Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand (2003)

Developer

Konami Computer Entertainment Japan

Publisher

Konami

Platforms

Game Boy Advance

Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

Rating

3.6 of 5, 12 player ratings

How it feels

A genuinely unusual vampire-hunting adventure where real sunlight tension bleeds into the stealthy, eerie gameplay.

atmospherictenseuniquestealthyeerienovel

About

Hideo Kojima, the man that's most known for bringing the Metal Gear Solid series to life, has come up with an extremely ambitious idea for the Game Boy Advance: harness the energy of sunlight for a videogame. Enter Boktai, a vampire-hunting action and adventure game that not only encourages players to get outside and play in the fresh air...it almost requires it. Utilizing a special cartridge with a built-in a sun sensor, the amount of sunlight outside the game determines how much sunlight shows up in the actual adventure. And since the player's gun is actually fueled by sunlight, the more sunlight you can get the stronger and more capable you are in the game.

Screenshots

More games like this

• Metal Gear Solid (1998)
• Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (2004)
• Metal Gear (1987)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)
• Lunar Knights (2006)
• Beyond Good & Evil (2003)
• Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003)
• Persona 3 (2006)

More by Konami

• Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars (2025)
• Castlevania Dominus Collection (2024)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus (2004)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (2005)
• Castlevania Advance Collection (2021)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)