The dreamcast game was ok… completely new story…
the walls though… my god the walls… reaaaally pissed me off… if it werent for the walls…
PS2 game was toooo sick
You have to play it… although its japanese, it almost follows the manga 100% so you wont be totally lost… but it really is fun…
Oh not to mention the Game Soundtracks!!!
Amazing stuff! Keeps true to the berserk atmosphere…
Dont you want to try your hand at fighting these guys gatsu fights in the manga?
^Not when it involves this much skill:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (use cannon) XXXXXXXXXXXXX (use puck) XXXXXXXXXXX keep mashing X and moving toward new enemy
Worst than dynasty warriors. Also Farnese, Isidro, and Pucks voice actor sucked big time.
Guts Rage actually required a level of skill and was really freakin hard too. Not to mention it was a new story and the english voice acting didn’t suck (I was amazed). In fact the english was actually good (wtf).
In all honesty, with the way Gatsu plows through the monsters in the manga, the PS2 game was a bit too hard at least compared to the manga.
hahahah the walls were your worst enemy in the DC game. I remember that :lol:
Also, if you really think about it… Griffith isn’t exactly evil.
He is pursuing his dreams. The decision he made, that was an evil choice, however as a character, he is not evil.
There’s 2 Kenshin RPGs. One that came out last year or so that is based on the Kyoto Arc for Japanese PS2. Never played it but the game featured Saito Hajime’s seiyuu’s final performance before he passed away (he is also in the director’s cut of the Reflection OVA as Saito BTW) so RIP.
The one I’m talking about came out years earlier. It’s a new story that can in no way fit into the manga, the cartoon world maybe if it takes place after the series, like where the movie might fit (but you are better off not thinking about that and treating it as its own thing lol). Anyway it takes place after Kyoto.
The game has two protagonists. If you choose the female you will encounter Aoshi during gameplay and get to control him for a bit. If you choose the male you get Saito instead. There are minor differences but the game is more or less the same no matter who you pick.
Kenshin, Sanosuke, Kaoru, Yahiko and your protagonist make up your squad. Combat is kind of like rock, paper scissors only the attacks are high, low and mid. I don’t remember them all but I think low beats high, mid beats low and so on. It’s turned based so you see some of the attacks your opponent is going to do but not all so you have to plan your attack. In this sense it retains the spirit of Rurouni Kenshin because as you know Kenshin could figure out opponent’s moves before they did them, or at least figure out what they were thinking. You get a slew of super moves also, both Kenshin and Sanosuke have about 8 each. Yahiko can copy some of Kenshin’s moves too if he sees them enough much like the series.
All of the seiyuus return, anime cut scenes and lots of new villains drawn in the style of the anime for you to fight along with very cool music, they even added lyrics to Kenshin’s theme song from the Tokyo arc. There’s a few nods to the series complete with dream sequences where you view storylines from the past like Udo Jine’s fight with Kenshin and Sagara Sozo’s death. Great game. It’s only available for Japanese PS1 though. I think it’s a lot of fun but it’s only for the hardcore Kenshin fans. It’s no Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy so don’t look for that experience here. It does have a charm of its own for fans of the show though.
Oh yeah Guts always reminds me of Sagara Sanosuke because of his giant sword and attitude but the similarities end there. Wow what an on topic post. 
Saito Dies??? Hes My Favorite Character From Rurouni!!! Bullshit!!!
Ahhh, Berserk…great anime/manga, indeed.
If you guys haven’t seen it already, go check out Claymore. It’s just like Berserk in terms of violence in a dark middle age fantasy setting.
looks like someone’s cashing in with Kenshin for the PS2 there. It resembles those Naruto games and looks uninspired gameplay wise. Still, the double-kodachi moves by Aoushi brings back memories.
Saito…what a character. He left on a good note. Too bad he isn’t in the rest of the post-Kyoto eps. I’m tempted to see what happens to him later on.
Pursuing his ambitions, by killing those who see his dream and want it realized as badly as he does, doesn’t compute into a good thing. That’s a wrong that can’t be turned into a right.
Except the art is absolute shit and isn’t anywhere near as good as Berserk, in any area =/
The dude knew what he was getting into.He’s a sick selfish monster is what he is
It was still a good game. Basic in nature, but name any other anime-based games that aren’t as basic. Guts Rage didn’t require much skill either. You just had to avoid using your sword in a closed area. Other than that, it was pretty cake from there on out.
I don’t think the game was running for Jesus at any point.
And I’ll take the Japanese voice acting over the shitty American voice actors. Both anime, and games.
The PS2 Berserk game was easy.
Umm did you play DC Guts Rage dude? That game was REALLY hard, and it wasn’t just the corridors stopping your sword. Alot of parts of the game were rough. And the American voice actors for the game weren’t bad at all, hell of a lot better then the voice actors they used for the English anime release (wtf is up with that.)
