What I always liked with these scenes is showing the love and compassion in Janos' heart, with how he reacted seeing Raziel as his vampire/Soul Reaver self as well as how he showed he didn't hate humanity because he wanted to keep them safe from the wrath of the Hylden, as well as the sadness and shock Raziel felt when he sees his Sarafan self, when he was human, ripping the Heart of Darkness out of Janos' chest and that he began to see what Kain said about how the Sarafan's agenda was no different from his failed empire.
0:39 Raziel: "Janos Audron, is that YOU...😮?" Janos Audron: "Ahh, pilgrim... *It is heartening* to me, after *all these years, just to hearing my name's spoken without any contempt* to it..."
@@Artemisarrowzz Well said about this comment, Artemisarrow ZZ 🏹: So then, that *all of humanity in the "Legacy of Kain" video game series' story* was actually on the victim side right then 🤔? And thus, with the *vampires are all being EVIL* 😈, while *those Sarafan crusaders were the definite "heroes" of the story* alright...?
Thanks for sharing this part of SR2 with us 🥺❤️ I was looking forward to Janos the most In general, I have some special sympathy for Janos. I like Vorador and Kain in my own way, but Janos is the most comfortable vampire of all. He is calm and wise, I like him.
Something that just occurred to me: It's at the Vampire Citadel where the vileness of the Sarafan is shown to Raziel, and at a different point in time, the 'Oracle' is revealed as the parasitic Elder God to Kain. These revelations completely change Raziel's and Kain's goals from that point onwards, and both times, the citadel is teetering on the point of collapse. Neat.
4:02 "They don't know what they're doing" "And they are vulnerable to manipulation" The irony of this statement is that the vampires themselves were manipulated by the Elder God.
Janos was such a great character. I wanted more scenes with and about him. Much like Vorador, Janos was an interesting character who needed more of a role.
@@MegaYoYo The most likely hypothesis is that it was a mistake by the game developers, but I like to think that following the events of Defiance, the revived Janos had a part in this "resurrection".
Which, ironically enough, is exactly what the Elder God wants since it keeps the wheel turning and leads all souls back to him. After all, it takes Kain a millenium of rule over a failed empire to realize his mistakes and seek a better path. And once healed of the corruption that causes the blood thirst, its possible that in the new timeline he will walk a better path.
Someone told me that Defiance wraps up the story due to all of this is destined to repeat. I don't 100% believe that and I hope if they make a sequel I would love to see Kain's plan to restore Nosgoth & the pillars
@@MegaYoYo Somebody told you wrong then. Defiance's ending sets up another sequel (The Dark Prophecy, which was cancelled obviously), meant to cover Kain dealing with the actual origin of Nosgoth's corruption.
@@MegaYoYo he looks like he belongs in vtmb. Fans made this btw and aspyer published it only- please keep supporting the game so that this series has its vampiric unlife restored
There is an interview from the game director Raina who explains why SR2 looks the way it does. they did the best they could with the budget they were given for the project because tbh SR2 just needed a remake to actually make it look good there was no way a remaster would fix the blurred models and objects so it does look really jarring at times but in her noclip interview I kinda understood why it doesn't look all that great. I'm okay with it though because at least I can play it on modern hardware and with actual controller support
@@radagonsoreseal3457 That doesn't explain why they could weight paint the eyes on Wraith Raziel, Kain Vorador and Janos, but they flunked on Mobius and Human Raziel. Was it just an oversight? They must've been able to reference the weights on the old models to some degree. I would be fine with an excuse like "Oh well it wasn't preserved for every model" or something. But so far it seems like the one in charge of it just didn't finish all the models on time. But it would be nice to know if they will update it. That is nitpicking though. The performance upgrade on the game is nice, that part of the remaster is nice. I'm still not sure if the Day/Night Cycle is actually a thing in Soul Reaver 1, or if that was just a thing to hype the remaster up. Seems the same to me as it always has been, same time of the day all around. But it was a think that was marketed in places for the remaster.
