Legacy Of Kain - Defiance: Kain vs Elder God Boss Battle + Credits + Arcane Tomes (HD)

[@armandowillem]

This is such a great game I'm mad the series failed over the years... Ps: While watching dude play I'm yelling at my screen, "DODGE! DAMMIT DODGE!!!"

[@Deathstarke]

My controls were glitched during the recording for some reason, so a dodge worked only half of the time, was really frustrating.

[@armandowillem]

@@Deathstarke yeah when it came out on PS2 I had an old controller. You best believe I went and got a new one when mine started messing up a quarter of the way through. Hard to pull off combos when the sticks dont sit in neutral position and you're constantly having to over correct when doing air combos and trying to aim tk bolts for the puzzles. Soo frustrating...

[@brahmoone]

you better play dark souls for practice..

[@iBluairJgR]

This series was WAY ahead of its time. In fact - it may have even been too ahead of its time, which I also feel like plays a part in why it died unfortunately. It's so funny - when I was a kid playing this game, I hardly appreciated it. Just liked it because some cool-looking protagonist was swinging around a bad-ass looking sword mounted on his arm. Now that I'm older - I can't stop watching videos of it and being in awe of how much of a master piece this series actually is. Should the first LOK game have been released/conceived during the ps2-era, I think it would've gotten the attention it needed. This game certainly fell through the cracks during its PS1 release and subsequently cost Eidos/Crystal Dynamics followers (as people are hesitant to jump into a series if they have not played the previous entry (or entries). Between the writing, voice acting, gameplay and lore this series is just AMAZING. It is incredibly ambitious as it tackles both Kain and Raziel's perspective and even tracks their personal development as characters. WHAT DEVELOPER DOES THIS TO THIS DAY? If anything - WHO DID THIS BACK DURING THE PS1-ERA? There are very few games today that strikes both the fun gameplay and rich narrative nail and years ago... the only other game I can think of that did this as well is Metal Gear Solid 1 It's a real shame that games like Destiny can get $500M thrown at it yet the only golden-points in that game is an amazing score and tight/well-done gun controls. Imagine what these guys could have accomplished with that type of money, when they were already golden on so many things. Rant over. But damn, do I miss this series. I'm really hoping for a remastered version soon, if not a remake.

[@italianchriswilko100]

iBluairJgR I agree with all of this.

[@sengiv7326]

IBluairJgR, dude your rant was masterfully correct on the things you said about this game & how games now a days have $500 million thrown at it & the things you said about Destiny I'd the only good things about the game. I agree with your "rant" completely. Such a shame the series is gone now & when it was released it was perfection that was just waay ahead if it's time.

[@Skehrcros]

iBluairJgR Completely agree!

[@domihom1606]

This game was for ps3 ps3 LOK DEFIANCE

[@AlphynKing]

This rant is funny in retrospect because Destiny is finally as amazing as it was meant to be, and has remained that stably for a year’s length. Oh and, if you like LOK’s lore, but think that Destiny’s isn’t one of its strong points, man you’re missing out, Destiny lore is great

[@Ch35h1r3C47]

"This is *not* a debate..." *STABS* Yes, this is why i love Kain.

[@jakesaysknee]

I guess Raziel was right: When Moebius saw he was worshipping a giant squid, his faith DID falter.

[@LegacyofRei]

Lol it really did.

[@EvilXero359]

In his very very brief afterlife moments

[@trial_with_an_error9687]

Kain’s absolute care for Raziel at the end, and the final feeling of hope burning in his chest at the end...god damn it! We must never EVER forget The Legacy of Kain.

[@ouroboros5793]

It is nuts how much he cared for Raziel, who up to that moment always felt like his pawn and lacky. But Kain tried to teach Raziel as much as he could, they streamed through centuries of time together both searching for answers and a way to better their world but ending up seemingly at odds being played against each other. In the end, Kain was left alone and still fighting for a new future free of corruption.

[@LegacyofRei]

Its back

[@youtubeaccount3829]

the last bits of dialogue between kain and raziel actually made me cry when I played it

[@amdintelxsniperx]

yeah it hit deep great game

[@celebrei]

KZbin Account You can feel the pain in Kain knowing that Raziel will forever be trapped in the Reaver

[@HerrCohonez]

"Where the real men cried".

