Borrowed from a colleague, this game is now back with its owner (not by my choice, I would have kept it longer!)
This game is the "next-gen" version of the Boktai series for GBA, but doesn't have their solar sensor built in as the GBA cartridges did. I don't miss that much - you get the same gameplay here with night and day being shown on the top screen, along with weather.
I like the main gameplay with your two characters, specializing in melee and ranged attacks, getting through dungeons and solving various puzzles (hit the switch with your ranged character, etc). As in original Boktai there's a lot of stealth, but you're not able to slide up against the wall and hide. (Seems like people in the forums are very sad about this).
The weapons can be upgraded with junk parts found throughout the levels, but initially the game seems to suggest you need to tediously upgrade the weapon before you can leave the first dungeon.
The interface for showing what parts you have to upgrade the weapon and which you need, seems a bit confusing also.
The game seemed to come together when I first started having more than one "terennial" or pokemon-like elemental being that helps your attacks, to switch between.
After almost every dungeon, you defeat a vampire or group of vampires and then fly their casket up to a satellite to be purified. This is like having to drag the casket through the level as in Boktai.
But the initial level just seemed way too hard for a "here's your first time with this shooting style, and it's the beginning of the game, let's give you a break" period.
You have a ship flying forward in space. You use the stylus to both click on enemies to shoot them, and to drag the ship around to move it. I found this quite challenging initially. Once I got more terennials and got a firebomb and a targeted bomb, this was much easier.
I guess these take the place of actual bosses in the levels, because the bosses themselves were much easier than bosses in games like Zelda:Minish Cap, etc.
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