Soul Blazer (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

[@professors84]

This game has such a melancholy feel to it. I remember the ending really leaving an impression on me as a kid.

[@mayhemassault]

i never defeated the boss :(

[@NintendoComplete]

Soul Blazer doesn't do anything revolutionary, but everything about it is brilliantly polished, and it easily outclasses the SNES ARPGs that came before it.

[@christopherthibeault7502]

Nothing we haven't seen, but I'm curious now that I know this reverberates from ActRaiser. That game was incredible. Maybe I should consider acquiring all five games. Tell me, is ActRaiser II from Quintet as well? Because I don't feel like getting that one unless I really have to.

[@NintendoComplete]

@@christopherthibeault7502 It is a Quintet game, and in all fairness, if ActRaiser belongs, then AR2 probably also does belong grouped with the other five games. It kept a lot of the same themes going, even though it was a pure action game. It's a good game, but it's really hard. The rest of the series is pretty excellent too, but Illusion of Gaia is my favorite one. Granstream Saga is super-underrated, too.

[@christopherthibeault7502]

@@NintendoComplete This is what I feared. However, I will endeavor to put my best effort into it whenever I secure the collection.

[@NintendoComplete]

@@christopherthibeault7502 If you really don't want to play that one, maybe save it for last? You might appreciate it more for its contributions after you've gained a bit more perspective playing the others.

[@gustavvasa9669]

There's so many underrated SNES rpg's. From soulblazer to terranigma to treasure of the rudras, there's an almost unlimited amount of great rpgs on SNES.

[@WizardOnAWhale7]

I spent the summer of 1992 with my older cousins in Pittsburgh and we'd stay up for hours playing this. This game, along with Kennywood, Carnegie Science Museum, Three Rivers Stadium, made for an awesome summer. It was cool not having to wait for adults to drive us places because we took the "trolley" everywhere we needed to go.

[@endgovernmentextremism]

Comfy.

[@captainstubbing1]

I think i beat this game around 97-98. I am from wv but spent a lkt of time in the Burgh as well

[@BigHurt1776reborn]

I didn't discover it until the late 90s, but as soon as I did I was so hooked. My memories from around 1992 are of playing Drakkhen and another game that I can't think of the name right now.

[@olsonbryce777]

my GF is from Pittsburgh and she's taken me around there a lot. very magic city

[@zalden2565]

We lived in Mingo Ohio and we rented this game from blockbuster in Wintersville around the same time. Good times

[@zq1077]

thank you so much for the walkthrough, this game has a special spot in my heart and my childhood!

[@kyler247]

This game has such a rainy day type of surreal vibe to it, everything is laid back and kinda dreary, and the music rules

[@azcardinalsletsgoteam6537]

I know bro it maksa me want to shit my pants

[@redmist78]

I close my eyes when the game started and the music and sound took me back to a much simpler time. This is one of my favorite games from that era.

[@TheycalllmeTim]

I love this game. I remember renting this game for the weekends! Turbo broke my heart... still hurts

[@_djcraig_]

Honestly growing up playing these games was a privilege, everything about it just reminding me of my childhood the music especially this had to be one of my favourites along side Zelda a link to the past. Great memories

[@biancaarmstrong5097]

An underrated and hidden gem SNES game and part of the Soul Blazer trilogy. Fun fact, in the Japanese version, it is called Soul Blader, and at the end of the game, Lisa has anime like eyes and starts praying like she's praying to hope to see him again.

[@yusakug]

Terranigma is still my favorite of this series, but this comes in second. A really underrated early generation SNES title.

[@derpdiggler7413]

Take Terranigma and Soul Blazer, then have them all tie with Robotrek for 1st

[@andiarrohnds5163]

terranigma is overrated and boring. this game is actually better

[@qwertqwert99999]

its sad, that TerraN and Soul Blazer never got a successor . Actraiser got one, but omits the Sim-part. Its odd, that until today, that great SNES titles have never been remade.

[@andiarrohnds5163]

@@qwertqwert99999 its not really sad, trust me.

[@AYANAMlREl]

@@katelin1060 unlike illusion of gaia gameplay is not too bouncy and out of control in soul blazer

[@Hounddoggy33]

I absolutely adored this game! Still love playing it through once in a while. Cheers!

[@AlidarJarok1]

Such a classic game, thanks for playing this.

[@danm2084]

Omg the nostalgia is too real. Pretty sure I still have this game somewhere.

