Konami Confirms Boktai 2 for May

Hideo Kojima's solar-powered Game Boy Advance RPG comes to Europe a year late.

With most of the UK having just experienced the best weather of the year so far, there is no better time to announce a game tied into the sun's life-giving rays. Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django is the long-delayed sequel to Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima's Boktai and Konami has confirmed that it is heading our way later this spring.

The game comes on a specially designed light-sensitive Game Boy Advance cartridge that lets you use the sun's rays to power some of the more-than-60 weapons that make up lead character Django's arsenal. The developers have also made use of an internal clock that will allow the game to sense at what time of the day you're playing and to alter the game world's time appropriately.

The story picks up after just the events of the first game. The Immortals, vampiric baddies from the original Boktai, are back and they're turning the citizens of Django's hometown of San Miguel into zombies. Django first has to reclaim his Solar Gun before unleashing intensely lit justice on all those afflicting his fair town.

Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django was released last summer in Japan and America, but with the, shall we say, idiosyncratic nature of the weather in the UK and the inevitable delays experienced when localising a game for a new territory, it's taken until now for Konami to decide the time was right for Django to make his return.

Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django will be released for Game Boy Advance in May.

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games