Soul Reaver 1 - Raziel meets Melchiah

Raziel's encounter with his brother Melchiah in Soul Reaver 1.

[@POLE7645]

Hard to believe that Malchiah was also voiced by Michael Bell (Raziel).

[@animechic420]

I remember getting to Melchiah's part. Before the fight started I paused the game, left my apartment, want downstairs to my friend place and asked him to help me defeat this dude. He gave me the "do it yourself" look and closed the door in my face. Sigh, good times....

[@riki4404]

LMAO

[@Zaheer_Zafar_Zawhereeveryouare]

Anyone think that Melchiah knew more than we are letting on? He knew that Kain would not risk everything on Raziel's wings but instead started a new chain in fate. Melchiah ALSO knew that Raziel was going to be the last of his brothers to die. Which he most certainly was. If Raziel asked better questions we might have been able to delve deep into what Melchiah really knows.

[@arjunarman5814]

You make good points, it might because of how inferior everyone else considered him, he could get away with knowing more than his brothers. Melchiah is a tragic figure all the same.

[@kiddfaz]

You’re digging a little to deep into Melchiah. When he said the last to die, he was referring to when Raziel was put to death. And the inheritance comment was referring to Kain destroying Raziel’s clan because they may have rose against Kain after learning he had Raziel put to do death. That’s why he called it a upstart inheritance. You have to remember Kain cared little for Melchiah compared to his other brothers

[@MaskedGuyCh]

I'm pretty sure that when he said "You are the last to die" he was referring to Raziel's clan, which he was just asked about by Raziel himself. It makes more sense considering the context.

[@johntrains1317]

And apparently he has access to the astral realm which adds more evidence to him most likely knowing more he seems

[@crimsondynamo615]

@@kiddfaz turns out it wasn’t Kain who ordered the extermination of the Razielim, instead it was Turel. Turel seeing an advantage with the “death” of Raziel, sent the Turelim to exterminate the Razielim to gain territory and power, not even on the orders of Kain, but his own volition. Seems there’s no loyalty even in family.

[@thomasmorato5098]

"Answer me 'Little' brother, or I will BEAT an answer from your horrid lips!"

[@sankofax8082]

Shakespearean burn

[@LuccianoBartolini]

3:00 FINISH HIM 3:30 Raziel wins... Fatality... Now in all seriousness, this was the first boss in my gaming life that I couldn't beat with brawn and I had to use my brain to defeat... this game was one of the good things from my childhood.

[@Girf1847]

One of the greatest games ever made.

[@Nintendoman01]

Yep. From what I've read, Melchiah had to stitch the bodies of his victims into his own to maintain his body. As Raziel stated earlier, Melchiah was the weakest of the vampires that Kain raised, so despite his immortality, his body couldn't sustain its own flesh.

[@Jodie842]

I swear, when that thing crawled out of the shadows for the first time, it scared me shitless.

[@NejiCadiz]

Malchiah scared me when I was a child T___T

[@AlexandruMitu]

old times, miss them my mom helped me to defeat Malchiah :D

[@charlesfarmer5250]

Dude best mom you got

[@denisibriks9768]

I was playing this game with my mom and dad .i stil play legacy of kain only now i am playing it alone best game ever, ps1 rocks

[@perplexingperceptions8888]

@@denisibriks9768 PS1 is my all time favorite gaming console.

[@bawokoroma]

Raziel menacingly - "answer me ~little brother~ or I will BEAT an answer from your horrid lips". The voice acting in this is phenominal, video games lack this kind of quality now-a-days.

[@Stylishfever]

@234Assassin Well it was "I'm released" He was glad to to be released from his "revolting" form. A unique parallel to Raziel, who too found his new form to be horrid, but unlike Melchiah, he could NOT escape from it.

[@Joudas]

Raziel was raised by Kain first - making them all his little brothers. :)

[@sonicguyver7445]

4:08 The Elder's line there always makes me think of how the Tallests described G.I.R. in Invader Zim. "Oh he's not stupid. He's ADVANCED."

[@EPR89]

When I played this game I had the German version. Now don't get me wrong, the original is amazing, but the German Melchiah is just... One of the best supporting characters I have ever heard. But Melchiah is brilliant anyway. He really shows you what vampires in this world are all about. Deranged abominations that have lost all direction. One of the greatest first bosses I have ever played against. He really introduces you to the game, even more than your first encounters with the other creatures

[@jeraigumo]

It never gets old.

[@serineprotease]

man i played this game sooo much when i was in high school. i still have it and havent touched it in years. i think im gonna go play it now.

[@Joudas]

Not in Janos' case! He spent hundreds of years dead, between when Sarafan Raziel tore out his heart, and 'real' Raziel put it back in. So time since birth is in his case much longer then total time spent alive. :) Same thing with Raziel - he was killed (by himself...) and spent hundreds of years dead before Kain resurrected him.

[@magnawiz]

Sweet video! Thanks for uploading! When I first played this game I felt pretty bad for Melchiah being crushed by his brother like that.

