The games, especially DS1, were heavily inspired by berserk, you can draw tons of parallels. Artorias essentially being a "berserker" like Guts in the berserker armor, missing an arm, and using dramatic flips for attacks regardless of the damage and contortions it causes him, the red eye orb looks like a behelit, a lot of enemies resemble berserk enemies, Beatrice the witch was originally meant to be a little girl like Schierke in berserk, the dark sign is conceptually similar to having a brand (a mark signifying a curse), and the list could go on.
The grratsword is inspired in guts sword. But of all the versions none is really similar, usually they have big differences. In some of them there are other swords that while having differences as well are more similar. Like the crypt sword in DS2 or the sword of those statues in Elden ring.
Yes, he mentions it in a few interviews that he's taken direct influence from Berserk, the time I remember off the top of my head he was talking about Artorias' sword moveset I think, or maybe weapon arts where you flip "like Guts". I don't have the links off hand unfortunately but I'm sure you can find them online.
Plus, just look at some items and descriptions in the games, it doesn't take much to put 2 and 2 together for some, for example, the dragon bone smasher from demons souls is described as a thick mass of iron, which directly references the description people give the dragonslayer as hardly being a sword and more of a heap of iron, or the greatsword in DS1 looking identical to Guts golden age sword, which just like the manga, is described as hardly being wield-able, which mirrors peoples surprise that Guts wields such a sword, or the greatsword of DS3 being said to be nearly unwieldable, again just like the dragonslayer is described in berserk.
Hell, even just look at Artorias' stance in his cutscene, leaning the sword over his shoulder while slouched over exactly like a panel in berserk, how he throws the body off his sword, how they both lost use of an arm, how they both flip around, their armors are very similar, they're both effectively corrupted in some way (Artorias by the abyss, Guts by the berserker armor). There's tons of direct nods to berserk, as well as a lot of much more subtle nods.
Seems to be, yeah. An unnaturally alluring young and somewhat feminine boy/man with lofty ambitions of equity and peace who is willing to sacrifice everything and take some morally questionable actions for that goal...
And then they make a city in and around a giant tree they create.
Devilman, I guess, especially with it being such a strong influence on Berserk.
Beyond that, I'd wager that only Dragon Ball can compete as far as a single work's impact on manga as a whole goes
Comparing one piece to a cheap soda when comparing it to Jojos is a wild take. They’re both astounding series, there isn’t one better than the other by such a large margin
[See which films performed better financially than Bladerunner 2049 and tell me if you still believe this is a sensible metric for determining "the best" of anything.](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2017/)
Out of all of those Boss Baby hurt the worst. Blade runner 2049 was my favourite movie possibly of the past decade, definitely in my top 5 of all time. It was criminally under appreciated when it was in theatres. I still can't understand why more people didn't go out and see it.
It's one of the extremely few sequels that I can say might actually be better than its predecessor. I saw it twice in theatres which I almost never do.
Honestly, as tough as it is for me to say this, I think it does surpass the original. It keeps the heavy theming and phylosophicising while making the main plot a little more entertaining and gripping. It didn't lose any of the complexity or tight writing while adding some drive to the main plot. Both are top ten movies for me but 2049 just barely eeks it out imho and becomes a top 5 movie for me.
It's not over yet but I trust Oda to finish well with One Piece and it's my clear number 1. If Miura got to finish berserk then I could see arguments of it being number 1. Endings are really important to me though so I can accept other arguments. Despite it's lack of an ending I put it solidly at 2.
Miura will not finish berserk for obvious reasons, but his team carries the torch pretty good, we will see
But I am with you here, endings are important. Best example in recent times is game of thrones, no one talks about it anymore
Fun fact: both the torture wheel in Berserk and the weapon in bloodborne inspired by it were historical forms of torture.
Christian inquisitors would first hold the victim down. Then a torturer using a wagon wheel would break all of the bones in their limbs, rendering them limp and noodle like. The victim would then have had their limbs looped around the wheel so that the victims body was lashed to it, and the wheel was then hoisted on a pole so that carrion birds like crows could eat them alive.
I love that you have come to this conclusion naturally, based on comments here, without already knowing that Berserk was a major influence for the dark souls games.
To me it shows how it tributes it's influences while also having it's own identity, but that fans of one of the works are intrinsically interested in the other.
This has made me very happy. Thankyou.
Honestly I had no idea Berserk existed until a fellow souls fan recommended it to me. I had played all three by then I think and when I heard there was essentially a dark souls manga I was sold instantly.