[@sympathiea]

I cried too. It's such a beautiful and tender moment. All he wanted from the start, was to serve, and now he gets to in purgatory. T^T

[@killertrip10]

@@sympathiea he's still sentient in the blade. A fact the elder god states himself. "You and your soul reaver will go equally mad."

[@KalvinEllis]

"Is there a crack in your omniscience after all, Moebius? First your omniscience and now your powers. You are slipping badly" If this doesn't make you a Kain fan, I don't know what will.

[@williambeck2372]

+KalvinEllis Kain the savage.

[@madryoch]

I always was considered heartless... best pun ever...

[@TheYiffingAtheist]

"In the meantime, you'd best burrow deep."

[@nothri]

Dude mobius has been a self assured smary piece of crap for three games now. Getting murdered by kain and devoured by raziel is so unbelievably satisfying.

[@yannickwillems1991]

when i was playing this game back in the old days I was reaping this line over and over again 🤣🤣🤣 I couldn't help my self 🤦🏽🤣

[@liammccbyrne4184]

this ending is truly devastating for Kain as its implied he is now free of Nupraptor's corruption for the first time in his long natural and unnatural life, and for the first time he is alone without the buffer of his sociopathy. I mean what will he do now he's slightly less of a mad bastard? I really wish they will remember this if they ever make a new game.

[@mike_in_cornwall]

Just before I read your comment, I genuinely muttered to myself "Kain, you are not a good man, but you are trying!" Then I read your words, and realised that now, for the first time ever, he might well be able to be. Thank you for the enlightenment!

[@wareforcoin5780]

That's what's so cool about that that ending for me. Yeah, we still have a lot of loose ends, but it's satisfying to see Kain finally be able to complete his destiny.

[@victorymansions]

'What in the hell?' Kain being unintentionally hilarious right there

[@carlosmarco322]

A lot of people fail to pick up the fact Raziels purpose was to purify the corrupted balance guardians soul. Remember for Kain could not sire Vampires like his lieutenants. To create Raziel, Turel, Dumah, Rahab, Zephon, and Melchiah, Kain had to give them a portion of his soul, his corrupted soul to reanimate their bodies as vampires. With Raziels reincarnation as a reaver of souls l, it gave him the ability to re-absorb the corrupted peices of Kains souls by killing his brothers. Ariel says this to Raziel. "You must reunite what was set asunder" by reuniting the fragments of Kains soul , Raziel was able to purify himself with the spirit reaver hence returning the parts of Kains soul and purifying Kains soul. The physical manifestation of Raziel then enters the Blade now creating the true soul reaver. The physical blade and Raziels spirit, now arm the scion of balance to be able to kill the elder God and fulfill his destiny by restoring balance.

[@Javier-il1xi]

Not only that, but, ironically, Raziel makes his most free choice by sucumbing to his 'preordained' fate, entering the reaver, but fully embracing it as his own choice. Truly a hegelian move if there was one.

[@Brandelwyn]

"You may ponder the futility of your ambitions as you spend a deathless eternity beneath a mountain of rubble" Kain: *actually turns into mist like a boss*

[@mzytryck]

Or just teleports away. I can't work out whether the script writers hadn't realised that the Elder God couldn't actually threaten Kain in this way, or if they wanted us to realise that it was making empty threats, and was therefore panicking and blustering as soon as Kain turned up.

[@alphax4785]

TBF, without the empowered and purified Soul Reaver, there are likely shenanigans the squid could use to trap Kain.

[@Butmunch666]

Did anyone else get teary eyed when raziel went "And I am not your enemy! Not your destroyer! I am...as before...your sword!"

[@MehDagon]

He meant that literaly lmao.

[@domihom1606]

When kain um Janis heart was torn out from kain didnt raziel still resent kain from having his heart

[@domihom1606]

@@MehDagon Janos,audron,heart

[@voodoo1067]

Raziel Sword

[@TheNewBerser]

Its even a bit more touching because in the spanish dub of the game he doesn't say "Your sword" but "Your son"

[@Zibit21]

After 10:24 -> Kain: "Your words are heartening -" [Kain severs the tentacle.] "For you would not fear us unless we could truly do you harm." [The Elder God sends forth more tentacles.] Elder God: (enraged) "No! You are nothing!" [Kain severs the tentacles, punctuating his words with swings of the Reaver.] Kain: "False God - this is the end - the final turn of your Wheel."

