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  • Adaptation First: Although not many people remember it, this game was the very first piece of official Berserk merchandise sold in the U.S., preceding the official licensing of both the anime and manga in America.
  • Completely Different Title: In translating the game from Japanese to English, Eidos Interactive decided to change the title from Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Flowers of Oblivion to Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage because Berserk was practically unknown in the English-speaking world back in 2000, and nobody would get the reference to the story arcs in the manga.
  • Invisible Advertising: Since the game's overseas release roughly coincided with SEGA pulling out of the console business and discontinuing the Dreamcast, there was less marketing support for it than normal. The fact that practically nobody in the U.S. or Canada at that time had ever heard of Berserk before certainly didn't help.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: The game was released in the U.S. near the end of the Dreamcast's life cycle. It hasn't seen the light of day on any other platforms, so the only way to play it is to have both a working copy and a working Dreamcast.
  • Role Reprise: Nobutoshi Canna (Guts) and Yuko Miyamura (Casca) respectively reprise their roles from the 1997 anime.
  • Word of God: Miura said in a YA magazine comment around episode 184 that the game takes place during the section of the story directly following the Hill of Swords.

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