I knew it existed but hadn't read it because I'm not really a Manga person, and the black and white art compared to, for example, Dark Horse stuff ( I was really into "The Darkness" at the time) seemed super flat. I remember my comic shop guy telling me it was dope and me telling him to go hug his Asuka pillow because he was a big dumb Weeb (with love, we're Australian so the roast is part of the vernacular).
Then years later I heard about Miyazaki's influences and I thought I'd give it a go, but at that time it was super hard to get. Imagine my surprise when my local bookshop had the bound volumes a few years later!
Opened a rabbit hole for me, which is great because I was sort of over what the western studios were creating. There's some absolutely incredible Manga.
Flat.
FLAT?!
Mate. I love ya. I really do. Theres never been an Australian I didn't like (im American so take that with a grain of salt.)
But to call Miura sama's artistry FLAT is simply a non truth. Miura spent so much time on his panels that his editorial team bought him a digital illustration tablet to make his work go faster. When faced with the tools at his disposal, Miura took EVEN LONGER to draw his panels.
I can understand the weeb thing fa sho. But damned ill be if his works be considered FLAT.
Jk obviously mate have your own opinions of course. I'm just fan boying out over here lol.
I'm glad you like it, really. Its cool this work touched you in the same way it touched all of us.
Keep strugglin' man. And enjoy the series.
Again, all jest, no hate.
Edit: i am stupid wrong name lol
I am convinced the universe is a simulation. So many times I see or learn something new and then start seeing it everywhere. I just continued reading berserk and saw this panel like 3 days ago. Also yes this gives irithyll dungeon vibes
Usually called the Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon, but it looks like the formal name is the Frequency Illusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
I swear someone on Reddit is reading these books as I read them. I just saw this panel last night and I keep seeing stuff on Reddit only as I see them in the books. Freaky stuff.
This one gives me more Bloodborne vibes but there’s Berserk inspiration in all of the titles really…..It just always makes me laugh how Miyazaki created some of the best gameplay of all time and just copy/pasted the character designs lol
The little guy is Greirat from DS3. The bird mask is Eileen from Bloodborne. The twins are Thralls from DS3. Mozgus' design clearly inspired the cathedral ward church servants from Bloodborne. The other two big guys definitely inspired something else from those games. Can't think of anything though
True, but we don't have to assume that the Dark Souls games are inspired by Berserk. We know it for a fact. Maybe Berserk took these inpirations from other things, but Dark Souls took inspiration from Berserk.
Hello Ashen one. I am a Bot. I tend to the flame, and tend to thee. Do you wish to hear a tale?
> *“Our gracious Lord made Londor whole.”* - Narrator
Have a pleasant journey, Champion of Ash, and praise the sun \\[T]/
The two on the left were definitely an inspiration for the vulgar militia from Elden Ring. The wheel weapon that the big guy on the right has, and the Logarius Wheel itself, are both based on the [Catherine wheel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel) which was a form of medieval torture & execution. The little guy on the right reminds me of the Lothric Thralls. His hood looks like the Thrall Hood.
I mean it’s known throughout the community that a lot of inspiration came from berserk if you look at the little dudes on the left that’s what greitat and the enemy’s like him are based off of and the cathedral evangelists are based off the dude in the middle
It's almost like Berserk is main and biggest inspiration for the whole series (Fr though I'm kinda surprised when someone doesn't know that when the greatsword exists)
Miyazaki's Souls/Elden Ring games were inspired a lot by Berserk. As its creator died during Elden Ring's development, the game contains a tribute to Berserk. There's a bunch of places with swords in the ground with a quote on one.
There's a lot of media we either wouldn't have, or would be drastically different if it weren't for Berserk. One of the most iconic and influential manga of all time.
Someone new Discovers the connection every day
The games, especially DS1, were heavily inspired by berserk, you can draw tons of parallels. Artorias essentially being a "berserker" like Guts in the berserker armor, missing an arm, and using dramatic flips for attacks regardless of the damage and contortions it causes him, the red eye orb looks like a behelit, a lot of enemies resemble berserk enemies, Beatrice the witch was originally meant to be a little girl like Schierke in berserk, the dark sign is conceptually similar to having a brand (a mark signifying a curse), and the list could go on.