[@distinctraccoon]

after rewatching the whole saga I ended up speaking like a fucking poet everywhere I go

[@Deathstarke]

Haha, I have that with the BO2 script. I'm learning it by heart!

[@necurrence1776]

9:29 when someone who's already been in hell says " What in the Hell ?" you know shit just got serious

[@mkn.567]

Oh, no, no,no...this video left out the best line: "You would not fear us unless we could truly do you harm. FALSE. GOD!!"

[@DarkSektori]

There needs to be a sequel to this. Kain said the strings have been revealed and puppets exposed which means the story is not over just yet

[@Deathstarke]

So true! Wish they worked on a true sequel instead of that Nosgoth game... ;/

[@rekojj7934]

Deathstarke thetr should be another sequel to thid game but its cancelled due to some issues fuck them. i mentally broke when i found out that there should be a sequel but got terminated

[@HerrCohonez]

There was a sequel planned - it was called "Dark Prophecy" and it was supposed to be the final chapter with Kain as playable character. Malek Bastion and Demon Dimension were supposed to be playable areas there. Also Hylden history would be explained there. Unfortunately it was cancelled. I recommend googling for materials though.

[@bichitomax]

The writer left the company to work in other games.

[@zerlichr426]

@@Deathstarke There was plan for a sequel after Defience, but games didnt sold enough copies and 3 month in to development game was cancelled, Amy Henning left company and in 2006 Tony Jay died (voice of Elder god). and after what Nosgoth and Dark sun shown... Ether this need to be done by fans as indy game or they need bring writters and Amy back

[@KamikazeChinaman]

Sufficient closure for an open ending. Legacy of Kain is perfection as it is, no need for it to be desecrated by current developers. Dark Prophecy marked its peaceful death and Square-Enix did the right thing by killing that travesty known as Dead Sun.

[@Cangaca777]

"-This is the end.. the final turn of your Wheel!" such a BADASS line right there!

[@DarthVaizard]

There's still totally enough left to continue the story. None of the characters are dead completely and the world is long over due for another game in this series.

[@tnazkitchen2470]

Right man I love this game and they need to make another one but I dont know if they will I hope they do so much

[@Velshin1986]

Tnaz Kitchen Yup let us hope Amy Hennig will do an awesome sequel to Legacy of Kain that continues where the story left off.

[@Death_Korps_Officer]

Sadly some voice actors did pass away and others are old and close to death.

[@Ouromia]

If Amy Hennig and the original voice actors won't participate, it's better not to even try continuing the series.

[@Bithbd]

Simon and Michael bell are still kicking. A sequel is the fate of nosgoth so long as kain remains alive XDD

[@iFeelGlee]

The way kain says his last words is so perfectly done. The clarity amd conviction even as he fades, having finally found a choice to make without any layers of deceit to blind him or doubt to slow him, he can simply give himself up and finally undo the bindings that were cast over his entire world.

[@lf2208]

It's kind of funny how Kain does the tough talk, and then when the battle starts the Elder God lands like the first 20 hits consequently.

[@jamesroach1180]

"NO! Raziel!" and "No Raziel, this can't be the way" both got me man... who knew there was such a thin chasm between being immortal enemies, and the most bonded of friends

[@lov_eli]

Kain never considered him his enemy... the sad part is that this is probably the first time since his "death" that Raziel realized that, and saw Kain for what he was, his true and only ally against fate

[@rahjeel]

It would be epic if they make a new chapter to the series and have Raziel be one of Kain's special abilities/summons from his sword.

[@marblejester]

+Adrian Gofredo It will be melodramatic vampire/winged Raziel too.

[@SergioSource]

+Adrian Gofredo RAZIEL WOULD BE HIS STAND

[@distinctraccoon]

It'd be awesome, Raziel would give Kain the ability of devouring souls, bonding the reaver to his arm and the quality of growing wings, the ones he took off of Raziel

[@devincampbell5007]

+Fharid Valencia I always wanted him to grow those wings (if he will ever get any wings) and not those angel wings that Vanos has but i'm not sure about the bonding to his arm part and doesn't Raziel have immunity to water?

[@michaelburke7978]

We were just 1 fucking game away from wrapping up this series, and then they cancelled it halfway through production. Dark Prophecy probably would've been the best out of the whole series.

[@TheRatzor]

Yeap forever salty about that!!!

