PlayStation 4 User Reviews

Band of the Hawk exists in a weird purgatory: not a great way to experience Miura's opus, not a great way to experience Dynasty Warriors combat. With middling gameplay that struggles to replicate the heights other licensed entries in the Warriors franchise have, the low-budget retelling of the story proves this series is simply destined for weak, underwhelming adaptations not worth picking up over the manga.

I was going to rate this 10/10 but a femboy screwed me over

fking awesome i liked it i dream about it im bussing rn fr help meee im gonna die

If you are a fan of both Berserk and the Dynasty Warriors franchise you will love this hack and slash, gore-fest, that stay authentic to the Berserk anime. There is nothing ground breaking about this game, its a hack and slash with spliced in scenes from the Berserk movies, and television series. I enjoyed it because I am a glutton for completion with Dynasty Warriors-esq titles. This game does fix and expand on the television series season two and I am glad it expanded upon how the show left off. There was potential in this game to have countless characters to play as, yet we are limited in size and scope for playable characters. It's depressing that we will never get to play as the Skull Rider, or other characters such as Pippin, and other various generals and apostles from the Anime series. Fun to play, replay ability, just falls short on its potential.

What happens when you cross Dynasty Warriors with baby's first seinen manga series? Apparently a dumpster fire worse than the worst Kingdom Hearts game... I guess if you are a Berserk fan, your mind can only handle hitting one button repeatedly while fighting the same enemies throughout the same three backgrounds. At least this game serves as a containment of sorts from keeping brain dead idiots from getting into anything of substance and keeps their grubby, Cheeto powdered hands off of actually good franchises... If you like your Tolkien knock offs with ****, **** and more ****, you haven't quite figured out games with two button combat, and you like your main characters that carry around 7 foot long swords because they are compensating for having a short sword where it counts, this might be your game of the year.

Eu que sou muito fan de Berserk e o considero como melhor anime/manga de todos tive dificuldades no começo para jogar berserk por ser um pouco chato e ultra repetitivo mas para todo fan reviver a historia ou parte dela jogando vai gostar e vai querer se dedicar ao game, Um bom jogo para Fan para quem não é fan deve ser chato demais.

First let me emphasize, if you are a fan of musou/dynasty warriors games, you will like this game. If you are not, and are not a fan of Berserk, you most likely won't care for it. There is a reason Dynasty Warriors games are a niche franchise, you either love them or hate them.

Even after playing a few chapters of this game and of course knowing about the anime story behind it. I really wanted to see what Koei Tecmo has done to the story line. I see a mixture of the story and cutscenes from the anime put your heart in the right place. Talking to Koei Tecmo they also developed the Dynasty Warriors franchise so you will definitely see some cross between the game play and mechanics with Berserk. I noticed it a lot more on Easy difficulty which allows you to play the story line easier and faster. What do I mean by faster meaning just like Dynasty Warriors I can walk up to a group of enemy shoulders and they probably wouldn't hit me for a few minutes. This is truly a hack and slash game. Not a lot of different "finishers" if you would like to call it that. Not very complex combo moves which can be a hit or miss to many who play. But I do like that you can have enhancements that are picked up to make your character whether its Guts or Griffith better at defeating enemies... OR help you pick up drops more effectively. Not a $60 game which is why I rented it instead but probably should fall short of that based on the playability. Would I play this again probably not once the story mode was completed. But they do offer a Free Mode (Free roaming) and other side-games that you can entertain yourself with. Also for any parents out there that are already letting your child play a mature game, they have a Gore option - you can turn it off, but you can't turn off the weird "hell" bizarre things that happen in this game towards the beginning and end. Take it how you see it, I like both Berserk and Dynasty Warriors and what a great way to vent after a crap day by playing a hack and slash that combines your favorite anime with a long time favorite series.

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berserk and the band of the hawk is a dynastysamurai warriors -like game but it's simply a waste of time even for a fan, I've read the manga, watched the anime and movie, but this game doesn't do it. it has a decent graphic models which is loyal to the source and the cutscenes are taken from the movies but that's about the only good thing I have to say about this game. this game fighting style is so simplistic and repetitive, every mission is about the same and by the same I mean - almost the same map, same models , idiotic ai . to me it feels like there's a template for the game just different models inserted, you could've easily do another game and it all feels the same. bosses such as zodd are laughable in normal difficulty and horseriding is absolutely bad. it takes you through the story but the only thing that gives you the feeling you're playing it is ONLY the cutscenes, specially when I compare it to the PS2 berserk game, there everything from cutscenes to fights were related and felt like a continuous story, here it simply bored me. I literally forced myself to play the game but couldn't get into it. there're some obscure decisions in this game like equipment is just for stats but nothing interesting, really reminds me of the old dynasty warriors I've played ages ago but back then it felt fresh but this simply refuse to take off. you can upgrade your rings and etc but it all feels very cheap and in each and every step of the way it feels like a bad template that berserk models were pour into... even when you unlock characters and try them it's the same story, mechanic is the same but the moves are different. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone not even a die hard fan(the kind who checks constantly if there's another manga chapter!) would find this game disappointing and boring