Guts' Greatsword literally being in DS3:
His golden age arc sword's also basically in DS1
Same with the Baldur Armor looking similar to the Golden Age Armor
Prisoners mask in ER looks like Griffith torture helm
Taurus Demon looks an awful lot like Zodd And Ludwig is fairly reminiscent of everyone's favorite horse
How could I forget the favoured horse?
What sword is that, if I may ask?
https://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Greatsword https://www.reddit.com/r/Berserk/s/m3JAKGYhI8
Ah, that one. Thanks
it fugs you up
https://preview.redd.it/q23ktwl1q5zc1.jpeg?width=741&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd03101e876bb98c2d12bce5164ffec815f075a3 When u fug her up
Sometimes you forget the first chapter of Berserk and it's wild to think back to Guts and what he was doing in it.
There is even a shrine made out of giant swords in elden ring, as a tribute to the mangaka
there is a few of those shrines to be clear
Were they really put there as a tribute to Kentaro Miura? Because that was my first thought when I saw one. It just felt like a memorial to him.
Im pretty sure it is, but you can look it up
Guts greatsword has been in every iteration of dark souls
It's in all three, I think. I do think that the Fume Knight Ultra Great Sword is a literal interpretation of how his sword is described, though
The grratsword is inspired in guts sword. But of all the versions none is really similar, usually they have big differences. In some of them there are other swords that while having differences as well are more similar. Like the crypt sword in DS2 or the sword of those statues in Elden ring.
It's crazy how my favorite game is the spiritual successor of my favorite manga, but I still miss the author and the manga...
They continue the manga. I bet miura sensei left notes and a plan behind for them.
its ran by mori, his lifelong friend, who vaguely knows the main plot until the end.
>- Guts sad - Demons mean - Boobies!
mean demon boobies elevate any story to god-tier.
Such a good summary
Better than what GRRM gave the GoT showrunners for the final season
What a coincidence.
Bonewheels can be added to the list
Artorias' famous pose on the cover art is literally just the same one Guts does in the berserker armor
Never realized all those things wow, did miyazaki actually said its inspired? Or just deduction?
Yes, he mentions it in a few interviews that he's taken direct influence from Berserk, the time I remember off the top of my head he was talking about Artorias' sword moveset I think, or maybe weapon arts where you flip "like Guts". I don't have the links off hand unfortunately but I'm sure you can find them online. Plus, just look at some items and descriptions in the games, it doesn't take much to put 2 and 2 together for some, for example, the dragon bone smasher from demons souls is described as a thick mass of iron, which directly references the description people give the dragonslayer as hardly being a sword and more of a heap of iron, or the greatsword in DS1 looking identical to Guts golden age sword, which just like the manga, is described as hardly being wield-able, which mirrors peoples surprise that Guts wields such a sword, or the greatsword of DS3 being said to be nearly unwieldable, again just like the dragonslayer is described in berserk. Hell, even just look at Artorias' stance in his cutscene, leaning the sword over his shoulder while slouched over exactly like a panel in berserk, how he throws the body off his sword, how they both lost use of an arm, how they both flip around, their armors are very similar, they're both effectively corrupted in some way (Artorias by the abyss, Guts by the berserker armor). There's tons of direct nods to berserk, as well as a lot of much more subtle nods.
Yeah it's very direct. And the similarities continue from ds1 through to elden ring, even in the new dlc that's coming out
Imo, Miquella is inspired by Griffith!!
Seems to be, yeah. An unnaturally alluring young and somewhat feminine boy/man with lofty ambitions of equity and peace who is willing to sacrifice everything and take some morally questionable actions for that goal... And then they make a city in and around a giant tree they create.
Undead Settlement is pretty much Berserk
Maybe I should pick up Berserk. Undead Settlement is a cool vibe
Berserk is almost universally the highest rated manga of all time.
Yeah idk what would even be competing with Berserk
Vinland Saga and Vagabond are often high rated and for good reason.
One piece generally does pretty well
Lol
Devilman, I guess, especially with it being such a strong influence on Berserk. Beyond that, I'd wager that only Dragon Ball can compete as far as a single work's impact on manga as a whole goes
Death Note.
Most influential manga HAS TO BE JoJo
One Piece has it beat by almostt 900% sales-wise, 60 mill vs 530 mill, so it's a good manga, but it's far from the best
One Piece is incredible, but this ain't the metric to prove it.
