Edit 3: Looks like it's back up now. Hopefully this will be the last edit lol Edit 2: Or not? I got an email saying everything was restored but it doesn't seem like it. Will update again when I get a reply. Edit: My account and the PDF have both been restored! Unfortunately the food guide has been taken down, and my account got locked. Will try to see when and where I can get this re-uploaded somewhere, apologies for the inconvenience!
I have literally never played a FE title in my life and I ended up here. I guess my addiction to GSG and 90s to 2000s weeb nostalgia bait (along with looking up FFT and Vagrant Story, though I only played the latter once and my smooth brain was completely confounded by the combat system) convinced UA-cam that I would like this game that technically doesn't even have an English Wikipedia page. I can't say the algorithm is wrong. Might have to give it a shot.
You did a great job with this guide, I may have to try this game. Unfortunately, the editing and your voice was too relaxing so I ended up snoozing on my couch through a good portion. I will come back and watch in the future when I am awake and alert!
Thanks for the much needed guide. It's great that you made something new players need to know before tackling an SRPG like this. The in game guide is alright but can be pretty overwhelming especially in the first few minutes of the game. This video definitely helped me appreciate and understand Berwick way more than before. I hope more people will start playing the game because of your video.
This just popped into my feed, and as a Fire Emblem fan, I was surprised I'd never heard of Berwick Saga. Great job on putting together a very clear and well constructed breakdown! I look forward to trying this game
@@-lord1754 Yep but they are not big FE talking of it every day of their life, more like normal fan of something. I think we are on a category of our own haha ! Loved Vestaria level design btw people are sleeping on it but it's great
UA-cam randomly recommended me a video about a game I'd never heard about from a genre I don't play. I watched the whole thing anyway. Have a comment for the algorithm
I've already beaten the game twice and don't need the guide, but it's well made and I thought I'd leave a comment for the algorithm. Berwick Saga is a brutally difficult game, particularly in its last third, but it's also some of the most fun I've ever had with the genre and the only FE-related game that can compete with FE4 and 5 in my book. This game will sadly probably never get a rerelease and desperately needs all the love it can get, it's really great.
Thanks for the video, it finally give me the push to play this game. I played TearRing Saga before but this game looks so much more fun than I initially thought
Really amazing guide! I really recommend checking out Kaga's other games as well. I really enjoyed Vestaria Saga, it's a lot more streamlined than Berwick but every map still feels like a fun puzzle and although text heavy at times it has an amazing cast of characters and worldbuilding. I just realized that all of Kaga's games post-Fire Emblem use Denari as currency.
This video rocks, very helpful for new players. I played Berwick Saga and it has become one of my all time favorite games. If you've stumbled onto this video in the future you're in luck.
This game is hell for perfectionist like me. If i miss some unique item, or miss a character i replay whole battle or two, even if i spend already a hour for it. And some battles have to much items and to small chances to get them all, cuz you need capture bosses alive, but random is crazy, spend whole day on that battle and i give up and lost some items. But after i realize that i miss a horse for archer girl and her new job, dont have saves before it, i put game down. Cuz cant handle it, to much losses for my greedy gamer soul. But some day i beat it in my way preapared from scratch, and i plan do it on real PS2 hardware this time.
I appreciate your love for the game in the video, but I wish you'd talk more about its strengths as a RPG, how the storyline holds, make a few jokes about what you enjoy, etc. This feels a bit like a checklist at times.
@@momom6197 I made this as a guide, and I didn't want to add even more to it considering it's already 25 minutes long. I cut out quite a bit from my script (including a joke section in the beginning) and edited out stuff I recorded as well. Shameless plug but I've kinda spoken about those topics in my streams already lol
I am of the opinion that this is kaga's best written work. It doesn't have the big emotional drama that FE4 has but it's a much more grounded war story than most FEs. It's akin to something like Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 where you are a small player in a large war with the 2 factions both being corrupt (one is just more evil than the other). It has a huge focus on average civilians and how they are affected by war. Side missions and citizen requests make up an important part of the writing and themes, and it also allows for lots of characterization of playable units. It's very unique in this regard but I can understand why some might find it dry, or just not as fun as other FE/kaga saga stories.