First let me emphasize, if you are a fan of musou/dynasty warriors games, you will like this game. If you are not, and are not a fan of Berserk, you most likely won't care for it. There is a reason Dynasty Warriors games are a niche franchise, you either love them or hate them. That being said, as a Dynasty Warriors game, this game is very fun to play. At first I was honestly a little underwhelmed from a lack of moves in your moveset and item/equipment options, but once you get further into the game the depth begins to show with more moves to unlock, transformations, costumes, and accessories to combine and use at your disposal. For a $60 price tag, I think it's fair to say the game does fall a bit short in terms of content when compared to other Musou games. However, there's a lot of hours to be spent in the endless eclipse mode for unlocking things for the specific character you choose to play through the mode with. DON'T Spend $60 unless you are either a huge fan of Berserk or love dynasty warriors style games. Final Score: 7/10

This review has been CENSORED by Metacritic once, i edited it to make it "luss uffunssive, muh feelings", but i'll keep posting it if it gets deleted. It is pure cash-grab seriously, the game has like 0 depth whatsoever in terms of game-play you are better playing the PS2 game which was WAY better with more game mechanics than this game. Difficulties are broken all of them, if you play on Berserk the game at first glans seems to be super hard and it is because the game has 0 depth in terms of combat and is just a button mashing game (and not even a good one just smash X and Y...) then they made a mechanic called RAGE, when you press O and get all powerful and mighty YOU CAN'T DIE, you are literally IMMORTAL and here is another thing... that rage meter thing charges ON IT'S OWN once your health is red... so here is how you beat the game on Bersker mode: Get on red health---> wait for rage--->press O and become immortal ---> hack and slash everyone-->charge "ult"---> press O again in the direction of a multitude of enemies or the boss---> WIN. There is no "git gud" so don't pretend this game is hard, it isn't, this mechanics just shows how bad this is, people trying to pretend this game is hard and one must "become good" are just lying to themselves, the game combat has no mechanics whatsoever is unresponsive and it's basically done to just spam X and Y and sometimes hit O. The fact of the matter is that if you put the game on "Hard" it is outright BABY MODE, enemies hit for like .04% of your total health bar... ARE YOU KIDDING ME NOW?, and you know why is that?, because the core of the game, the combat is terrible, it has no depth so the game can't be "balanced" either Baby mode or super hard mode with CHEESE. Then the "customization" is sooo LAME i mean compared to games like Dragon Quest Heroes this is terrible, no crafting, no item drops, no skills, no leveling up points, no character builds, no world map, no new areas with hidden bosses. All you have is lame accessories and that's it... They were so lazy that they just outright put the same stuff you already saw in the movies, you are basically seeing the movies again, the cut-scenes are just LAZY rip-offs. On top of that the game runs poorly and it has many problems with alt-tabbing, crashes and **** day 1 DLC, trash overpriced costumes. Anyone, ANYONE that defends this is just a fanboy, PERIOD.

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk Mindless Hack and Slash Berserk and the Band of the Hawk is a Dynasty Warriors style hack and slash game based on the Japanese manga Berserk.. It tells the story of a lone mercenary named Guts as well as the leader of the Band of the Hawk Griffith who is promised a kingdom by an egg shaped necklace he obtains as a boy… The whole story is centered around this prophecy which leads to many unexpected twists and turns. This game is about 14 hours long and is spread across 46 main missions... Unfortunately this game is extremely repetitive saved only by its story… The game is told through a mixture of still dialog, a few animated 3d scenes, and my favorite of the mixture an anime style.. There is unfortunately no English dub here, so if you don’t speak Japanese you do have to play the game with subtitles on… And as the game goes on it sadly ventures away from delivering the story with anime cut scenes… which is when all interest in the game and its characters disappear... you’re essentially left only with reading dialog… And it’s a shame because the gameplay here isn’t enough to keep the game interesting… From start to finish its all the same… Get thrown into a mission.. go to the points of interest on the map and kill your targets there until there’s a new point of interest, rinse and repeat… And the level design is so bland and uninteresting that it eventually starts feeling like a grind despite the quick pace of you being able to slice through most enemies like warm butter… You can play a few missions as other characters as well as unlock new character to play in free mode and endless eclipse mode, but everyone feels practically the same so it doesn’t matter… in combat you have a light and heavy attack… you also have ranged weapons, and consumable slots to temporarily boost stats.. You slice through enemies to fill up a bar to then do more damage while you’re invulnerable for a few seconds to fill up another bar to unleash a power attack killing most enemies in the surrounding area… rinse and repeat... at the end of each mission you get your spoils of war to equip accessories on your characters as well as upgrade items and their stats by using stones or unwanted items… So you can slice through the spongier enemies a little easier… they’re also a few bosses thrown in here that are really well designed… but rarely feel anything more than normal enemies with larger health bars… These rare encounters are the only time you’ll find yourself dodging or blocking.. Berserk and the Band of the Hawk is carried by its interesting story and characters that I genuinely loved… I just wish there was more to the game than the same mission copy and pasted 46 times for 14 hours with some story sandwiched in between them. I give Berserk and the Band of the Hawk a 6.5/10

It's no cut! and Berserk!! Better then Japan type. Good Graphics and good actions, good animation of character good weapons , good voices, It's good game.

A brutal experience for any fan of the Black Swordsman. A truly faithful adaptation to the manga and the animes (with actual scenes from the Golden Age arc). If you've got a weak stomach, stay away from this game.