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What are your favorite video game openings?
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I think it's hard for modern audiences to imagine just how hard Amy Hennig and her team knocked it out of the park with that one.
Not to mention all the cut content, like a human priestess worshipping vampires, Turel, the 3rd and final fight against Kain and the realization that Raziel was a useful pawn in the tentacles of Tony Jay
I replayed it via the remaster a couple of months back, and there are so many places that just seem completely optional, like a lot of the shrines and the human citadel.
For some reason they'd reintroduced a cut day/night cycle and it made the bit outside the cathedral completely unplayable as it was pitch black.
Turel at least made it back for Defiance, along with more Elder God stuff.
It’s even deeper than this. This was the first time a game disc or cartridge included actual dialogue at this scale like in a movie. Other games like Metal Gear used smart workarounds to seem this way but Soul Reaver changed it all.
There’s a really cool podcast that delved into this. It’s a fascinating listen.