MAJOR game-breaking bug - Melchiah area

[Photonboy]

I beat Melchiah. I left the area where you FIGHT him and then came back because I'm lost.

Most of the area turned RED or BLUE (depending on whether I'm immaterial) and there's invisible walls apparently. So I can mostly only see the TORCHES and the rest of the screen is blue or red.

I ran around for a few minutes but I couldn't see what I was doing or leave the area.

[lucaszmn]

I'm having the same problem too. Have you found a solution yet? I have an Nvidia card and I'm considering updating the driver even though it probably won't work This IS a game breaking bug..

[lucaszmn]

After a few minutes of fooling around, I found a workaround. Before you enter Melchia's lair, while in the spectral realm, go to the left-most area of the grating (fencing) area and walk right through it. Everything should be visible now...

[Photonboy]

Well, I exited the game and started it again. I had no reason to go back to this area so I just avoided it. Your spawn point isn't here so for me it ended up being a non-issue.

[Fear Ghoul]

I had a similar problem. I beat Melchiah, phased through the gate, then decided to go back in to have a look around, and everything turned into this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3392038093

[Photonboy]

That video is EXACTLY what I ran into. I'm sure it's a bug, probably related to any lighting code changes. Not sure. Again though, for anybody stumbling on this AFAIK it's not game-breaking as you can just EXIT the game, your start point is elsewhere, then never go back to that area.

If I'm wrong and this can mess up continuing the game correct me.

(This game makes me feel really stupid.)

[Fear Ghoul]

I saved the game there, restarted in the game, which had me at the beginning, then I went back to look around and hear the dialogue when you leave, and it all worked fine after that, so I guess there must be something that triggers it after you beat him and then immediately return to the room.

[S0LIDCHA0S-71]

Ran into this twice personally and saw my brother run into it on his pc.
easy workaround immediately 180 and phase though the gate again.
I've literately turned back and tried again and was normal after.

everything in that room is still there, it's just not being drawn on screen til you go back and fourth though the gates.

[Fear Ghoul]

I put this in the comment on my screenshot, but I might as well put it here too.

Yeah, I noticed that everything was still there. I once activated this sort of thing while messing around with a Game Shark on the PS1. This time I couldn't find my way out after running around for a bit, so I just saved and loaded the game again.

[Photonboy]

"..so I just saved and loaded the game again."

You know, I'm still CONFUSED on how the game saves. I tried to Google this. I get the impression that in THIS game, Soul Reaver #1, you can SAVE at any point and any task you've completed (boss, hidden item etc) gets saved... but you just restart from the same location elsewhere.

And in the 2nd game which I played years ago i think there are CHECKPOINTS that look like SHRINES that you can manually save, and auto-save points elsewhere.

Anyway, I kept thinking I was doing something wrong the first two hours and was wasting my time. I think this is how it works.

[Fear Ghoul]

Yes, in this game, when you save, everything you've done is saved, including bosses killed, upgrades collected, and even the exact location of the weapons and blocks, which is why the game took up three memory slots in the old memory cards, and why people are having blocks merge that can never be separated once the game is saved.

Every time you restart the game, you start in a certain location, which was pretty common with games back then, like Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (though that changes depending on if you save as a child or adult).

[Photonboy]

I gave up and found a MAP online if anybody cares...
https://nosgoth.net/soulreaver/images/map.jpg