[@sheemobile]

I think out of all the brothers, Melchiah suffered the worst evolution

[@theParrotForeign]

"Am I reduced to this... a ghoul a fratriside!" ha ha

[@Joudas]

If you'll take a look through the videos here, each of the many, many people who submitted the exact same or similar criticism got the same response. And each who does in the future will, too. Sorry if it wasn't meant that way - but you've got to understand how much I get that.

[@zachw1014]

i do too. i still play it even though I beat it like 9 times. a great story!

[@jamesvivian2855]

I honestly felt kind of bad for Melchiah. When you kill him he sounds relieved and he straight up says “I am released”. He really got the raw deal as far as the children of Kain go.

[@perplexingperceptions8888]

Same.

[@animechic420]

Mans didn’t wanna go on living in that grotesque husk of his. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@Joudas]

@Shinchibi Yes! He blends!

[@bobo577]

For those who don't know why Melchiah is missing his legs, He recieved the pourest portion of Kain's gift when he was revived from his Sarafan tomb. So he looked frail even though he was immortal.

[@Teadermin]

Man... I was so freaking disappointed that Raziel's clan was extinct.

[@Joudas]

Human Raziel was alive a long time before Kain, but spent a few hundred years dead before Kain raised him - so I suppose it depends whether you're looking at his age as the amount of time since his (human) birth, or the amount of time he spent alive.

[@basher22234]

i really love this game! i remember when i first played it! i was freaking scared

[@J34xalpha_KING]

This is every bit terrifying as I remember. Imagine running into that. Nightmare Fuel!!

[@LegionDaTiger]

OMG I remember playing this part. It scared me so bad i had my dad play the rest of the game for me. and that was about 11 years ago. now im 15.

[@mohanlee2492]

You are now 23

[@elena_tapean]

Imagine seeing Melchiah redone by a Resident Evil art director. He would be horrid to look at!

[@Joudas]

Nope, PC version. In hindsight, PS version running through an emulator would have been a more effective way to get the videos, but I didn't own the PS version at the time, so... no dice. Sorry!

[@dakota754]

He's melchiah not mAlchiah. Love the cutscene though. Incredible voice acting.

[@pararazeze]

Possibly the best kill in the entire game. All the others seemed kinda lame and uninspired before this one. It's simply brutal.

[@Alkenphel]

i think its so bad ass how raziel is super small compared to his brothers, and yet yet he still own the hell out of all of them. Raziel = bad ass emenies = pwned

[@Joudas]

The corruption that Nupraptor inflicted upon all members of the circle upon discovering Ariel dead spread to all of Kain's "children" when he made them, and eventually caused their devolution.

[@3rchoas]

more so, his symbol is all over the place, since Melchiah calls him brother as well, it gives out more of a hint.

[@BrownieCin]

To make this even creepier, we should all keep in mind that Melchiah and his offspring are so fucked up that they have to steal body parts and skin off of corpses in nearby graveyards JUST to keep themselves intact. What made this battle truly scary for me was how safe I THOUGHT I was in the Spectral Realm when I got whooped. Still scares the crap out of me.

[@MrDumdumkilla]

I miss watching my big bro play this on ps1

[@RedeemerBlade]

I find it strange that Melchiah was still able to talk after his whole body was turned into ground beef.

[@soulreaverable]

RedeemerBlade I find it strange Raziel is still able to talk after his whole lower jaw was dissolved away.

[@Owner624]

No Raziel probably relaized it was melchiah because Melchiah asked if he didn't recognise and also called him Brother. Plus he was in Melchiah's territory.

[@Metheril]

how can he still talk after that lol

[@VipericVampire]

Poor Melchiah, I felt sorry for him. =(

[@supereldinho]

Catch him if you can, slowpoke!

[@POLE7645]

It originally came out on PS1 and then ported to PC and Dreamcast.

[@fvgbe342]

Most video games lack this kind of quality voicework even in soul reaver's day.

[@thedeeperdungeons]

yeah!

[@Joudas]

@SoulRippster I fail to see how this is relevant. He could have been alive for a bazillion years before he was killed - spent 10 minutes dead - and been resurrected again, then lived another bazillion years. His "time since birth" is still 10 minutes longer than his "time alive". If the amount of time he spent dead is greater than zero (which it is), this is true.

[@Lonewolfpackleader]

It took me ages to figure out that you had to close those gates on him, but when I did I won in a couple of minutes

[@neonyoneo]

@Msimjustawatcher He may have an ugly body, but Melchiah has a beautiful soul! This is just a lesson in saying that life is not all about looks. XD

[@coreybusby]

I figured out somthing yesterday. We all know that the heart of darkness was used by mortanias to reanimate Kain, but Raziel ripped it out of Janous Ordrin, many years before dosn't that make Raziel older than Kain. (just a thought.)

[@capitanspoiler7393]

after all these years i still have no idea why Melchiah had a giant fucking blender on his ceiling...

[@RomanFanatic]

I love the LoK series and I alway thought this ending was the best.

