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A 32 minute video of cancelled Soul Reaver successor Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun has appeared online.
Provided to NeoGAF member Mama Robotnik by an “unnamed source”, the pre-alpha footage allegedly shows off some of the game’s opening sequences, introducing players to the game’s opening area and its new protagonist Asher.
The game is said to have been in development at Silent Hill: Shattered Memories developer Climax for three years before being cancelled by Square Enix in 2012. According to Mama Robotnik’s report, the game was scrapped after it was decided that the game would not meet Square Enix’s sales projections.
“The area shown in the video is The Wetlands,” reads the report. “It acted as a gigantic hub, connecting the different areas in this region of Nosgoth together. Such areas would have included: “dungeons”, huge boss encounters, intense use of shifting between the Spectral and Material realms, masses of exploration, combat and hidden/earned upgradable abilities.
“The game was described as being intensely story focused, and inspired greatly by Soul Reaver and Zelda (to quote a source: “think if HBO did Zelda”). The game was at one point envisioned as a small project (possibly downloadable?), and then expanded to be a XBox 360/PS3 retail release (note the use of XBox button icons in the video). In its final form, the game was strongly considered to be PlayStation 4 launch title.”
Unfortunately the video can’t be embedded, so to give it a watch you’ll have to head through to YouTube.
Nosgoth, an online game set in the Legacy of Kain universe, launched on PC in open beta earlier this year.
Source: youtube.com