Is there any chance you still have a link to that Czene image in the thumbnail? The only one I can get through the website you linked has the colors all dulled
wow, a berwick video, you also have played warsong. I'm still on ch4 in Berwick I played most langrisser last year. Langrisser 1: warsong, hikari no matsuei, HD remake Langrisser 2: Mega Drive, Der, HD remake Langrisser 3: PS2 Langrisser 4: PS1 Langrisser 5: PS1
I want to ask, I'm a big fan of Fire Emblem and actually I've wanted to play Berwick Saga for a long time, but I was so afraid to start because Thracia 776 and Tear Ring Saga really gave me PTSD with the RNG which often felt one-sided. We all know how punishing every strategy game Kaga makes is because it's filled with a bunch of sketchy mechanics. Don't get me wrong, I like challenging strategy games but I just wanted to anticipate the level of difficulty in this game. So if you would like, could you give me a little comparison of the level of difficulty in Berwick Saga. I mean if you compare it to the difficulty level of Tear Ring Saga or FE5, thank you!
It's really hard to compare because IMO this game isn't really that similar to FE5 (never played TRS). It can seem more difficult, but once I got to know Berwick more, I actually think it's easier. This game's mechanics are definitely not sketchy IMO. It also has a 5 turn save system which alleviates a lot of the stress and allows you to mitigate RNG. That said, I would say the RNG doesn't feel that bad in this game if you're making safe decisions. There were times where I decided to restart a map and approach it with a different strategy, and that was what got me through. Berwick Saga is a very rewarding game and I hope you try it out!
Oh wow! Berwick saga is very obscure, but insanely good. Visual, story, characters is amazing as is missions. Sadly it have serious problem with annoying game mechanics, like low hitrate and especially randomly breaking weapons
Yeah, I personally don't like weapons randomly breaking before reaching red durability either. Low hitrate is fine for me, I feel like it differentiates Berwick Saga from other RNG based games that always give extremely high percentages to the point where RNG might as well not be there.
@@FNMRoldyto me the game gives you enough ways to improve and adapt to the rng and weapon breaking is annoying but you can reduce it by Swapping weapons often and using repair stones
I get being annoyed by equipment eventually breaking if you're not familiar with this type of system. However, the game is balanced around all equipment eventually breaking. Maybe this didn't come through the video very well, but managing your funds to purchase replacements as well as deciding which to repair through a very limited item is part of the fun (not to mention capturing enemies to take their stuff)!
Theres a lot of insanely broken stuff in this game which can only exist with a durability system. It's like that scene from Futurama where bender is like 'or we can use this machine gun to shoot them' and then wastes the whole mag. That's what using the gram or rossweisse feels like in Berwick saga.
@@FNMRoldy Oh I've played lots of these systems. I don't think it's unbalanced, I just don't enjoy it. Metagaming how naked to get while mopping up grunts can be part of the fun for someone else ^_^
@@coonrat1 how about you first just google it. google "strategy rpg vs tactical rpg" and just read the many answers there, then come back to me on this. games llike FF tacttics were always known as tactical jrpg, and are focused on tactial combat between levels. (tactical in jrpg means combat on 2d grid instead of final fantasy like combat) games like sengoku Rance that are focused on strategic management and choices (instead of moving from one mission to the next) are called strategy rpg. the reason you may be confused is that younger people that never know gaming before steam just see "strategy rpg" as tag on steam that is branding all the tactical rpgs, and assume that is the case. its the same things that is happened with the term roguelike, where everything with permadeath is called roguelike, even thoue that the core of this genre is 2d cave crawling interface and non modality. so, to use your own phrasing: get your terminology right, sinpleton!
