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Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage

March 11, 2023

Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage, released in Japan as Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Flowers of Oblivion (ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 喪失花の章, Beruseruku Sennen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō), is a hack and slash action video game for the Dreamcast.[2] It is based on the popular Berserk manga by Kentarō Miura and the game is set between volume 22 and 23 of the manga; right after Guts and Puck depart for Elfhelm with Casca (chapter 182), but before Farnese, Serpico, and Isidro catch up with them (chapter 190). The music is composed by Susumu Hirasawa, who also composed the anime series' music.

Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage
Developer(s)Yuke's
Publisher(s)ASCII Corporation, Eidos Interactive
Director(s)Yoshio Togiya
Programmer(s)Tatsuhiko Sugimoto
Hiroki Ueno
Takanori Yoshioka
Artist(s)Kentarō Miura (character)
Writer(s)Kentarō Miura
Tsuyoshi Tamai
Composer(s)Susumu Hirasawa
SeriesBerserk
Platform(s)Dreamcast
Release
  • JP: 16 December 1999
  • NA: 16 March 2000[1]
  • EU: 19 May 2000
Genre(s)Action, hack and slash
Mode(s)Single-player

Released around the same time as Shenmue, Sword of the Berserk is notable for its early use of quick time events (QTE). It used these to determine the different non-linear paths the player would take, depending on whether they succeed or fail in pressing the displayed button quickly enough during a QTE, allowing different ways to complete the game.[3]

Synopsis

After saving a traveling performer named Rita from bandits while on their way to Elfhelm, Guts, Casca, and Puck come to a small castle town to rest. Upon arriving, they learn of a disease that transforms its victims into "Mandragorans", making them go berserk and kill people, even their loved ones, without thinking. The ruler of the castle, Baron Balzac, learns of Guts killing a Mandragoran and brings him to the dungeon where people infected with the disease are kept. Balzac brings Guts to his laboratory while explaining that he is searching for a supposed cure. Guts learns from Balzac that the disease comes from an unusual plant, the Mandragora that grew into a tree located in a nearby village on the borders of his domain. After meeting a group of rebels that abducted Casca and learning the baron is a tyrant to their people, Guts decides to carry out Balzac's request for the Great Tree's heart since the baron's findings might provide a cure for Casca's madness. But while Guts is joined by Rita and a group of rebels, Balzac's men raid the rebels' hideout and capture Casca.

Losing their traveling companions while Guts confronts the Mandragorans' matriarch Erica, who maintained her free will to protect the Mandragora that grew from the remains of a boy named Niko, he and Rita find Balzac's men slaughtering the Mandragorans. Erica, upon seeing the utopia she created destroyed, chooses to destroy herself and the Mandragora Heart rather than hand the latter over with only the pendant she made from Niko's charm remaining as Rita picked it up. Guts was about to fight Balzac's men when Nosferatu Zodd arrives, the Apostle having freed Casca from her dungeon cell earlier, and they have a brief rematch that once more ends in a draw. By that time, encountering a young woman with a similar madness and assumed to be Balzac's daughter, Puck and Casca stumble into the chamber where the fragment of the Madragora Heart that Balzac obtained awakens. This causes all Mandragorans to act up and run amok in the town as Guts and Rita return.

Fighting his way through the Mandragorans and Balzac's forces to reach the castle, Guts and Rita see the mysterious girl and take her with them. When they finally reach Balzac's throne room, Guts demands to know where Casca is, but Balzac only answers that they are too late to save her. Rita asks Balzac how all of these events came to pass; he recounts that he was once a kind and just ruler, but the pressure of juggling his responsibilities as both a ruler and as a husband eventually got to him, and he now finds comfort only in bloodshed. Balzac also reveals the woman to be his wife, Annette. He had preserved her life with a drug extract made from the Mandragora's Heart, making her ageless, but at a steep price – the drug also ravaged her mind, rendering her unable to remember her own husband. Despite this, in his madness, Balzac drinks an even more potent extract of the Mandragora's Heart, transforming himself into a monstrous figure. Guts quickly dispatches him, however, and saves Casca from the fully grown Mandragora. In a cruel twist of fate, Casca's exposure to the Mandragora briefly restores her sanity - with Guts forced to watch her revert to her catatonic state once more. He is given little time to mourn this turn of events, as in the confusion of battle, Rita had dropped Erica's pendant – revealed to be a Behelit – and the dying Balzac had claimed it, offering Annette's life as his sacrifice in order to be reborn as an Apostle. Guts finds himself forced into battle once more, but manages to defeat the Apostle Balzac despite his new-found powers. With the town reverting to some normalcy, Guts and his group continue their journey; Rita promising to not forget them. Some time after Guts's group leave, the Skull Knight appears in Balzac's castle and swallows Balzac's Behelit.