[@LadyVoldo]

The soundtrack is amazing.

[@TrueLegendBeatzz]

Maaannnn! I loved this game in my childhood I tried to finish this game before my Dad did. such old nostalgic memorys to it

[@Cringin2000]

I remember this game fondly, I beat this as a kid. Had no idea tell the comments that this was by the guys who did Act Raiser (also remember fondly). One of those few games I wish got a sequel.

[@ax14pz107]

Illusion of Gaia is basically a sequel to this game.

[@davidhill8565]

My older brother by 9 years, named after my late dad, and I played it when I was a teenager. One sword I didn’t know is in the game at the time is the penultimate sword, the Recovery Sword. This sword is often skipped over. Getting it involves Zantetsu Sword and Clubhouse Pass. Soul Blazer is referred to in Japan as Soul Blader. According to Illusion of Gaia, the protagonist’s canon name is Blazer. Soul Blazer is the first installment of the Gaia Trilogy, the middle one being Illusion of Gaia, and the last one being Terranigma.

[@RetroBreak]

The dungeon music is hypnotic!

[@MikeyLenetia]

4:23:04 is just so cute to me. Thanks for throwing that in. ^^

[@Ganymede907]

My nick name is Alex, I felt goosebumps when they entered that name 😅 My mom and dad had this game but I never saw them play it (I always liked watching them play games in general) I couldn't read that well in elementary, so sometimes I'd ask them what the game was talking about when I wasn't just trying to hack and slash all the bad guys.

[@qwertqwert99999]

you were playing on russian snes (dendy)?

[@Ganymede907]

No, we had regular SNES. My family and I are from Alaska. Our Russian Heritage is from the 1890s. My family is peppered with Russian orthodox servants who still attend today(priests/deacons) I'm not religious myself. Ксения is my middle name, Alexsondra is my first. No one says it properly, so I go by Alex. Sorry for the backstory, I was thinking you thought I lived in Russia, or that my family are 1st generation to immigrate.

[@Penfold8]

This game used the same engine used in Actraiser. Interesting. This explains a lot of the sound effects sounding alike and the graphics especially the life bars and text are also similar.

[@EidoEndy]

Seems like everything this studio made shared the same sound effects library.

[@qwertqwert99999]

samev sounds yes, but engine?

[@KIKAN_THE_RAT]

I remember me and my brother used the getting hit "ugh" sound effect when playing with our toys lol

[@thecowboy2]

The Basement Of Dr. Leo has my favorite song track in the game.

[@dennisaronnygard8459]

One of my favourite games from the snes era. As you said, its so well polished, and the soundtrack is brilliant. Would be awesome to Get this in a reshrined version like pocky and rocky that releases soon. 🤓

[@thecowboy2]

Monster lairs hidden within passages within town models within monster lairs. It's Lair-ception. O_O

[@Rokabur]

When you consider that even the largest SNES games only topped at 6MB, how did they manage to fit so much into so little space?

[@RoddyTullenz]

I was expecting the the title music to glitch like my cartridge did.

[@p5200689]

I just played the game recently. Final boss is so difficult...but it's still fun and interesting.

[@jeremyreed2790]

I wish I knew about this game. I like the idea of building a town and fighting the bad guys to defend the town.

[@sirgoose3268]

theres another game like this called Actraiser, its also very good and has a lovely soundtrack.

[@jonespianist3189]

Suddenly, this! Really, I wasn't expecting you to do "Soul Blazer". If, by chance, you are also planning on doing "Illusion of Gaia", "ActRaiser 2", "Terranigma", and "The Granstream Saga" (not immediately after this or each other, of course), which one would you do first, and why?

[@joaoaugustopinochet2588]

It's amazing to think that this game is part of a trilogy,Illusion of Gaia,Soul Blazer and Terranigma

[@kilkkiller]

This game deserves a modern interpretation with a DMC combat system

[@thundertower]

just discovered this now, playing it and really loving it, its just a sit your ass down and play the damn game. more addictive than aaa games today. I like how they give you bit of backstory here and there. obv no cutscenes, awesome, top down is top notch. Im not even a retro nerd, i just like playing video games with straight up gameplay.

[@justinlaboy6837]

You should do "Brain Lord" if you havent already. The music is amazing

[@riddleiddle]

It is! Love the first town theme, and the futuristic dungeon theme

[@schlamuffenimperator9460]

Back in the days when enix wasn't squared yet.

