” Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hands. If you don’t know, that’s a Gameboy game he made where you use real-world sunlight to fight vampires.
You read that right. Boktai uses the light checker on the game cartridge to charge the in-game weapon called Gun Del Sol. Using it, you can fight against the terrifying undead. If your solar energy runs out, you have to avoid taking any action until you’re able to step outside and touch grass in the sun again—15 years before Pokemon Go guided kids in front of traffic. Indeed, Kojima was ahead of its time.
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According to Hideo Kojima’s tweet, things aren’t going well internally at Boktai. “To me, the most experimental game was ‘Beat the Vampires Outside,’ which used real sunlight around it. It was met with a lot of pushback from employees and even within the company. In that sense, ‘OD’ was just as different.” “Boktai” received mostly positive reviews and even spawned a few sequels.
The bright side is that Kojima is now the head of his own studio, where he can pursue all kinds of weird and wonderful ideas without anyone telling him that he’s too much, that he smokes too hard, or that his swag So different. In the past, this has resulted in some truly unique gameplay and narrative moments. But one wonders, could the untethered island be tempted by fate?
All kidding aside, this all adds to the already rapid buildup of hype for OD, which is looking increasingly stranger this month. Not only did we see a weird trailer at The Game Awards (which seemed to reference the long-dead PT), but Hideo Kojima and director Jordan Peele showed off each other on stage in front of thousands of people. of creative intelligence, this can only be described as an avant-garde showcase of the video game director’s exhibitionism. Goeff Keighley stood just a few yards away, complimenting the cuckold’s island for the first time ever in the video game industry.
Incidentally, he commented on Twitter about the specific extent of OD’s counter-culture appeal, and of course many people had no idea that the vampire game he was talking about was something he had already made years earlier. I’m telling you, fake fans.
All in all, it looks like a lot of fun. OD is one of those curveball future games that’s just on the horizon. Much like Death Stranding – it’s a cool concept that we can’t wait to try out for ourselves. All we need now is some OD gameplay footage instead of a half-naked guy staring at our reflection. If you know, you know.