Soul Blazer

Soul Blazer (or Soul Blader in Japan) is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System game by Enix and Quintet released in 1992. Similar to Enix and Quintet's other video game, ActRaiser, the player takes the role of a deity sent to restore normalcy to a world overrun with evil by battling its agents on the earth.

As in ActRaiser, the player frees a series of towns by fighting monsters in traditional dungeon-crawl battles (Act Raiser was side-scrolling; Soul Blazer is top-down). Soul Blazer eschews the Sim City-like aspect of ActRaiser. Unlike ActRaiser, the player frees the towns incrementally — each time the player wipes out a group of monsters belonging to the same "monster lair", a "soul" belonging to a former occupant of the town is liberated, and the corresponding body is reincarnated. This is occasionally a human, but in the variety of towns it could be anything from a dolphin to a talking tulip. The freed town occupants give the player advice and items. When the player defeats the monster imprisoning the "soul" of the head of each town (who is typically a "boss" — a powerful monster, in game jargon), the town is cleared and the player can continue.

The game's backstory concerns a king (Magridd) who made a pact with an evil entity called "Deathtoll." The empire was called the Freil Empire. Deathtoll offered the king one gold piece for each soul from his kingdom; the king was more than happy to take him up on the offer. Deathtoll, who lies in the "World of Evil" is the final "boss" in the game — when the player defeats Deathtoll, the game is over. To open the "World of Evil" the Hero must obtain six stones in this order: brown, green, blue, silver, purple, and black.

Soul Blazer spawned two sequels: Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma. It was scored by Yukihide Takekawa. It has also been recognized for its soundtrack, rivaling the Final Fantasy and Chrono video game franchises.

Characters

• Eiyuu (Hero)
• Eiyuu's Master
• Dr. Leo
• Lisa
• Gaudi the Architect
• Monmo the Mole
• Turbo the Dog
• Nome the Snail
• King Magridd

Souls

• Soul of Magician
• Soul of Light
• Soul of Shield
• Soul of Detection
• Soul of Reality

Locations

• Grass Valley

  Underground Castle, West

  Underground Castle, East

  Leo's Paintings

• Green Wood

  Lostside Marshes

  Water Shrine

  Fire Shrine

  Light Shrine

• Seabed Sanctuary

  Southerta

  Sea Bed of Saint Elle's

  Rockbird

  Durean

  Blester

• Mountain of Souls

  Mountain, North Slope

  Aurora Ridge

  The Top of Snow Mountain

  An Ice Hill

  Ice Field of Laynole

  A Passage to Lune

  Underground Lake, Lune

• Dr. Leo's Laboratory

  Basement of Laboratory

  Model of a Town, Part 1

  Model of a Town, Part 2

  Power Plant

• Castle of King Magridd

  The Torture Chamber

  Basement of the Castle

  The Left Tower

  The Right Tower

• World of Evil

  World of Evil, Part 1

  World of Evil, Part 2

  Dazzling Space

External Link

• GameFAQs entry for Soul Blazer