Only 8 Characters?

[CCMatt]

I'm a long time warriors fan, been playing since Dynasty Warriors 3. I expected a small pool of characters in contrast to the other warriors games, but 8? That's such a paltry number. Does Koei plan on adding more later, perhaps as DLC?

[Red]

No.

[Apoc]

It is small but they are pretty original and different though, especially with their sub weapons and some having a transformation. If the game sells well I expect them to release another game someday with a bigger roster. If they put too many in this game they would be left with nothing to add.

[MrMuffinz]

Costumes change up the transformations and abilities too depending on which ones you use.
Really the only way to add more characters is make villains playable, which there are none that would be fun to play IMO except Bazuso.

[CCMatt]

Originally posted by MrMuffinz ʕಠᴥಠʔ:

Costumes change up the transformations and abilities too depending on which ones you use.
Really the only way to add more characters is make villains playable, which there are none that would be fun to play IMO except Bazuso.

You really wouldn't want to play Skull Knight or Grunbeld? Azan and Mozgus would make good characters too.

[Leth]

Originally posted by ccmatt:

I'm a long time warriors fan, been playing since Dynasty Warriors 3. I expected a small pool of characters in contrast to the other warriors games, but 8? That's such a paltry number. Does Koei plan on adding more later, perhaps as DLC?

smaller number but they spent way more time on the movesets and how the characters play. since you're spending all of the story with one character anyway, it doesn't really matter. guts is one of the best designed koei characters

[mouse]

It's a tiny roster compared to other 'warriors' games but it doesn't feel too bad. There are a lot of characters that they could have included, but not so many characters who are powerful and popular enough to be worth including (Skull Knight would have been nice though) given that the primarily Guts-centric story means you'll mostly be going out of your way to play as them. They focused on making the cast varied instead of large.

[MrMuffinz]

Originally posted by ccmatt:

Originally posted by MrMuffinz ʕಠᴥಠʔ:

Costumes change up the transformations and abilities too depending on which ones you use.
Really the only way to add more characters is make villains playable, which there are none that would be fun to play IMO except Bazuso.

You really wouldn't want to play Skull Knight or Grunbeld? Azan and Mozgus would make good characters too.

I think the problem between all of these characters is that we never really see them fight much besides their isolated fights.
Mozgus isn't a fighter inheirantly until the end.
Skull Knight slashed at Zodd a few times on a flying horse.
Azan.... you got me there.
I haven't got to Grunbelds fight in the manga, nor the game yet if he's in it.

[H.U.N.K]

I just want to use Sir Adon the greatest fighter ever to grace the beserk universe.
BAKARETSU FUNSAI!
Also Fist of the North star kens rage only had about 6-7 characters and that was a good game altho I agree I would have liked more.
Also if they follow the FOTNS pattern then berserk 2 will loads of chars as kens rage 2 did.

[BlackEagle88]

Unfortunately yes. Rooster is too small for a Warriors game. I'd like too see villains in the rooster for eclipse mod. Rhino guy, Grumbeld, Fat priest.... If the considering them for later, i wish they are not relase them as cashmilk DLC...

[MrMuffinz]

Originally posted by PressF13:

Unfortunately yes. Rooster is too small for a Warriors game. I'd like too see villains in the rooster for eclipse mod. Rhino guy, Grumbeld, Fat priest.... If the considering them for later, i wish they are not relase them as cashmilk DLC...

There most likely wont be any further DLC for the game, as I hear Koei Tecmo don't support PC games very well, or even the games they release.

[Red]

This isn't a matter of them supporting the PC but about them not developing new DLC for the game in general across all platforms. It's like this with most of their musou games using IP that doesn't belong to them. Hyrule Warriors getting support for so long was a special case.

[mouse]

There is some DLC for this game that is out for PS4 in Japan but not, so far, in the west or on PC.
There are a couple promotional costumes that I don't think we'll get, a set of horses that we might get (berserker armor horse, some horses from other warriors games), and there are two small but cheap mission packs that we might get. I don't think there will be anything more.

[MicrotonalMatt]

It's crazy how many characters SHOULD have been playable:

Pippin
Corkus
Gaston
Isidro
Farnese
Skull Knight
Grunbeld
Mozgus
Adon
Boscogn
Silat
Slan
The Boat
That Horse

If it has a moveset, it should be playable, save for nameless generals. Coming off of Hyrule Warriors' 30+ character roster, One Piece PW3's 35+ character roster, Dragon Quest Heroes' 14 character roster, Berserk's is PATHETIC .

If Hyrule Warriors can turn Wizzro/King of the Red Lions/Agatha/Tingle/Fi into playable characters with full movesets, there is no excuse for Berserk.

I don't know whether to be hopeful or dissapointed that they will probably try to dump out another low effort sequel post-anime season 2 with a couple more characters and maybe at some point multiplayer.

[Leth]

Originally posted by Musilinist14:

It's crazy how many characters SHOULD have been playable:

Pippin
Corkus
Gaston
Isidro
Farnese
Skull Knight
Grunbeld
Mozgus
Adon
Boscogn
Silat
Slan
The Boat
That Horse

If it has a moveset, it should be playable, save for nameless generals. Coming off of Hyrule Warriors' 30+ character roster, One Piece PW3's 35+ character roster, Dragon Quest Heroes' 14 character roster, Berserk's is PATHETIC .

If Hyrule Warriors can turn Wizzro/King of the Red Lions/Agatha/Tingle/Fi into playable characters with full movesets, there is no excuse for Berserk.

I don't know whether to be hopeful or dissapointed that they will probably try to dump out another low effort sequel post-anime season 2 with a couple more characters and maybe at some point multiplayer.

to be fair there's 8 plus the transformed versions of 4 characters. but yeah, I'm pretty salty about not getting to be big dragon boy, skull knight and the whale knight god

[Keytee Tamira]

Well, it's the first Musou game based on Berserk.
Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 1 has only 10 characters.
One Piece Pirate Warriors 1 has only 11 characters

Maybe in the next Berserk Warriors game we're gonna get much bigger roster... and actual Golden Age Arc cutscenes, instead of movie.