[@overcast55]

i agree i was 6 and i had a playstation1 when i played the game and i never got to malchiah and i never know malchiah could go to the spectral realm and my brother and i agree it would be awesome if kain and raziel was on soul calibur 4

[@Higurashi86]

@234Assassin yes he did

[@magnawiz]

poor melchiah. He really thought he was ugly. For good reason too lol

[@Buraz93]

raziel"s steps are so anoying

[@M1ndz]

sweet memorys :D

[@MollyiMoons]

Oh, I remember how alone I passed it almost 6 years ago: (

[@zachw1014]

FUCK YEAH!!!

[@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ]

Do you not recognise me brother? Me: have you seen your face into a mirror lately? Not even Kain could recognise you and he isn't the best in the extreme make overs...

[@crimsondynamo615]

Hell it’s not even his original face anymore, considering Melchiah’s curse his face is just sewn together pieces of multiple skin

[@FireSiokenStudios]

the clan sanctuary is over by where you first start, the large building by the abyss in other words

[@Shinchibi]

Will He Blend? That is the question.

[@BrownieCin]

Yup. POLE7645 is right. It came out for the PS1 (or in my case the original PSX) before the other systems. I've never played SR1 on anything else besides the PS1.

[@aayla666]

i love this fight

[@SoulRippster]

@Joudas Are you serious... Janos is an Ancient... who can tell how many centuries he was alive before he was killed? At least a thousands plus years, considering Vorador... and besides between his death and ressurection "only" 500 years passed...

[@TheSeventhSin7]

@wisnisk me too but when I was a kid zephon scared me more

[@Darkstar263]

Quite possibly one of the most gruesome deaths I've seen in a game. To be turned into mincemeat in a grinder like that. All I can say to that is FUCKING OUCH!!!

[@ChiefPoopypants]

Out of all the games, this is still my favorite boss fight (probably because it's the first boss, but whatever). The form of Melchiah, the dialogue, the setting, the way you have to kill him. It's all perfect.

[@tobs001]

iknow. He might be easy to beat gameplay-wise but man is he unsettling.

[@brassmonkey84]

the first time i played this game, melchiah shocked me so bad. really creepy

[@POLE7645]

There is an unofficial patch on the "Lost Worlds" website.

[@SlyTribal]

I hate the way in the intro, when Raziel wakes up infront of the elder god, his wings touch, even drag on the ground.. Yet ingame, they are so short

[@swordgod]

maybe because you were so into the game you didnt care to notice! lol.

[@uninvited1]

@NejiCadiz Me too :S I used to get terrified when he stopped chasing you and you had to go find him and lure him back to a gate

[@Nintendoman01]

And as a result, they all became ugly, ravenous mutants. But why would it not affect Kain like that, too? After all this time, he looks exactly the same as in the intro.

[@Ivanawich]

it's one of the best PS1 Games^^

[@Joudas]

@DasFunkwagen Yep - typo on my part. :)

[@9Godslayer]

This game is so much better then 2.

[@Slaytounge]

i was like 9 when i played this. and i never noticed that their lips didtn move when they talked, its just weird i dint noticed taht.

[@DasFunkwagen]

@Joudas thanks for correcting! :D

[@DaHell99]

you have to admit, soul reaver is very original BTW i forgot the story of this game for years, how was raziel's brothers changed into disfigured creatures?

[@megatonkick0079]

Malchiah go squish

[@basher22234]

This Part took me so long to beat!

[@234Assassin]

did anyone else hear at 3:30 when Melchiah died he said "I'm release!" Or was I the only one???

[@charlesfarmer5250]

Same here

[@maaaatt]

You were both the only one.

[@danteslasher]

It's his sooooooooooooul

[@DeathMessenger1988]

I think you mean KAIN and Melchiah!

[@GreenEyesGian]

This Malchiah reminds me of Turel in SR Defiance

[@BrownieCin]

I also played it on the PSX (aka 1st generation Playstation). I guess some people just need to seriously do their research before they jump into something they're not prepared for... :/

[@statelessmars]

Anyone else thinks the boss sounds like yoda?

[@pignoise55]

I play this game in Spanish, and this game is excelent¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[@RomanFanatic]

Just think, what if this scene was on the PS2?

[@Strakoniii]

lol! can you see the faces on his body

[@MostazalsLord]

@dskull2000 Isnt it?Well,which one is the answer then?Cuz im pretty sure mine is right(though i guess Malchiah is this horrible because of his natural decay,since he was the lesser of the brothers)

[@goonagun]

yeah...they didnt actually respect sequel thing. Im not quite sure...but i think this is the order:LoK Blood Omen Lok Soul Reaver Lok Blood Omen 2 Lok Soul Reaver 2 Lok Defiance

[@DaHell99]

and what was raziel's gift supposed to be?

[@03reayc]

@MiniMarcify they evolved, or devolved.

[@squall600]

they should make a remake for blood omen 1 and soul reaver 1 for ps3/360

[@zachw1014]

damn, i didn't remember how fucked up he looked since i played this years ago. i might start playing it again!