Soul Reaver 2 Retrospective
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
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Following the massive success of the first Soul Reaver game, Amy Hennig and her team got to work on telling the next part in the Legacy Of Kain Saga. Things get more twisted up with more time travel and temporal paradoxes this time as the vampire king schemes to take back a destiny stolen from him by Mobius and the Lovecraftian elder God. So let's take a deep dive into a Playstation 2 classic game and analyse it's mechanics and story to see why this series is still one of the most well loved of its era.
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 Start
01:22 Story
20:35 Characters
31:30 Nosgoth Past and Future
37:41 Gameplay
48:18 Conclusion
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Possibly my favourite of the series. I know it’s a bit limited in terms of gameplay, but the storytelling is peak of the series. The writing, the “cinematography” for lack of better words, the pacing. I loved it. That cliffhanger as well man. “History abhors a paradox!”
All of this happens on Kain's birthday, and no one ever wishes him a happy birthday.
Don't want to give him.. ' hope ' ;)
I remember seeing Soul Reaver 2 in a store for 50€. At the age of 12 years I had to save up my allowance to be able to buy it. It was the first game I ever bought and at the time I didn't even had a PC so I had to play it at my cousin's place, who was living almost 30 minutes away. For 3 weeks I got home from school, finished my homework in record time and went on that 30 minutes ride with my bicycle to play it for a couple hours, then be home at 8 again
@@bam3xs that's a great story mate. Thanks for sharing.
What a hidden gem of a channel. Fantastic Legacy of Kain videos. Clearly a lot of thought and effort went into this and it shows. Thoroughly enjoying watching these retrospective videos.
Thanks a lot sir that really means a lot.
Janos is one of the most underrated characters is all of videogames
I missed this game. The story recap was amazing, I'm gonna have to watch it again. Great work.
The story is the best part of the kain games for sure. It's still one of the best even today.
They needed Raziel to kill Kain because they knew Kain would save him from the Reaver otherwise.
Excellent retrospective video, thanks. Great summary of SR2 and its preceding games.
While I liked the new lore that SR2 gave us, I missed the fog-drenched atmosphere and soundtrack of SR1, which stuck out to me when compared to the prettier-looking, but somehow more hollow, SR2.
OH HELL YEAH BROTHER
Thank you kind sir.
I loved the whole series they need to bring it back now?!!
How is this not getting more views
The algorithm just be like that lol. My Kain content is still some of my most popular though only beaten out by my Signalis video.
Great video. Enjoying every minute of it. Good job man
Made a movie with all these videos man I appreciate the lore across all Legacies
You deserve many more subscribers. Very well spoken, you make this game more interesting than it already is. Keep up the good work!
Thanks a million. My LoK series has been getting a lot of attention recently. Not sure why the algorithm suddenly started pushing it but I'm getting more engagement and subscribers because of it. Thanks a million. Glad you liked the content.
you know how they say it takes at list 5 years of constant video content creation for channel to gain popularity. I ve just got recommendation in my feed and I'm subscribed.
EROUSED is a word
That we just dont use enough
Nowa days
Love your vids bro!
You deserve far more views and likes than you get.
Thank you so much. It's just the way things are with TH-cam unfortunately.
Hello hehe, nice video as always
once again great video man
Thanks a million.
I always wondered why the staff worked on the wraith blade, but not Raziel. Particularly because they're the same entity.
Plot armor lol.
Hmmm. I believe I will subscribe. You have a good voice.
Wait, the finisher for the reaver is still there. It's just sorta rare.
I didn’t even know there was a soul reaver 2
Great Retrospective, I agreed with you completely about Soul Reaver combat. A remake SR game would be terrible if it is Soul-like, I think the combat would be better if it is similar to Witcher 3 combat.
After playing Sekiro I can see how the souls formula can translate to a more power fantasy character but I'd hate to see it just for the sake of chasing a trend.
Glad you enjoyed the content.
No, Elden Ring would be better. The Witcher 3 is too simplistic.
The best way for a LoK remake to do combat would be to maybe model it after the Arkham games. So here is a pair of examples of how combat in a LoK remake could work for Raziel and Kain. Using Raziel first as an example, it is clear that Raziel's time as both a Sarafan priest and a Vampire has acquainted him with many different weapons and how to use them. Raziel is also shown to use a fighting style focused on a rapid flurry of blows to keep his enemy off balance. With that in mind, Raziel's style would be about hitting an enemy with a barrage of attacks, parrying/riposting attacks from other enemies when prompted, and putting down weakened enemies with a coup de grace (different depending on what weapon Raziel is holding/using) before chaining it into the next enemy. Kain's combat would be a variation on what has been used in Jedi:Fallen Order/Jedi:Survivor with the more powerful, tanky, and aggressive Kain having more powerful attacks that send enemies reeling, but his attacks are slower and leave him open to counters from fast enemies. This is where Kain's powers would come into play with the player being able to use things like Kain's Mist form to dash through enemy attacks without taking damage or using a telekinesis blast in a manner like Force Repulse to send enemies surrounding Kain flying through the air to get much needed breathing room, or to kill them quicker by hurling them towards environmental hazards.
