love how Kain although turned vampire still holds that noble and aristocratic way of talking ( ty Simon Templeman for the extraordinary voice acting)

"Oh no... every time you turn up, something monumental and terrible happens. I don't think I have the stomach for it." It's funny that Raziel has been pursuing Kain through time in search of vengeance, but by now he's just plain sick of Kain's shit. Doubly funny when you remember Raziel doesn't "have the stomach" for _anything._

01:07 Kain: "No drama this time, Raziel." Raziel: *Blood-lust intensifies*

For those curious about Kain and rain - in Blood Omen 1 Kain gains immunity to damage from rain when he drank from one of the blood fountains.

This was a fantastic scene. It's the first time Raziel and Kain talk without Raz's righteous demands for revenge overshadowing the conversation. And I love Raziel's flippant sarcasm throughout. I wonder if this is more like a conversation he and Kain would have had in private back when he was the favored son? And I loved Raziel's personality throughout these games. He always latched on to anything that gave him meaning. First he was the greatest of Kain's lieutenants. Then he clung to the imagined righteousness of the Saraphan. After that it was a bit less clear but I think he planted his flag on the idea of being some champion of the ancient vampires until he learned they worshipped his "Former Master."

Kain and Raziel's relationship in this game is so brilliant, sharing knowledge with one another and Raziel sharing wit with him whilst still having an underlying element of hatred... But I suppose it all plays in Kain's favour, still, it's marvellous! :D

"I don't think I have the stomach for it." I don't think you have a stomach for anything Raziel.

I've listened to these dialogues over and over again, yet I still fail to get sick of it. I would kill for a remake of this series.

They just don't make games like this today....

well... that was strangely civil

"I don't think I have the stomach for it" Lol intended pun? I wonder if Raziel intended for it to be a pun, I wonder if Raziel has some kind of sick, sense of humor haha.

Kain is easily the most well-written, complex, and compelling video game character in existence. He and his cohorts deserve far better than to be consigned to the void the Legacy of Kain series has languished in. Can you imagine how things would be if the LoK series gameplay was as good as the writing?

It's funny how everyone else that's not YOU the player, can teleport and dissappear whenever

Every now and then i come to watch these scenes and every time i'm amazed.

That The Dark Prophecy was canceled seems to me a legitimate tragedy; this is my favourite story.

This game, in my opinion still has the best voice acting in video game history, and the dialogue is not bad either.

I think this may be my favorite interaction between Raziel and Kain in the series. It seems more like banter than previous conversations. The voice actors and writing really shine here. They do a great job of establishing the relationship between Raziel and Kain.

Soul Reaver is a property that really deserves its own Castlevania esc animated series (drawn or CGI) if anyone could capture the poetic pentameter of this wordplay then they'd have something special on their hands

Raziel: I don’t think I have the stomach for it. Me: You don’t have a stomach at all.

I loved this game back in the day. But as a kid it really hurt my head when they started to talk like this.

1:08 Kain: "No drama this time Raziel." Raziel: "NOPE-NOPE-NOPE-NOPE"

i love kain and raziels relationship.

I wish they ended the story properly. Also, I see what Raziel did with "stomach" speach.

01:33 Kain speaks with a hint of regret

Oh, the voice acting! Why is it so damn awesome?!

God the voice acting and writing is AWESOME

"I don't think I have the stomach for it." ~Raziel Dude, you literally have no stomach, or intestines.

raziel: "i don't have the stomach for it" LMAO

For those wondering, why it wouldn't be better if Kain sacrificed himself: The pillars were raised by vampires, and only vampires can truly preserve them. A guardian was chosen at the moment of his birth. Because no new vampires were born, vampires bestowed the dark gift on the humans, that were supposed to serve the pillars. Later, even human became the guardians. But without vampires, the pillars would one day collapse, and Kain was the last vampire.

i loved this part of the game so much, one of the best conversations in the game

i love this series taught me some interesting words. i remember when i heard Raziel say the word Machinations i was like, what? I wish new games gave this much attention to acting and dialogue.

“I don’t think I have the stomach for it.” Literally and metaphorically of course.

1:07 seizure Raziel ?