Soundtrack

Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Flowers of Oblivion Original Game Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by
Susumu Hirasawa
ReleasedDecember 15, 1999 (1999-12-15)
Genre
Length42:30
LabelHakusensha, Marine ENTERTAINMENT MMCC-7008
ProducerSusumu Hirasawa, Kentaro Miura

Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Flowers of Oblivion Original Game Soundtrack (ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 喪失花の章 Original Game Soundtrack, Beruseruku Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō Orijinaru Gēmu Saundotorakku)[4] marked the return of Susumu Hirasawa, composer and performer of the soundtrack of the Sword-Wind Chronicle anime. Unlike the anime's soundtrack, Hirasawa composed and performed the game's opening theme, "FORCES II", and ending theme, "INDRA". Coincidentally, Hirasawa started his career as a musician with a band called Mandrake, and they made a song called "Mandragora". Hirasawa did not make all the original material for the game, part of the soundtrack was the work of Yuke's in-house musicians Masaya Imoto and Hiromi Murakami. Besides the songs that were commercially released, 39 other tracks ripped from the game's GD-ROM have been distributed online unofficially. The first-pressing limited edition of the soundtrack included the 2000 Berserk calendar and collector stickers. The soundtrack was reissued in 2012 as part of Hirasawa's Haldyn Dome boxset. Since it is a Hirasawa release, tracks 4, 6, 7, 8 and 10, which were made by Imoto and Murakami with no involvement from Hirasawa, were omitted from it.

Reception

Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage received mostly positive reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[5] Jeff Lundrigan of NextGen said that the game "controls reasonably well and looks fantastic – you'll get your money's worth – but the gameplay design is far from perfect, and there's too much exposition for the amount of action."[23] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40.[2] In the UK, Official Dreamcast Magazine UK gave it a 73% score.[24]

Notes

  1. ^ In Electronic Gaming Monthly's review of the game, one critic gave it 8/10, another gave it 7/10, and the rest gave it each a score of 8.5/10.
  2. ^ In GameFan's viewpoint of the Japanese version, two critics gave it each a score of 73, and the other gave it 71.

