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Koei Tecmo's "Musou" games have a reputation for being mindless button mashers with little
to no substance, but is that really true?
Well, let's take a look at one of their more recent ones, Berserk and the Band of
the Hawk, and see just how repetitive it is.
Probably the biggest selling point of this game is that it takes you from the start of
the Golden Age to the point they get on the boat.
For those that don't like reading, it's a pretty sweet deal to basically get what
the 2016 anime series tried to do except without having a visual style that makes you go into
dry heaves.
It is, strangely enough, the most accurate representation of the manga's story to come
from any of the adaptations.
That said, I'd highly recommend you at least watch one of the animated adaptations or read
the manga - partially to sorta fill in the gaps, and partially because you need to already
be a fan of this series to really get anything out of this if you don't already love Musou
style games.
One thing I have to mention that makes things confusing is that this game downplays or removes
everything … ah, how do I say this without incurring the wrath of the Yellow Dollar Sign
- you know how when a man loves a woman - or another man - and they want to do certain
totally natural acts with them, but sometimes without the other person's permission?
Yeah, anything dealing with that is either downplayed or removed, and this makes a lot
of scenes just not make sense, and that's no good.
On a side note, the translation is really bad.
It's not like it's machine translated or anything, I understand what's being said
thanks to the context, but Jesus Christ get an editor to proof read this thing.
Oh, and the Story Mode is only for Guts.
If you were going into this game hoping to get what-if scenarios, well, too bad.
Guts - He's big and heavy, obviously.
While this clearly is how it should be, it sort of presents a problem in that, typically,
the main character of a game is balanced in all their stats.
Guts clearly isn't.
And unfortunately, I couldn't find any character that actually fits the "Balanced" build.
They're all either really slow moving beasts or quick moving pixies.
The one exception is Schierke, who feels altogether fresh for a Musou style game.
It's still fun, though.
Not particularly challenging unless you are fighting the high ranked demons and Apostles,
but it's fairly good turn-your-brain-off entertainment that I feel probably scratches
the same itch that something like Stardew Valley would - mindlessly performing repetitive
tasks that gradually build to something rewarding.
Despite how similar the characters we got were, I was disappointed we didn't get more
playable characters.
It's a rather small roster for a modern Musou game.
The full roster is Guts, Griffith, Casca, Judeau, Serpico, Schierke, Zodd and Wyald.
Eight characters.
Considering they had what felt like millions of characters in Hyrule Warriors, this feels
anemic.
I'm super disappointed that Skull Knight isn't playable, but aside from him what
about Isidro, Farnese, Rickert, Pippin, Silat, Grunbeld, Mozgus, Slan - heck, I'd even
take boring characters like Gaston or Corkus considering the lack of "Jack of all Trades"
characters to play as… eh, maybe not, those characters would be really boring.
Still, there's room for a lot more characters.
Even Bazuso would have had the potential to be amusing, seeing him take on the God Hand.
Two things about the gameplay I do wish was changed - I wish the camera was better, as
it oftentimes finds its way into very awkward positions and the lockon just doesn't seem
to work right, and I wish you could change subweapons with something other than the dpad.
The subweapons are essentially extra moves that you want to easily swap on the fly - having
to take your thumb off the movement stick just to change up your next move is far, far
from ideal.
Aside from the main story, there's also the Endless Eclipse mode.
I suppose this is sort of the substitute for an "Empires" or "Conquest" mode you'd
typically find in a Musou style game.
While I like Endless Eclipse just fine, I do still feel like a "Conquest" mode would
have been right in line with the feel of Berserk, especially the Golden Age arc - I mean, it
was all about a guy forming a mercenary band, recruiting members with the intent of forming
his own kingdom.
That's totally Dynasty Warriors: Empires territory.
I'm also just imaging there being some obscure requirements you could meet to bring about
the Eclipse and create a secret endgame akin to resurrecting Oda Nobunaga in Sengoku Basara
3 Utage - I know, I might as well be writing fan fiction, let's get back on topic.
Endless Eclipse is 100 levels of mini-battles, with usually every fifth floor culminating
in a boss battle.
As you get higher up, though, you'll be fighting bosses almost constantly.
There is no difficulty setting for this, so there's no easy way out, thought there are
some sploits,
While some missions have a minor basis in the actual story, it's mostly completely
independent.
You'll have bitter enemies working together, close friends fighting to the death, you'll
even on occasion take on missions from someone only for that very client to then turn on
you in the end.
It's separation from the source material helps keep it fresh even to those with an
encyclopedic knowledge of the manga.
It's also what I'm using as background footage, just to keep this as spoiler free
as possible.
So, there's a lot of unlockable content in the game, but aside from a small amount
of costumes that actually change the way a character plays (most are purely cosmetic)
and a couple of the mounts, none of them even try to wow you.
Oh boy, I unlocked Judeau wearing the same outfit he had before, except now he's wearing
a helmet.
Wow, how'd they do that?
Thing is, there actually are some interesting mounts and costumes - but they're all DLC.
So if you wanna play as post-coitus Casca or you wanna ride the horse that wants to
ride the woman, you gotta pay up.
A lot.
(Oh, and the, ah, eggplant emoji horse is Japanese exclusive.
Yay.)
And even then, it's missing a lot of potential costumes and mounts I'd have liked to see.
Why not the Kelpie as a mount?
Why not play as Casca in a post-Eclipse outfit or play as Griffith in that mummy outfit?
I mean if you are gonna be selling things like Dandy Guts and Golem Schierke, you can't
exactly pull a "respecting the canon" excuse.
I'd overall give this a C. It certainly shows off the Musou series' reputation of
repetition, but I will say that the theme of Berserk goes really well with it and it
has some decent ideas, especially in regards to transformations and magic users.
The graphics are serviceable, the music is there, I guess (Lord, do we need Susumu Hirasawa
back), nothing outside of the gameplay and the story really left any sort of impact on
me.
If you like Musou games, it's pretty good.
If you don't and you just want Berserk action, I'd say rent or borrow it and just beat
the main story as quick as you can.
Holy crap, there's a lot in this game.
For completionists, you are looking to be playing for anywhere from 40 to 60 hours.
To get everything in this game, you'll need to go through 100 layers of Endless Eclipse
with 8 characters.
Fortunately, you can buy character levels with gold, so you don't have to grind with
every character, but this still ain't gonna be something you can just platinum in a week.
For those just looking to play through the main story, though, you're looking at anywhere
from 10-20 hours.
I'd rank this anywhere from Casual to Intermediate depending on how far you wanna go with it.
While Berserk difficulty and higher layers of the Eclipse may be challenging at first,
once you understand that Frenzy mode will make you invincible, you can easily plan every
battle around this fact.
Just a small tip - save the majority of Casca's Eclipse stuff for when you unlock Hawk of
Light's Warhorse.
No need to experience the same frustration I did.
While I haven't really played many of the Musou games, I have played a lot of the Sengoku
Basara and Senran Kagura games, which might as well be Musou games.
Also, I have platinumed Berserk and put 51 hours into it, so hopefully you don't have
to take my word with too many grains of salt.
I'm not saying you have to have platinumed a game or even necessarily beat it to have
a legitimate review of it, but I think it does at least make it… more legitimate.
So, there you have it.
If you are a fan of the series, then by all means give it a go; otherwise, unless you
are just looking for a relatively cheap way to kill 50 hours, you aren't really missing
anything.
And that's all I really feel the need to say.
Later days.
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