Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage

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Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage

System(s): Sega Dreamcast

Publisher: Eidos Interactive, ASCII (JP)

Developer: ASCII, Yuke's

Licensor: Kentarou Miura, Studio Gaga, Hakusensha, vap, Nippon TV

Peripherals supported: Dreamcast VGA Box, Jump Pack, Visual Memory Unit

Genre: Adventure

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1999-12-16	¥6,8006,800	T-2101M
US	2000-02-29	$49.9949.99^[1]	T-36805N
EU	2000-05^[2]		T-36807D-50
AU	2000	$89.9589.95^[4]

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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.

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

Source:

In-game credits (JP)

Versions

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

Expert Gamer (US) #72: "June 2000" (2000-05-23)^[5]

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)^[6]
Computer & Video Games (UK) #223: "June 2000" (2000-05-17)^[7]

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

576 Konzol (HU)

78

^[14]

Arcade (UK)

PAL

25

^[8]

Bonus (YU)

PAL

92

^[15]

Consoles + (FR)

NTSC-J

88

^[16]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

25

^[3]

Dreamcast Monthly (UK)

PAL

40

^[17]

DC-UK (UK)

PAL

60

^[18]

Digitiser (UK)

PAL

40

^[19]

Dreamcast Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

83

^[20]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

NTSC-J

75

^[12]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

73

^[2]

Dorimaga (JP)

NTSC-J

89

^[11]

Dreamzone (FR)

NTSC-U

88

^[21]

Edge (UK)

NTSC-J

30

^[13]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

81

^[22]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

NTSC-U

81

^[23]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

NTSC-J

79

^[24]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

75

^[25]

Fun Generation (DE)

NTSC-J

70

^[26]

GameFan (US)

NTSC-J

72

^[27]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

73

^[28]

GamesMaster (UK)

PAL

63

^[29]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

78

^[30]

Gamers' Republic (US)

NTSC-U

91

^[31]

GameWEEK (US)

NTSC-U

67

^[32]

Incite Video Gaming (US)

NTSC-U

60

^[33]

Joypad (IT)

NTSC-J

75

^[34]

MAN!AC (DE)

NTSC-J

56

^[35]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

58

^[36]

Mega Fun (DE)

NTSC-J

86

^[37]

Neo Plus (PL)

80

^[38]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

50

^[39]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

50

^[40]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (US)

NTSC-U

70

^[1]

Playmag (FR)

NTSC-J

70

^[41]

PSX Extreme (PL)

73

^[42]

Sega Magazin (DE)

PAL

81

^[43]

Strana Igr (RU)

65

^[44]

	68
Based on 38 reviews

Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Disc Inlay

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Disc

Dreamcast, JP (Trial Version R)
Cover
Disc

Dreamcast, UK
Cover
Disc

External links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Official Dreamcast Magazine, "July/August 2000" (US; 2000-06-06), page 106
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 9" (UK; 2000-05-18), page 52
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Computer & Video Games, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-17), page 85
↑ Hyper, "August 2000" (AU; 2000-xx-xx), page 71
↑ Expert Gamer, "June 2000" (US; 2000-05-23), page 58
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 9" (UK; 2000-05-18), page 23
↑ Computer & Video Games, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-17), page 2
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Arcade, "July 2000" (UK; 2000-06-20), page 75
↑ Consoles +, "Février 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 120/121 (120)
↑ File:DCM_JP_19991224_1999-39ex.pdf, page 25
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 File:Dorimaga JP 20021011 2002-18.pdf, page 33 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Dorimaga JP 20021011 2002-18.pdf_p33" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 5" (UK; 2000-01-27), page 78
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 Edge, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-22), page 73
↑ 576 Konzol, "Június-Július 2000" (HU; 2000-xx-xx), page 40
↑ Bonus, "7/2000" (YU; 2000-09-25), page 48
↑ Consoles +, "Février 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 120
↑ Dreamcast Monthly, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-11), page 78
↑ DC-UK, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-12), page 80
↑ Digitiser (UK) (2000-06-02)
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "1999-39 extra (1999-12-24ex)" (JP; 1999-12-10), page 25
↑ Dreamzone, "mi Avril-mi Mai 2000" (FR; 2000-04-14), page 88
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 2000" (US; 2000-04-04), page 145
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 257
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 264
↑ Famitsu, "1999-12-24" (JP; 1999-12-10), page 35
↑ Fun Generation, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-19), page 98
↑ GameFan, "Volume 8, Issue 3: March 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 13
↑ GamePro, "May 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 108
↑ GamesMaster, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-18), page 93
↑ Game Informer, "April 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 51
↑ Gamers' Republic, "May 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 64
↑ GameWEEK, "February 21, 2000" (US; 2000-02-21), page 17
↑ Incite Video Gaming, "May 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 94
↑ Joypad, "Febbraio 2000" (IT; 2000-0x-xx), page 99
↑ MAN!AC, "03/2000" (DE; 2000-02-02), page 39
↑ MAN!AC, "08/2000" (DE; 2000-07-05), page 67
↑ Mega Fun, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-05), page 79
↑ Neo Plus, "Lipiec-Sierpień 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 72
↑ Next Generation, "June 2000" (US; 2000-05-23), page 98
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "August 2000" (UK; 2000-07-06), page 83
↑ Playmag, "Mars 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 122
↑ PSX Extreme, "03/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 41
↑ Sega Magazin, "Juli 2000" (DE; 2000-06-05), page 22
↑ Strana Igr, "Sentyabr 2000 2/2" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 18

