New interview also:
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Koinuma: The higher ups and I have actually discussed about creating a Berserk game quite a while before the anime had begun its concept. Although, much later we were approached by the Berserk anime's production team to ask if we could create a game based on Berserk as well. Personally as a very big Berserk fan I began looking into making a Berserk game a reality. I talked with various members of staff and as Berserk fans themselves they were all delighted to start on the project.
We were unsure when to announce the game itself as Mr. Miura had not released a new volume in three years and we always put an announcement of an IP's game on the outer slip of a manga book. Since we can't do that, we decided E3 was the closest event to announce it haha.
Koinuma: We at Koei tend to reveal our games on a global scale like we did with our previous manga to game adaptation of "Attack on Titan". I feel it's best we reveal those types of games that way.
Koinuma: Since we announced Koei will be working on a Berserk Warriors, Mr. Miura has sent us a New Years Postcard every single year haha. Mr. Miura is a man grounded in reality and he really wanted the Warriors feeling to remain, but with a Berserk flair, he's even supervised the creation of the game from the very start.
Koinuma: As we did with our "Fist of the North Star" and "Attack on Titan" games, we like to create a story that fans will love yet newcomers can also come and enjoy as if they picked up the very first volume. Berserk Warriors will begin from the Golden Age whereas the anime will pick up from after Guts became a Black Swordsman.
Koinuma: We plan on cramming a lot of the upcoming anime into the game.
Koinuma: Development is going smoothly.
Koinuma: As it's a Warriors game we planned on a number of different playable characters but please wait for more information in the upcoming months.
Koinuma: The game will feature a whole lot of Berserk and we plan to keep to the story. We never considered adding anything extra into the game.
Koinuma: Our policy at Koei is that we will never release a Z rating (18+) game and like "Fist of the North Star" before we managed to get a CERO D (17+) rating.
Koinuma: Nothing will be cut. We had to cut a bit in the "Attack on Titan" game, but to be fair, the enemies were giants and that was a difficult task. With Berserk, since there are mainly humans or monsters, anything that may seem difficult we will push through and challenge ourselves in order to make it happen.
Koinuma: Guts will be able to fight with his artificial arm and how you will be able to fight…well.. just wait till we announce it!
Koinuma: *picks up main visual cut out* We created this especially for the E3 reveal but we are still brushing it up so there is a chance that it could slightly change.
Koinuma: I can't speak about that at this time, our main focus is on creating an amazing Berserk experience with the story.
Koinuma: Since that does not happen in the Berserk story, we are instead making it more Berserk-like by making the battles resemble the original material.
Koinuma: Koei has always wanted to put out games on multiple platforms and we understand there are a lot of gamers who use Steam and so we plan on considering it an option .
Koinuma: We are currently considering Steam and other platforms for Japan at this time.
Not sure how to feel about that CERO rating.