Boktai - Light-Sensitive Gaming Previewed

Thanks to Shacknews for pointing to the IGN Pocket hands-on preview of Boktai, Hideo 'Metal Gear' Kojima's new Gameboy Advance action title, due out from Konami later this year. It uses a special light sensor in the cartridge, so you can harness sunlight to power up your character - and as the preview says, ".. this sensor can only detect sunlight...it won't recognize any artificial light." Overall, we get a much better idea of how the game works - too much sunlight, "and your gun will begin to overheat as you use it", but not enough, and "you can utilize [in-game] power areas that store excess sunlight" to keep playing. Intriguingly, there's also some serious Metal Gear leanings (enemies use line of sight, you can sneak past them, you can tap on a wall to distract them.)

Comments

Emulators

[David_Bloom]

I wonder how emulators are supposed to handle this...with all the cartridge 'addons' on so many games today, emulators will have tbe QUITE specialized.

response to the GameCube player?

[Shaleh]

The paranoid among us might see this as a way to come out with games that still require an actual GameBoy instead of the attachment for the GameCube.
I intend to own the attachment because I hate staring at a dinky screen even if they did finally add backlighting.

Not real thrilled.

[notque]

The novelty is intresting, but who honestly cares.

It would be different if it detected other gameboys in the vicinity, and changed the game dependant on that, but this is the sun.

Great.

I do this, with sun, something happens.

woot.

I see the sun every day, I don't see how I would be too impressed to have my gameboy notice the difference between sun, and no sun, and make game changes dependant on it.

Eh.