The very creator of the genre itself, Shouzou Kaga, who is also the director for this very game, called it a SRPG. In japan that means simulation rpg. In the west "SRPG", was interpretated as strategy rpg. You're free to call it whatever you like as there's not really a "proper official" definition of the genre. It's a grey area, nuanced. To me it just feels like you say that because of final fantasy tactics. Well guess what, fire emblem, also created by Shouzou Kaga, started 7 years before FFT
Edit 3: Looks like it's back up now. Hopefully this will be the last edit lol
Edit 2: Or not? I got an email saying everything was restored but it doesn't seem like it. Will update again when I get a reply.
Edit: My account and the PDF have both been restored!
Unfortunately the food guide has been taken down, and my account got locked. Will try to see when and where I can get this re-uploaded somewhere, apologies for the inconvenience!
This game is where you end up if you follow the Fire Emblem rabbit hole all the way to the bottom
In the darkest pits of hell... hexagons
I have literally never played a FE title in my life and I ended up here. I guess my addiction to GSG and 90s to 2000s weeb nostalgia bait (along with looking up FFT and Vagrant Story, though I only played the latter once and my smooth brain was completely confounded by the combat system) convinced UA-cam that I would like this game that technically doesn't even have an English Wikipedia page.
I can't say the algorithm is wrong. Might have to give it a shot.
You see this as the bottom. I see this as the top.
Not even the bottom, I found it after four months.
@@Ravnesss I love the game, beaten it 4 times
You did a great job with this guide, I may have to try this game.
Unfortunately, the editing and your voice was too relaxing so I ended up snoozing on my couch through a good portion. I will come back and watch in the future when I am awake and alert!
Thanks for the much needed guide. It's great that you made something new players need to know before tackling an SRPG like this. The in game guide is alright but can be pretty overwhelming especially in the first few minutes of the game. This video definitely helped me appreciate and understand Berwick way more than before. I hope more people will start playing the game because of your video.
A berwick saga video in 2024!? What a great time to be alive!
Always puts a smile on my face to see someone make a video on my favorite Kaga Saga game. A great video.
Still my favorite strategy game, such an amazing experience.
Great guide. This is the best SRPG in existence. More people should be aware of it and be able to play.
This just popped into my feed, and as a Fire Emblem fan, I was surprised I'd never heard of Berwick Saga.
Great job on putting together a very clear and well constructed breakdown! I look forward to trying this game
Kinda well known by Kaga fans but not modern-FE players that's why
@@HaarwyvernIve been an FE fan so long at this point and i run into so many people who dont know this game it makes me feel hella old 🤣🙏
@@-lord1754 Yep but they are not big FE talking of it every day of their life, more like normal fan of something.
I think we are on a category of our own haha !
Loved Vestaria level design btw people are sleeping on it but it's great
UA-cam randomly recommended me a video about a game I'd never heard about from a genre I don't play. I watched the whole thing anyway.
Have a comment for the algorithm
Thank you for the comment! I hope you try the game out someday!
I would’ve never known about this game were it not for you. Thank you for the insight!
Amazing video thank you! There’s not enough content on YT about this wonderful game. The music in the game is god tier
I've already beaten the game twice and don't need the guide, but it's well made and I thought I'd leave a comment for the algorithm. Berwick Saga is a brutally difficult game, particularly in its last third, but it's also some of the most fun I've ever had with the genre and the only FE-related game that can compete with FE4 and 5 in my book. This game will sadly probably never get a rerelease and desperately needs all the love it can get, it's really great.
Wow now we can all play berwick saga together! Thank you roldy
This is a pretty sweet guide, thank you for all the hard work.
The waiting was worth it!!! Really good and well explained guide!!!!
This game sounds so complex, thanks for the guide!
This was so great, I’m finally gonna play it this weekend!
Thanks for the video, it finally give me the push to play this game. I played TearRing Saga before but this game looks so much more fun than I initially thought
Nice to see more people talk about this. Berwick is one of the best turn based tactical RPGs ever made
Really amazing guide! I really recommend checking out Kaga's other games as well. I really enjoyed Vestaria Saga, it's a lot more streamlined than Berwick but every map still feels like a fun puzzle and although text heavy at times it has an amazing cast of characters and worldbuilding. I just realized that all of Kaga's games post-Fire Emblem use Denari as currency.
