Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage

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Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage

Developer(s)	YUKE's Future Media Creators
Publisher(s)	Eidos Interactive
Release date(s)	[1999] (JP) March 16th, 2000 (US)
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Mature
Platform(s)	Dreamcast
Media	1 × GD-ROM
Input	controller

Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage (ベルセルク千帝国の鷹(ミレニアム・ファルコン)篇 ~喪失花(わすれはな)の章~, Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Oblivion Flower^?) is a video game for the Sega Dreamcast based on the popular Berserk manga and anime by Kentaro Miura. It takes place anywhere between volumes 22 and volume 23 of the Berserk manga; right after Guts and Puck depart for Elfhelm with Casca, but before Farnese, Serpico and Isidro catch up with them.

1 Story
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After saving a traveling performer named Rita from bandits, Guts, Casca, and Puck come to a small castle town to rest. Upon arriving, they learn of a disease that transforms its victims into "Mandragorans", making them go berserk, killing people, even their loved ones, without thinking. As the story progresses, the ruler of the castle, Balzac, shows Guts a room in the castle where people infected with the disease are kept. Balzac says he's searching a supposed cure. Guts learns from Balzac that the disease comes from an unusual plant: the Mandragora.

It grows underground only in a nearby town, and has small arms and legs. It will scream in pain if it's uprooted and release a toxin that infects the uprooter and anyone else in range with the same disease that infected the people Balzac has imprisoned. Balzac asks Guts to retrieve its heart from the Great Tree, and Guts sets off to get it with the idea it can also cure Casca of her mental retardation. On the way, Guts combats the Mandragorans until Nosferatu Zodd arrives. Guts asks him what Griffith's plans are, but Zodd insists on fighting. Guts bests Zodd before Zodd departs and Guts later gets the Mandragora's heart. When he returns to the town, Guts learns the truth; that Balzac only wants to use the heart to become a more "advanced" version of a Mandragoran himself. Guts then proceeds to kill Balzac and ironically, finds the cure back in that same room where Guts was told to get the heart. There, for a brief moment, Casca regains her sanity and is able to speak with Guts about how she had a bad dream before reverting back to her former speechless self.