Frenzy Mode is like a Musuo super attack, but you level it up five times within a mission to make it stronger after each use. It would have added a little depth and saved the culmination of one of two arcs featured in the game for later.Ī lot of the same mechanics translate too. We should have been introduced to a young Guts in training, perhaps getting beaten up by his superiors and adoptive father. I don’t particularly like it as a tutorial, either. It would have been a great introduction to both the character and the mechanics of Band of the Hawk. It should have began with the Black Swordsman arc, after Guts is already a bonafide badass, dealing with side villains and mainly showcasing his talents.

It’s such a small thing but I don’t like how the narrative starts in media res at the Eclipse, a major event of the most popular arc of the series, and spoils some major plotpoints for newcomers. There’s a big focus on combat and hellish imagery, but without some of the lengthier emotional arcs, the narrative misses out on that extra spark that makes the story so special. Band of the Hawk does a good job of explaining the essence of the original manga, but there’s some naturally truncated character development and several jarring takes on poignant scenes so they work in game form. It’s really hard to confine Berserk‘s insanity to an interactive medium.

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