[@michaelburke7978]

@@TheRatzorSame. I'm never going to let it go.

[@PsychoticLuke]

I believe that what happened here is the turning point, the 3rd option, the coin landing on its edge, Kain has been hoping for - it's just not what it seems to be at the moment. Raziel, has successfully rewritten history with his selfless act, being conduit of ALL Guardians to EVER exist, and purified both himself and Kain through this sword. Elder God, or whatever that parasite chooses to call himself, is very afraid - and rightfully so - Because no matter how hard he grasped - this moment would (and WILL) come: his own destruction and demise, and thus Nosgoth to be free and healed. And none too soon. He can't run. And he can't hide.

[@HammettOfPuppets]

Love how they used the Blood Omen 2 boss battle music for the last fight/credits of the Legacy

[@davidhujik6078]

He went from avenging as a hero to becoming a villain god

[@SA-StoneKind]

One of the greatest of all time.

[@armagedoc66]

God.. the series was hard to understand when played seperately. But when you completed the whole series, you knew that this was one of the best storyline ever made.

[@louiemac9455]

Elder God: I spared Raziel from total dissolution! Kain: Ok H.P. Lovecraft Squidward!

[@darkangelzephyron]

8:47 never fails to get me

[@TrollJohnSmith]

that acting, the feels

[@EvilXero359]

With the remastered release of Soul Reaver 1 and 2 there's multiple languages and not just the UI but also the spoken dialogues. Hopefully if Defiance does get a remaster it too will get the same treatments as SR 1 and 2 For Kain's dialogue @ 9:48 I'd have said, Would I still have condemned Raziel to this nightmare had I have known about this horrid creature?

[@stellarkin1232]

the little twinkle in the ost that played when kain floated down made him feel like a fairy

[@gninja92]

i love the sound efffect that RAziel's spirit reaver makes when it swings. which the True Soul Reaver also makes in this fight

[@heyskank6684]

I always cry during Raziel’s monologue. It’s so shakespearean

[@binkawy]

Amy Henning is a legend

[@Hyperion-5744]

Most ironic of all, was the last gift that Raziel had given me. More powerful than the sword that now held his soul, more acute even than the vision that his sacrifice had accorded me. The first, bitter taste of that terrible illusion: hope.

[@jordanpeterson5038]

Kain has always been the most badass character

[@WillJM81280]

The elder god’s voice is fucking pimp.

[@Splub]

Beautifully crafted story, and presentation.

[@Dariusz_1.618]

Damn, Tony Jay can't resurrect himself :

[@gninja92]

A game about vampires fighting omnipotent ungrateful gods, to give mankind control over their own destiny.

[@twobearshighfiving7660]

Well that's one Daedric Prince down. Good Riddance, Hermaeus Mora.

[@teyrncousland7152]

Lmao nice reference

[@teyrncousland7152]

@known Tarsier Yeah man. I would love the option to team up with Miraak against Mora.

[@DeMoNsCryy]

isn't there though two kains now at the end of defiance??It would be interesting to see what kind of interactions they would have

[@twobearshighfiving7660]

I think there's also two raziels in the sword as well from the paradoxes in 2. Raziel himself and raziels spectral reaver which is revealed to also be a raziel.

[@chuckingreaper8654]

Blood Omen Kain and Defiance Elder Kain won’t run into each other as that would cause a rift of events. It wouldn’t even make sense for them to cross paths. If anything, Kain returns to the future/present to stop the Hylden from making a potential comeback, especially since Janos is alive again.

[@technogeek1219]

Best game I have ever played, Period, Hearing Tony Jay reprise his Role as The Elder God is an Thrilling Sensation, Best Voiceovers, Best Storyline, Best Gameplay, Raziel Had to die to fullfill his Destiny, Which was to become part of the Reaver Blade, Sad destiny, The history comes full Circle. Thank you for uploading this majestic Game.

[@ThaiZeo]

I love how mobebus's soul traveled with him to the after life.

[@xerothehedgehog7159]

reminds me father son bonding just my opinion

[@Morgru]

You're not alone here. Kain and Raziel are like father like son.

[@mesiagamer5217]

"The first bitter taste of that terrible illusion... hope..." The legacy of Kain series needs to continue in another good game.

[@Silentknight052]

excellent story man the ps2 era was the best these game needs to be resurrected

[@thegamingprozone1941]

I played the entire series today and wow what a ride!

