Developers' Level Select - Blood Omen - Legacy of Kain: The Lost Worlds

Developers' Level Select

Along with the other codes he created when Blood Omen was released, CMX (of the CMGSCCC) discovered a hidden room, normally inaccessible in the retail game. It is a remnant of the development process, and allows the player to select the area of the game to start in, as well as which spells, items and weapons Kain should have. The Action Replay/Gameshark code to access this room is listed in the Codes (Playstation Cheat Device) article. There is a PC savegame provided by Andrew Fradley located at the end of this article which will start the player in the level select room. Andrew's Blood Omen Trainer can also be used to access the level select room (among other things).

The doorways are marked using four-letter abbreviations. Each set of doorways includes a pair of cards (like the kind which indicate items in the normal game, or Kain's choice at the very end). Instead of pictures, the cards have hexadecimal codes inscribed on them. The cards for a particular door will give Kain all of the powers and items he should have at that stage of the game.

This area appears to have been last updated some time before the game was finalized. When using the code which enables it, the game starts normally, and the player must complete the short section with Kain as a human before being transported to the level select room - implying that it was not modified after the Murdering Kain FMV was replaced by the playable sequence.

Additionally, a number of doors are not functional - they were either disabled due to the destination being removed, or not activated because the planned destination was never created. One of the boss-selection doors is labelled "VOR". Perhaps this would have lead to The Chess Match, in Vorador's mansion, or a boss battle with Vorador himself. Another is marked "LUPO". It has been suggested that this is a reference to "Lupo the Butcher" from the NPC dialogue script.

The Level Select room in the PC version of the game

Part of the Level Select area

Download
File	Size	Version	Release Date	Author
Blood Omen Level Select for PC	975 B	1.0	2007-06-17	Andrew Fradley
Starts the game in the Level Select room.

Related Articles:
Codes (Playstation Cheat Device)
Blood Omen Trainer (Software)
The Push and Test Rooms (Soul Reaver)
The Debug Menu (Soul Reaver)
The Debug Menu (Soul Reaver 2)
The Debug Menu (Defiance)
The Artifact 1a Room (Defiance)