History VideoGame / LegacyOfKainDefiance

* EitherOrProphecy: In ''Defiance'', the Ancients and Hylden will each have a champion fight on their behalf, but the murals depicting their battle leaves it uncertain who will win. [[spoiler:It turns out that Raziel is ''both'' champions--he's the Hylden Champion by way of giving them the means to free themselves, and he's the Ancient Champion by entrusting Kain with the means to destroy the Elder God. Ergo, by sacrificing himself, the two "champions" effectively kill each other.]]

* SenseImpairedMonster: The "god" Hash'a'gik is a gigantic batlike monstrosity with useless vestigial eyes but a highly-developed sense of smell and even sharper hearing to compensate. Worse still, he also possesses telekinetic powers. Fortunately, the cult that's simultaneously worshipping him and keeping him captive has set up large gongs around his prison, allowing them to overwhelm Hash'a'gik with sound; Raziel can use these to his advantage over the course of the boss battle.

* PossessingADeadBody: Raziel loses the ability to use conduits between the spectral and material worlds from previous games, but gets around this by learning to project his spectral form into human corpses.

* TransformationOfThePossessed: Raziel is forced to possess corpses as an alternate means of entering the Material Realm after the Elder God closes off the portals. Each time, he shifts the corpse's flesh into his own form.

* CameraScrew: The game's fixed camera style became infamous amongst both old fans and newcomers to the series alike. While the camera style overtly meant to make the game more cinematic, in effect it just makes stuff like combat, platforming, finding secrets, and, in its worst moments, basic navigation, much more difficult than they are supposed to be.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Implied at the end; Raziel purifies Kain corruption at the end, and presumably purifies the insanity wrought upon him by Nupraptor prior to the events of ''Blood Omen''.]]

* YouCannotFightFate: Deconstructed and examined. Raziel firmly believes that doing anything might result in him becoming the Soul Reaver as his destiny, until it comes to light that he is ImmuneToFate; in an otherwise immutable logic of time, he's the walking paradox that can very well ScrewDestiny. [[spoiler:In the end, Raziel does give in to his fate to become the fully-complete Soul Reaver -- by screwing destiny at the same time he's fulfilling it, as he gives Kain the means to harness the weapon against the Elder God ''and'' cures him of his insanity in the process, changing an assured StableTimeLoop into an unforeseen path with a dead Moebius and the opportunity to truly save Nosgoth from its bigger threats once and for all.]]

* CameraScrew: The game's fixed camera style became infamous amongst both old fans and newcomers to the series alike. While the camera style overtly meant to make the game more cinematic, in effect it just makes stuff like combat, platforming, and finding secrets much more difficult than they are supposed to be.

While tying up a lot of loose ends, and arguably ending what can been described as the ''Soul Reaver'' StoryArc, ''Defiance'' would also end on a {{Cliffhanger}} for the series as a whole, leaving the story in a bit of limbo, since no further installments has been made since. It is worth noting that two serious attempts at a proper sixth installment in series were in development at various times. The first, ''The Lost Prophecy'', was only in pre-production for about mere three months before being cancelled in 2004. The second, ''Dead Sun'', was in development between 2010 to 2012, before it also was cancelled. These two projects were not general public knowledge at the time they were in development, their existence first being broadly revealed through leaks in 2013. Another game, thought not proper installment in the series, ''VideoGame/{{Nosgoth}}'' (suspected by some to originally have been the multiplayer component of ''Dead Sun''), was released as an open beta in January 2015, but was eventually also announced cancelled in April 2016, and shut down in May the same year.

While tying up a lot of loose ends, and arguably ending what can been described as the ''Soul Reaver'' StoryArc, ''Defiance'' would also end on a {{Cliffhanger}} for the series as a whole, leaving the story in a bit of limbo, since no further installments has been made since. It is worth noting that two serious attempts at a proper sixth installment in series were in development at various times. The first, ''The Lost Prophecy'', was only in pre-production for about mere three months before being cancelled in 2004. The second, ''Dead Sun'', was in development between 2010 to 2012, before it also was cancelled. These two projects were not general public knowledge at the time they were in development, their existence first being broadly revealed through leaks in 2013. Another game, thought not proper installment in the series, ''VideoGame/{{Nosgoth}}'' (suspected by some to originally have been the multiplayer component of ''Dead Sun''), was released as an open beta in January 2015, but was eventually also announced cancelled in April 2016, and shut down in May 2016.

[[caption-width-right:256:''"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?''"]]