The game also features an entirely new character called Charles, an Apostle (a human who makes a sacrifice in order to become a demon) who seeks revenge against Guts for disturbing his peace and uses illusions of the Band of the Hawk’s members to toy with Guts. The story is faithful to the source material overall, with many lines and shots taken straight from the manga, though some cuts were made – any instances of sexual violence were removed (likely to avoid anything worse than its CERO-18 rating), anything relating to Griffith’s fight against the Kushan empire was removed, and Rickert and Erica are mysteriously absent from the battle at the Hill of Swords. Taking place across volume 22 through volume 27 of the manga, the story covers the beginning of the Falcon of the Millennium Empire arc up to the point where Guts dons the Berserker Armor and fights Grunbeld. Luckily, a functional English fan translation is available for those who wish to try it out. This isn’t too surprising though, as the English publication of the manga still hadn’t caught up to the volumes that this game covers and wouldn’t do so until 2008, two years after the Playstation 3’s launch and long after the anime boom of the late 90s-early 2000s was over in North America.

While it’s far from being a great action game, it’s still a notable improvement over the previous game, so it’s a shame that it never made it overseas.

Berserk Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Shou (or Berserk Millennium Empire Arc: Chapter of the Holy Demon War) landed on the Playstation 2 and was only released in Japan and Korea.

In 2004, Yuke’s would finally get another shot at the Berserk license.

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