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The sun shines on this game! (literally!)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: August 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Boktai the sun is in you hands is one very inovative cartrige.
The game has a built in solor cell that requires its players to utilize the sun the recharge weapon systems and take out vampires with a sun-stun-gun! (say that ten times fast) I have played the Japanese version and am more then impressed. I wasn't worried about the quality since it was designed by the great Hideo Kojima, who many of you may know as the brains behind the Metal Gear series. I would recomend you pick up this game the day it comes out, and hopefully it isn't cloudy where you live!

A Good game which redefines gimmick.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The word gimmick is usually used negatively, as gimmicks are often used to try and save a terrible game. Well, in Boktai, the sun sensor only adds even more depth and innovation to the game.

You play as Django, the youngest in a family of vampire-hunters. Your weapon? The ''Gun Del Sol'', a pistol that fires beams of light. Your gun is very customizible, with many different lenses, batteries, grenades, and frames. However, your ammo is limited. Need more? Get outside in the sun and hold A! For cloudy days, you can used stored energy you put in the bank. And don't worry, its not at all a hassle, it just takes a minute.

You go through the game encountering dungeons and castles, each castle containing a vampire-boss. These bosses can only be fought in the sun, and once defeated, must be dragged to a nearby purification piledriver. Then, you must fight to purify the vampire once and for all.

The game also knows the time, the date, and where you live. After entering it at the beggining, the game uses YOUR time to decide whether its day or night in the game. It also tells you when events such as dawn, nightfall, and full moons occur.

All in all, this is a great game with a very innovative premis. AND IT ACTUALLY GETS GAMERS TO GO OUTSIDE!!!

Go ahead and buy this one, even if it is, at times, a bore.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: September 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Boktai's plot is integrated around its one key gimmick: as Django, you hunt vampires, and you need sunshine (that's right! Real sunshine!) to do it. Game environments even alter themselves depending on whether it is day or night. Perfect. But other aspects of gameplay are remarkable, as well: in keeping with the Metal Gear design, you are urged to sneak around and strategize. In fact, limited sun-power during nighttime gameplay actually necessitates it.

It's true that this a new way of playing. Still, sometimes the gameplay and puzzles are a little dull and repetitive--which is heartbreakingly disappointing given the attention paid to all other aspects of game design. Boktai is conceptually thrilling, but the actual game is just sort of... not. Gameplay simply isn't quite what it should have been.

Still, sheer innovation tops Boktai's design flaws. And absolutely nothing is more exciting than going to the park on a sunny day, finding a bench in a nice patch of light, turning on my GBA, and hearing it say to me, "Today is one great Boktai day!" I can't help but think to myself, "Isn't it?"

FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ok everyone! I'm gonna put it simply. Get it... Now. This game is awsome! My child enjoys playing it for a long time. The coolest part is, as my child says, is the built in solar sensor! Kids in Alaska do have an advantage in summer though. Either way I suggest you get Boktai, and hurry!

Suntastical adventure

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is absotlutly fun. It's hard to get out and find no sun in your backyard. This game is only fun if you live in a sunny climate. It's not an RPG but contains elements of one. This game is fun and is first to use solar energy. Buy this game if you live in a sunny climate.

great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

the only drawback is that the sun tends to produce a good amouunt of glare off of my GBA SP, which sorta gives me a headache...but otherwise it's a great game :p

FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Best game ever on game boy! It is about a boy who is known as the solar boy, the heir to the solar gun, and is the sun to the most famous vampire slayer ever. His father has been slain by one of the immortals and is inside the red scarf around the solar boy's neck. Now he must avenge his father and while doing so he must save the Moon Beauty.
Major Pros:On the game there is a solar sensor that pics up rays from the sun. The solar sensor is the soul reason for all of it's features. Your gun can run out of energy, and when it does if the sensor is picking up solar rays and if you press A, then it will refill your gun. Depending on how strong the light is depends on how strong the enemy is (strong light=weak monster...weak light=strong monster). The game is not very hard as most gameboy games tend to be, but it is not to easy to where it is boring. Major Cons: The only con is that if there is no sun where you are (if it's night)and no generators (generators give solar energy to your gun) then you have to wait till the sun comes out to recharge your gun and fight. Overall: BUY IT NOW! It is so fun! Rating: 10 out of 10
Hint: The solar sensor only pics up real sun rays not artificial light like a light bulb.

