Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage

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Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage
System(s): Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Eidos Interactive (US, Europe), ASCII (Japan)
Developer: ASCII, Yuke's
Supporting companies: Aoni Production
Licensor: Kentarou Miura, Studio Gaga, Hakusensha, vap, Nippon TV
Peripherals supported: Dreamcast VGA Box, Jump Pack, Visual Memory Unit
Genre: Dramatic 3D Action (ドラマティック3Ｄアクション), Action
Number of players: 1
Official in-game languages: 日本語 English
Release Date RRP Code JP 1999-12-16 ¥6,800 (7,140)6,800e T-2101M US 2000-03-15 $49.9949.99 T-36805N DE 2000-05-19 T-36807D-05 UK 2000-05-19 £39.9939.99 T-36807D-05 AU 2000-06-22 $89.9589.95

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Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage, known as Berserk: Sennen Teikoku no Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shou (ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 喪失花の章) in Japan, is an action game for the Sega Dreamcast based on the Berserk media franchise.

Production credits

• Executive Producer: Hozumi Yoshida, Hisashi Suzuki, Yukinori Taniguchi (Yuke's)
• Producer: Ichiro Sugiyama
• Executive Supervisor & Original Scenario Written & Character Designed By: Kentarou Miura (Studio Gaga), Berserk (Young Animal Published by Hakusensha)
• Product Supervisor: Akira Shimada
• Scenario Writer: Tsuyoshi Tamai
• Quality Check Director: Takashi Suzuki
• Director: Yoshio Togiya
• Planning Director: Norifumi Hara
• Planner: Susumu Nakamoto, Nozomi Hanai
• Programmer: Tatsuhiko Sugimoto, Hiroki Ueno, Takanori Yoshioka
• Art Director: Yoshio Togiya
• 3D Character Creator: Makoto Yamamoto, Yuki Asano, Taichi Higashino, Katsushi Baba
• Background Creator: Kyohei Hosomi, Chiyo Amari, Satoshi Ueda, Takashi Komiyama, Naomi Obama
• 3D Animation Director: Takashi Komiyama
• 3D Animation Creator: Masahiro Nakatani, Maiko Hayaishi, Yoshihiro Tamura, Kanako Hayashi, Masataka Yamada
• Interface Designer: Chiyo Amari
• Visual Effect Designer: Takashi Komiyama
• Technical Supporter: Takashi Hashiki, Syuji Matsudaira, Masaki Izuoka
• Cast
  • Guts: Nobutoshi Hayashi
  • Casca: Yuko Miyamura
  • Puck: Yuriko Fuchizaki
  • Rita: Yuri Shiratori
  • Eriza: Sumi Shimamoto
  • Dunteth: Takahiro Yoshimizu, Yasuhiko Tokuyama, Munehiro Tokita, Tsuyoshi Takizawa, You Murakami, Daisuke Toujyou, Teruki Kitatani, Haramaki Kouji, Noriko Yoshitake
  • Balzak / Zoddo: Kenji Utsumi
• Cooperation: Artsvision, Aoni Production, Ken Production, Sigma Seven, Japan Actionclub
• Sound Producer: Rokurou Okuyama
• Casting Coordinator: Ryuichi Ohnuma
• Studio: Avaco Creative Studios

Sound

• Executive Sound Producer: Susumu Hirasawa
• Music Director (Supervisor): Kentarou Miura (Studio Gaga)
• Sound Engineer: Masanori Chinzei
• Management: Rihito Yumoto (Chaos Union), Mika Hirano (Chaos Union), Osamu Sunami, Hiroshi Kubota, Yutaka Takahashi (Marine Entertainment), Koichi Kikuchi (Marine Entertainment), Mina Otsuka (Marine Entertainment)
• Supervisor: Akira Shimada
• Sound Director: Masaya Imoto
• Composer: Masaya Imoto, Hiromi Murakami
• Sound Engineer: Kouji Yamada, Hiroaki Funane