The animation and the whole swinging your sword for HOURS with little tact was what got to me in the PS2 game, it was swing till you got the brand charge and boom you get to kill one enemy instantly but your still pressing X for an hour till you need to use puck or your cannon recharges and blow fools (cause your bored of pressing X). Not to mention Guts is like a million times slower in that game than the fatest bum from Dynasty Warriors, makes a man lose his mind running through never ending levels of pressing X. Only thing that made it worth it was the end fight.
Anyhow screw anime games anyway, it’s still all about the manga. Everyone, share your favorite moment of pwnage in Berserk Manga! Mine is…
Berserk
When Guts first gets the berserker armor and chops his way out of an apostles belly only to get chomped on again by another apostle bitch. Which he then CUTS IN HALF while having HALF HIS BODY in his mouth. Guts told that bitch whose boss.
Ummm…yeah, because unlike most of SRK, I actually play the game before commenting. Good mechanics, but still not that hard. It’s still you vs. a wall at the end of the day.
Isidro’s my fav. character in the series, I mean how can u deny the power of the IsiDropKick?!
He became my fav. character when he saved Caska from the crazed reliogous group during the eclipse, here I thought he was some dull side character, but damn he can fuck just about ANY main Shonen character there is.
…and again, IsiDropKick FTW!
lol come on… at least you could combine x with a directional button to create different “combos”… not a great game on its own, but the nostalgic value, the beautiful music (you really should just dl the soundtracks if you didnt play the game, I listen to it + anime OST when I read the manga), and boss battles (very cinematic) made it worth going through it… and yes, although it was mindless cut and slash in the end but hey, what does gatsu do most of the time…
but yeah, Wall > Gatsu for DC…
Evil choices does NOT make a character evil.
The concept of “good” and “evil” is very blurred in BERSERK. Griffith is the antagonist. Not evil. Griffith is not “good” on the same basis that Guts is not “good” nor "evil"
They are antagonist and protagonist with conflicting dreams.
You’re mistaking Griffith’s dream with ambition; there is a difference. Ambition is a simple want, while a true dream is on a much grander scale. For Griffith, the pursuit of his dream overrided EVERYTHING, and the SAME thing could be said about Guts.
Guts pursued his dream when he left Griffith. Although there was not direct consequences IMMEDIATELY, Guts ruined Griffith’s plan, and in doing so, Guts started the ball rolling of how things became how they are now.
Guts leaving made Griffith rush into pursuing Charlotte, thus getting captured and tortured.
In addition, the original Band of the Hawk all chose to follow Griffith. Griffith KNEW from the VERY BEGINNING that he was above all other mortals; he did not consider anyone his equal, no one. The only person that spurred Griffith was Guts; Guts was the only person Griffith considered a friend. And with Guts leaving Band of the Hawk, Griffith lost one of his main things in his life, that was the first time another human being was important to him.
By what you said, Guts is guilty of exactly the same sins as Griffith. Guts is pursuing his dream (both before Band of the Hawk, and after) and he is killing people because they stand in his way.
If you talk about innocent characters, check Books 1-3 of BERSERK. In those 3 books alone, Guts ruined many innocent lives:
There are more instances of this, but I don’t know off the top of my head.
Gut’s quote:
“If you’re always worried about crushing the ants beneath you…you won’t be able to walk.”
People fail to realize that Guts and Griffith are more alike than they want to believe.
Guts is almost as selfish as Griffith, and Guts is also pursuing his dreams. Please see my reply above.
Honestly? Griffith strikes me as an antichrist type of character. He has some similarities to
what an anti-christ usually is like.
Excellent skills in politics (or just very very lucky to get by so many rules and regulations
like he has been doing), is followed and supported by many, has an unstoppable ability
to inspire servitude and devotion towards him EVEN when people first meet him…and
he’s quite literally untouchable.
I doubt that’s what the writer is going for, but he follows from what I can tell, the
archetype of an anti-christ character.
That maybe true about evil choices don’t mean it’s evil. But I’m pretty sure when Gutts said that he didn’t mean destroy the people who meant anything to you, and what he did to Caska was out of line. Regardless of the dreams and all that bullshit every man has their destiny. Gutts was blessed despite all of that bad luck he had his whole life to make a choice, and be out of fate’s path. Griffith is a hoe plain and simple. Ants, huh? yeah whatever.
And what’s wrong with Gutts pursuing his OWN dreams and having a mind of his own instead of the rest of the Band of the Hawk who pretty much blindly followed Griffith around,and probably would have sucked him off if he asked them to
Gutts said that he could never be a part of someone else’s dream,and the fact that he heard Griffith spouting out that nonsense about a Friend is someone he considers his equal,and that he had none had to cement it for Gutts.
Gutts probably is selfish,but honestly I think Griffith was the one who sparked off the entire thing,and I really can’t blame Gutts for wanting to leave him in the dust since he was really not the same person that he initially met and when they fought Zodd
After the nonsense Gutts has had to fight I would be selfish too. It was years before he started thinking for himself anyhow. Always listening to other people and never himself. He had Gambino telling what to do, then Gutts was lost for a lil while just being a mercenary to the highest payer, then Griffith told him what to do, and then Gutts finally realized that he also has a goal. Now it was time to go find what it was.