Game Boy Advance

Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand

Description

Following in his father's footsteps, you play Django the vampire hunter, who uses the power of the sun to defeat the many evil beings that infest the world. Search out the various levels for the evil inside, and destroy the immortal that rules the area to complete the level.

This isometric platformer does not have you fighting evil with the usual assortment of weapons and devices, but it will have you playing outdoors. The inbuilt sunlight sensor on the cartridge detects levels of sunlight, which determines not only the time of day you play, but also acts as ammo for your weapon. Run out of sunlight, or play in the dark, and evil will have the upperhand.

Many elements to the sunlight can have an effect on how the game plays out. For example, you can only replenish ammo during play by standing outside or, if indoors, under light from a window. Sunlight batteries can be collected during play to store sunlight, so you can play at night.

Alternate Titles

• "ボクらの太陽" -- Japanese spelling
• "Bokura no taiyou" -- Japanese title

Part of the Following Groups

• Boktai series
• Games made into comics
• Theme: Vampires

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The Press Says

GamePro (US)	Sep 15, 2003	5 out of 5	100
UOL Jogos	Oct 08, 2003		100
N-Zone	Jun 29, 2004	88 out of 100	88
IGN	Sep 15, 2003	8.5 out of 10	85
Jeuxvideo.com	May 17, 2004	16 out of 20	80
Gamezine	Jun 03, 2004	15 out of 20	75
Kombo.com	Nov 23, 2003	7 out of 10	70
Gamestyle	2004	7 out of 10	70
GameSpy	Sep 19, 2003		60
Game Informer Magazine	Oct, 2003	5 out of 10	50

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Trivia

Development

The reason that the sun sensor idea even came up was when Hideo Kojima wanted to make a new, innovative game, but he didn't have any ideas. Then he went to the toy division of Konami, and thought "Hey! I could get them to make a sensor and we'll put it on a Game Boy cartridge as a game!" Or something like that. And Boktai was born.

Kamoos

In the game there is a dark curse named 'kaamos'. Kaamos is Finnish meaning a kind of dark atmosphere, both mental and physical. Some have said that late in the autumn when there's little light, trees have lost their leaves but there isn't snow so it's not quite winter yet, that is a time of kaamos.

References

The default name of the main character, Django, probably comes from a spaghetti western by the same name where the main character (named Django) also drags a coffin around with him.

Taiyoh

Sometimes the characters will shout "Taiyohhh!" and it's not translated. In Japanese, Taiyoh means sun.

Title

The title of the game, Boktai, is most likely an abbreviation of the Japanese name of the game, "Bokura no Taiyou". Another game that does this is Pokémon - the full Japanese title of the game is "Pocket Monsters".

Information also contributed by Ben K and Timo Takalo