Software Manual･Package

• Director: Ryuichi Ohnuma
• Designer: Hiroaki Kobayashi (K Plus Artworks)
• Writer: Takashi Suzuki, Susumu Nakamoto
• Product Manager: Akiyoshi Yamazaki, Jyunichi Ikehata
• Sales Manager: Takeshi Osanai
• Planning Coordinator: Takanari Oshida (Titans･Entertainment)
• Special Thanks: Nobuo Wada, Atsushi Tsutsumi, Takaichi Satou, Toshihiro Sakamoto, Yukihiro Yoshida, Katsuya Kashiwagi, Kouichi Ikeda, Hiroaki Tomita, Sayuri Ohkawa, Momoko Sekine, Naoko Oikawa, Miwa Togashi, Mika Nomura, Hirofumi Sugawara, Ayako Mori, Osamu Sunami, Kiyotaka Azuma, Shinya Masuda, Minoru Nagano, Hiromi Furuta, Takashi Kosono, Takashi Terasoma, Kentarou Miura (Studio Gaga), Hakusensha Inc., Vap Inc., Nippon Television Network Corporation, Yuke's Co. Ltd.
• Presented by: ASCII

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In-game credits (JP)

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Eidos Japan

• Managing Director: Satoshi Honda
• Executive Producer: Toshiyuki Nagai
• Producer: Takashi Yamaguchi
• Localization Coordinator: Masashi Oba
• QA Manager: Takashi lwama

Eidos Interactive

• Producer: Eric Adams
• Product Manager: Matthew Knoles
• PR Specialist: Greg Rizzer
• QA Manager: Brian King
• Lead Tester: Lars Bakken
• Tester: Shiloh Anacleto
• Manual: Eric Adams and Carol Ann Hanshaw
• Voice Director and Casting: Kris Zimmerman
• Voice Actors:
  • Guts: Michael Bell
  • Puck: Cam Clarke
  • Rita/Annette: Paula Tizo
  • Casca/Eriza: B.J. Ward
  • Dunteths Wife: Suzanne Blakesley
  • Balzac: Earl Boen
  • Dunteth/Gyove: Paul Edding
  • Zoddo: Peter Lurie
• Special Thanks: James Poole, Nick Earl, Mike Schmitt and Ken Schmidt, Screen Music Studios (L.A.), Black Sun Over Midland website

• The story and characters in GUTS' RAGE originate from the "Kenpuu Denki BERSERK" manga written by Kentaro Miura and serialized in Young Animal magazine.

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US manual

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Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage	Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage
English (US)	Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage	Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage
Japanese	ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 喪失花の章	Berserk: Sennen Teikoku no Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shou

Magazine articles

Main article: Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #1999-36ex: "1999-36 extra (1999/11/26ex)" (1999-11-12)

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #1999-39ex: "1999-39 extra (1999-12-24ex)" (1999-12-10)

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #2000-01: "2000-01 (2000-01-07,14)" (1999-12-24)

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (UK) #8: "No. 8" (2000-04-20)
also published in:

• Dreamcast Magazine (UK) #9: "No. 9" (2000-05-18)
• Computer & Video Games (UK) #223: "June 2000" (2000-05-17)

Print advert in Next Level (AR) #15: "Abril 2000" (2000-xx-xx)

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #130: "May 2000" (2000-04-04)
also published in:

• Expert Gamer (US) #72: "June 2000" (2000-05-23)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 576 Konzol (HU) 78 Arcade (UK) PAL 25 Bonus (YU) PAL 92 Consoles + (FR) NTSC-J 88 Computer & Video Games (UK) 25 Dreamcast Monthly (UK) PAL 40 DC-UK (UK) PAL 60 Digitiser (UK) PAL 40 Dreamcast Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 83 Dreamcast Magazine (UK) NTSC-J 75 Dreamcast Magazine (UK) PAL 73 Dorimaga (JP) NTSC-J 89 Dreamzone (FR) NTSC-U 88 Edge (UK) NTSC-J 30 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 81 Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU) NTSC-U 81 Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU) NTSC-J 79 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 75 Fun Generation (DE) NTSC-J 70 GameFan (US) NTSC-J 72 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 73 GamesMaster (UK) PAL 63 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 78 Gamers' Republic (US) NTSC-U 91 GameWEEK (US) NTSC-U 67 Incite Video Gaming (US) NTSC-U 60 Joypad (IT) NTSC-J 75 MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-J 56 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 58 Mega Fun (DE) NTSC-J 86 Neo Plus (PL) 80 Next Generation (US) NTSC-U 50 Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK) PAL 50 Official Dreamcast Magazine (US) NTSC-U 70 Playmag (FR) NTSC-J 70 PSX Extreme (PL) 73 Sega Magazin (DE) PAL 81 Strana Igr (RU) 65

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Compliance

Main article: Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage/Compliance.

Technical information

Main article: Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage/Technical information.

External links

• Sega of America webpage: Dreamcast
• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast