Full Review

Originally, I had never heard of this game. It was only after playing Megaman Battle Network 5 (blue) that I heard of it. (The hero of Boktai, Django, has a small cameo in the haunted house in MMBN 5). The storyline for Boktai is somewhat redundant in a way, but it's been redone in a way you wouldn't expect. Django is the son of a well-known vampire hunter. He sets out to do what his father before him has done, with a floating flower by the name of Otenko. During the game Otenko gives you valuable advice on several things. The difference of this game is that instead of hunting only vampires, you hunt more than that. You hunt things such as zombies, ghouls, Isis,Garms, and other obscure nightwalkers. So it's not you're run-of-the-mill-kill-vampires-only game. The graphics are great for a gameboy game, and the characters have voices (though they will only say one or two words at a time). The gameplay is just a little similiar to Konami's other great hit Metal Gear Solid, those familiar with it should understand some of the concepts included. The most interesting aspect of this game is that instead of using bullets, you use rays of sunlight to kill enemies. The game chip has a small light sensitive collector that scans the amount of UV rays out. Artificial lights are useless in this case. This doesn't mean this game is useless inside/at night either. When there is no sunlight, you have to find bugs that will give you a set amount of sunlight. This is definetly a game to take with you outside when there's nothing else to do in all that sun. All in all, this was a wonderful game, and I have never regretted buying it once. I loved it ^^