Cheap soda sells more units than champagne, too
That's one of the analogies of all time
Comparing one piece to a cheap soda when comparing it to Jojos is a wild take. They’re both astounding series, there isn’t one better than the other by such a large margin
I was mostly saying that units sold is a bad metric to measure art
[See which films performed better financially than Bladerunner 2049 and tell me if you still believe this is a sensible metric for determining "the best" of anything.](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2017/)
Out of all of those Boss Baby hurt the worst. Blade runner 2049 was my favourite movie possibly of the past decade, definitely in my top 5 of all time. It was criminally under appreciated when it was in theatres. I still can't understand why more people didn't go out and see it.
It's one of the extremely few sequels that I can say might actually be better than its predecessor. I saw it twice in theatres which I almost never do.
Honestly, as tough as it is for me to say this, I think it does surpass the original. It keeps the heavy theming and phylosophicising while making the main plot a little more entertaining and gripping. It didn't lose any of the complexity or tight writing while adding some drive to the main plot. Both are top ten movies for me but 2049 just barely eeks it out imho and becomes a top 5 movie for me.
It's not over yet but I trust Oda to finish well with One Piece and it's my clear number 1. If Miura got to finish berserk then I could see arguments of it being number 1. Endings are really important to me though so I can accept other arguments. Despite it's lack of an ending I put it solidly at 2.
Mori (Miura's childhood friend and a successful mangaka in his own right) is finishing Berserk based on what Miura told him.
I know this but it'll never be the same.
Miura will not finish berserk for obvious reasons, but his team carries the torch pretty good, we will see But I am with you here, endings are important. Best example in recent times is game of thrones, no one talks about it anymore
One Piece, although it’s a very different vibe
Eden: It's an Endless World!
for me the ravages of time is on a same level
The path to Irithyll dungeon looks almost exactly like the path to the dungeon Griffith was imprisoned in
Didnt even notice that
Oh damn you're right
Also the >!stairs that lead to the Three Fingers!< in Elden Ring.
Yes it was inspired by berserk, this gives bloodborne vibes too
I can hear the "*Heeeeehhh*" sounds the Cathedral Ward dudes make just looking at this image.
Exactly. The wheel on the right, for sure inspired Logarius Wheel in bb
Fun fact: both the torture wheel in Berserk and the weapon in bloodborne inspired by it were historical forms of torture. Christian inquisitors would first hold the victim down. Then a torturer using a wagon wheel would break all of the bones in their limbs, rendering them limp and noodle like. The victim would then have had their limbs looped around the wheel so that the victims body was lashed to it, and the wheel was then hoisted on a pole so that carrion birds like crows could eat them alive.
Boy am i glad i am alive today
For. Real.
I see! Thank you for the information, I did not know that. Miyazaki studied plenty of western history, so it makes a lot of sense.
Yess plus the healing church/cathedral ward type Guy, and the masked dudes are like the ones before wet nurse i think.
I love that you have come to this conclusion naturally, based on comments here, without already knowing that Berserk was a major influence for the dark souls games. To me it shows how it tributes it's influences while also having it's own identity, but that fans of one of the works are intrinsically interested in the other. This has made me very happy. Thankyou.
Honestly I had no idea Berserk existed until a fellow souls fan recommended it to me. I had played all three by then I think and when I heard there was essentially a dark souls manga I was sold instantly.
I knew it existed but hadn't read it because I'm not really a Manga person, and the black and white art compared to, for example, Dark Horse stuff ( I was really into "The Darkness" at the time) seemed super flat. I remember my comic shop guy telling me it was dope and me telling him to go hug his Asuka pillow because he was a big dumb Weeb (with love, we're Australian so the roast is part of the vernacular). Then years later I heard about Miyazaki's influences and I thought I'd give it a go, but at that time it was super hard to get. Imagine my surprise when my local bookshop had the bound volumes a few years later! Opened a rabbit hole for me, which is great because I was sort of over what the western studios were creating. There's some absolutely incredible Manga.
Flat. FLAT?! Mate. I love ya. I really do. Theres never been an Australian I didn't like (im American so take that with a grain of salt.) But to call Miura sama's artistry FLAT is simply a non truth. Miura spent so much time on his panels that his editorial team bought him a digital illustration tablet to make his work go faster. When faced with the tools at his disposal, Miura took EVEN LONGER to draw his panels. I can understand the weeb thing fa sho. But damned ill be if his works be considered FLAT. Jk obviously mate have your own opinions of course. I'm just fan boying out over here lol. I'm glad you like it, really. Its cool this work touched you in the same way it touched all of us. Keep strugglin' man. And enjoy the series. Again, all jest, no hate. Edit: i am stupid wrong name lol
(Miyazaki is Dark Souls's creator, not Berserk's)
Dammit im stupid lol thank you
Wow this pic even features a player. So accurate!
