I played this game back in the day and really enjoyed it and played it again recently on an emulator and once again really enjoyed it. Brought to us by Enix before they joined with Square and somehow took numerous steps backwards, this is an action role playing game with a bit of a twist to it. Basically, you go into dungeons and kill monsters and as you do so, a town of some sort reforms. Very fun concept, a more recent game that this is a bit like is Dark Cloud on PS2, only you do not really get to customize how the town is going to look or where stuff goes.
The story in this one has a king who was incredibly greedy who made a deal with a dark being called Deathtoll; unfortunately, the deal he made is not a good one and comes with a price. Wow, if you cannot trust a demon named Deathtoll, who can you trust? Well, in exchange for one gold piece, the king had to give Deathtoll a creature of the world and suffice to say you are sort of an otherworldly being who must now restore the world thanks to the king literally exchanging the whole world away!
The game play is action based as you roam dungeons fighting monsters and when you defeat so many, a spot on the floor appears, you step on it and you restore a creature of the world. It is fun clearing dungeons and then going into town and seeing the people and animals you have revived. You also go through many areas as you start out in a mountain village, then a village in the forest inhabited by animals, an undersea kingdom, a cave kingdom, a futuristic house and the kingdom which is home to a certain greedy king!
Very fun and part of a trio of games by Enix that go together apparently, Illusion of Gaia being the next game and Terrigama being the last and the only one not released in North America. I don't really think they are interconnected by stories, but maybe the same creators or something? I enjoyed this one more than Gaia, though I did enjoy that one too, and I hope to one day play Terrigama as it is on an emulator I have, but you can never tell what you may get with games that were never released here. May not work at all or it may be in Japanese. This one though worked and it was fun reliving the adventure of the Soul Blazer!