Oh hey, Berwick Saga, alway welcome.
This guide was very informative and had great editing. Makes me want to try the game. Well done sir
ブッシュ大統領、ロルディ様がベルウィックの2本目のビデオを落とした
Mop the floor scrub
Do I have to play Lazberia Chronicle Chapter 1 to 173 first?
This video rocks, very helpful for new players. I played Berwick Saga and it has become one of my all time favorite games. If you've stumbled onto this video in the future you're in luck.
Nice thumbnail.
I didn't know you could play essentially FE but on the ps2. Really cool overview
This seems very similar to Battle for Wesnoth.
God tier srpg.
This game is hell for perfectionist like me. If i miss some unique item, or miss a character i replay whole battle or two, even if i spend already a hour for it. And some battles have to much items and to small chances to get them all, cuz you need capture bosses alive, but random is crazy, spend whole day on that battle and i give up and lost some items. But after i realize that i miss a horse for archer girl and her new job, dont have saves before it, i put game down. Cuz cant handle it, to much losses for my greedy gamer soul. But some day i beat it in my way preapared from scratch, and i plan do it on real PS2 hardware this time.
Mam make more videos about this game awesome 👍😎
I appreciate your love for the game in the video, but I wish you'd talk more about its strengths as a RPG, how the storyline holds, make a few jokes about what you enjoy, etc. This feels a bit like a checklist at times.
@@momom6197 I made this as a guide, and I didn't want to add even more to it considering it's already 25 minutes long. I cut out quite a bit from my script (including a joke section in the beginning) and edited out stuff I recorded as well. Shameless plug but I've kinda spoken about those topics in my streams already lol
Im interested in this game, but how is the story? Is it interesting like FE4 or just another Marth story being retold?
It's not quite as interesting as FE4, but it's much better than the average FE story
I am of the opinion that this is kaga's best written work. It doesn't have the big emotional drama that FE4 has but it's a much more grounded war story than most FEs.
It's akin to something like Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 where you are a small player in a large war with the 2 factions both being corrupt (one is just more evil than the other).
It has a huge focus on average civilians and how they are affected by war. Side missions and citizen requests make up an important part of the writing and themes, and it also allows for lots of characterization of playable units.
It's very unique in this regard but I can understand why some might find it dry, or just not as fun as other FE/kaga saga stories.
Sadly this game has little to do with Ricky Berwick, but it does look interesting to play.
Is there any chance you still have a link to that Czene image in the thumbnail? The only one I can get through the website you linked has the colors all dulled
I got them from here: imgur.com/a/berwick-saga-art-6CXst3N
wow, a berwick video, you also have played warsong.
I'm still on ch4 in Berwick
I played most langrisser last year.
Langrisser 1: warsong, hikari no matsuei, HD remake
Langrisser 2: Mega Drive, Der, HD remake
Langrisser 3: PS2
Langrisser 4: PS1
Langrisser 5: PS1
I plan on getting to Langrisser 2 maybe later this year or early next year! I hope you enjoy Berwick, chapter 3 to 6 are my favourites!
@@FNMRoldy I hope I continue berwick later this year. I'm kinda busy with college XD
Based
Bro thx 🎉
Could I get a list of the games previewed at the start?
Unicorn Overlord, Front Mission 2 Remake, Tactics Ogre Reborn, Metal Slug Tactics, and Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero
@@FNMRoldy Much obliged
I want to ask, I'm a big fan of Fire Emblem and actually I've wanted to play Berwick Saga for a long time, but I was so afraid to start because Thracia 776 and Tear Ring Saga really gave me PTSD with the RNG which often felt one-sided. We all know how punishing every strategy game Kaga makes is because it's filled with a bunch of sketchy mechanics. Don't get me wrong, I like challenging strategy games but I just wanted to anticipate the level of difficulty in this game. So if you would like, could you give me a little comparison of the level of difficulty in Berwick Saga. I mean if you compare it to the difficulty level of Tear Ring Saga or FE5, thank you!
