# Soul Blade

> Soul Blade is Namco's 1996 weapon-based 3D fighting game, the first game in the Soulcalibur series.

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- Console: PlayStation
- Released: 1996
- Developer: Namco

Soul Blade, known as Soul Edge in Japan, is a 3D fighting game developed by Namco. It came out in arcades in 1995 and on the PlayStation in 1996 in Japan and 1997 in the West.

Its fighters, each with a different weapon, search for the cursed sword Soul Edge. The PlayStation version added the Edge Master mode, a story mode with many unlockable weapons, and it was followed by Soulcalibur.

Soul Blade has a native PC port made by static recompilation.

## Soul Blade PC Ports

- [SoulBlade Recomp](https://emulationking.com/sony/ps1/games/soulblade/ports/soulbladerecomp/index.md): SoulBlade Recomp is a native Windows port of Soul Blade made by static recompilation with PSXRecomp, with higher resolutions and supersampling.