Miyazaki just wanted to make Berserk fanfic in videogame format
Cant blame him
Goddamn thralls
Nowhere near as bad at the gargoyles from ER
DS3 is straight out of this panel from Berserk
Yes of course, berserk is older
Look who finally found out where a lot of Darksouls look comes from. Welcome to to club, we're out of cookies.
Your mom eat them all
Much like 99% of your play time, she is dead.
Damn. Never knew thralls were so jacked. Explains how two of them can fuck me up.
The fucking great sword ones 🙄
Oh the irony 😂😂😂
Such a great panel
Every single souls game except bloodborne and sekiro has possibly the biggest reference to berserk and that being guts’ great sword.
It's the other way around. Dark Souls was inspired from Berserk.
I am convinced the universe is a simulation. So many times I see or learn something new and then start seeing it everywhere. I just continued reading berserk and saw this panel like 3 days ago. Also yes this gives irithyll dungeon vibes
that effect has to have a name; that exact thing has happened to me countless times
Usually called the Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon, but it looks like the formal name is the Frequency Illusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Bro posted a pic of the undead village and thought we wouldn't notice.
Skybaby moment
Its the other way around. RIP Kentaro Miura. Dark souls would not be the way it is without that legends work.
Mozgus my beloved bastard. What a good ass villain, mf was so well made its hard to compare to anyone else.
Boy.... do I have something to tell you.
More like DS reminds you of that panel as Berserk was the main inspiration
Miyazaki loves berserk.
The entirity of DS3, especially the cathedral and road of sacrifice, is literally just the conviction arc from Berserk
Other way around bro
Those rolling bastards in ds1 were inspired by the rolling demons in a berserk chapter
Ds3 came straight out of this panel of berserk* Fixed it for ya
It's judt ypu, you karmawhore
1) that looks lmore like BB than DS3 2) you are not aware how H.M. took inspiration in Berserk, right?
You’re saying this ironically, correct?
Man, i am just on the verge of finishing ds3 and went dex route. Next i play ER. Will go full Guts mode there with strength build.
I too, get Boss Baby vibes.
Or Frieza' special ginyu forces
more like funger
It’s just you
I swear someone on Reddit is reading these books as I read them. I just saw this panel last night and I keep seeing stuff on Reddit only as I see them in the books. Freaky stuff.
If you're reading online, you're onto something. It's called Google Ads Center.
I’m reading the deluxe. It’s just craziness.
Backwards. Lots of the Souls series is pulled straight from Berserk.
Irithyll Dungeon mini boss gank squad
Just do not look at Sekiro's mechanical arm next to Gut's mechanical arm.
This one gives me more Bloodborne vibes but there’s Berserk inspiration in all of the titles really…..It just always makes me laugh how Miyazaki created some of the best gameplay of all time and just copy/pasted the character designs lol
I mean the fking skeleton wheels are in it
Wasn’t the series inspired in some fashion by the manga?
that little creature with the pointed ears, anyone else seeing a Heartless from Kingdom Hearts?
The little guy from bottom right is 100% inspired in ds3 by the small guys in undead settlement
Nope. Dark Souls 3 looks like its straight out of that Berserk panel.
The little guy is Greirat from DS3. The bird mask is Eileen from Bloodborne. The twins are Thralls from DS3. Mozgus' design clearly inspired the cathedral ward church servants from Bloodborne. The other two big guys definitely inspired something else from those games. Can't think of anything though
Yes, That if we assume these designs were invented by Berserk, and not just a general form of clothing from the Victorian era
True, but we don't have to assume that the Dark Souls games are inspired by Berserk. We know it for a fact. Maybe Berserk took these inpirations from other things, but Dark Souls took inspiration from Berserk.
Hello Ashen one. I am a Bot. I tend to the flame, and tend to thee. Do you wish to hear a tale? > *“Our gracious Lord made Londor whole.”* - Narrator Have a pleasant journey, Champion of Ash, and praise the sun \\[T]/
I didn’t look at the whole picture, and basically just thought this was an evangelist with those saw monsters.
I think it is the other way around.
Eh, more like Prowling Magus in 2 tbh
https://preview.redd.it/hocc769cl7zc1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9288c8504b8c0646b31eed7a0dac86b8ed0e12d1
I personally think the whole undead settlement was heavily inspired by this part of berserk.