I would love to go back and play these game. Every time I watch a cut scene I realize something new. Like how Kain know it's the Hylden pulling the strings and never tell Raziel until crux comes back to kick him in the balls like a freight train. Or like how the conclusion of Defiance. Puts us right back at the events of where we free Janos from the machine feeding this bio weapon his blood. Or how the Hylden might be totally innocent(Kinda) and justified in wanting to wipe out Nosgoth, due to the elder god.

Gosh the dialogue is still so pleasant to listen to after all these years

“I don’t think I have the stomach for it”. Well no, you really don’t.

The tricky part is 'they' are two factions-the hylden and the elder god so while they have an overlap of interests their agendas subtly vary.

Do you hear the music spectral glitch in the background

whoever you are thanks for uploading these, this is my favorite game series of all time and imho the best video game series ever made. i'm almost glad it was discontinued tho cause in todays gaming industry i doubt they could ever design another sequel to truly do it justice much less keep the original dark, almost depressing tone each chapter in the series had. simply put: they don't know how to make games like this anymore, which is a shame but true nonetheless. subbed.

Kain gained immunity to the ill effects of rain in Blood Omen 1, from the first Blood Fountain he drinks from.

thats the thing raziel has free will outside of time and destiny becuase he's a paradox hes a Soul who wields his own soul from another time bound to him as a weapon this allows raziel to make decision that would normally not be allowed by the "grandfather" paradox theory becuase he is simply put Not supposed to exist and thats why the forces that be did whatever they did to the physical soul reaver to be raziels prison they cannot destroy him and they cannot contain him so he has to be imprisoned Kain is aware of this and that is why he is avoiding confrontation with raziel Yes raziel can kill kain but kain can also be raziels jailor

I loved playing through that hell, "demon realm" and watching these cutscenes. It was such a reward.

What this game doesnt touch on is the decades and possible centuries Kain spent preparing to find out what era Raziel was in while also preparing dramatic introductions.

Sheesh i cant believe this video was came out in august of 2006

@ 0:57 Raziel sounds so done with Kain's shit at this point, it sounds like he is happy to call his quest quits.

If only Raziel EVER told Kain about the Elder God, like 90% of their journey could be skipped.

indeed yes, i like how the most of the series play out without raziel knowing about the hylden just as kain is oblivious to the elder god

"The ones pulling the strings"... The Hyldens ? The Ancient ? An alliance between them ?

it took my a very long time to make this connection (although i could be dead wrong but hear ya boi out tho) but i like to think this scene is taking place before the events of SR1and this kain is the original one before he throws raziel into the abyss. hes more caring towards raziel and his plight and even tries to divulge info to help him on his quest(not saying SR2 kain isnt but its more evident here during this scene) this would make sense since he has access to mobius's time streaming chamber during this time and would foresee all these events as theyre unfolding, which is why he throws him into the abyss in the first place which he implied in SR 1. ive been playing this series for YEARS and everytime i revisit it, think of and find new details about it, what a fucking masterpiece

I love that chuckle Kain does 😂👌🏾

1:02 Raziel, buddy, I don't think you have a stomach. Period. D:

I like how the body moves before the head

While I love this sceene the fact the Raziels body makes a 180 at 0:53 and his head is dragged along will never stop being funny to me.

Insane to imagine this video is 15 years old

14 years a go ! 💔

"And who is this mysterious 'They' to which we keep referring?" A question I always find myself asking in conversations like this, thank you, Raziel.

*I CAN SEE THE FUTURRRRE!*

1:02 after that kain looks at raziel: you speak the truth Raziel you do lack one.

"And who exactly is this diabolical 'they' to which we keep referring?" Y'know. They.

I wonder if Kain really did travel through time to encounter Raziel or if he just waited millennia

god damn it do I want a Console HD release of these games, if no other reason but to be able to play these wonderful games again, I got the first one on GOG but it offered no controller support....and these mid era platformers still didn't quite figure out camera and movement controls so a keyboard isn't a great choice.

Kain: "Or maybe he merely hoped that it would harden your heart against me, to see this wasteland which I single-handedly authored." Raziel: "That makes no sense, because the state of Nosgoth was worse in the last game."

This (and its predecessor) were so much fun running for the next bit of lore/story. It's almost the anti-MGS2 of its time.

