His swordsmanship and charisma are unparalleled, making him appear messianic to most people.Ī runaway thief who joins Guts in hopes of learning swordsmanship from him, Isidro mostly serves as comic relief alongside Puck. After the Conviction arc, he returns to the physical world with the goal of reforming the Band of the Hawk to help create his ideal utopia. Once the leader of the Band of the Hawk and Guts’ trusted comrade, Griffith sacrificed everyone he cared for in order to further his dream of ruling a kingdom, becoming the fifth member of the God Hand in the process.
Charles and his tragic backstory fit the world and tone of Berserk perfectly, but the story itself feels like a pointless addition it starts with Guts arbitrarily stumbling upon a mansion in the middle of a snowfield and doesn’t get brought up again until the journey into the Qliphoth, where it’s treated as more of an interruption than as something with equal importance to the main objective. 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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