Dead Sun
(Dead indeed as this is concept art from a cancelled game.)
EDIT: Oh this was already mentioned in a earlier post.
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Him696 wrote:
Legacy of Kain: 10 cancelled titles exposed by NeoGAF investigation
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The investigation comes from NeoGAF user Mama Robotnik, the same person who exposed many cancelled Silicon Knights projects last year.
On the most recent rumoured project Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun, Mama Robotnik claims that developer Climax was working on the game for over three years as a PS4 launch title and that the newly-announced game Nosgoth – formally referred to in rumours as ‘War for Nosgoth’ – was actually the game’s multiplayer component.
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The report also claims that sales projections for Dead Sun did not meet Square-Enix targets and they quietly cancelled the project. It was said to be set many years after the Soul Reaver series, and starred a vampire called Gein who feeds on a human called Asher. The pair become linked through some strange soul symbiosis and embark on a quest across an open world depiction of Nosgoth. As a result of the anomaly, Gein/Asher can morph between spectral and material realms at will.
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Mama Robotnik claims there have been ten cancelled Legacy of Kain projects so far, and that they were in development across a wide range of studios and publishers including, Crystal Dynamics, Silicon Knights, Climax, AndNow, Activision, Square-Enix, Eidos, Ritual Entertainment, Glyphx, Nixxes and Psyonix.
The cancelled games are believed to be:
* Pillars of Nosgoth
* Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain Enhanced
* Sirens
* Kain 2 (Crystal Dynamics)
* Kain 2 (Silicon Knights)
* Shifter
* Soul Reaver 2 (not the version that did get released, obviously)
* Chakan 2: The Forever Man
* Legacy of Kain: The Dark Prophecy
* Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun
And then it's some card game or something, though that could perhaps fuel a more costly full remake of the entire series.
(And give Raziel a pair of pants finally. )
The highlight of the first games were the writing and voice acting. Neither of those will be in whatever this will be...
A 100% remake with improved gameplay but all the same writing/VA would be pretty godlike. We all know this will be a modern mashup with arkham combat and a shitty story with cringey writing though
Legacy of Kain is pretty straightforward but still has a bit of story to it and the characters inhabiting Nosgoth, Soul Reaver expands upon the lore by quite a bit though and has several twists as well for what would otherwise be a action platformer game.
Then Legacy of Kain 2 comes out and it's back to Kain and his story again followed by Soul Reaver 2 and finally Defiance though a final installment was also planned but never released.
So by that point yes the story had a lot of turns and nothing was as it seemed with characters having multiple plans in motion and time hopping factor into it as well so it can be tricky to follow at times just what is going on and how some characters had their roles greatly expanded as the series went on.
(Mobius for one.)
Whatever that will be (..if there will be something), the expectations are always under control and set to ultra-low for safety reasons.
I could copy-paste my post from 2013, it's still valid!*
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I only hope that they:
- don't bastardize the formula by narrowing the levels and adding useless QTEs in order to make everything look more cinematic;
- don't turn Raziel into some kind of emokid a-la DmC;
- implement decent puzzles, unlike the ones that we've seen in TRawesome;
- don't taint the gameplay with silly instinct modes and *XP-all-the-things!*
and many others.
*Perhaps should be updated with the addition: - don't bloody dare to insert lootboxes here;
Actually the gameplay can go - it's really nothing to write home about especially in Defiance. But they would have to keep a lot of it so that the narration fits.
Actually the gameplay can go - it's really nothing to write home about especially in Defiance. But they would have to keep a lot of it so that the narration fits.
Maybe I should of said the mechanics instead. I agree that the gameplay could be tweaked to reflect today's "standards" if there's such a thing...
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Would be so nice to have something proper done. It also took me to a trip in time when I was spinning the Havok and Malice in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Hopefully, they'll realize people still enjoy the series, and we'll get a new game with an epic story set in the universe. It's kind of sad we never got to see Dead Sun—I liked the premise from what I read—but we'll most likely get some Ubisoft sandbox clone catering to the kids these days instead of to the real fans.
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