I like the Conviction arc of Berserk, in particular the later portion where Guts has to rescue Casca, but its been over 10 years since Demon Souls came out, and these games now all look the same because they are all using the same source material.
Its kind of amazing that in a manga where the vast majority of it involves the main character being in a pretty big group (in particular a mercenary army in the Golden Era Arc) the one major arc where his on his own is the one that constantly gets used to make video games, despite the fact that the entire point of the Conviction arc is that Guts being on his own will cause him to lose his humanity and become an Apostle.
The sole exception is Bloodborne which is to do this day the best looking Souls game because it doesnt just look like someone took the Lost Children arc and said "Here's the concept art lets make a video game". Looking at Wikipedia no one has updated the sales data of Bloodborne for a long time because I doubt it sold less than 3 million copies, but it also said it succeeded Sony expectation so why dont we at least get games that look like someone actually put effort into differentiating the design.
I look at JRPGs right now and it just seems like they are coming in two varietys; Retro rpgs based on Final Fantasy VI, and Souls games based on the Conviction arc of Berserk.
I look back at video games over the past 20 years and think "What Video games did the Millenium Falcon arc of Berserk influence" and the answer is: the two Berserk video games set in the Millennium Falcon arc.
I am not saying that the next Dark Souls games needs to have a fairy that constantly references Star Wars but I would just like Video Game developers to notice that there was more to Berserk than "Violent man stabs giant demon with big sword"
Its kind of amazing that in a manga where the vast majority of it involves the main character being in a pretty big group (in particular a mercenary army in the Golden Era Arc) the one major arc where his on his own is the one that constantly gets used to make video games, despite the fact that the entire point of the Conviction arc is that Guts being on his own will cause him to lose his humanity and become an Apostle.
The sole exception is Bloodborne which is to do this day the best looking Souls game because it doesnt just look like someone took the Lost Children arc and said "Here's the concept art lets make a video game". Looking at Wikipedia no one has updated the sales data of Bloodborne for a long time because I doubt it sold less than 3 million copies, but it also said it succeeded Sony expectation so why dont we at least get games that look like someone actually put effort into differentiating the design.
I look at JRPGs right now and it just seems like they are coming in two varietys; Retro rpgs based on Final Fantasy VI, and Souls games based on the Conviction arc of Berserk.
I look back at video games over the past 20 years and think "What Video games did the Millenium Falcon arc of Berserk influence" and the answer is: the two Berserk video games set in the Millennium Falcon arc.
I am not saying that the next Dark Souls games needs to have a fairy that constantly references Star Wars but I would just like Video Game developers to notice that there was more to Berserk than "Violent man stabs giant demon with big sword"