[@Deathstarke]

Thanks! Had a lot of fun playing this again :)

[@malicant123]

I wish that we could get a final ending for this series. It wouldn't even have to be a game. I would be perfectly happy with a comic or a novel.

[@eamonndeane587]

Or an Animated Miniseries.

[@16Vagabond]

This game came out before it's time. I didn't even speak English back when I played it. No way I could appreciate it truly.

[@RetroDeathReviews666]

ok, for everyone that says "oh the story isnt finished what is wrong with the developers!!" The story was finished. It does leave the player with a few questions at the end. those "questions" are answered, but sometimes in a slightly confusing way, then making the player not understand, leading to questions.. but again, the story was finished, even the dialogue said "it's the end of your journey", because this is completing everything that had happened from the very start of the series with blood omen. Overall, this entire series was perfect with everything. It really is a masterpiece in the gaming universe and it something that should never be forgotten. Great music, atmosphere, gameplay, mechanics, and challenge, decent visuals for the time, and the absolute best story/voice acting in any game I have every played. If a new addition to the series was made, most likely they're going to transform it into a more modern basic game, and people will complain and say the classic is better. I mean, sure a new addition would be cool, but at the same time I don't want them to mess up like they do with 99% of other game reboots. but yeah, everything is completed story-wise, I don't really see why so many people are complaining that it wasn't finished and "has no closure" or "has a massive cliffhanger". The only question I still have is why the hell out of every creature, did they make the elder god a friggin squid ,_,

[@rarestiby]

+RetroDeath Reviews It isn't really finished, if it was, then why were they continuing the storyline in Legacy of Kain : Dark Prophecy which started developement right after Defiance. but was unfortunately canceled.

[@RetroDeathReviews666]

+Volanin Rares They could have added story. Just like how the original Legacy of kain game wasn't meant to have a sequel, but then they made soul reaver as a sequel. They could do the same thing by adding onto the story for defiance. Idk if im explaining it right or not but yeah, It was overall finished with a possibility for a sequel.

[@rarestiby]

+RetroDeath Reviews It's not the same as BO1. Look, there isn't even any point to go into the story, BO2 - 2002 , Defiance - 2003 , LoK:DP cancelled 2004 ? If you mean to tell that they didn't know they were going to have a sequel by the time they created Defiance, I won't believe you. Some companies have more than 5 years planned ahead, I'm sure they had planned it too.

[@RetroDeathReviews666]

nah, I mean they did intend to make a sequel. but they didn't leave it with a cliffhanger, it was concluded. maybe not entirely enough, but by what I've understood from this closing, It was finished, but the questions that the fans had that weren't understood or answered, they wanted to answer in Dark Prophecy. Its a real shame that it got cancelled though, I would have bought that game in a heartbeat. Really wish they would come back to this series instead of cancelling every damn title they tried to make after defiance, besides nosgoth.

[@losingwill8402]

+RetroDeath Reviews Uh they intended to make another title , so i think the story isn't finished tbh.

[@amitavsanyal6762]

Needs a sequel so badly!!

[@Farscryer0]

R.I.P. Tony Jay. Your work and voice will never be forgotten.

[@redseagaming7832]

My story of legacy of Kain began when I was 7 years old I watched a friend play legacy of Kain Soul Reaver I still remember the first time I tried to play it I didn't understand the controls and I watch that intro like 30 times before he finally turned it off I kept asking them to start the game over and over again because that intro was amazing. I didn't get a chance to play that game again for another 15 years after that and finally I got the PS3 download in 2014 it was still as great as I remembered what is it about old games that don't age as much? Years before I got the PS3 download of Soul Reaver I found a used copy of Soul Reaver 2 on the Shelf at movie gallery before they shut down I bought it for five bucks I loved it the dialogue the characters and I was wondering to myself why didn't they continue to make more these during the PS3 era. Then I found out this year that Amy Hennig who directed the first three Uncharted games also directed Soul Reaver 1/2 and defiance I had no idea she was the director of the game until I was in my early twenties you learn new things everyday it makes you want to support that director. Too bad this series died when it did.

[@michaelcragg6596]

Probably one off the best games of all time. All of them!