References

  1. ^ Anoop Gantayat (2000-02-29). "Sword of the Berserk Arrives Sooner Than Expected". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  2. ^ a b c "ドリームキャスト - ベルセルク 千年王国の鷹篇 喪失花の章". Famitsu (in Japanese). No. 915. Enterbrain. 2006-06-30. p. 50. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  3. ^ Patrick Klepek (2000-04-10). . Gaming Age. Archived from the original on 2011-03-27. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  4. ^ "Music for movies / Susumu Hirasawa". Susumu Hirasawa. Teskalite Online Shop. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  5. ^ a b . GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  6. ^ Bryan Melville. . AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on 2014-11-15. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  7. ^ Jason D'Aprile (2000-04-05). . Gamecenter. CNET. Archived from the original on 2000-08-23. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  8. ^ Edge staff (March 2000). "Berserk [Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō]" (PDF). Edge. No. 82. Future Publishing. p. 73. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  9. ^ Dan "Shoe" Hsu; Che Chou; John Davison; Chris Johnston (May 2000). "Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage" (PDF). Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 130. Ziff Davis. p. 145. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  10. ^ Andy McNamara; Jay Fitzloff; Andrew Reiner (April 2000). . Game Informer. No. 84. FuncoLand. Archived from the original on 2000-12-05. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  11. ^ "Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage". Game Informer. No. 139. GameStop. November 2004.
  12. ^ Jason "Fury" Weitzner (March 2000). "Berserk [Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō]". GameFan. Vol. 8, no. 3. Shinno Media. p. 85. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  13. ^ Kevin Deselms (1999-12-20). . GameFan. Shinno Media. Archived from the original on 2000-06-14. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  14. ^ Tyrone "Cerberus" Rodriguez; George "Eggo" Ngo; Eric "ECM" Mylonas (March 2000). "Berserk [Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō]". GameFan. Vol. 8, no. 3. Shinno Media. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  15. ^ Fernando Mosquera (2000-04-11). . GameFan. Shinno Media. Archived from the original on 2000-06-22. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  16. ^ The D-Pad Destroyer (2000-03-24). . GamePro. IDG Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2005-02-09. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  17. ^ G-Wok (March 2000). "Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage Review". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. from the original on 2015-09-11. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  18. ^ James Mielke (2000-01-24). "Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage Review [Import; date mislabeled as "March 21, 2003"]". GameSpot. Red Ventures. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  19. ^ Gary Koltookian (2000-03-17). . GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2002-06-11. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  20. ^ Gary Koltookian (2000-03-20). . PlanetDreamcast. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2009-01-22. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  21. ^ Matt White (2000-03-16). "Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  22. ^ Colin Williamson (1999-12-21). "Berserk [Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō] (Import)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  23. ^ a b Jeff Lundrigan (June 2000). "Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage". NextGen. No. 66. Imagine Media. p. 96. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  24. ^ "Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage". Official Dreamcast Magazine. No. 9. Future Publishing. May 2000. pp. 52–54.