I stopped playing this game bc of the combat. Those big insect demons were not fun. I was in love with the first soul reaver. What a shame. Also the story was too complex for me at the time. Thanks for the video.
Also one of the biggest things about the first game were the bosses and seeing new areas, I did not feel SR2 had such great flow and the maps were not well connected, the puzzles were not as good as the cathedral section.
You're very welcome. And I agree, those Hylden are not fun to fight at all.
Also yes. The sr1 world is so much more interesting than sr2. I think there probably should have been greater variations in each time period.
I personally dislike the combat part of most of the LOK games except Blood Omen 2 and Defiance was a DMC clone.
Holy shit I thought I misread your subscriber count... A channel like yours with only 505 subs? That's a fucking crime. Your videos are bloody good
Thanks man, I take a lot of pride on what I do. I wouldn't wanna put out something that I wouldn't be happy to watch myself. As for the sub count, that's just the way yt is unfortunately. It's been jumping up a lot recently though.
@@arkham666 I actually came to your channel after watching Josh Strife Hayes do a retrospective of Soul Reaver and wanted to keep going with the series. I've subbed, and hope you get many more!
@@TariqKhan-gl2zh thanks man
Nice to know the almighty algorithm is pushing me sometimes.
48:50 - 49:22 is SO relatable!
By any chance you've never played Darksiders I think you should check out the series. Especially Darksiders 2. Death always reminded me of Raziel a little.
Yeah I've got one and two. They're both great games.
@@arkham666 I agree man. They're my favorite of what I call Hack N slash games.
After soul reaver ending, all I wanted was a sequel, and until this day I still haven't played it.
Why Kain did not lead Raziel to past in a friendly way, why he had to lead him by the hate?
He doesn't have free will
Raziel wouldn't have trusted him. Not after wha Kain did to him. Raziel had to discover the truth by himself.
Every time I decide to be productive Arkham goes on and slams me in the face with a video...
I quite like the idea of my videos jumping out of monitors and smashing people in the face. I have a list of people I'd like to hit especially hard with them.
Do bloodrayne also!
I've thought about it. The main issue is I didn't play it back in the day so it would be a first impressions kind of review vs a trip down nostalgia lane. Could be fun though. Something to think about for the future.
The Lore of this serie is Epic. I hope they do a souls like game for the remake/secuel. I would pay big to see Nosgoth open world like Elden Ring.
I could get behind a Kain game being more like Sekiro than dark souls. Kain is just to powerful to be constantly having his ass kicked by random goobers who get the drop on him.
I got halfway through the game, I loved the puzzle system, the world, the story, the characters...but the combat and lack of reason to actually fight an enemy made me want to drop it T_T
(With "lack of reason" I mean...why do I have to fight the enemies when 80% of the times I can just skip them? They're not helping me level up, they don't drop items/power ups, there still haven't been any bosses and I got through most of the game...)
31:10 Who, or from what show, this character is?
Kamoshida from Persona 5. The game has a rouges gallery of wacky villains from small time mobsters to corrupt politicians but the absolute worst of them is the abusive high school gym teacher. He's just so much more well written.
Hey, great video, but what is that game at 41:30?
That's disco Elysium. I'm currently working on a video for it. It'll be done before Christmas.
@@arkham666 Cool, thank you
@@Vlad_Mihaescu it's pretty cheap in sales now and one of the best RPGs I've ever played. Big recommend.
I like blood omen a little more
It's a great time.
I'd live I'd they brought back Legacy of Kain Blood Some. And Soul Reaver but with gameplay mechanics similar to Dark Souls/Bloodborne
It wouldn't make sense though would it. Kain is a power fantasy, an all powerful Vampire lord wielding a sword possessed by an invincible Soul Wraith so. Having him constantly dying and feeling small and insignificant in a world that's bigger and stronger than him doesn't fit the bill. Something closer to Lords Of Shadow 2 would work better for Kain Maybe a 3d metroidvania.
This is my least favorite game in the LOK series but it probably has my favorite story in the series.
Yes... the combat in Soul Reaver 2 was very bad... You would easily be overwhelmed by "spamming" from enemies.
That fargay joke is cheap. Wtf?
Fargay?
Oh far gaym. Check there's an m there too. Its deliberate bad spelling.