human Raziel looks so uncanny... his face is just... weird, his eyes don't even move that much, he looks VERY out of place, I hope maybe they will fix it in some future update because so far the thing I don't like the most about this Remaster is human Raziel
Do tou know what I find hilarious about these games: theu portray the vampires, the bloodsucking monsters of horror stories into angels. Humans are portrayed as monsters for defending themselves! 😂😂😂 Humans are supposed to be the sheep of vampires and let themselves be turned and or eaten... 😂😂😂 The ancient angelic vampires who banished the atheist Hylden suddenly find themsemselves cursed to be monsters and instead of making spells to cure themselves or I don't know, grow farm animals like pigs to feast on, which are the closest animals to humans, they instead feed on humans and expect no reprocusions for being violent killers. 😂😂😂
Hey, I loved this scene 10+ years ago. It made perfect sense to me. Now after thinking it over I realize that Janos Audron is as fake and dirty as everyone else. To say that humanity is easily manipulated and easy to control. Lol, Janos, my fellow Vampire, your race commited a gene-o-side against another race of being for simply being more advanced technologically and being atheists to your Calamry God. You can say about the humans a lot of things but being easy to lead an manipulate is no more beneath the vampire race who could fly and had amazing magic but were so easy to convince to destroy another race of atheists. Humans has to be convinced with REAL threats: "the vampire race are attacking your people, they are eating your people, they sre turning your people, stealing your kids and turning them into vampires." At least humans had legitimate reasons to hate vampires. Not like the angelic and noble vampires who blindly followed their god and F-ed arround with the wrong people and found out on own. So yeah, I think it is perfect irony that Vampires received the same kind of treatment from humans, an inferior group of beings considered beneath them as they had done to the Hylden who the Hylden considered to be beneath them. I love this Universe because it understand that cycles repeat themselves.
The ancients were cursed. The nobles like Janos just wanted to do their job. Mobius fucked everything up. And yes. Humans don’t know shit. He’s not wrong about that. You’re confusing the ancient vampires with vampires. Kain is not an ancient. He forgot he was human. He had his own vendetta against humans when he was killed.
@@Username-ng8jy The ancient vampires banned the Hylden into the demon realm first. Then in return the Hylden cursed the ancients. The ancients were religious zealots who got duped by the octopus Elder god into worshiuping him and feeding his stupid wheel. Due to this religious belief they fought the Hylden and ultimately bannesd them into the deoman realm. The ancients were just a pawn for the evil octopus.
@ same with the Hylden. Ancients built them. And maintained them. But hylden wanted control and wanted to be special. If they would’ve left it alone. Shit would’ve been peachy. They’re both two wings same bird. Humans are the idiots for war that didn’t concern them. They played into their parts because of their predictable nature.
@Username-ng8jy How exactly are the humans involved in the Hylden vs Ancient Vampire war? We have to remember that Janos Audren and Vorador's hybrid vampires were all cursed with the need to eat red blood and they primarily hunted humans for it. From a human's perspective: they are only fighting a predatory race that is feeding on them and infecting or transforming them into other monsters that feed on them. Kain's vampires might not have been blood sucking vampires but they were dead corpses resurrected and hunting them for pure sport. I need you to explain to me like you would a novice why humans are in the wrong for hunting a predatory animals that are hunting them for food or sport.
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What I always liked with these scenes is showing the love and compassion in Janos' heart, with how he reacted seeing Raziel as his vampire/Soul Reaver self as well as how he showed he didn't hate humanity because he wanted to keep them safe from the wrath of the Hylden, as well as the sadness and shock Raziel felt when he sees his Sarafan self, when he was human, ripping the Heart of Darkness out of Janos' chest and that he began to see what Kain said about how the Sarafan's agenda was no different from his failed empire.
0:39 Raziel: "Janos Audron, is that YOU...😮?"
Janos Audron: "Ahh, pilgrim... *It is heartening* to me, after *all these years, just to hearing my name's spoken without any contempt* to it..."
0:50 Janos Audron: "Raziel? My child, *tell me on what they have done to YOU* here?"
It's hard to call the Sarafan evil when you know how evil the vampires are, ESPECIALLY Vorador. Humanity is the victim in this story.
