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Date of upload: Premiered Jul 24, 2022 ^^
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Fun little detail that's very easy to miss:
The giant skull castle is called Nupraptor's retreat, Nupraptor was one of Kain's targets in the first game.
When you finally meet him in the head of the skull, you look out through the eyes of the skull and see two different things, one a land of paradise, the other a nightmare wasteland. This is foreshadowing the choice at the end of the game.
When you as Raziel enter the skull, you go in through the right eye... the one that looked out on to the wasteland.
What the other eye sees at this point is a mystery
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Legacy of Kain: Defiance's intro cinematic has one of my favorite video game quotes: "Given the choice, whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire; or to challenge the fates for another throw - a better throw - against one's destiny... what was a king to do? But does one even truly have a choice? One can only match, move by move, the machinations of fate... and thus defy the tyrannous stars."
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Really like how you mentioned no one ever skips the cutscenes, they're so dense in that once you have greater context to the whole story you pick up on layers that you couldn't have noticed before.
Like Raziel's first confrontation with Kain, it's one of the only times that Kain actually seems angry, once he starts talking about the choice he was faced with at the end of Blood Omen.
One of the biggest themes of the series is choice, or more specifically the lack thereof, Kain knows the game was rigged from the start and it enrages him.
I love this game so much.
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If you, like me, are in love with Tony Jay's performance as the Elder God in this game, you should definitely look up the audiobook for The Castle of Otranto. It's the first gothic horror ever written in the 14th century and it's read by Tony Jay. It's like listening to the Elder God read you a book with the same exact kind of language. I love it. I even memorized the opening poem: Sonnet to the Right Honorable Lady Mary Coke.
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@Arsenov92
1 year ago
Fun fact: The VA's were most almost all from a theater background, when they got the parts for Legacy of Kain, most of them thought they would go in, do some voice acting and get out, but, the moment they got the script and saw the lines, they were fascinated and thought this was theater level writting. So they did their utmost best at it and we 20+years later on all of the games got some if not the best voice acting we have never heard before to this day.
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