Let's discuss about Boktai

Which one is better, 1 or 2?

Yo it's one, and also I'm not sure I can go on living in a world where I never play this again.

I bought Boktai 2 the other day in a sale. Should I play 1 first?

1 is better, but 2 had a lot more options. i liked the gun del sol customization

I owned 1 and emulated 2 and I felt like the different weapons in 2 gave a bit more freedom. Once I got the shotgun like attachment in 1 it's all I used.

Both are honestly fantastic games though.

They're both worth playing, easily.

I just prefer 1 due to more stealth based and the gun customization. 2 had a lot of new ideas that were fun, but started leaning more towards action, same with 3 then later Lunar Knights being full action.

the powers in 2 were a ton of fun, like the dash and then swording everything to death. Boktai is one of my favorite franchises, I'd love to see it make a come back, but you know. Konami.

I loved how vulnerable you could be in 1. Enjoyed saving energy during the day to play at night.

I never beat 2, I honestly should go back and beat both games considering I haven't touched 1 since it released. Considering it's October and they're fairly Halloween themed I might do that.

1 has most balanced gameplay and story, 2 has a little better story but vampire mode is shit only 4 slot to equip ability is really annoying , 3 has impove everything that it game shoud be, bike gameplay are not good really and few dungeons make game the game end too quick.

Never played Lunar knight.

Did Boktai 3 never come out in English? I always assumed it was a DS game but it was apparently a GBA game?

It was fan translated, but it was never officially released./

Both great and both better than 3.

Play 1 first you be surprised to find out that this game has a very interesting story and make 2 story are much more enjoyable when Sabata is trying to save Django.

The relationship between Sabata and Django is remind me of relationship between Solid Snake and Liquid only different is Sabata is actually a good boy.

boktai 1 has more of a stealth focus and an interesting open world thing going on but boktai 2 is infinitely better in terms of stealth/combat mechanics

also for better or worse boktai 2 uses the sensor a lot more while in boktai 1 you can easily beat the whole game in the middle of the night outside of purifying bosses

It's a shame boktai 3 is kind of its own thing again instead of just "the best of the last two games" and then lunar knights was a pile of horseshit, at least kura5 is looking pretty promising assuming it ever actually comes out and doesn't just become abandon-ware when the twitter asspats start dying down

3

On topic, each has it's own set of bullshit but 2 is better

English Patch is already out long time ago and it's pretty much complete, story and everything else 95% is translated.

What's the DS spiritual sequel? I was interested in it, but never got around to playing it. How is it?

Lunar Knights, it's an action oriented game. it's really eh.

I'm having a hard time finding a decent rom of it, is the game worth playing through?

lunar knights almost entirely gets rid of the RPG/stealth elements of the series to be a mediocre action game version of boktai 3 where you can also play as sabata if he used a sword instead

instead of puryfying people you have to play a pretty crappy touch screen SHUMP minigame every time and the game's english dub went out of its way to erase all connections to previous games in the series for some reason (not that it matters since the games story ends on a cliffhanger anyway)

its pretty bad outside of the music

Of course, if you already played 1 and 2, this one is best epilogue.

Try nicoblog, i download english patch rom from that site.

2 based solely on the fact that you don't have to change your equipment in the menu as much
it's still too often for me though
that's why the real best boktai is 3

>trying to emulate this
>solar sensor in mGBA not working.

fuck.

You need solar sensor patch rom to emulate this game, playing it on clean rom is impossible.

yeah, evidently the rom had one and holding L while tapping left or right made it work. I guess that's common for these games now.

Boktai is awesome and I wish it was more popular, but the sun gimmick probably killed it.

I would say Boktai 2 is better. It's got more varied environments and better character interactions compared to the first. Still, they're both pretty good. I don't like the atmosphere of the first game too much though. Plus I like Sabata being an interesting character.
>That part where you play as Sabata to save Django
>That part where you take on the towers

They've both got awesome music too.