If I had to describe this game in one sentence, I would say that Boktai is like the Legend of Zelda meets Metal Gear, a winning combination in my opinion. The solar sensor feature is fun and genuinely creative, and the abundant number of shorter levels provide compact chunks of gameplay perfect for a portable system, a lesson that would be carried over in Kojima's later game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. This is the kind of game I wish I had as a kid during summer vacation, which is funny because this got released in North America in September. You can't release a kid's game that needs the sun like this in the Fall when school starts! What was Konami thinking?