[:File:ODCM_US_06.pdf_p106-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Official Dreamcast Magazine, "July/August 2000" (US; 2000-06-06), page 106

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_09.pdf_p52-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 9" (UK; 2000-05-18), page 52

[:File:CVG_UK_223.pdf_p85-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Computer & Video Games, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-17), page 85

[:File:Hyper_AU_082.pdf_p71-4] Hyper, "August 2000" (AU; 2000-xx-xx), page 71

[:File:ExpertGamer_US_72.pdf_p58-5] Expert Gamer, "June 2000" (US; 2000-05-23), page 58

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_09.pdf_p23-6] Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 9" (UK; 2000-05-18), page 23

[:File:CVG_UK_223.pdf_p2-7] Computer & Video Games, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-17), page 2

[:File:Arcade_UK_21.pdf_p75-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Arcade, "July 2000" (UK; 2000-06-20), page 75

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_097.pdf_p120_.28120.2F121.29-9] Consoles +, "Février 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 120/121 (120)

[:File:DCM_JP_19991224_1999-39ex.pdf_p25-10] File:DCM_JP_19991224_1999-39ex.pdf, page 25

[:File:Dorimaga_JP_20021011_2002-18.pdf_p33-11] 11.0 ^11.1 File:Dorimaga JP 20021011 2002-18.pdf, page 33 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Dorimaga JP 20021011 2002-18.pdf_p33" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_05.pdf_p78-12] 12.0 ^12.1 Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 5" (UK; 2000-01-27), page 78

[:File:Edge_UK_082.pdf_p73-13] 13.0 ^13.1 Edge, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-22), page 73

[14] 576 Konzol, "Június-Július 2000" (HU; 2000-xx-xx), page 40

[:File:Bonus_7_SCG.pdf_p48-15] Bonus, "7/2000" (YU; 2000-09-25), page 48

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_097.pdf_p120-16] Consoles +, "Février 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 120

[:File:DreamcastMonthly_UK_09.pdf_p78-17] Dreamcast Monthly, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-11), page 78

[:File:DCUK_UK_10.pdf_p80-18] DC-UK, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-12), page 80

[digitiser2000-06-02-19] Digitiser (UK) (2000-06-02)

[:File:DCM_JP_19991224_1999-39ex.pdf_p25-20] Dreamcast Magazine, "1999-39 extra (1999-12-24ex)" (JP; 1999-12-10), page 25

[:File:Dreamzone_12_2000_Scan.pdf_p88-21] Dreamzone, "mi Avril-mi Mai 2000" (FR; 2000-04-14), page 88

[:File:EGM_US_130.pdf_p145-22] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 2000" (US; 2000-04-04), page 145

[23] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 257

[24] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 264

[25] Famitsu, "1999-12-24" (JP; 1999-12-10), page 35

[:File:FunGeneration_DE_49.pdf_p98-26] Fun Generation, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-19), page 98

[:File:GameFan_US_0803.pdf_p13-27] GameFan, "Volume 8, Issue 3: March 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 13

[:File:GamePro_US_140.pdf_p108-28] GamePro, "May 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 108

[:File:GamesMaster_UK_095.pdf_p93-29] GamesMaster, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-18), page 93

[:File:GameInformer_US_084.pdf_p51-30] Game Informer, "April 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 51

[:File:GamersRepublic_US_24.pdf_p64-31] Gamers' Republic, "May 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 64

[:File:GameWEEK_US_2000-02-21.pdf_p17-32] GameWEEK, "February 21, 2000" (US; 2000-02-21), page 17

[:File:InciteVideoGaming_US_6.pdf_p94-33] Incite Video Gaming, "May 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 94

[:File:Joypad_IT_02.pdf_p99-34] Joypad, "Febbraio 2000" (IT; 2000-0x-xx), page 99

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2000-03.pdf_p39-35] MAN!AC, "03/2000" (DE; 2000-02-02), page 39

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2000-08.pdf_p67-36] MAN!AC, "08/2000" (DE; 2000-07-05), page 67

[:File:MegaFun_DE_2000-02.pdf_p79-37] Mega Fun, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-05), page 79

[38] Neo Plus, "Lipiec-Sierpień 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 72

[:File:NextGeneration_US_66.pdf_p98-39] Next Generation, "June 2000" (US; 2000-05-23), page 98

[:File:ODM_UK_10.pdf_p83-40] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "August 2000" (UK; 2000-07-06), page 83

[:File:Playmag_FR_45.pdf_p122-41] Playmag, "Mars 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 122

[42] PSX Extreme, "03/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 41

[:File:SegaMagazin_DE_80.pdf_p22-43] Sega Magazin, "Juli 2000" (DE; 2000-06-05), page 22

[44] Strana Igr, "Sentyabr 2000 2/2" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 18

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Contents

Production credits

Versions

Localised names

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

External links

References