A great game that has been over-looked

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was surprised to read some reviews for this game. Do gamers have something against the sun? We're not vampires are we? The creativity portraid through this games gameplay and graphics are some of the finest I've experienced playing Gameboy Advanced games.

As you've probably read through other reviews, this game has a built in light sensor. Depending on the amount of light recieved through the sensor determines the way you play the game. One example: The main character of the game has a light gun that you have to charge with sun light. Thats just one example but the whole game is built around the idea of sun light. There's many other great features to the game as well, including an internal clock.

This game is fun to just pick up and play anytime. I've enjoyed it, and would recomend it to any one! The gameplay is so much fun, it's not easy to put down your GBA.

Innovative Gameplay makes this a must have GBA game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand stands out as perhaps one of the most complex games for the GBA to date. Sometimes we get games where a unique addition to the gameplay can sometimes ruin it or isn't really needed. Boktai is different. The gimmick in this game doesn't ruin it, and actually is needed.

You play as Django, a vampire hunter who battle vampires called the Immortal and must rid of the world of them. The only way to actually do this is by Sunlight. Boktai actually has a sensor on its cartridge that detects the amount of sunlight received.

As far as graphics go, for the GBA they're great! Not exactly 3D graphics but from what I've seen on the GBA these graphics stand above several other games on the handheld console.

The gameplay in this game really stands out! I think you'll be impressed with the majority of it. The game incorporates the sun, the real sun, into the gameplay. Some could find this a problem but even the sun shining in through the window is good enough to fill the sun meter on your weapon, the Del Sol, a gun that uses the sunlight to dispatch enemies.

I'm sure many of you have heard of Hideo Kojima and his critically acclaimed Metal Gear Series. Apparently the game uses stealth at times like the Metal Gear Series. For example you can stick to the wall and trek across. Not helpful in some areas but from time o time you find monsters that are blind and can't see you, but HEAR really well and so you'll have to stick to the wall and make your way across.

The puzzles can sometimes be real mindbenders and the game will sometimes trick you by making you think you'll need sunlight for a puzzle but you won't. Some puzzle require that you don't use ANY sunlight at all.

The gameplay does have its disadvantages. Example is that your gun can actually overheat if it absorbs too much sunlight. In other words, don't play outside if you live in a really sunny place. It'll help but you'll need to get out of there at some point and back into some Shade. The problem with being in the shade is that all sunlight is lost and while you'll still have sunlight stored, you'll find yourself wanting and not wanting sunlight. Still, this device makes it enjoyable. You shouldn't have to move around too much unlessyou just LOVE being outside. Those who play indoors and use the lighting fromt he windows should have no problem. Also, don't think that you can just turn on a really bright desk lamp or a flashlight, that doesn't work!

The other problem is that the whole stealth approach incorporated into this game doesn't really FEEL like Metal Gear Solid. It actually makes the game go by very slowly and it takes the fun out of the gameplay.

Another thing I found unique about the gameplay is once you defeat a boss, you have to take the coffin outside and release it into the sun to permanently destroy it. This adds a lot to the gameplay. You'll have to take the coffin back with you. This doesn't slow down the progress at all. You'll be able to access some areas by leaving the coffin on a pressure sensative floor panel. Sometimes the coffin will try to escape but shot from your gun will easily take care of that. Once out in daylight you fight this boss again as he tries to repel the sun. So for me the gameplay was very exciting.

The music and sound effects in this game are nothing special really. There are some tunes you'll enjoy and others that you just won't care for. But even on the GBA the sound stands out a lot.

The reason the game was given a five is because of the originality the game has. The GBA has made it so that this type of game actually works! Imagine if Boktai was on a GCN or an XBOX?

Overall, any gamer could get a lot out of Boktai and should be wildly impressed by its addictive gameplay.

Listen here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

For a long time iv wanted this game for a long time about three months.I was exited to finnally get it, I understood it uses sunlight to play,I waited two days days to play,all the sunny days in san clmente The sun doesnt come out So I try to play without it because I wanted to play,and......trust me it doesnt work well.You need reeeeeal sunlight which I know.The gameplay isnt good,the graphics are ok.You probably dont want this game unless its constantly sunny.Overall,it isnt great I would not buy.I wasted money you should get sword of mana instead.

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