It's really hard to compare because IMO this game isn't really that similar to FE5 (never played TRS). It can seem more difficult, but once I got to know Berwick more, I actually think it's easier. This game's mechanics are definitely not sketchy IMO. It also has a 5 turn save system which alleviates a lot of the stress and allows you to mitigate RNG. That said, I would say the RNG doesn't feel that bad in this game if you're making safe decisions. There were times where I decided to restart a map and approach it with a different strategy, and that was what got me through. Berwick Saga is a very rewarding game and I hope you try it out!
Oh wow! Berwick saga is very obscure, but insanely good. Visual, story, characters is amazing as is missions. Sadly it have serious problem with annoying game mechanics, like low hitrate and especially randomly breaking weapons
Yeah, I personally don't like weapons randomly breaking before reaching red durability either. Low hitrate is fine for me, I feel like it differentiates Berwick Saga from other RNG based games that always give extremely high percentages to the point where RNG might as well not be there.
@@FNMRoldyto me the game gives you enough ways to improve and adapt to the rng and weapon breaking is annoying but you can reduce it by Swapping weapons often and using repair stones
is this game still good to play if the only strategy games I've played were advance wars and ffta/ffta 2
Of course! In fact, it might even be better because you're coming in with a fresh mindset.
Where to get English patch?
The patch can be found on Serenes Forest: forums.serenesforest.net/topic/80209-berwick-saga-translation-finished-v23-updated-23-jan-2021/
Nah bro, human on human violence don't tackle my fancy.
but this is a pivotal entry in the human on human violence genre!
Weapon deterioration is dealbreaker for me unfortunately. I just hate the nagging feeling of being punished for taking any action.
I get being annoyed by equipment eventually breaking if you're not familiar with this type of system. However, the game is balanced around all equipment eventually breaking. Maybe this didn't come through the video very well, but managing your funds to purchase replacements as well as deciding which to repair through a very limited item is part of the fun (not to mention capturing enemies to take their stuff)!
Theres a lot of insanely broken stuff in this game which can only exist with a durability system. It's like that scene from Futurama where bender is like 'or we can use this machine gun to shoot them' and then wastes the whole mag. That's what using the gram or rossweisse feels like in Berwick saga.
@@FNMRoldy Oh I've played lots of these systems. I don't think it's unbalanced, I just don't enjoy it. Metagaming how naked to get while mopping up grunts can be part of the fun for someone else ^_^
this is not called strategy genre, its called tactics genre, and its really bad that you don't know the difference.
Go outside
Erm acktually it's called a Strategy RPG, get your terminology right, sinpleton!
@@coonrat1 how about you first just google it. google "strategy rpg vs tactical rpg" and just read the many answers there, then come back to me on this.
games llike FF tacttics were always known as tactical jrpg, and are focused on tactial combat between levels. (tactical in jrpg means combat on 2d grid instead of final fantasy like combat)
games like sengoku Rance that are focused on strategic management and choices (instead of moving from one mission to the next) are called strategy rpg.
the reason you may be confused is that younger people that never know gaming before steam just see "strategy rpg" as tag on steam that is branding all the tactical rpgs, and assume that is the case.
its the same things that is happened with the term roguelike, where everything with permadeath is called roguelike, even thoue that the core of this genre is 2d cave crawling interface and non modality.
so, to use your own phrasing: get your terminology right, sinpleton!
They use weapons for combat, this is a Fighting game
The very creator of the genre itself, Shouzou Kaga, who is also the director for this very game, called it a SRPG. In japan that means simulation rpg. In the west "SRPG", was interpretated as strategy rpg. You're free to call it whatever you like as there's not really a "proper official" definition of the genre. It's a grey area, nuanced.
To me it just feels like you say that because of final fantasy tactics. Well guess what, fire emblem, also created by Shouzou Kaga, started 7 years before FFT
the game seems interesting but the thumbanil is TERRIBLE
idk if there is a way to make a thumbnail less clickeable than this one tbh
Thanks for clicking on the video and commenting!