The LONG LOST Smokestack Level and Turel Boss Fight - Soul Reaver Remastered Lost Levels

[@deltaomega2136]

Raziel kills his other brothers with impalement, fire and sunlight. Killing Turel with water would have completed the set, as those are the four weaknesses Raziel mentions back at the start of the game.

[@Kain9407]

He didn't kill any of his brothers by impaling them. He ground Melchiah up with his machine.

[@ContactFault]

@@Kain9407melciah actually survives being impaled twice through the gates lol.

[@Real_DMraider]

But pretty similar though

[@Kain9407]

@@Real_DMraider Not at all really...

[@Real_DMraider]

@@Kain9407 being spiked to death by a machine or impaled by a spear? Ok

[@PMO.DB98]

Turels clan are by far the biggest vampires in this game

[@fluffygargos7066]

Wow, after all these years it's finally somewhat playable, insane

[@federicobarreri7639]

And now someone started a Petition to get these Lost Levels reintegrated into the game!

[@Serandi1987]

Yes as DLC! would be so nice!

[@jblasutavario9549]

0:55 That awkward moment you discover the floor is not lava 😂😂😂

[@opqrrg]

Actually it is.....originally the lava was supposed to damage Reziel......

[@jblasutavario9549]

@opqrrg 'Originally', but not here...

[@samflood5631]

I wonder how Turel would have looked in the Remastered Graphics.

[@valentinozangobbo]

WOW, developers call-out to Ben Lincoln is crazy! This man is a legend and he really dedicated himself to finding so many mysteries of the series... His work really inspired many of us at the time. That show devs knew what they were doing with this project and this is a real crown for Ben's commitment, bravo!

[@FreqyBiker]

Oh wow, "Blincoln", not thought about that guy for ages. I remember him from the Eidos Forums

[@carolinamejia4097]

8:06.. I’m flabbergasted. I surprise new reaver color is lime green! Look cool reaver! 🤯🤯🤯

[@HorusHeresy1982]

It's the Spectral Reaver. That was always green.

[@gabrielcaro]

I understand why they cut it, that doesn’t make this any less tragic. Really wish we could’ve seen Turrel in the game propper

[@ChernabogNosgoth]

Lack of time was the only reason for the cut. ;)

[@TheUnlife]

Isn't he a boss in 2 or defiance?

[@vergil9545]

@@TheUnlifeIn defiance, yes. It's cool to finally see this cut content from the game though. That gives an idea of what it would have looked like. And from what i see it was for the best. Turel's appearance is way better than this in defiance in my opinion.

[@Viichan777]

They cut it because of time constraints, not because it didn't work. I ironically find all the cut levels better designed than some of the released ones, but they also went through quite a few changes and think most of their prototype versions were superior.

[@joshallenera4897]

Turel boss battle in LOK defiance was worth the wait. This one not so impressive to me

[@MegaYoYo]

I agree. Turel also has more importance to the story in Defiance

[@opqrrg]

I realy like Turel in Defiance.... But I'm still too curious to see the full battle in SR1.....

[@HorusHeresy1982]

It's so weird hearing it spoken instead of reading it. I can't believe tehy dug this up after all this time. You know, I'm glad they never finished SR1. It would have had you kill Kain. No SR2 or Defiance.

[@Viichan777]

@HorusHeresy1982 not actually true, Amy Hening stated in an interview for soul reaver 2 that the original ending would've still led to a sequel, Raziel was going to use the chronoplast after realizing nothing had changed. Soul reaver 1 not finishing led to alot of consequences too, such as soul reaver 2 being dramatically cut down to not run into the same issue 1 did (and yet it still had half its game cut as well), and forced them to incorporate all the cut content across 2 sequels instead of new ideas.

[@QuachilUttaus_D]

The original Blood Omen had 2 endings: Accept or Refuse the sacrifice, only one leads to Soul Reaver, the other meh, They could... with a little work... incorporate the 'lost levels' into Soul Reaver and give the game two endings. The one we know where Raziel chases Kain up and down the time stream, and the other where he beats Kain in his moutain retreat and proceeds on to the top of the silenced cathedral to use the weapon to end all vampires. Well we can all dream 😔

[@TheAlmightyDale]

In regards to the Turel fight being unable to actually end maybe one day we'll see modders add some finishing touches to these lost levels. However I'm not sure how easy it is to mod these remasters so could be nightmare for all I know.

[@Viichan777]

The thing is, the animations and the room change were made for the water in the February prototype. What it looks like to me is that crystal gave access to the march prototype only (hence why the sound forge isn't even started yet) and basically only allowed what they wanted you to see, they even cut down the turel fight dialogue. So the best way to mod it is to somehow pull the February build data off and use it to restore the end of the fight and then just make the death animation from scratch.

[@TheAlmightyDale]

@@Viichan777 Would be interesting to see what could be done to make these levels as complete as they can get. The lost levels put me in mind of Resident Evil 1.5 where fans are reconstructing the prototype of RE2.

[@opqrrg]

I realy hope so...... And the fact that Raina Audron and Ben Lincoln are part of this remaster gives me hope that in the future we will have a more complete version of these deleted levels....