[@francoemanuelbordon9487]

8:15 me and Kain reaction

[@mancamiatipoola]

I wonder how much a new LOK game would rack up on kickstarter. I'm willing to bet hundreds of thousands, if not millions. If all LOK fans would donate at least 5 bucks, it would be enough budget to make a new game. I would certainly donate a lot more than that. I would make a prequel with vampire Raziel and his struggle against a shadowy cult of hylden bent on taking down the vampires by using deception and machinations. Raziel would defeat his enemies and hylden bosses and earn evolution points which he could spend in passive and active abilities and finally he would evolve wings toward the end of the main story gaining the ability to fly anywhere on the map, uncovering all the secret locations previously unattainable. I would make it open world, similar to Skyrim, with the main story, a ton of side quests, random events and secret areas with challenging puzzles in them to unlock new combos, abilities and so on. Just imagine a LOK game in which you can explore all of Nosgoth in an open world environment. Also, a multiplayer with vampires vs hylden, locked in combat in various game modes, just like the frescas in the Vampire Citadel. THAT would be game of the year! :)

[@kodymcbanks1]

I've wanted a game like that forever! You have some great ideas that I didn't think of as well. Love it. Make it happen!

[@yes4motivation]

Dangerosu set it up lead this. we will follow and I send u some bit coin also

[@Speed4Runs]

That sounds like standardization of LOK series. Another open world? Side quests? Mehhhh I agree something with secrets would be cool though

[@AdamMichalMarkowski]

I'm not so sure about this. While talking about his "coin dilemma" Kain was telling Raziel that he wanted to try his third option as soon as he was presented with the choice to make at the end of Blood Omen. This would indicate that he was searching for a way to "defeat destiny" this whole time and Raziel was a fitting tool

[@johngrimm7]

I think the game developers choosing to make the main antagonist/Elder god the way he is, was a slight homage to H.P Lovecraft's Cthulhu and lore. Both are squid things that ruled the universe in secrecy. Epic game and story line. That ending leaves much to be answered seeing as how the Elder god hasn't truly been defeated;only stalled for a time. We shall see if they'll make another installment.

[@kodymcbanks1]

They need to make a soul reaver prequel! Play as Raz and build your clan and get new abilities the stronger you get. Fight for territory against your brothers. Fight against them. Not to the death but to settle disputes. Tame humans to be your slaves.

[@Proletarius87]

Hylden Wars, Sarafan Crusades etc.

[@Rojaniel]

I was always deeply unsatisfied at the ending to this game. I still am. I still believe a sequel should happen. Others disagree, but I still think there's a way it could happen.

[@virgogaming6488]

It's been too long since then and these games aren't that popular.

[@cdshadow]

What a fantastically written story

[@NeoDMC]

Where the hell is my Blood Omen 3.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

You have to wonder where the story would go from here. The original problem started well before Kain's birth. I would think any real solution, were it to exist, would exist far in the past - perhaps in the origin of the Elder God. It's also never really addressed how much link Kain has to the pillars. As he hops into the past where other guardians exist, or into the future such that there might be a period of time that he didn't live through, where there was no guardian of the balance pillar. So, should Kain go into the past and ally with the Hylden before their fall - before their fight with the original vampires? Also have to wonder if the Elder God gains knowledge from the souls he eats. If Kain executed a long plan over time, would the people who served him inadvertently become spies that reveal all his actions to the Elder God?

[@CloudStrifeZX]

after watching the horrible Dead sun game i needed to watch a real LOK game

[@PetarBladeStrok]

CloudStrifeZX same here hahaha

[@RPDGuy]

Epic end. This game rulezz

[@critcialminxs]

love this game still hold out for next chapter of this story, left such a cliffhanger T_T still hold out on hope

[@Deathstarke]

We're all hoping together man :)

[@Deathstarke]

Cheers, it's my favorite game series :)

[@chadpope4365]

There was talks about bringing this game to hd

[@Deathstarke]

Praying

[@fireballs7346]

Its dead jim 👀

[@sergejdoll611]

7:40 why does that picture looks like kain's vampiric clan emblem?

[@sergejdoll611]

@dalmurja people already claimed thats a bastardierest Sign of the sarafan

[@JorgePereira-ne6ie]

Still waiting the next game after 16 years, though it will never come

[@BlackroadYT]

I think that is a perfect ending point even if it was not necessarily meant to be the end. The knowledge that the elder god is a false one and can be defied is a good payoff and let's be honest there is no scenario where a final boss battle that kills that thing can be anything but disappointing in execution, how would you make that? Destroy his heart? Doesn't sound very interesting to play

[@chcidalmatina]

I'm sure though there are many limitations to Kain's vision powers, because he cannot seethe Elder, he knows nothing about the return of the Hylden until the Defiance I think. He knows that he himself and Raziel are important and here comes the bromance :-D.