[@clintholloway1090]

The music for this game sounds like ActRaiser.

[@angeluss28]

This game and Illusion of Gaia were my favorites.

[@feiwong3634]

One of my all tine favorite games, Quintet were the best.

[@andrest-laurent4041]

I rented this game from the local video store a few times and played it with a friend. My english wasn't that good yet, but we had a good grasp of the story and most of the dialogue. I guess we were too young to get the whole humanity and beauty behind it all. We made it to the world of evil but couldn't find the phoenix magic. There was at least one person in my neighborhood that had the habit to save over other people's saved games. What happened with this game happened with Chrono trigger, final fantasy 6 and super metroid. It was frustating because it took us a lot more than 6 hours to reach that point and I never got to experience that philosophical ending. I guess what matters the most is the times in the winter when we would save living sentient creatures from a nightmare one by one, beat the shit out of demons, sometimes at my house, sometimes at his. I remember it very fondly. I am so curious about Tomoyoshi Miyazaki, the guy who wrote these games and than disapeared. He went back to the master maybe...

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

I dunno why but this game has such a homely charm. Maybe the music... wish I had had that when it was new. My first of those was most certainly Illusion of Gaia. Or Illusion of Time how we Europe idiots called it for some reason. There's no time travel in that game.

[@NintendoComplete]

I agree with you about this game's charm :) Illusion of Gaia was my first in the series too, but I always thought that Illusion of Time was a cool alternate name. To me, it was basically saying that no matter how much things change, they stay the same, and that history isn't a straight line so much as it is a cycle that endlessly repeats, like the ending shows. Just my take on it, though.

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

Mhh suppose that works for me. I'll always remember that ending when Will remarks that as long as people think they're happy, they are happy. That really really stuck with me throughout my life.

[@AuriosCPU]

The ambiant is very nice, i don't know this game but i want to play it ! Because i love the global artwork :)

[@nellyjon423]

Thank you 😊

[@krystalfan]

your doing ilusion of gaia as well?

[@gaddyric]

I only played this a few years ago as an adult but for some reason it game me some pangs of nostalgia too. My favorite track was the music that bard composed for Lisa. The best by far though i liked a lot of the other tracks too. I laughed so hard when the queen asked if you thought she was pretty and you said no. I liked telling her no too over and over. Especially after the scene at the airship dock. That king though. What was his excuse for being an ultra evil tyrant again... being pussy whipped???

[@davidhill8565]

I first played this game as a teenager on the original SNES hardware. Earlier I watched my older brother by 9 years play it. Last time I played it was on SNES Classic Mini. This game works on Canoe, the Linux based emulator used on SNES Classic Mini. Soul Blazer has never been rereleased as of yet. It has not yet been released for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.

[@simonmejia6896]

the first outing of what is called, the Gaia trilogy.

[@NintendoComplete]

I always thought that was an odd label when ActRaiser and Granstream Saga are also pretty clearly related to the rest of them.

[@christopherthibeault7502]

@@NintendoComplete I agree. This retains several effects and features such as graphics from the first game, ActRaiser.

[@NintendoComplete]

@@christopherthibeault7502 Yeah, I thought it was pretty neat how the action areas of Dr. Leo's Lab borrow a lot of buildings from ActRaiser's sim mode.

[@Reid_Me]

I like the game a lot, but the constant cutting back and forth whenever you release something got old really quick. I understand showing you where what released went, but I think it could have been done better somehow.

[@rafresendenrafresenden.1644]

Soul Blazer > Ilusion of Gaia

[@NintendoComplete]

I have to disagree 500% on that one, but I do think they're both really excellent games :) I would argue that Soul Blazer > Terranigma, though.

[@rafresendenrafresenden.1644]

​@@NintendoComplete But Terranigma is the best one

[@NintendoComplete]

@@rafresendenrafresenden.1644 Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

[@rafresendenrafresenden.1644]

@@NintendoComplete I guess the combat is difficult to fully grasp and the story is very depressing

[@TylerDurden31242]

The music is just🔥🔥

[@donniefaster2615]

I just ordered this game to my EU Snes, all because of this video. Was 250e worth it?