@@Artemisarrowzz
Well said about this comment, Artemisarrow ZZ 🏹: So then, that *all of humanity in the "Legacy of Kain" video game series' story* was actually on the victim side right then 🤔? And thus, with the *vampires are all being EVIL* 😈, while *those Sarafan crusaders were the definite "heroes" of the story* alright...?
@@ArtemisarrowzzNo, about only one actual victim in the entire series and that’s the daughter of King Ottmar in Blood Omen.
Thanks for sharing this part of SR2 with us 🥺❤️ I was looking forward to Janos the most
In general, I have some special sympathy for Janos. I like Vorador and Kain in my own way, but Janos is the most comfortable vampire of all. He is calm and wise, I like him.
Bro had wings and he just decided nah
He was not able to escape thanks to Mobius's staff.
@@arkham9500
Yeah, the staff seems to paralyse vampires, it even does to Kain.
Something that just occurred to me: It's at the Vampire Citadel where the vileness of the Sarafan is shown to Raziel, and at a different point in time, the 'Oracle' is revealed as the parasitic Elder God to Kain. These revelations completely change Raziel's and Kain's goals from that point onwards, and both times, the citadel is teetering on the point of collapse. Neat.
Janos was so beautiful!... ME SO SAD!
IKR HE'S MY BABY!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🥺
@khloecarver5556 We gotta return him his Heart!
4:02
"They don't know what they're doing"
"And they are vulnerable to manipulation"
The irony of this statement is that the vampires themselves were manipulated by the Elder God.
Janos was such a great character. I wanted more scenes with and about him. Much like Vorador, Janos was an interesting character who needed more of a role.
I still want to know how he was resurrected fro Blood Omen 2
@@MegaYoYo The most likely hypothesis is that it was a mistake by the game developers, but I like to think that following the events of Defiance, the revived Janos had a part in this "resurrection".
After all these years, no one noticed how Janos crosses his arms, struggling to share some of his wisdom with Raziel in the coldest winter.
Which, ironically enough, is exactly what the Elder God wants since it keeps the wheel turning and leads all souls back to him. After all, it takes Kain a millenium of rule over a failed empire to realize his mistakes and seek a better path. And once healed of the corruption that causes the blood thirst, its possible that in the new timeline he will walk a better path.
Someone told me that Defiance wraps up the story due to all of this is destined to repeat. I don't 100% believe that and I hope if they make a sequel I would love to see Kain's plan to restore Nosgoth & the pillars
@@MegaYoYo Somebody told you wrong then. Defiance's ending sets up another sequel (The Dark Prophecy, which was cancelled obviously), meant to cover Kain dealing with the actual origin of Nosgoth's corruption.
RIP Rene.
08:43 - 08:48 "Raziel Wins... *Flawless Victory* 👑 *FATALITYYY* ...💀❤!!"
God both Kain and Raziel would have been perfect as mortal kombat dlc characters so many good fatality ideas
Finish him 🗿
8:38 lmao what
you can hit a button to switch between remaster or ps2 graphics
Okay at least they got Janos face and body model right. Why weren't all the other models as faithful as this one?
Lol
Human Raziel looks so out of place. Looks like he got a face lift and bototx
@@MegaYoYo he looks like he belongs in vtmb. Fans made this btw and aspyer published it only- please keep supporting the game so that this series has its vampiric unlife restored
There is an interview from the game director Raina who explains why SR2 looks the way it does.
they did the best they could with the budget they were given for the project because tbh SR2 just needed a remake to actually make it look good there was no way a remaster would fix the blurred models and objects so it does look really jarring at times but in her noclip interview I kinda understood why it doesn't look all that great.
I'm okay with it though because at least I can play it on modern hardware and with actual controller support
@@radagonsoreseal3457 That doesn't explain why they could weight paint the eyes on Wraith Raziel, Kain Vorador and Janos, but they flunked on Mobius and Human Raziel. Was it just an oversight? They must've been able to reference the weights on the old models to some degree. I would be fine with an excuse like "Oh well it wasn't preserved for every model" or something. But so far it seems like the one in charge of it just didn't finish all the models on time. But it would be nice to know if they will update it.