Exactly. I don't understand how so anyone can think otherwise...

Do not forget the survey of Crystal Dunamics (they are trying to release a new LOK game)

And in Defiance, we discover the answer to this question.

I wonder if Kain ever meets himself through his time traveling journeys

This game is so good.

Though full immersion in water can still 'kill' him.

There's something that I'm confused over here. Did Kain just wait all this time for Raziel to appear, or did he time-travel after him?

It took me a long time to realize there talking about the ELDER GOD

@supremeo Yep. When you first step out of your crypt in BO1, it's raining, and you take constant damage - the blood fountain saves you from that, but you still can't suffer full submersion.

That, and all the demons present.

lol i coudnt remember this part until kain showed up, im gonna have to get this game again i only played and completed it once

Amy needs to do writing classes, I would love to construct sentences like this.

Because Raziel and Kain's destinys are so closely intertwined and ones actions effects the other so drastically that Raziel's story must be told. Raziel also being Kain's first son and "creation", he's such an important part of the story. Similar to how they follow the villian in action movies.

it's incredible how much time pass before Raziel understand than him AND ONLY HIM can see Elder God, the true enemy. He can't imagine that Kain doesn't know who's the enemy cause he was blind.... 'till very end of Defiance

I love that I can hear the emulator audio glitch where the music breaks when you shift from the spirit realm like 50% of the time

Or it's evidence that it's the same Kain that's been following Raziel throughout time. Hell, he even travels further into the past to meet with him for the climax.

0:55 sounds like someone's boss showing up unexpectedly

History abhors a paradox

"No drama this time" that is a lie

lol when kain said no drama raziel did the cartoon head twitch "whaaaaa?"

1:02 hahaha I get it 😂😂😂

@Joudas Rain, but not standing water? If I recall in Defiance, you are bat-ified soon as you fall into a moat.

I still can't believe that Amy is the same person who was behind LoK's lore *and* a ridiculously cliché interactive movie like Uncharted. Like, either she completely lost her touch, or money really does bad things. Or perhaps both.

20 years and i still have no idea what the hell kain was doing here...

@pnelad14 Or perhaps it's evidence that Raziel did not kill Kain in the original SR timeline.

the reason kain doesnt go up in smoke is explained briefly in SR1 as vampires age they become more resistant to sunlight and water although only instances like rahab actually become immune to it. theres a difference between rain and complete submersion in water. it would be like being hit by the occasional spark compared to jumping into a bonfire

Wow, that... kind of hurts my brain. The ancient vampires worshipped the Elder God and the wheel of fate. The Hylden cursed the ancient vampires with immortality and bloodlust, "releasing" them from the Wheel, causing them to fall from the Elder God's favor, causing their madness and ultimate fall from grace. This was their masterstroke as the ancient vampires damned them to the demon realm with the pillars sealing their tomb.

@Garrone666 It is ironic indeed, since Raziel has NO stomach.

Although even the influence of the Hylden was overstepped by both. Remember that, in the end of SR2, the new memories springing inside Kain's mind revealed him the true play they were acting in. I think many things would have been averted should Raziel and Kain had begun to work side by side as early as this moment. But perhaps, their destinies would no longer be at hand, for maybe, Raziel would have never entered the Reaver then. D.R.

He doesnt have the stomach for it, quite literally lol..

Edifice

true but the latter kinda suits the even more calculating kain that was in 2 and defiance...it is VERY hard to decipher really

Yeah, what WAS that?! An error, perhaps?

This should be the Kain that followed the original SR2 timeline - having not saved Raziel from the Reaver and possessing the Soul Reaver; that's my assumption, at least. If it were the younger Kain in this time period, he would be less knowledgeable of past events (in theory; we don't know exactly when he discovers the Chronoplast chamber and its knowledge) and should also look different - more like the BO2 Kain.

yes sir he did! im not insulting anyone, but this story can be long and every detail that is given during each event has strong explanations. Even the most minor hints such as "rain" give reason as to why things are what they are. Crystal Dynamics payed very close attention to detail on a lot of things, but there are few things that have yet to have answers

I just realized raziels VA sounds like hammond a bit

yeah true, but at that moment in time, he did do it out of jealousy, but he did know of what he was doing meant. so we would both be right.