Berseria's version is dubbed the "Liberation-LMBS": when in the battle zone, players can freely move around the arena and rotate the camera at will.

Characters fight using physical and magical attacks, along with performing skills known as Artes that have various effects on enemies such as stunning them or causing status ailments.

[14] Berseria takes place in the Holy Midgand Empire, a powerful country that rules over this world's archipelago of a continent.

Throughout the empire, a disease known as Daemonblight causes those infected to lose their humanity and sense of rationality and transform into monsters known as Daemons, who pose a threat to the world.

Along with the rulers of the Holy Midgand Empire exists a theocratic order known as the Abbey, which is of great political and religious importance and is influential in imperial affairs.

The Exorcists, soldiers from the Abbey, are tasked with bringing peace and order by purging the world of Daemons and are willing to go to extremes to reach their goal.

The Scarlet Night returns, with the entire village succumbing to the Daemonblight: when Velvet finds Artorius, she sees him sacrifice her brother as part of a ritual, known as the "Advent".

During her escape, Velvet aids fellow prisoners Rokurou and Magilou and fights against the Praetor Exorcist Oscar Dragonia.

Eleanor is initially reluctant to join Velvet, attempting suicide before being asked to spy on the group and then learning the Abbey's full plans.

The group learns that Artorius, Oscar, Teresa, and Legate Exorcists Shigure Rangetsu and Melchior Mayvin are trying to purge the Daemonblight by erasing all emotion from humankind: to do this, they need to summon Innominat, one of five powerful Malakim called the Empyreans, into the world.

Laphicet then transforms into a benevolent dragon and purifies the land of malevolence, at the cost of humans not being able to see the Malakhim.

Using a similar engine to past Tales titles, the majority of updating went into technical improvements to ensure smooth performance on all platforms.

[5] This theme is represented in the game's title, which stems from the term "Berserker", legendary warriors who were imbued with uncontrollable power.

[19] On June 6, 2015, the game was officially announced, including details on the protagonist Velvet, voiced by Rina Satou in Japanese and Cristina Vee in English and designed by Mutsumi Inomata.

[5][21] The game's theme song, "Burn", was composed and performed by Flow, with Japanese vocals being retained in the Western version.

[22] Its characteristic genre name, a recurring feature of the series, is Kimi ga kimirashiku ikiru tame no ārupījī (君が君らしく生きるためのRPG, lit.

In a later statement Bandai Namco stated that, aside from text and dialogue variations standard for the game's Japanese-to-English localization, no other content had been altered for the Western release.

The reviewers' main criticisms were leveled against some lack of originality in the gameplay and disappointment that the game did not better utilize the graphical power of the PS4.

[29] Dengeki PlayStation praised the story and characters, particularly noting Satō's performance as Velvet, and said the battles were the most enjoyable in the series to date.