External links

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2007 Learn how and when to remove this template message Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage released in Japan as Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc Chapter of the Flowers of Oblivion ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 喪失花の章 Beruseruku Sennen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō is a hack and slash action video game for the Dreamcast 2 It is based on the popular Berserk manga by Kentarō Miura and the game is set between volume 22 and 23 of the manga right after Guts and Puck depart for Elfhelm with Casca chapter 182 but before Farnese Serpico and Isidro catch up with them chapter 190 The music is composed by Susumu Hirasawa who also composed the anime series music Sword of the Berserk Guts RageDeveloper s Yuke sPublisher s ASCII Corporation Eidos InteractiveDirector s Yoshio TogiyaProgrammer s Tatsuhiko SugimotoHiroki UenoTakanori YoshiokaArtist s Kentarō Miura character Writer s Kentarō MiuraTsuyoshi TamaiComposer s Susumu HirasawaSeriesBerserkPlatform s DreamcastReleaseJP 16 December 1999NA 16 March 2000 1 EU 19 May 2000Genre s Action hack and slashMode s Single playerReleased around the same time as Shenmue Sword of the Berserk is notable for its early use of quick time events QTE It used these to determine the different non linear paths the player would take depending on whether they succeed or fail in pressing the displayed button quickly enough during a QTE allowing different ways to complete the game 3 Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Soundtrack 3 Reception 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksSynopsis EditAfter saving a traveling performer named Rita from bandits while on their way to Elfhelm Guts Casca and Puck come to a small castle town to rest Upon arriving they learn of a disease that transforms its victims into Mandragorans making them go berserk and kill people even their loved ones without thinking The ruler of the castle Baron Balzac learns of Guts killing a Mandragoran and brings him to the dungeon where people infected with the disease are kept Balzac brings Guts to his laboratory while explaining that he is searching for a supposed cure Guts learns from Balzac that the disease comes from an unusual plant the Mandragora that grew into a tree located in a nearby village on the borders of his domain After meeting a group of rebels that abducted Casca and learning the baron is a tyrant to their people Guts decides to carry out Balzac s request for the Great Tree s heart since the baron s findings might provide a cure for Casca s madness But while Guts is joined by Rita and a group of rebels Balzac s men raid the rebels hideout and capture Casca Losing their traveling companions while Guts confronts the Mandragorans matriarch Erica who maintained her free will to protect the Mandragora that grew from the remains of a boy named Niko he and Rita find Balzac s men slaughtering the Mandragorans Erica upon seeing the utopia she created destroyed chooses to destroy herself and the Mandragora Heart rather than hand the latter over with only the pendant she made from Niko s charm remaining as Rita picked it up Guts was about to fight Balzac s men when Nosferatu Zodd arrives the Apostle having freed Casca from her dungeon cell earlier and they have a brief rematch that once more ends in a draw By that time encountering a young woman with a similar madness and assumed to be Balzac s daughter Puck and Casca stumble into the chamber where the fragment of the Madragora Heart that Balzac obtained awakens This causes all Mandragorans to act up and run amok in the town as Guts and Rita return Fighting his way through the Mandragorans and Balzac s forces to reach the castle Guts and Rita see the mysterious girl and take her with them When they finally reach Balzac s throne room Guts demands to know where Casca is but Balzac only answers that they are too late to save her Rita asks Balzac how all of these events came to pass he recounts that he was once a kind and just ruler but the pressure of juggling his responsibilities as both a ruler and as a husband eventually got to him and he now finds comfort only in bloodshed Balzac also reveals the woman to be his wife Annette He had preserved her life with a drug extract made from the Mandragora s Heart making her ageless but at a steep price the drug also ravaged her mind rendering her unable to remember her own husband Despite this in his madness Balzac drinks an even more potent extract of the Mandragora s Heart transforming himself into a monstrous figure Guts quickly dispatches him however and saves Casca from the fully grown Mandragora In a cruel twist of fate Casca s exposure to the Mandragora briefly restores her sanity with Guts forced to watch her revert to her catatonic state once more He is given little time to mourn this turn of events as in the confusion of battle Rita had dropped Erica s pendant revealed to be a Behelit and the dying Balzac had claimed it offering Annette s life as his sacrifice in order to be reborn as an Apostle Guts finds himself forced into battle once more but manages to defeat the Apostle Balzac despite his new found powers With the town reverting to some normalcy Guts and his group continue their journey Rita promising to not forget them Some time after Guts s group leave the Skull Knight appears in Balzac s castle and swallows Balzac s Behelit Soundtrack EditBerserk Millennium Falcon Arc Chapter of the Flowers of Oblivion Original Game SoundtrackSoundtrack album by Susumu HirasawaReleasedDecember 15 1999 1999 12 15 GenreFilm scoreambientelectronicaprogressivesymphonic rockLength42 30LabelHakusensha Marine ENTERTAINMENT MMCC 7008ProducerSusumu Hirasawa Kentaro MiuraBerserk Millennium Falcon Arc Chapter of the Flowers of Oblivion Original Game Soundtrack ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 喪失花の章 Original Game Soundtrack Beruseruku Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō Orijinaru Gemu Saundotorakku 4 marked the return of Susumu Hirasawa composer and performer of the soundtrack