Soul Blazer
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North American box art
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| Developer(s) | Quintet |
| Publisher(s) | Enix |
| Director(s) | Masaya Hashimoto |
| Producer(s) | Yasuyuki Sone |
| Programmer(s) | Masaya Hashimoto |
| Writer(s) | Tomoyoshi Miyazaki |
| Composer(s) | Yukihide Takekawa |
| Series | Soul Blazer |
| Platform(s) | Super NES |
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| Genre(s) | Action RPG |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Soul Blader | |
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| Soundtrack album by Yukihide Takekawa | |
| Released | February 21, 1992 (Japan) |
| Genre | Video game music |
| Length | 58:06 |
| Label | Apollon |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 86% |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| AllGame |   |
| Dragon | |
| EGM | 33 / 40 |
| Famitsu | 32 / 40 |
| GameFan | 187 / 200 |
| Game Informer | 25.75 / 30 |
| Nintendo Life |   |
| Nintendo Power | 3.9 / 5 |
| HonestGamers | 9 / 10 |
| Award | |
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| Publication | Award |
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | Editor's Choice Gold |
Soul Blazer, known in Japan as Soul Blader (ソウルブレイダー Sōru Bureidā?), is an action role-playing game for the Super NES developed by Quintet and published by Enix (now Square Enix). Soul Blazer was released on January 31, 1992 in Japan, on November 27, 1992 in North America, and on January 27, 1994 in Europe. The player takes the role of The Master's servant, to destroy monsters and release the captured souls of a world's inhabitants. Soul Blazer was scored by Yukihide Takekawa.
The player frees a series of towns by fighting monsters in traditional dungeon crawl battles. Destroying monster lairs in the dungeons causes a soul belonging to a former town occupant to be liberated and reincarnated. This is often a human, but it could be anything from a dolphin to a talking tulip. As souls are freed, the town is reconstructed around the people. The new town occupants give the player advice and items. When the player defeats the boss monster imprisoning the soul of the head of each town, the area is cleared and the player can continue. After the hero frees the first six villages, he is granted access to the "World of Evil", where the final villain awaits.
The Master sends one of his heavenly divine companions in the form of a human warrior to the Freil Empire, where the evil spirit Deathtoll has destroyed all villages and incarcerated the souls of all living creatures in his monster lairs, leaving the world empty. The warrior must defeat the monsters and liberate the inhabitants from the lairs, gradually repopulating the kingdom.
The warrior travels throughout the kingdom, defeating monsters in each of six regions to gather six magic stones, each a different color, in order to open the path to Deathtoll, who now resides in the World of Evil. The warrior must also find three sacred artifacts to call upon the power of the phoenix to defeat Deathtoll.
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