That is nitpicking though.
The performance upgrade on the game is nice, that part of the remaster is nice.
I'm still not sure if the Day/Night Cycle is actually a thing in Soul Reaver 1, or if that was just a thing to hype the remaster up. Seems the same to me as it always has been, same time of the day all around.
But it was a think that was marketed in places for the remaster.
upscaled Raziel looks like Lord Faquaad on stilts
WTF did you said about that, Azguard Mikey...😐?
Anti spiral
human Raziel looks so uncanny... his face is just... weird, his eyes don't even move that much, he looks VERY out of place, I hope maybe they will fix it in some future update because so far the thing I don't like the most about this Remaster is human Raziel
Human Raziel looks wack I agree. Guy got a face lift
Do tou know what I find hilarious about these games: theu portray the vampires, the bloodsucking monsters of horror stories into angels.
Humans are portrayed as monsters for defending themselves! 😂😂😂
Humans are supposed to be the sheep of vampires and let themselves be turned and or eaten... 😂😂😂
The ancient angelic vampires who banished the atheist Hylden suddenly find themsemselves cursed to be monsters and instead of making spells to cure themselves or I don't know, grow farm animals like pigs to feast on, which are the closest animals to humans, they instead feed on humans and expect no reprocusions for being violent killers. 😂😂😂
Hey, I loved this scene 10+ years ago. It made perfect sense to me. Now after thinking it over I realize that Janos Audron is as fake and dirty as everyone else.
To say that humanity is easily manipulated and easy to control. Lol, Janos, my fellow Vampire, your race commited a gene-o-side against another race of being for simply being more advanced technologically and being atheists to your Calamry God.
You can say about the humans a lot of things but being easy to lead an manipulate is no more beneath the vampire race who could fly and had amazing magic but were so easy to convince to destroy another race of atheists.
Humans has to be convinced with REAL threats: "the vampire race are attacking your people, they are eating your people, they sre turning your people, stealing your kids and turning them into vampires."
At least humans had legitimate reasons to hate vampires. Not like the angelic and noble vampires who blindly followed their god and F-ed arround with the wrong people and found out on own.
So yeah, I think it is perfect irony that Vampires received the same kind of treatment from humans, an inferior group of beings considered beneath them as they had done to the Hylden who the Hylden considered to be beneath them.
I love this Universe because it understand that cycles repeat themselves.
The ancients were cursed. The nobles like Janos just wanted to do their job. Mobius fucked everything up. And yes. Humans don’t know shit. He’s not wrong about that.
You’re confusing the ancient vampires with vampires.
Kain is not an ancient.
He forgot he was human. He had his own vendetta against humans when he was killed.
@@Username-ng8jy The ancient vampires banned the Hylden into the demon realm first. Then in return the Hylden cursed the ancients. The ancients were religious zealots who got duped by the octopus Elder god into worshiuping him and feeding his stupid wheel. Due to this religious belief they fought the Hylden and ultimately bannesd them into the deoman realm. The ancients were just a pawn for the evil octopus.
@ same with the Hylden. Ancients built them. And maintained them. But hylden wanted control and wanted to be special. If they would’ve left it alone. Shit would’ve been peachy. They’re both two wings same bird. Humans are the idiots for war that didn’t concern them. They played into their parts because of their predictable nature.
@Username-ng8jy How exactly are the humans involved in the Hylden vs Ancient Vampire war?
We have to remember that Janos Audren and Vorador's hybrid vampires were all cursed with the need to eat red blood and they primarily hunted humans for it.
From a human's perspective: they are only fighting a predatory race that is feeding on them and infecting or transforming them into other monsters that feed on them.
Kain's vampires might not have been blood sucking vampires but they were dead corpses resurrected and hunting them for pure sport.
I need you to explain to me like you would a novice why humans are in the wrong for hunting a predatory animals that are hunting them for food or sport.
@ you’re to passionate bout a fictional story in a video game 💀 I’m not reading this shit. This is entering a pissing contest territory