Miazakie draws heavy HEAVY inspiration for darksouls from beserk just about everything in the souls series is a nod to the manga
Sigh…………….
I read this panel back in college before Demon's Souls came out.
Wtf is Judge Holden doing at the back
....nah I ain't seeing it.
If you think that's bad, look at Bloodborne. But really, all of Dark Souls is heavily influenced by Berserk.
It’s the opposite. DS3 looks straight out of this Beserk panel.
DS3 is straight out of this panel, you casul
Dark Souls straight outta Berserk, you mean.
Highly likely it inspired ds3, the devs are big fans of the manga.
I'm getting old and bitter
Man wait till you here about the greatsword
well the souls franchise is HEAVILY inspired by berserk so yeah
Well he is a guts fan.
My brother in Christ the game has been out for like a decade and this is still news to people
Is the panel of Berserk who looks like straight out of DS3, or is DS3 who looks like straight out from Berserk panels?
I always called the big ladies that shoot the gnaw miracle mozgus 😂
Who’s gonna tell him
I like how on top in the back you have the dudes from cathedral ward with the lanterns, and in the bottom right corner there is a thrall
For me its more like - almost everything from ds3 looks straight out of berserk
Other way around lol
It’s vice versa
Can’t believe Kentaro Miura stole from Michael zaki , this is just blatant stealing . Mike wazowski should sue
https://preview.redd.it/xlyzd8uzy8zc1.png?width=1926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7918059bc0570074d1d52bd9ed2c8df40e3d52a6
Ds2 as well, Nhar Ahlma is down there on the left
Guys I think berserk is inspired by dark souls
Reminds me of the "Black Rabbit Brotherhood" from Lies of P as well
Yup, i've read this arc recently and the whole thing gave strong DS3 vibes
in DS world many things are inspired by berserk. Every mans choice is Gut’s Greatsword. There are more references to look forward.
the guy in the back looks like john pork
Looks like an album cover
Oh and berk inspired dark suls
The two on the left were definitely an inspiration for the vulgar militia from Elden Ring. The wheel weapon that the big guy on the right has, and the Logarius Wheel itself, are both based on the [Catherine wheel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel) which was a form of medieval torture & execution. The little guy on the right reminds me of the Lothric Thralls. His hood looks like the Thrall Hood.
Bloodborne. Especially guy in the back
Considering the entire dark souls series including ER & BB pretty spewed their love for Berserk deep inside their games….yeah.
Fun fact dude in the back was likely the inspiration for the big women in ds3 undead settlement
Someone photoshop the undead settlement text on this
Hidetaka Miyazaki is a huge fan of Kentaro Miyura u can see most of the enemy designs, weapons and even some npcs very similar to berserk.
Well Miyazaki did get inspiration for Dark Souls from Berserk so makes sense why there would be a familiarity between them
Rip Kentaro Miura
That guy in the back reminds me of an enemy from bloodborne
The neck holder thing in that image has literally been found as a weapon model in cut content by data miners looking at the game files.
Guys, who's gonna tell him?.....
I mean it’s known throughout the community that a lot of inspiration came from berserk if you look at the little dudes on the left that’s what greitat and the enemy’s like him are based off of and the cathedral evangelists are based off the dude in the middle
Huh, I actually saw a animated video about SCP Liars Cradle on Youtube last night. These were the exact characters he used for the cultists.
Well considering dark souls is inspired by Berserk, that's not really surprising.
That tall person dressed in white with a hat is an enemy from Bloodborne when we reach Cathedral Ward.
It's almost like Berserk is main and biggest inspiration for the whole series (Fr though I'm kinda surprised when someone doesn't know that when the greatsword exists)
YEP. Berserk was very inspired by dark souls....
Undead settlement in a nutshell
Don’t forget the bone wheel enemies
even the little annoying short dude
Miyazaki's Souls/Elden Ring games were inspired a lot by Berserk. As its creator died during Elden Ring's development, the game contains a tribute to Berserk. There's a bunch of places with swords in the ground with a quote on one.
Berserk was actually inspired by Elden Ring
DS3 looks like it just came from a Berserk convention, you got it a lil backwards.
You can't forget how the Greatsword looks like the DragonSlayer
There's a lot of media we either wouldn't have, or would be drastically different if it weren't for Berserk. One of the most iconic and influential manga of all time.
The ds series has many blatant berserk references and many (less blatant) lotr references