of the Sword Wind Chronicle anime Unlike the anime s soundtrack Hirasawa composed and performed the game s opening theme FORCES II and ending theme INDRA Coincidentally Hirasawa started his career as a musician with a band called Mandrake and they made a song called Mandragora Hirasawa did not make all the original material for the game part of the soundtrack was the work of Yuke s in house musicians Masaya Imoto and Hiromi Murakami Besides the songs that were commercially released 39 other tracks ripped from the game s GD ROM have been distributed online unofficially The first pressing limited edition of the soundtrack included the 2000 Berserk calendar and collector stickers The soundtrack was reissued in 2012 as part of Hirasawa s Haldyn Dome boxset Since it is a Hirasawa release tracks 4 6 7 8 and 10 which were made by Imoto and Murakami with no involvement from Hirasawa were omitted from it Reception EditReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScoreGameRankings74 5 Review scoresPublicationScoreAllGame 6 CNET Gamecenter7 10 7 Edge3 10 8 Electronic Gaming Monthly8 10 9 a Famitsu30 40 2 Game Informer 2000 8 10 10 2004 7 5 10 11 GameFan J W 92 12 K D 89 13 72 14 b F M 71 15 GamePro 16 GameRevolutionB 17 GameSpot7 8 10 18 GameSpy83 19 PDC 6 5 10 20 IGN US 8 10 21 JP 7 1 10 22 Next Generation 23 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage received mostly positive reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings 5 Jeff Lundrigan of NextGen said that the game controls reasonably well and looks fantastic you ll get your money s worth but the gameplay design is far from perfect and there s too much exposition for the amount of action 23 In Japan Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40 2 In the UK Official Dreamcast Magazine UK gave it a 73 score 24 Notes Edit In Electronic Gaming Monthly s review of the game one critic gave it 8 10 another gave it 7 10 and the rest gave it each a score of 8 5 10 In GameFan s viewpoint of the Japanese version two critics gave it each a score of 73 and the other gave it 71 References Edit Anoop Gantayat 2000 02 29 Sword of the Berserk Arrives Sooner Than Expected IGN Ziff Davis Retrieved 2022 05 17 a b c ドリームキャスト ベルセルク 千年王国の鷹篇 喪失花の章 Famitsu in Japanese No 915 Enterbrain 2006 06 30 p 50 Retrieved 2018 07 26 Patrick Klepek 2000 04 10 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage Gaming Age Archived from the original on 2011 03 27 Retrieved 2011 03 27 Music for movies Susumu Hirasawa Susumu Hirasawa Teskalite Online Shop Retrieved 2019 03 25 a b Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage for Dreamcast GameRankings CBS Interactive Archived from the original on 2019 03 25 Retrieved 2022 05 17 Bryan Melville Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage Review AllGame All Media Network Archived from the original on 2014 11 15 Retrieved 2019 03 25 Jason D Aprile 2000 04 05 Sword of the Berserk Gut s sic Rage Gamecenter CNET Archived from the original on 2000 08 23 Retrieved 2022 05 17 Edge staff March 2000 Berserk Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō PDF Edge No 82 Future Publishing p 73 Retrieved 2022 05 17 Dan Shoe Hsu Che Chou John Davison Chris Johnston May 2000 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage PDF Electronic Gaming Monthly No 130 Ziff Davis p 145 Retrieved 2022 05 17 Andy McNamara Jay Fitzloff Andrew Reiner April 2000 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage Game Informer No 84 FuncoLand Archived from the original on 2000 12 05 Retrieved 2019 03 25 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage Game Informer No 139 GameStop November 2004 Jason Fury Weitzner March 2000 Berserk Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō GameFan Vol 8 no 3 Shinno Media p 85 Retrieved 2022 05 17 Kevin Deselms 1999 12 20 REVIEW for Berserk Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō GameFan Shinno Media Archived from the original on 2000 06 14 Retrieved 2019 03 25 Tyrone Cerberus Rodriguez George Eggo Ngo Eric ECM Mylonas March 2000 Berserk Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō GameFan Vol 8 no 3 Shinno Media p 13 Retrieved 2022 05 17 Fernando Mosquera 2000 04 11 REVIEW for Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage GameFan Shinno Media Archived from the original on 2000 06 22 Retrieved 2019 03 25 The D Pad Destroyer 2000 03 24 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage Review for Dreamcast on GamePro com GamePro IDG Entertainment Archived from the original on 2005 02 09 Retrieved 2019 03 25 G Wok March 2000 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage Review GameRevolution CraveOnline Archived from the original on 2015 09 11 Retrieved 2019 03 25 James Mielke 2000 01 24 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage Review Import date mislabeled as March 21 2003 GameSpot Red Ventures Retrieved 2019 03 25 Gary Koltookian 2000 03 17 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage GameSpy IGN Entertainment Archived from the original on 2002 06 11 Retrieved 2019 03 25 Gary Koltookian 2000 03 20 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage PlanetDreamcast IGN Entertainment Archived from the original on 2009 01 22 Retrieved 2019 03 25 Matt White 2000 03 16 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage IGN Ziff Davis Retrieved 2019 03 25 Colin Williamson 1999 12 21 Berserk Sennnen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō Import IGN Ziff Davis Retrieved 2019 03 25 a b Jeff Lundrigan June 2000 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage NextGen No 66 Imagine Media p 96 Retrieved 2022 05 17 Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage Official Dreamcast Magazine No 9 Future Publishing May 2000 pp 52 54 External links EditSword of the Berserk Guts Rage at MobyGames Millennium Falcon Dreamcast soundtrack at NO ROOM The official site of Susumu Hirasawa P MODEL Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sword of the Berserk Guts 27 Rage amp oldid 1124584944, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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