Boktai is a video game series developed by Konami for the Game Boy Advance handheld console. The title is an abbreviation of the series' full Japanese title Bokura no Taiyō (ボクらの太陽) or Our Sun. (The term "Boktai" has come into regular fan use in Japan, as it is a common abbreviation scheme to use the first two kana of the major terms in two word titles.) They are recognized for using a solar sensor that has a major part and a key element in gameplay. The Boktai games are produced by Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series, who also came up with the initial game design and concept. “Computer and video games” redirects here. ... Konami Corporation ) (TYO: 9766 NYSE: KNM SGX: K20) is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines and video games. ... “GBA” redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Hideo Kojima Hideo Kojima , born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer originally employed at Konami. ... For the original video game titled Metal Gear, see Metal Gear. ...

Games

There are currently four games in the series released for now. Of all of them, the first two of the Game Boy Advance titles were released outside Japan, while Lunar Knights was released overseas recently:

• Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand (2003) (Japanese title: Bokura no Taiyō Taiyō Action RPG)
• Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (2004) (Japanese title: Zoku-Bokura no Taiyō Taiyō Shōnen Django)
• Boktai: Sabata's Counterattack (2005) (Japanese title: Shin-Bokura no Taiyō Gyakushū no Sabata)
• Lunar Knights (2006) (Japanese title: Bokura no Taiyō Django to Sabata)

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Game series

When the games were released, Konami made abbreviations of the game titles for their websites and articles. Abbreviation (from Latin brevis short) is strictly a shortening, but more particularly, an abbreviation is a letter or group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to represent them for the sake of brevity. ...

• The first game was abbreviated to Boktai.
• The second game was abbreviated to Zoktai.
• The third game was abbreviated to Shinbok.

Boktai

The first game, Boktai, used a major attachment onto the GBA cartridge, a solar sensor. This has major effects in gameplay, and a key element needed to progress further into the game. The amount of UV rays that the sensor is sensing currently is displayed on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. The sunlight is measured in blocks, with a maximum of eight blocks.

The main character, Django, fights with a solar-powered gun known as Gun Del Sol, which uses batteries which store energy (displayed at the bottom right-hand corner). This is solar energy collected via the sensor or various methods in gameplay. This energy can be stored in Solar Stations which the player can withdraw and use when sunlight is not available, like at night time. The solar energy in a Solar Station is limited to how much the player has collected. The system of storage also uses the amount of energy in a Gun Del Sol battery. also, solar energy can be stored in the solar bank to gain interest and pay debt. The solar bank can store the same amount of energy as the solar stations, which doubles the sunlight you can have at one time. This page lists the characters in Boktai universe, including the ones from Boktai series and Lunar Knights video games. ...

Using stealth and Django's solar gun, the player can purify enemies known as boks, or undead. a shot from the back can stun them leaving them vulneruble to attack, or you can just sneak past. These enemies are found in various dungeons located in Istrakan, the City of Death, throughout the game.

Boktai has a built in clock, which enables the game to adjust to different times of the day, such as dawn, noon and evening. This also affects gameplay, which the environment changes with the clock, and different enemies may be active or dormant.

Zoktai

The second game, Zoktai, continues to use a solar sensor and a built in clock, but this time the amount the sensor can detect was increased to ten blocks. Unlike the first game, Zoktai is more of an Action RPG than a stealth game. Nevertheless, keeping the same qualities in Boktai, Hideo Kojima expanded characters and maps, enemies and weapons. A new feature, Solar Forging, allows the player to forge two weapons together to create a new, stronger weapon, sometimes with special abilities. The player may unexpectedly end up with a very special weapon, known as a 'R-Rank' weapon. An Action-RPG is a type of computer role-playing game which requires quick action or reflexes from the player. ... For finery forges (making iron), see finery forge. ...

During gameplay, the storyline temporarily shifts the player character to Sabata, who is Django's older brother. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Shinbok

A Japan-only sequel to Zoktai, Shinbok also uses the solar sensor, but it has changed its gameplay mechanics slightly. The main weapon is still the Gun Del Sol, but instead of attaching different frames, lenses, batteries, and grenades only lenses and frames are changed; plus, hammers and spears have been removed from the game, using swords instead. It also does without the overworld map seen in Boktai and Zoktai, replacing it with a stage-select theme. Also, the Casket Cycle was introduced; this requires the player to go through a race-like event when first going to a dungeon, and also allows for Casket Cycle races between players over link mode. Shinbok remains unreleased in English, even though almost hundreds of petitions have been made to Konami to bring it to America. Shinbok also features a "Crossover Battle 2" with the Japanese version of Mega Man Battle Network 6. Mega Man Battle Network 6 is the sixth and final installment of the Mega Man Battle Network series from Capcom. ...

Bokura no Taiyō DS / Boktai DS / Lunar Knights

A more distant sequel in the series. In America, this was billed as a new series for the Nintendo DS inspired by the world of Boktai, but in Japan it still bears the Bokura no Taiyō name. For more information, see Lunar Knights. The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

Solar Boy Django manga

Main article: Solar Boy Django

Solar Boy Django is a manga by Makoto Hijoka that is loosely based on the Boktai series. It does not follow the plot of the games, although it does include many of the characters, such as The Count & Sabata. An English version of the manga is currently available from a Singapore manga production company. In 2007, Elex Media Komputindo has licensed the manga for the Indonesian market with the title Jango the Solar Boy. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Trivia

• The Boktai series contains several crossovers with other series.
  • Capcom's Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Star Force series.
  • Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series appears in the second and third games, under the name of ???. In Metal Gear Acid, there is a "Gun del Sol" super rare card.
  • The Azure Sky Tower in the first Boktai makes reference to the 1998 Konami game Azure Dreams with the tower that has 100 floors.
• Names from Norse mythology are used liberally throughout the series.
• The games use UV light as opposed to strictly sunlight; although this means blacklights can be used indoors, a player cannot substitute with a normal electric light.
• Gun del Sol means "Gun of the Sun" in Spanglish.
• Django and his rival and brother, Sabata, were named after the protagonists of spaghetti Westerns. See Django and Sabata.

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External links

• Official Konami Boktai homepage
  
• Official Konami Zoktai homepage
  
• Official Konami Shinbok homepage
  
• Official Kojima_Pro BoktaiDS homepage