[@carloscalleros5587]

I hope they make another one for the next gen consoles , maybe even a remastered version . Great game

[@corruptgunslinger]

So what, Elder God wanted the Hylden back? It's been a looooong time since I recounted Legacy of Kain, though it is my all time favorite #1 story in video games ever. I just don't remember understanding what the Elder God's goal was, or what the point of attacking an eternal being was.

[@BlackInMind5]

Well, it's a long, contrived story. The Elder God is just one of the players, maybe the most important one, but still just one of them...he did'n want the Hylden back, he just wanted the vampires gone...The Vampires are potential immortal and they do not feed his precious Wheel.

[@DarknessTheHedgefox]

Ion's got it pretty spot on, As Raziel said earlier on in Defiance, The Elder God is essentially a Voracious Parasite. If it can't feed his wheel, he'll do all he can to wipe it from existence.

[@nothri]

Aww your skipped it! “Your words are heartening. For you would not FEAR us unless we could truly do you harm!” “NO! You are nothing!” “This is the end. The final turn of your wheel”

[@samanthapatrick4345]

Hopefully they'll remaster Legacy of Kain Defiance next and Blood Omen and Blood Omen 2

[@chcidalmatina]

He has free will only after he was casted there, remember, he's the only one who can see Elder God, the only reason for all the suffering. I think that Kain with strange skin colour (no the clear white one but the one who is seen in the whole Soul Reaver series) can see the future and the past. When he saves Raziel from the sword it is obvious, so he must have known that Raziel would come back. I think that this Kain is as strange anomaly as wraith Raziel is, they're out of time I would say.

[@Dzifas]

It's really no enough just have a final game made, but it has to be made right as well. The one thing that worries me is that when they decide to make, who is gonna write the end story? Amy Hennig was the brilliant mind behind all the LOK series, if she is nowhere even near the production of the last title, I'd rather leave the series without an ending at all.

[@eamonndeane587]

Chris Avellone would be a good Alternative if given the chance.

[@domina7909]

Love how a pissed off Raziel is just looming behind dude....

[@zacharythomas2317]

It's gonna make you wonder if there ever gonna finish the legacy of Kain games

[@rotcsa9842]

At the SR2 : What happend to Wiliams Soul Reaver Blade after Raziel has reforged it from his own soul, then sticked it to Wiliams tomb, when refused the pull of the history to kill Kain? Because it seems, Kain has the other blade, what Janus shown to Raziel, and that blade is the blood sucker reaver.

[@serioushamster]

One of the best games ever. But I have a question lore-wise. What was the Elder God's plan exactly? He didn't like the vampires after the Hylden cursed them because they wouldn't die and so couldn't feed his Wheel of Fate.Doesn't he know that if the vampires die the pillars will eventually crumble and the Hylden(who reject the Elder God by staying immortal) will return and,using the body of Janos, they will use The Mass in The Device to kill all the humans and vampire remanents.Its seems like the Elder God would have been better off not being greedy and just letting stuff play out.

[@patrick-cw5px]

The elder gods plan was to prevent raziel from entering the sword and keeping raziel imprisoned in the spectral realm for eternety plus the elder god eradicated all of the ancient vampires. and kain was the one who brought the hylden since he refused the sacrafice and destroyed the pillars.

[@serioushamster]

But that's my point. If Kain did, in fact, sacrifice himself,it would have meant the end of the entire vampire species.It was explained in Defiance how without vampire guardians the pillars would eventually decay and crumble. I guess Mobies does say that the Hydlen were a minor inconvenience..I dont think him and elder god thought that far.

[@victorescobar7437]

The point where kain began to gain hope is the point in which the fans had their hopes highest.

