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

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....

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

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.

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.

Malchiah scared me when I was a child T___T

One of the greatest games ever made.

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

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

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.

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."

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

@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.

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.

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.

It never gets old.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

SO GRUESOME!

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

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

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.

@Shinchibi Yes! He blends!

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.

i love this fight

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.

sweet memorys :D

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

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.

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.

yeah!

I miss watching my big bro play this on ps1

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

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

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

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

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

Poor Melchiah, I felt sorry for him. =(

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.

Catch him if you can, slowpoke!

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

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!

FUCK YEAH!!!

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.

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

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.

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

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

it's one of the best PS1 Games^^

how can he still talk after that lol

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

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

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

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

@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.

This Part took me so long to beat!

It's his sooooooooooooul

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

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.)

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

@234Assassin yes he did

@Joudas thanks for correcting! :D

raziel"s steps are so anoying

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...

@DasFunkwagen Yep - typo on my part. :)

@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

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.

@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...

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

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!!!

he is the most fun to kill the best seen of killing.

This Malchiah reminds me of Turel in SR Defiance

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

Will He Blend? That is the question.

Malchiah go squish

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

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

@MiniMarcify they evolved, or devolved.

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

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.

@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)

This game is so much better then 2.

@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

@DasFunkwagen I aim to please! ;)

I think you mean KAIN and Melchiah!

lol! can you see the faces on his body

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

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?

i'm probably mistaken, but isn't it 'melchiah"

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

and what was raziel's gift supposed to be?

level 5 what? which part?

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

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.