[@TheAlmightyDale]

@@opqrrg Yeah I really hope so too! Would be awesome to see that.

[@ayoubmorjane7722]

4:45 i think raziel must use the possession ability (removed) to control the the turelhim and use tge switch, the corpse possession ability was later introduced in defiance

[@vegitogtx9600]

I would like to see Original Kain's final battle, where Raziel would obsorved Kain's soul with the reaver, and Ariel's soul too.

[@Ch1ll4Kill3r]

Ariel's soul and the others guardians of the pilars were taken in the legacy of Kain Defiance

[@vegitogtx9600]

@@Ch1ll4Kill3r There was an original idea about to make Raziel absorve Kain's soul and destroy every vampire in Nosgoth using some kind of device in the Cathedral.

[@KeithMyers2022]

@@vegitogtx9600 He would've literally ran to the cathedral from a roof access at the retreat. turning on each of the sounding pipes. and obliterating every vampire in nosgoth

[@Viichan777]

​@vegitogtx9600 the early Jan and feb prototypes actually have all the sounding pipes, only 2 survive in the released game (the pipes with the magic power up). The circular room with the gust fan that has one side webbed off had another pipe (hence why they webbed it up). Each pipe had cobwebs in them, so I guess the original idea was that you systematically cleaned each pipe to sound, then had to fight a multi tier boss battle with the lieutenants of each clan. Plans changed though to just kains mountain retreat leading you to the fight, than again to just being a cutscene before being completely cut.

[@LuisCruz-rv9yo]

It would have been fun to have to different levels ending differently how it would have been. But alas, only one.

[@wittytech7288]

Time for a remake with what the original story should have been.

[@soccergirld]

amen to that!

[@soccergirld]

i spend hours/days trying to find Turel in te first game, only to dicsover he has been cut out.....

[@opqrrg]

Actually I'm happy with how things went (even if the saga never had an ending).... and I also like the version of Turel in defiance. But I would be very curious to see the complete cut levels with all the battles and cut scenes.....

[@DavidKent94]

I do think it's interesting Raziel, based on the dialogue, was willing to try and spare Turel, despite him having no sympathy for Dumah being one of the ones throwing him into the lake of the death. I'm guessing by this point, he was getting tired of cutting down his brothers, or possibly had a lot more respect for Turel than he did with the others.

[@mushroomhead3619]

Didn’t he get trapped in that pit under that cathedral by Mortanius and those cultists?

[@MegaYoYo]

You are correct. This shows what was supposed to be in the original soul reaver but was cut

[@stibenyluisoficial0301]

Hubiera estado chévere que terminaran este nivel, incluso si fuera solo como una pequeña demo o capítulo aislado

[@Viichan777]

This isnt the whole thing, the door above the entrance to the resevoir can open, leading to the third floor, and eventually to the locked fan switches. Dev mode can access the top as well and you can see it was finished besides textures, as for the flooding, it actually floods from the top of the bowl in the room you start in, you can see that in the prototypes we have.

[@MegaYoYo]

Damn. Is it accesible in the remaster or do I have to do it through emulation?

[@Viichan777]

@MegaYoYo emulation for the rest, hidden palace has the prototype roms, the February 16th build has quite a bit to look at, and had the most complete look at the cut areas, the April build has the finished elemental reavers. The January build is also quite interesting, but is very buggy, it had some dramatic changes, like the dam being open in the drowned abbey and leading to the river outside with the ship. As far as the dev mode, if you have the pc version, just put -dev in the launch options, both right side shoulder buttons and forward let you fly, what would be square and circle together access the debug mode, mind you it crashes alot. It can be used in the main games as well.

[@MegaYoYo]

@@Viichan777 Jesus this information, to me, is a treasure trove. Are you part of the dev team thats recreating this or just an avid follower?

[@Viichan777]

@MegaYoYo avid follower, this was one of my favorite games growing up, and always wanted to play the original intended release.

[@julianvalderrama1893]

The lost levels are in the remastered version?

[@MegaYoYo]

Yes. They have most I believe. I can't remember which ones were removed from the final version but the big well known ones are on there

[@julianvalderrama1893]

And you did this video with the old graphics....haha

[@moxiethefoxy]

@@julianvalderrama1893 The lost levels can only be played with old graphics, they didn't remaster them.

[@KeithMyers2022]

@@julianvalderrama1893 they didn't apply new graphics to the lost levels unfortunately.

[@goingplatinumcn]

Yes

[@KeithMyers2022]

even this is missing a TON of dialogue from the fight

[@zenicehero9154]

Its really Dissapointing They Didnt added the Turel Boss Fight and His Clan Territory to the Soul Reaver Remaster like the Shadowman Remaster they added new levels areas to the game that were cut!😮

[@goneja757]

Yeah, but those SR cut levels would break the lore of LOK series

[@opqrrg]

They couldn't add these levels in the main game because it would have changed the events of the saga and the other sequels would have been different....

[@МихаилТокмачев-я2с]

Don't forget about canceled game for ps3, I hope hype will somehow bring back ideas from "dead sun" into new games for legacy of kain games