[@NintendoComplete]

If you can afford it and you enjoy it, sure. Why not? :)

[@theodorerivera81]

Awesome video great game 😊

[@ancientone5903]

I would be amazed if the Soul Blazers (Blazer from Soul Blazer, Will from Illusion of Gaia & Ark from Terranigma) ever entered Smash Ultimate. If they ever do for any reason, would be awesome to see. If even The Master from ActRaiser got thrown would be even more awesome =)

[@qwertqwert99999]

that what make dreams come true! But: in dec 2002, quintet was defunct. so...i dunno, wether the IP can be used by Nintendo....

[@ancientone5903]

@@qwertqwert99999 And that is something that should be put to the test. People should convince Nintendo to buy out the rights to Quintet.

[@qwertqwert99999]

@@ancientone5903 only thing i can do...Agree to you :-) I believe: a re-modelled Actraiser/Soulblazer would be a Top-Seller

[@TheCommentNinja81]

Hey can you help me please. I'm stuck. The King tells me that he needs 2 very old magicians to call the Phoenix. Where's the second very old magician? Thanks.

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

This feels like actraiser

[@shinobixa4]

IKR.

[@Nobleshield]

It's the sequel to Actraiser, or supposed to be. This predates the Actraiser 2 that came out later.

[@dundundata7603]

Yes! Excellent game.

[@Heishins]

love this game

[@TranquilPanda]

Reminds me of illusion of Gaia.

[@captainstubbing1]

Secret of mana ""

[@labelledamedumanor4876]

This is an interesting game. A sequel along with some extras should be considered, like the option of playing as a male or female character & choosing your looks too.

[@luciebureau6815]

I know ActRaiser thanks to you, and i think someone talked about its sequel in the comment section, complaining about the removal of the sim parts(but i’m not sure about that). The look of the game is nice are the music made me feel like i’m in a old Final Fantasy game(which i never played). But i still don’t understand why they removed the sim parts.

[@NintendoComplete]

I loved ActRaiser. This isn't officially the sequel to it, though. There was a straight action game called ActRaiser 2, but Soul Blazer feels more like the "real" ActRaiser 2 imo. It didn't get rid of the sim mode, but turned it into a more traditional RPG town mode. I still miss the ActRaiser style, but this was pretty good :)

[@luciebureau6815]

NintendoComplete damn, i was wrong😖. It really felt like the sequel, and i never played any of the games !

[@NintendoComplete]

@@luciebureau6815 It's okay, the relationship between the Quintet's games can be pretty confusing. Fwiw, I thought this should have been the official sequel.

[@luciebureau6815]

NintendoComplete but in final, you’re not disappointed, right ?

[@NintendoComplete]

@@luciebureau6815 Not at all. It's a great game.

[@davidlimagames1535]

the sounds is same of the actraise 1 and 2

[@kristopher-brettfountain-7432]

Please bring out this game for Nintendo Switch online for the SNES games along with SNES Final Fantasy 2 and 3

[@ellenross6828]

As a fan of "Merlin Games" (RPGs), this game is the best....... especially the last stage. Seems that evety Merlin game has at least one weird, hell-like or space ripple stage.......is that the Deathtoll stage? I once had this game, but one of my older cousins had stole it from me, and I never reached the end of the game..........

[@willhein4860]

Currently on my first play through Quite the difficult game

[@donhjoe2162]

This game should be remaked... please ENIX

[@marcioyan179]

Very good

[@juanmanuelradasegura56]

El juego esta bien salvado gente y los animales y derrotado enemigo es como actrices

[@real_Polan]

The medical herb is weed

[@amonynous9041]

why use power bracelet on final boss when you have a better bracelet?

[@dianak5519]

Is Granstream Saga really good game?

[@El_Superhombre_Blanco]

Good game

[@SteadyBark96720]

🤩🤩🤩

[@davidhill8565]

Soul Blazer works on Canoe, emulator used on SNES Classic Mini.

[@budhasachofmann1901]

Just saw This game for sale for 150$ had to come see what its about lol

[@williambrzozowski3221]

Alex is Cool

[@edfryAeronic]

man how crappy is that king huh? willing to sell each and every living thing, no matter the victim, for a measly gold piece per. sure sounds familiar to people in power nowadays.

[@alfan0079]

hack and slash in 1992

[@ThinkWithSteven]

The action is too simple. The story is just flat. Difficulty is too low except for the last boss. That's what makes the game better actually. When the game was simpler, and didn't try to sell in-game items.

[@mimi-mk9eu]

The strongest weapon is sword how cliche

[@NintendoComplete]

The strongest weapon is actually a spirit phoenix's fire wave.

[@mimi-mk9eu]

Now I feel stupid