Soul Reaver Alpha - Silenced Cathedral

[@DonGeritch]

man, it would be cool to show this to Amy Hennig and see if she can recall what were their plans for some of this stuff found only in alpha builds..

[@heart3460]

She's free now due to Naughty Dog, maybe she's be willing to do that.

[@DonGeritch]

@@heart3460 she works in Skydance now, as far as I know, something to do with VR I think

[@emiliosalazar9962]

I remember playing this game in the early 2000's and thinking that those membranes in the Zephon area looked like closed off passages to deleted areas of the game, turns out there wasn't much behind them.

[@Darkness2179]

This is amazing content. The original story of Soul Reaver has always eluded me.

[@renatoadolfocuadroszamallo7223]

Thanks for uploading this Raina, you're the boss. I've been following your channels for years and all your content is really high quality, Soul Reaver 4 ever

[@RainaAudron]

Thank you for staying with my channel for so many years, much appreciated! ;)

[@frontiercat8568]

* sips coffee while watching some breakfast Soul Reaver *

[@jesternario]

This series always made me think. All of Raziel's brothers (save for Dumah, who has been a staked corpse for an eon) changed horribly. It makes me wonder what Raziel would've been if he had been allowed to continue and change beyond.

[@RainaAudron]

Daniel Cabuco recently drew a devolved Raziel on his Patreon 😉

[@elena_tapean]

​@@RainaAudronSorry, Raina. I can't find it.

[@RainaAudron]

@@elena_tapean It was not made public, sorry! You only received the drawing if you were a member.

[@elena_tapean]

​@@RainaAudron Oh, so that's why.

[@moralesnery]

Life seems to be draining faster when in material realm in the earlier builds. This would've made the game harder. Thank you!

[@RainaAudron]

It looks like they were still adjusting several things... It definitely makes the game harder!

[@Glaiceana]

Lmao, casually just picks up the human's cross bow and starts hitting Sluagh with it! Wish we could pick those up and use them properly to shoot, that would have been really cool!

[@Azathoth4444]

I can hear rahab's boss music in zephon's alpha music.

[@lisi03822]

this is wonderful man!! thank you a bunch for uploading all this cut content from the final game :D but the lack of ilumination on the prototipes makes the game really hard to play ^^

[@TheRealBDouble]

The music from this area is my favorite

[@MihaiOprean]

awesome!

[@Lyendith]

14:40 I always wondered what was on the right side of this branching path. The answer was apparently "squat". Oh well. XD Though I do wonder what that upward slope at 15:00 was for…

[@RainaAudron]

The one at 15:00 is a sounding pipe, related to the end of the game where Raziel was supposed to open all of them.

[@thesquisheee]

Really dark, very hard to see stuff but still very cool. Such a shame the series never got finished.

[@RainaAudron]

Levels in spectral are basically pitch black!

[@thesquisheee]

@@RainaAudron definitely aren't that dark on release.

[@RainaAudron]

@@thesquisheee Yes, they have proper textures and most areas have been lit up.

[@thesquisheee]

@@RainaAudron ah that makes sense I guess. What would be the chances of someone stitching all this alpha stuff together somehow and ultimately creating a finished version of the original game? That would be an amazing thing to see. If I knew the first thing about game coding and stuff I'd give it a go but I think it's a bit late for me to learn something so complex.

[@RainaAudron]

@@thesquisheee TLW tools might make such thing possible at some point, we shall see :)

[@keithmyers3027]

It's so weird that the pinnacle was not included in the remaster.

[@Azathoth4444]

Rahab's area is the shortest.

[@luizenidog5016]

Catching up with ya

[@laharl2k]

This sure is alpha. So glitchy!

[@FSBsec]

Good job

[@nohulse]

I wonder why they even bothered to cover up that branching path if it just leads around the fan room to the same area? I could ask that about many areas they covered up.

[@RainaAudron]

I guess to save on polygon count.

[@wareforcoin5780]

7:03 Mood

[@jamesriver3745]

Can you only take the vampire hunters weapons in the alpha? I thought I remember being able to use the decorative staff from the worshippers, but I've never seen somebody pick up that crossbow looking thing! Is it only in the alpha or do you have to kill them a certain way? .

[@RainaAudron]

They completely disabled picking up weapons from the humans in the retail version, sadly.

[@TiTiguyM]

Can we use crossbow in an original game?

[@bazlmoon]

Not in the retail releases. They could still be used in some of the earlier betas but they will disappear in later betas and retail versions. They could only be used as melee weapons anyway.

[@Username-ng8jy]

@@bazlmoon I wonder if I had an early version because when I was a kid I remember being able to pick them up. And when I got an emulated ps1 version the weapons would disappear and couldn’t pick up