[@chcidalmatina]

Yes, it goes then to the BO2, where the main character is the new Kain. I think he didn't save Ariel (and save the pillars) 'cause he knew it was more to the whole problem than just the pillars. In the cutscene Corruption of Pillars he's saying to Raziel that he sees all the story and he wants to rewrite the ending. He probably knew that they were expected to fight and one of them must die but he wanted to change that, get rid of the one who wrote it this way (The Elder). The Bromance again! :-D

[@casedistorted]

I absolutely love that they used the same voice actors throughout all 5 of the games for the most part. It feels like this was one long winding story weaving its tale. There are very few game series that went through 5 different games and kept on telling the story. I love how the fight starts Kain just immediately gets b*tch slapped. Thanks for showing the tomes at the end, i forgot they added all that cool stuff to the game.

[@eamonndeane587]

The Legacy of Kain series made Raziel my All time Favourite Role from Michael Bell.

[@ouroboros5793]

Kain would have to go back in time again... at least to the era that Raziel found himself in at the beginning of SR2 (Since we don't know if he can actually go back as far as the Ancient Vampire vs. Holden era Only then would he be able to stop Nosgoth from falling to ruin as it is fated to do so. But... Would Kain even be able to do so on his own, without Raziel? Or would he just be following what fate and time have already laid out... And would that be in Nosgoth's best interest or The Elder God's. So many unanswered questions left for such an incredible franchise.

[@WillJM81280]

Moebius goes out of the frying pan and into the oven.

[@FlipTheAngryAsian]

so how did kain survive without his heart?

[@Deathstarke]

"I always was considered heartless." - Kain so yeah.. lol

[@XenogearSolid]

That was never really his heart. Mortanius brought Kain back from the dead using the heart of darkness (the heart of Janos). Him surviving is a paradox created in that being the scion of balance he isn't meant to die. Unless it's by the reaver due to both its power and ability to cause paradoxes. Which is why in attempt to stop Kain a new (false) destiny was manipulated into being, where Raziel would kill Kain with the reaver. And as shown in Soul Reaver 2, that never happened.

[@Brucifer2]

I JUST NOW noticed that the mural depicting the scion of balance vampire is Kain's empire symbol.

[@lalas3590]

+jrupert1 Since the answer has been left up to open debate (as it hasn't been explained in the game, and LoK has been discontinued for 11 years) , my guess is that the reason Kain didn't die is because Raziel ripped Kain's heart and banished him in the demon dimension ,supposedly, a dimension that is not governed by 'earthly laws' (for example the reason the Hylden became immortal was because they were banished into that dimension). And given the fact that: 1)Raziel was a main character in LoK series. 2)His main feature was that he could switch between material and spectral planes This would probably mean that in the canceled followup to Defiance (named Dark Prophecy), Kain would supposedly have been able to switch between the material plane and the demon dimension (similarly to Raziel).

[@Brucifer2]

La Las The Hylden were always immortal, thats why they were attacked and banished in the first place. You are partially correct about the Dark Prophecy, Kain would be in both Demon and Material planes, however its because you were supposed to play as Young Kain as he conquered the world and Older Kain as he goes in the Demon Plane. As for why he still was able to live, I just figured it was due to the fact Kain's death lead to breaking his true fate when the two Reavers started to merge with his fight with Raziel. Could be alot of things considering what Kain said in SR2 "When a paradox is formed it is the irritant that is removed" Kain and Raziel werent the ones forming the paradox, Mobeus was supposed to be killed after Vorador's execution, but instead was killed at the temple, thats how Vorador is alive in BO2, he wasnt at the execution to keep him at bay, but thats when young kain was destined to kill him to revive the pillars, it formed a paradox, so Kain was needed to see this irritant delt with. As to how fate did this, it could be your theory of the Demon Plane or it could simply be because he had the Soul Reaver, but as to WHY it happened, it was to remove Mobeus and presumably Elder God.

[@Kimix191]

By giving away and sacrificing to the sword , Raziel gives Kain everything (and hope) . Kain by killing the One imparts free will. A fitting end for a great series

[@Kujakuseki01]

Why the random cut after the "your words are heartening" line.

[@張朝翔-q4u]

The Moebius was killed twice by Kain in this age🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ventusvex7685]

someone should remake blood omen and LOK I really like kain and razhiel, I like the story aswell

[@Deathstarke]

Yes I will, that's what the gaming side of my channel is about!

[@nightrunner51]

I know this videos is a few years old but does anyone know the song that starts at 17:00 I have spent so long looking for it

[@Deathstarke]

I found it on a site where it's called End Credits, but it's mixed together with the battle theme :/