Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage is the first time the Berserk franchise was ever introduced in the West. The game is set just after the series ended as a sort of companion piece to the original story.

With the original writer Kentarō Miura co-writing the story and producing art for the game helps make it a much more faithful adaption of the franchise than most other mediums this series has dipped its toes in.

Published by Eidos in early 2000, Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage, apart from having a stupidly long name, not only introduced Berserk to the West but also action game concepts we take for granted today.