Thanks for the reviews and sympathy for my foot..it's not broken and it doesn't constantly hurt anymore (except when I step

on it! AAARRRG!) although I still have to hobble around on crutches. Well at least it didn't happen during school.

Anyway, yes, Rastafarianism is real. I don't pretend to know much about it, but it's a lot like Judaism/Christianity and

they believe that the Messiah came in the form of some Ethiopian emporer named Ras Tafari. The religion started in Jamaica

Bob Marley was a Rasta, thus all the Bob Marley lyrics in the article.


This article is based on my own woes, trying to get to Janos Audron and the Fire Forge. The first time I solved that puzzle it froze while I was talking to Janos, the second time it froze right after I finished the puzzle, the third time it froze while I was going to Janos' hangout, and the fourth time it froze in the middle of the Fire Forge. AAAAAARRRRRG!

Another note...Ich Sprache Deutsch! (Nein, ich nicht sprache) Anyway, the people making the game don't know much about

German. 'Uschtenheim' is supposed to be a German name, but what they don't know is this: in German, when S comes before P or

T, it's pronounced Sh. You never see 'Scht' or 'schp'. Thus, 'Gestapo' is 'Geshtapo', 'Stosstruppen' 'Shtosstruppen' etc.

(No, I'm not a Nazi, I just took those examples because they're well known German words.) So I spell it the 'right' way.

This same error appears in Soul Calibur (SCHtauffen). just letting y'all know.


Last note, I promise! Does anyone know how to get to the Bonus Materials in Soul Reaver 2 on PC? I've heard of the Bloopers

they have on there and I'd like to see them but I've only been able to find directions to do it on PS2. Is there a way or

am I doomed forever to settle for reading Blooper Reels on this site? (Not to knock those...they're great too)

Without further ado...



THE NOSGOTH TIMES

GAME FREEZES AT CRITICAL MOMENT, PUZZLE MUST BE REDONE MULTIPLE TIMES


The game has apparently frozen at least a dozen times at the worst possible time in the past several days. Because of this

and the scarcity of save Obelisks in Nosgoth, Raziel has had to navigate his way from Ustenheim up to the lair of Janos

Audron, then solve the puzzle to get up there repeatedly.

'I'm not joking when I say I have that whole puzzle memorised!' said Raziel to an incredulous crowd this afternoon. 'I just

walk right in, solve it, and prepare for another freezeup and repetition of the whole vicious cycle. I would throw up but,

you know, I...well I can't.'

Raziel has had to solve that puzzle 13 times, reporters say. Because every time he finishes it, the game freezes, he has

had to reload back at Ustenheim every time and work his way all the way BACK to the puzzle.

Janos Audron is simultaneously aggravated and delighted.

'I am getting tired of having to do the same lines over and over and over again with Raziel, and I'm getting sick to death

of that scene, but then there's always the knowledge that I'm going to get killed afterwards, so I can't help but be

grateful.'

Technicians assigned to create a patch to solve this problem of constant freezeups have laughed and drank much coffee and

consumed large amounts of cornchips, then written a patch which solves problems like people switching into the Spectral

Realm in William's friggin' tomb.

'I don't know what they were thinking when they put that crap out there,' fumed Raziel. 'Really! The worst problem with

the game is that it always crashes and makes you lose your progress, but the patch is to help people dumb enough to switch

into the Spectral Realm after refusing to kill Kain. I think they hate us.'

The game was thought to have reached its worst during the first sequence in Nosgoth's future, where Raziel could not escape

the Sarafan fortress due to constant lockups. At that point, the Soul Reaver was considering legal action against Eidos.

However, after he managed to get past that part of the game, he said he never experienced many problems until now.

Experts attribute this problem in part to the long gap between save points.

'The problem coul easily be solved in one of two ways,' said an annoyed gamer from the small Asian dictatorship of

Goatfuckistan. 'They could either add more save points in between the two spots, or they could do the obvious and LET YOU

FRIGGIN' SAVE WHENEVR YOU FEEL LIKE IT! Save points have the be the worst idea on this world since....svdzhtsfzcscsdky!'
[Last word lost in translation]

Soul Reaver 2 players worldwide share the sentiment. Eidos has announced another patch in response to the outcry, which

will not solve the problem but will allow the player to do Matrix-style stunts off the walls at a certain point early in

the game.