alike. It's nice to see that this series is finally starting to get some recognition.

    I would LOVE to see a CGI movie utilizing the VAs from the games (other than Tony Jay, R.I.P. my good fellow).

  • i love it

  • eek! don't Devour me plz! I liked the game, honest!

  • oh gut grafic.

  • is that ps1?

  • yes...i think!

  • No its the Dreamcast version ^^

  • Loved that someone finally got around to actually ackowledging this great series.

    I think you really need to touch on Blood Omen and its sequel before you get to Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance, though.

    You probably already know this, but you can get all the cinemas for Blood Omen without playing through it with this code while paused: Up, Right, Square, Circle, Up, Down, Right, Left.

    Can't wait for the 2nd part. Definitely try to explain the time parodoxes. Good luck. ;)

  • Bitch where part two at?

    (kidding)

    The main character looks a lot like David Bowie btw :D

    (Don't tell me about the website, I noticed that by myself)

  • he didn't just break his wings he rips the bones out

  • Great vid

  • 6:00

    MAJOR LOL

  • Loved it. When is part Two coming out? Liked the comparison to other games and the passionate review with examples of the other game elements. Please to an Introspective for Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance as well.

  • Lol, the guys voice..

  • lol can't wait for part 2

  • this guy has the same voice of zero from gta san andreas XD

  • Lmao @ the freak out halfway.

    I agree, the opening cinematic to Soul Reaver is probably one of my favourite openings in any game ever. Even more than Final Fantasy's beautiful cutscenes.

  • Raziel rocks

    Kain rocks

    Ariel rocks

    this game rocis!

  • I wouldent divour the platformer players I would have their minds and bodys purged from existance

  • Thumbs up for losing your shit at 5:40

  • I've played the game for on the Playstation and watching this video I now know how much better it looks on the Dreamcast.

    Soul Reaver rocks!!!

  • I can tell this is from the sega dreamcast

    I can recall when I first started out with the LoK BloodOmen game (first one) back then  it was epic to me.

  • Awesome.

    Great narrating.

    and btw, they could hurry up with blood omen 3

  • kick ass dude cool thing you did whit the voice

  • Well thestory is pretty hard to understand. And I play'd it a long time ago. I WHANT A REMAKE :(((( OF ALL OF THEM

  • Geeky dramaturgy... because of shouting :(

    o shit what am i watching just because I like the "legacy"

  • ARE you going to post part 2?????????????

    IF you do(I hope so) explane the storry like you did here(now I finaly know whay Kain broke Raziels wings :) )

  • U didn`t knew this even playing the game? Kane is selfish and despotic. When one of his servant was blessed to evolve higher than Kain and suppras him so he got mad. He betraid Raziel and destroyed him.

  • This game was so amazing..... I wish they'd make a new version! Blow shit like Fable 2 outta the water!

  • Soul reaver was fucking great

    haha toliet of acid??

  • what's the name of the game at 9:23?

  • My favorite part of this is 5:25 to5:55. Cool opening too.

  • Great movie 5 stars

  • LOL

    Now that was kinda funny I really liked it

    Great video

    I also started with Soul reaver (never played Blood Omen)

  • When Part 2 is comming up?

  • Tony Jay....may the god of voice acting rest in piece...

  • now i want to play cheery plataformers lol soul reaver rocks!!!

  • Great vid, there where some really funny parts in it. Vandemm how the f u know he's a nerd?

    5/5

  • Not only that, but how exactly are you supposed to "look" at my voice? What an idiot.

    Thanks for the compliment.

  • When are you going to put up part 2?

  • You Cant Look At His Voice

  • nice review also thanks for killing my hears

  • GREAT JOB seriously make a II part or a Retrospective of soul reaver 2

  • I guess he is never making a part 2, is he just quitting youtube or something?

  • 8:14 dude...ahahahaha good job

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  • My suggestion for part II were.. you could talk about the bossfights, the different areas and their population ( i.e. the Zephonim jumping at one's back in the Silent Cathedral are really mentionable :) lovely scary moments), the sidequests (the magic glyphs..) and .. yes, maybe a bit more of your proper storytelling.

    Cannot wait for the second Part. I really enjoyed watching.

  • But really, you did a nice job. The summarization of the story from the beginning is good, the comedy parts are funny, everything appears to be very fitting .. and I share your experience. Soul Reaver has also been my first game of the LoK-Series.

  • Seriously..

    ...

    WHERE THE HELL IS PART II ???? O_O Ist damn entertaining and I really like this kind of report of one of my ultimative favorite series in the gaming scene. I want to see the second part, damn it. Please!!!

    5Stars

  • Yea, if you have time please work on part II, or if not part II, than as a part II do a Retrospective on Soul Reaver 2.

  • 8:04 - 8:30 yes he did it and his heart is black, cause it's Janos thanks for upping ^^ 5 Stars

  • what version of soul man is the one at 0:30 i looked it up but i couldn't find the same version from the video. Who is singing it?

  • Dude the LoK franchise rocks, it sucks that Edios isn't continuing the seires. When's pt 2 coming?

  • nice retro but your crazy i love it he he he

  • Nice Vid man

  • Aight, hoss, you had me until you decided that stating that painting everything in pale browns and slate grays was an "orginal style" and got all mock-angry about it. Of all the things to get even joking angry about, and defending it as original?

    Nuh-uh.

    Altogether fun review, though.

  • true although the world has to be ruined, u could have a bit more colour, reds and greens etc. not bright just a tad more colour

    Although mostly if a green, brown and grey landscape can work for fallout 3 why not?

  • seriously? your complaining about ps1's graphics?

  • kewl video btw this game is good but it's a little hard to explain the plot to anyone, to much time travel

  • wow ur kewl, if u don't like soul reaver why even watch the video? and why do u assume that anyone gives a shit about ur views on religion?

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  • lol i'm not christian, and i acknowledge soul reaver as among the best games i've ever played:D

  • I really like your style, and the review is great. You're like David Cross in pretty much every concievable way. It's just that the right channel on my speaker system doesn't work, so I wasn't able to hear any of the in game music or voice acting if there was any.

  • hm legacy of kain was my fav game and it will be best riddles,cruel story.Man u just must love it :D

  • 5.30 was fricking hilarious, hahaha

    Love the review, Legacy of Kain has to be my favourite game series

  • very nicely done so far. i love the series (might be one of the biggest fans down here in Hungary) things pop into mind to be noted in part2:

    The difference between the spectral and material world

    The way humans treat you in the game, depending on your acts (kill/not kill humans)

    The mass of not vital but cool extra powers you can get if you care to look around in the world.

    And of course more story. This series is all about the story...

  • Your not alone here mate, im a big fan too! :D

    Üdvözlet Érdről :D

    Just do as lakdav said, ohh and Ariel, she is important!

  • "rip his still beating heart and hold it in front of him to show him how black it is" lol epic irony cuz 2 games later he did that exact thing to kain

  • Awesome review man! I hope you have time to work on part 2 ^_^

  • He is right about the language in the game. My vocabulary grew exponentially through this game.