Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun

Unrealized dream

 

 

 

 
Genre: action-adventure, open-world
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Climax Studios
Release date: never, project closed
Platforms: unknown, presumably 7th generation consoles and PC
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v= aUjyGO6X2yM
 
 
The game that won't come out. A world we won't return to. The best vampire game franchise and one of the best non-Nintendo adventure games. Favorite, by many, a game on PS1 ... you can talk endlessly, so I create this theme and call it the Wailing Wall!
 
From myself, here's what I want to say:
 
The show was far from perfect. The ending is controversial, and the second Blood Omen should be forgotten like a bad dream. At that, a lot of time has passed, which, in principle, is suitable for a good restart of the series. Yes, fans like me can't please, but that's not a reason not to do anything. And if the project became Mordor about vampires, then I would be in the forefront who would throw money at the monitor.

 

 
 

Many thanks for the translation and design [b] [member = 'DIAL1'] [/ b]
 

Thanks to the efforts of users from the NeoGAF website, over the past year, we managed to find out a lot of interesting information about the canceled game, and the information continues to be updated from time to time.
 
Let's consider some of the features of the game that are key or simply the most interesting:
 
Plot:

Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun took place in the alternate universe of Soul Reaver, but much later than the events of Soul Reaver, Nosgoth underwent significant changes after the events committed by Kain and Raziel in Legacy of Kain: Defiance; People settled the land again, and plant life gradually began to revive. Vampires, who turned into monsters, acquired their former vampiric form, but some of them from their degenerate ancestors retained a thirst for souls. In this era, a new type of vampire lives, the Saradins - vampires with blue skin. They differ from the vampires from previous games: having evolved, they were able to move at any time between the material and other worlds and learned to absorb souls; The main character will be a unique creature, in which after some events another soul settled as a vampire, now there are two souls in the hero's body, the soul of a vampire (Gain) and a person (Escher); The views of the characters are divided, and the soul of Escher should control the body, while Gein had to appear from time to time in the form of leads and share his opinion on a particular situation; According to the traditions of Legacy of Kain, the intention of the main characters to take revenge is to find and kill those who destroyed the village of Esher and those who caused its change; As before, the main character is afraid of water and even makes suicide attempts, but it seems that having evolved, some vampires or only the main character gained immunity to light; According to the plot, it was necessary to find out the secret of a very old vampire child. The Elder God also played a key role in the storyline of Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun. Religion was to become one of the central themes of the game; The game had references and easter eggs to the previous parts of the series, 

Gameplay:

The game was developed in the genre of action-adventure with RPG elements and an open world; Moving between the physical and other worlds was the core of the gameplay, and it happened smoothly. The other world played a huge role in the game; The combat mechanics were similar to those presented in the Batman: Arkham series of games, but due to the setting, all the techniques were more brutal and bloody; The bosses were "huge", you had to fight with them and solve puzzles. The battles sometimes took place on several levels; The game featured locations previously seen in the Legacy of Kain series, such as the Silent Cathedral from Soul Reaver, the presence of Nosgoth's columns has not been confirmed; Introduced at the end of February 2015, a 32-minute gameplay video was recorded from the Xbox 360 version of the game, and the video was also a demonstration of the studio's developments in front of the publisher; Many abilities of the protagonist,

Interesting facts about the 32-minute video:

One of the ghosts of the past, a merchant, says that he sells goods from Willendorf. Wilendorf is a huge city from Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996) that was never mentioned again in the series. The murder of Escher, presented as a senseless massacre, but organized by higher powers, resembles the murder of Cain the human, committed by bandits on the orders of the necromancer Mortanius; Throwing Gein into the water, then falling and dissolving his flesh is a direct reference to the intro of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (1999). Devouring souls, the underworld, decaying lands, evolving vampires, smog-hidden skies and a hopeless future - all of these themes originate from the classic PlayStation game. In the video, Gein is holding a sword that outwardly bears a strong resemblance to the physical blade Soul Thief. Seems to be, the developers considered Dead Sun as the ideological successor to Soul Reaver; The echoes of crowded cities and markets, the bandits defending human civilization, are reminiscent of the city of Meredian from Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 (2002). The green glow around one of the most powerful enemies in the cutscene is very similar to the destructive energy of Hilden - when they took possession of their victim.

 
According to one of the authors, the game was canceled due to its ambitiousness and scale of the game, with little funding and a developer studio.

Modified on March 2, 2015 by Lex Mercer